Good morining friends - how are you? No, seriously - has your normal life and your usual routine been disrupted due to COVID-19, or corona virus? Mine also! Through this blog I am sharing what I know, think and feel as well as how I am coping, and the activities I'm doing to keep myself busy and sane in what seems, right now, like a crazy world.
Today I got word that my credit union is closing all lobbies and that the art gallery where I currently have one of my collages on view is also closing. Our public library has been closed since March 13th and yesterday when Jim and I went out to the Kiva Grocery Store we saw several hand washing stations on the sidewalks surrounding the library. How long this will go on is unknown, right?
The atmosphere in the Kiva was calm and the shelves were well stocked. They even had toilet paper!
Today I'd like to share with you this canvas-covered journal that I had picked up at an estate sale back in 2017 when I was seaching for tea ware for my Etsy shop Vintage Tea Treasures. Of course I had been wanting to create something using the journal since that time. My immediate inspiration was to faff around with it for my Instagram feed.
I had a seed of an idea back then that I would make a collage journal by utilizing a stack of National Geographic magazines from the 1970s. The idea came together while flipping through the magazines and noticing the many photographs of girls and women living ordinary lives. The 1970s were my formative growing up years and I found that I can identify with many of the girls and women portrayed.
At the time I did manage to cut out a few images from the magazines and get a start on the project.
After a very long time, I don't remember how long, I cut out all the images shown in the photo at the top of this post. That felt like an accomplishment! I took that photo last fall when I was going full force ahead with some other collage work I was doing. Then in January I was listening to the Spark Joy podcast episode Someday: Aspirational Items and Unfinished Business and wow, I could see myself there!
Since listening to the episode I have been making an effort to sort through and organize my unfinished business and have forced myself to work on the creative projects I have piled up. The collage journal is one I knew I wanted to keep going with. And I have finished a few scrapbook pages and some journaling on scrapbook pages that was left undone. And then I dived into this journal and have about 10 pages prepped and ready for the journaling. I don't have any of the newly created pages photographed yet, but I hope to do so soon.
So while I am doing my part to help flatten the curve in this unprecedented time in the history of our world, and as long as I am healthy and well, I'll do my best to continue to share stories here with you - every day if I can.
Take care of yourself and your loved ones and be safe!
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