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two entries in anne’s poetry journal…possibly more to come if she keeps to her promise of letting me fill it up a bit for her! i hope so, as i loved this book. it’s a nice size—bigger than many of the others in the circle—and the binding is sturdy so the pages will hold a bit more dimension. mwah. loved this one.
the right hand page below holds a case with a mix cd with pretty lyrics, basically.
f you ever read CK, you’ve seen this journal. it’s entitled ‘i am’ and alannah’s page is actually in one of their subscription ads, with a sepia-toned design and a little glassine envelope filled with affirmations and a photo of alannah and her sons. well, this is supposed to be self-affirming.
to me it is.
perhaps it’s not in the same sense as the other entries, but pah. it is more positive than my first sketch, and shrug to me this is an accurate affirmation. i guess i’m just not such an affirmation-ist? perhaps.
anyway. map and tarot paper from various little seattle shops. the rabbitish one took my picture at quiznos on my superfun fuji instax camera. we had to include a photo on the layout, so i didn’t want to break the rules or anything. ;-) the only thing i am not happy about is how the starbucks logo became so central and not overlapped. i wished i had connected it to the sunshine under the word strips. but there i go, playing critic to my own affirmations.
Shannon’s little pink journal of envelopes appeared in the april 2003 issue of creating keepsakes and is still en route a year later. that, ladies and gentlemen, is what happens when you stop a project to send it to the publishers! But I love the challenge of working with something that has such notoriety before it even appears on the doorstep.
This is pretty much actual size of the entry – the journal is tiny! it asked us to celebrate ‘what we liked about being a girl’. I am in love with the eyes in that picture! She looks like a geisha girl only she’s…not.
Perhaps inspired by the True Colors project, this journal had a colour combination as its theme: purple & gold. the stamped lyrics are from guys & dolls and the lift-out tag says ‘if the world followed my schedule, we’d all be nearly nocturnal.’
I’ve been working in pearlescents and metallics far too much to be appreciated by scanners and computer screens. For this I do not really apologise.
Heidi’s journal was entitled ‘Destinations’ so I took it on holiday with me! Photographs taken on the trip, papers purchased on the trip, entire entry created at Bauhaus with lots of divine coffee and a gorgeous view. For those that have been keeping up, this is the same journal that appeared in the April CK with the ‘Pieces of New York’ entry from Lori Houk.
ETA: Since people keep asking, the stamped words at the bottom say ‘fall in love with a total lack of colour’.
Venessa’s journal contemplated nature and the brevity of life with the phrase ‘glory are the days…’. I finished this just after I’d been on holiday, so used it as a reflection of the glory I found there!
Carrie’s journal had a theme of ‘I was a child of the…’ except by freakish coincidence every single entry so far was a child of the 80s and it was getting a bit bland, so I tried to shift it a little bit just so I wouldn’t cross over so much. The comments are a mix of 80s and 90s bits. It is supposed to be every inch cliche, so I really don’t mind if you hate it. And that cliched quality would be the reason the lyrics I ended up going with were ‘we are the world’ and ‘all apologies’. Anyway, all the little bits are listed out below if you are really that curious.
my parents really were hippies.
neon was once acceptable to me.
i considered giving my life to greenpeace.
i often wore my hair in a side ponytail.
my first job involved a drive-thru window.
i spent the first pay check on a pair of dr martens that i still wear.
punky brewster, jem and strawberry shortcake helped make me a feminist.
i remember ‘just say no’, mr yuck and a woman running for vice-president.
‘reality bites’, ‘heathers’ and ‘clerks’ are all classics to me.
dangermouse is one of the best cartoons ever made.
i wore palmless gloves. and made them better with my bedazzler.
you’ll never convince me that michael jackson could hurt someone.
i assumed i would have to go to university to get a job at all.
i thought saturday detention would be like the breakfast club.
ET changed my life. so did ms. pac-man.
i watched the challenger explode. on live tv. in my elementary school.
i have owned many, many flannel shirts.
and wore them under concert t-shirts.
new coke. oh, the devastation. seriously.
lollapalooza was more sacred to me than either woodstock.
espirit, guess and ej gitano were wardrobe staples.
‘electric youth’ was a slogan of generational empowerment. but so was ‘hello. i’m part of the sunshine generation.’
i seriously considered a tattoo of the rainbow brite logo.
dungeons and dragons was first a cartoon and second a game.
i know all the words to ‘i don’t like mondays’ and ‘friday i’m in love’.
i have never sold my atari.
i thought the stock market crash was going to send us into grapes of wrath depression.
i cried at the death of john lennon. and kurt cobain.
she-ra was my role model, kit was my dream car and my ideal boys were part starsky and hutch, part bo & luke duke.
jelly bracelets, shoes and belts were high fashion.
i remember when the muppets were good and am still angry at the travesty that sesame street became after the death of jim henson.
i occasionally wore socks with my birkenstocks in the winter.
my first car was an 88 ford escort. in 1994.
all my teen jobs were for chain stores, which i despised with guilt.
i once owned a garfield telephone like the one they gave away on double dare.
i have never known a world without malls.
my first grade teacher sent me home because i wore a trendy off-the-shoulder shirt.
black and white film has always been an artsy novelty – never a necessity.
i saw marilyn manson when he was just a guy who wore blue jeans and a gap t-shirt and swore a lot.
i remember the first day of mtv and nicklodeon and when the olsen twins were babies.
i saw star wars at the cinema. in a stroller.
i named my dog ‘rio’ after listening to copious amounts of duran duran.
i thought lee press on nails would impress boys.
i had a favourite corey.
Karin’s journal is filled with CDs ready to be altered. She asked us to ponder the theme of ‘time’ and the pink and purple enamelled piece above is my contribution. Unfortunately it is too metallic and dimensional to reproduce very well. I also created the small booklet below to hold my journalling on the theme.
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