Soulful quotes from Karen Ika

For this month's soul journal,Ali gave us quotes to choose from by someone named Karen Ika.I had fun picking some,and using some Gelli Plate papers,new stencils,and old ephemera from Art Chix and more. I decided to make a foldout section using all four weeks' worth,using a common motif and theme.....

Haiku Gelli journal

At this years Keys4Art,Jacquie showed us how to use a Rigid Wrap Plaster Cloth to get a GREAT texture for a book cover. Then of course we all played with our Gelli Plates that our wonderful elena had bought for all of us.I had been thinking for awhile of making a very simple book to highlight some of the many Haikus I've written in the past couple of years,mostly for the Asian journal Round Robin. I immediately knew in Key Largo what I wanted to do. I put the journal together using ony duct tape(remember,Elena?!?!?!?!LOLOL!)Then on each page is only a haiku and a simple object or picture  representing it.

I must say that I am EXTREMELY pleased with it! It is so tactile and colorful.But simple. Zen-ish. LOVE it!

Celebrating: the FEMALE and SPRING

  April's Soul Journal pages are all about celebrating the female:

                          The female inner energies

                        positive affirmations about being female

 the female form...this is using a Julie Nutting stamp!thanks again Julie and elena!

                              a "self-portrait"


Next are a couple of pages that I made for Mel in the UK group,using both some GelliPrint pages and fiber paste...

                           Happy Spring everyone!

Vintage ancestors

I am really loving the Vintage Ancestors Round Robin journaling project!

These two pages were made for Jen's journal.

 

Teri worked in Jen's journal previously,using this picture of "John",a mail order bridegroom. What was SO fun for me is that he looks amazingly like a slightly younger version of my real great-grandfather(on the right)!!! So,that is my great-grandfather,great-grand mother,and grandmother and aunt in the smaller photo.

 Pages I did for Lee. She began her journal with the story of the two sisters who grew up to be the poison-happy sisters of "Arsenic and Old Lace". I was happy to let her know how they gained most of their knowledge of alchemy!

Beautiful ladies!

In this month's Soul Journal,Ali had us do women from different time periods...

Victorian...this is my great grandma,Alice!!!Look at that hair!

 Art Nouveau...an hommage to my favorite artist,Alphonse Mucha,the Father of Art Nouveau

                                   Art Deco

 Medieval..this background is a scrap of Gelli Plate paper I did!!

This last photo is a spread I did for my friend Linda Hill for her Moleskine journal.Her theme was Time.The clock face is from Elgin,my home town!

Keys4Art 2013

Hard to believe that his was our fourth Keys4Art!!!It was truly fabulous!!!!! I did not take many pix this time for some reason...but here are the best of what I took:

Elena rented this house for us all. It once belonged to Pablo Escobar,the infamous drug lord! You can see the special boat entrance just for keeping those drug shipments secret!

The house across the canal

                 View of our great art work space from above

                        Fantasy birds à la Dina Wakely

      A few of the yummy chocolates that Elena ordered for us!!!!!

                   Jen and Carla watching Daisy do her ink demo

Field trip to LazyDays restaurant ,minus Jacquie

                                     Jen and I

                      The best hostess EVER!!!!

                                   local color

              The specialty of the house, lobster rolls! Delicious!!!

 One of Elena's sons,Charlie...who is doing GREAT!!!!!Go Charlie!!!

                          Only in the Keys

                             ripped magazine collages

 The New Kid on the Block,Carla!!!She fit right in of course!

                      Back deck relaxation time

 Some of the TONS of FABULOUS goodies that Elena got us were the oh so cute Julie Nutting stamps!We were allso happy to get these,since Julie is one of us!

 One day some of us brave ones climbed WAY up to the lookout deck....here's the view!

We celebrated Lill's birthday only a few days late. 

 Karen and the gigantic drink blender!!Karen cooked her little butt off for us and made drinks too!

On the last night,we went to The Marlin for a farewell dinner...Jacquie made it back,bringing her adorable son,Luca...

 ...and of course Jen flirted and sang with the musician...

It was truly a wonderful week.I am blessed to know all of these ladies.
XO to you all.