Jeudi Journal - My Age

Sounds familiar?  "My Age Doesn't Bother Me - It's the Side Effects".  This is the quote for this week and I did it way ahead of time - well, Tuesday.  I decided to do something similar for the background to last week but this time to cover the page.  I used three different stencils and three different colours of ink.  Kept it to blues and violet as I like that combination - reminds me of a whinberry pie with cream on it, yum yum!

I decided to use two figures, two sisters, and here they are:

"Lottie and Leonie are two sisters who meet up each week to go shopping.  Lottie, the eldest of the two, has been having a heart to heart chat on the latest shopping spree with her younger sister.  In fact she shed one or two tears as she recalled some of the things that had been happening to her recently.   

As Lottie said, they should  make a leaflet telling you what to expect as you start reaching a certain age.  Her skin had started to dry out and she was having terrible problems with patches that were very dry.  None so bad as the ones on her heels, the skin was simply coming off in sheets.  Her eyesight was worsening too, threading a needle with cotton was a real problem and when stitching a button on she ended up with as many holes in her fingers as on the fabric because she kept on missing the holes.

The thing that worried her most of all was her memory, or lack of it.  That and the fact that she kept seeing things out of the corner of her eye.  Why, only a few moments ago she could have sworn that some of the flowers in the beds had faces on them - and arms and legs.  Were they fairies or what?  Was she losing her marbles?

Leonie sympathised with her, tried her best to calm her big sister down.  It seemed strange as it was always Lottie who had looked after her.  Perhaps now was the time for a role reversal, maybe now it was time for her to look after her big sister and the first thing was to get her to see the doctor."

Now this is so strange.  I wanted to link this up to Art Journal Journey and suddenly, once the page was finished and scanned in to my blog post I realised we were in a new month and there was a new challenge over there.  Not much room for adding anything so I was hoping it was colour related.  Imagine my joy when I saw that Sheila had chosen "a single flower" as the theme for this month.  I had three flowers and three flower girls by Janet Klein on the bottom of my page.  I had just downloaded the collage sheet of these tiny figures the night before and wanted to use them so had included them in my story,  so two of the flowers had to go - and go they did!  With a bit of picking here and there three became one so here is my entry for Art Journal Journey.  See you next week - with a Single Flower.