CHEZ MADAME

Friday, June 24, 2011

Marie Antoinette and Sex in the City

So,for Jacquie's Marie journal,the theme was Sex and the City. So here is Marie having a strange dream about a certain Monsieur Grand.....

Monday, June 20, 2011

Serendipity

This week's dream journal prompt was again the the Serendipity mode. We had to use,picked at random by Ali: some inchies,the colors lilac and green,fabric,and work in the style of a famous artist.My fabric is a bit off of an old bridal veil that I found at an estate sale;I did the background in my version of Seurat's pointillism style.My mother used to recite that poem to me all the time when I was little!

Monday, June 13, 2011

Another Time,Another Place

This was the theme for this weeks pages in the soul journal . I used some "reject" tags that I had made for another swap...they were just right for these pages,though...love the alcohol ink technique...had not used that in awhile...

My sister Beth:last pages

For our final pages for this set of journal pages,Ali had us interview ourselves with these 4 questions:

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Our Peeps are Peeping!!!

Chack out these guys!!!They are hilarious!they look like little punkers with huge Mohawks!!!

Friday, June 3, 2011

Ahhh.....green at last!

The forget-me-nots have invaded our sidewalk,but I love it!

View from back deck.I spend most of my summertime right here,in my porch swing,reading... ;

Looking off to the East;the CLPark District Fen

Looking down into the yard...Terry's veggie garden at bottom of hill

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Peep show!

We will soon have our own personal peep show...look where a bird has built her nest!!Guess she thought my lavendar twig wreath was the real thing!It's on our main entry door on our front porch,which therefore is off limits for the time being!!Keep you posted!!

(hmmmmm....wondering how there can be 4 blue eggs and one brown one.....she must be a floozy!!!)

Monday, May 16, 2011

My Sister Beth

My sister of the heart,Beth Guimaraes,was from Brasil. She lived with my family during my Junior year in high school. Growing up with three brothers,I had often longed for a sister,and Beth was it!We became very close and remained so until the day she died,last year.

Beth and I had many adventures together,even after she went back to Brasil. I visited her there a few times,and became an honorary Brasilian girl.We lounged around her coffee plantation,wore string bikinis on the beaches of Rio,went to Carnavale,and delivered food to the poor.

Beth came up here to Illinois a few more times;once ,to meet her namesake,my dughter Beth.

Our last two rendezvous were in Europe;she had married Christian Dambock,a German,and they made their home in Frankfort. She and I met once in Venice and once in Prague. In Venice we drank too many of Hemingway's famous drink,the Bellini, ate way too much pasta,walked for miles and miles aroubnd theis wondrous city,and took a hilarious gondola ride with a new gondolier named Marco who not only sang but kept crashing us into buildings... In Prague we marvelled at the gorgeous Art Nouveau buildings, the fabulous work of my favorite artist,Alphonse Mucha,visited castles, attended classic music concerts and took another fun evening boat ride.

These pages were done for the Soul Journal project....it felt good to be able to think of her without crying, for once. I chose vibrant colors because she,and Brasil are so very colorful.

How I miss her.