Blank Journal #12, 20 more

If there are only 20 more then I could be done with this phase by the end of April. Boy, I have loved this spring break. This collage appears rather simple but there mistakes that I had to work through & re-solve. I LOVE that part!

Handwork

Newest collage. Took some struggling to get beyond smarmy. Lovely Czechoslovakian President Masaryk 1 Koruna stamp (which I couldn't find an exact image of---the images I was finding are much more complex & the President is facing the other way). Makes me wonder....The date on the earlier stamps is 1925-27 & unfortunately the postmark is unreadable.

Sometimes Images Put Themselves Together

Red Thread.

#10 Journal Page

Still working with things on the table. I found myself leafing though a book & had to put it away. Using what is in front of me. Another gray day here. It is still cool which I dee-light in. The heat will be here all too soon & over stay it's welcome.

#9 Journal Page

Oh boy its hard to stop. I am using my precious pile & I like working with the limitation. Making my TO DO LIST for Spring Break. There are a pile of shadow boxes sitting in the Floridarium for about a year waiting for Assemblages....on my list.
Working on the raised bed garden the whole week...getting soil this afternoon. I will weed the kitchen garden bed so its ready for butterfly feeder plants.

#8 Journal Page

This is my NEW RULE (that I imposed on myself after a very tall stack of images that I have been hoarding fell to the floor & I had to pick them all up) I must use what is on my tabletop. I am not allowed to go looking for new imagery until I've made a dent in what I have so carefully been collecting. This is another "Creator taking stock" composition. One of my very favorites of layouts. I re-visit it ALOT.
The stamps are from a magazine so they are not real, they commemorate the 70th anniversary of the German Derby. They are barely readable.

Everything & Everyone with Bears & Mona.

I love these bears. They are very old timey rubber stamps that I got at Renninger's in January. I am able to build collages again. My Little was busy being an adult & the energy was not there. I kept my journal up but collages have to say everything & not just be surroundings for words.