This week the quote is "You can't skip and be unhappy at the same time" and so I decided to illustrate it I would have someone skipping. Not easy with Dyan's figures to find someone but I did find a figure with her hands in such a position that they could have been holding onto a skipping rope. Hurrah!
To begin with I swished some Peeled Paint Distress Ink on my craft mat, spritzed it with water and then dabbed my page on top of it - it actually looks more yellow than green. Then I dried it off and added some more ink to the craft mat, spritzed again and dabbed it off once more to get some patches.
Next I took my 'Lotza Trianglz' stencil and put some random splodges of triangles in Scattered Straw about the page to make a background. Then it was time to think about the figures and I decided to put three of the smaller ones on. As I want to enter it into Art Journal Journey I had to include some birds somewhere for Wendy's challenge so I once more took some of Janet Klein's little ones, coloured them and included one looking at the skipping and one balancing on the rope - impossible I know but in the land of make believe anything is possible.
And now to the story:
"Little Sue had broken up with her boyfriend and was very unhappy, She had been confiding in her bff, Janice and they had spent some considerable time talking, crying and laughing together as good friends do. Janice had made her smile and eventually made her laugh with some of the stories about the ex boyfriend's rather large nose and ears which hadn't mattered at all to Sue when she had been in love with him but now she could laugh and call him names, all the silly names that Janice came up with. It had been fine for a while but after Janice had left and gone home the tears had come again. Something we all remember from our younger days.
Later that afternoon, Janice, being the good friend she was, had recruited Linda, another close friend to go and see little Sue to see if she wanted to go to the bowling alley with them, anything to take her mind off the ex boyfriend. As they rounded the corner where Sue lived there she was, stood in the back yard skipping of all things. Janice did not understand one bit and she turned to Linda and said "You can't skip and be unhappy at the same time" but Sue seemed to be proving her wrong as she counted and sang whilst she got on with skipping."
Maybe there is something, afterall, in the belief that the way to heal anything to do with the mind is exercise! Just off for a jog around the block, see you later.
