My goodness, these pages inspired by the Soul Journal Group have been a little adventure in their own right already. I’m going to have to learn to go at my own pace here, as I can already feel a bit of tension building up when I see the new projects being posted, yet am being sent spiralling into deep thought by the formation of the first few pages. I need to take my time here…
I’ve worked on the first 3 prompts more or less at the same time, in a bit of a jumble. First, I completed the ‘Permission Slip’ page…
I made my envelope the wrong way round (I liked this picture & wanted it to show), so had to improvise when it came to sticking it on the page! Inside the envelope is my actual permission slip. I gave myself all sorts of permission and got quite carried away! 🙂 I also sprinkled a few stars that were left over from my boy’s 18th birthday celebrations earlier this year. I love them, they’re so tiny & shiny! 🙂
…then I began the Instant Gratification piece which I enjoyed focusing on & found it much easier to work on than the other two! (Which tells you something about me straight away! ;-))
I very much enjoyed colouring this page in with pencil crayons – a soothing process 🙂
The most challenging so far, for me, has been the ‘Lost & Found’ prompt. I’ve had this page going on in the background for about two weeks & had to leave it for a while as I got a bit overwhelmed. I came back to it last night & just started writing on it – I’d been forgetting it was a journal page & that I’m ‘allowed’ to do anything I want on it! Getting uptight about following ‘the rules’ is something that creates unnecessary anxiety & holds me back in Life as well as Art, I realise…
I’m not sure that this is finished yet. I’ll more than likely come back to it again. The subject of Lost & Found really got me thinking, though. No one gets through life without going through loss of some sort, and I’ve been relatively lucky compared to many, I’m sure. The loss of an old friend a few weeks ago now had already set me off on a nostalgic, reminiscent train of thought. At the time of loss our senses become heightened, it seems. We are more aware of the fleeting & precious nature of our own lives….
Part of the prompt for Lost & Found was to pick up found objects throughout a day. I took a walk to the local shop and found so many feathers, I was surprised. Since then I have noticed feathers everywhere! I even found the most beautiful drawings of feathers in an old magazine I was looking through and was able to use them to represent all the real feathers I have collected over the last week or so. Something magical about them, and inspiration for a future project, I think..
This is the most productive I’ve been in a long time, and I love it! 🙂 I hope there’s something in these pages that inspires you in some way…
For now, have a great weekend all. I’ve run out of puff on this post! 😉
Love to All xXx Suze xXx
Your pages are rich with the time and thought you put into them. Keep setting your own pace ! It is your journey and you should choose when and where and how you place your feet for each step !
Thanks so much for sharing pieces of your path !
Cheers,
Kim
Oh, WOW! I had a feeling you would enjoy the soul journal work and I can tell you have!
Beautiful pages – lovely scumbly paint and superb colours (ooh, yes the stars are lovely).
I am so glad you said what you did about the lost and found discoveries. You made me realise that I too tend to focus on the people I have lost, but I have “found” so many recently too. Silly me, how could I have missed that? I will celebrate my new people more.
x
wow! great stuff Suzanne Jean.
“To be a hippy” LOL
your backgrounds, especially the lost and found one – spectacular.
Interesting about the feathers – I love the tiny little ones – I’m ALWAYS picking them up. I think I was going to send you some that I’ve found in your package but forgot. You’re finding them anyway – sweet. The pigeon went out 10 days ago so hopefully will arrive soon 🙂
Much love
ABWY,
Wendy
Your pages are gorgeous and so thoughtful. Definitely take your time with each prompt. Find your own pace. Each post will be waiting for you when you are ready.
Although you’ve had moments where you’ve felt overwhelmed, I can see here that you also had fun. That fun really comes through in each piece.
The background of your permission slip page is filled with such yummy colors. I love that that slip is a tag.
The instant gratification page has an awesome focal image. The details of your line work inspire me to pick up my pen and embellish something, anything. Maybe my to do list.
You are right, we all experience loss to some degree. The week that I was working up this exercise I kept losing my keys and getting so frustrated because I hadn’t missplaced my keys in years. LOL
Lovin’ your pages. I can’t wait to see more.
k
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Came back to read more and look at your lovely pages. You have to stop thinking about the rules! I always described myself as a ‘goody two-shoes’ kind of girl. I never broke the rules, never just let the real ‘me’ out there for others. Always worried about what ‘other people’ thought.
I made some drastic life changes (another time for that story) and amazingly somewhere in there on that journey I stopped hiding, worrying, etc. etc.. Art definitely had a huge impact on that process.
Your pages are really amazing and I can only imagine what they would/will be like when you just forget everything and let yourself go here. And remember there are no rules!
Wow! These are amazing works! I love the woman and the spiral. These look like SJ prompts I’ve not yet seen (I’m still waay behind, working on the one started by Sarah at Caspiana back in the summer), but I’m happy to know that there is more Soul Journaling ahead of me, after I finish the one I’m working on now. Thanks for sharing your work, here.
I like those journal pages! 🙂