Jeudi Journal - The Cat and I

Wendy has chosen "Sorry but the cat and I have plans for the evening" as the quote for today.  I don't know if this is a Dyan quote or not as the lettering is different so I wrote mine out, trying once more to do some journal writing ... and not doing very well but better than last week.  Or at least I think so.

For this one I chose a pale blue Pan Pastel for the background at the top and about three quarters down the page leaving just a band at the bottom which I ended up doing yellow.  I then put a stencil on the top half and went through it with a lilac Pan Pastel - I wanted it to represent someone's hallway with a patterned wallpaper, but not too clear, just a hint of pattern.  

The story here is that the lady on the left has just had a caller asking her out for the evening but she is not feeling at all like going out preferring a night in with her cat which is making its way over to her having just left its basket when the caller came in.  As you can see by the grandfather clock in the corner it is only morning and she has some sewing she wants to get on with, hence the dressmaker's dummy standing  there.

Because there is sewing (see the cross stitch picture behind the clock) and time involved in my journal page I am entering this into Halle's Art Journal Journey challenge this month where the theme is "a stitch in time" - you can include both or one of them, and I decided to choose both.

Despite talking to myself very strongly I left this until the last minute again - next week I WILL start earlier.  Thank goodness this was so much easier to do than the last few have been.