Jeudi Journal - Old Enough

 Today the words I had to work with were "I am starting to think I will never be old enough to know better" and so many times they really do apply to me.  But then I tell myself that really I am "young at heart if old in body" and it is only the aches and pains that have come on in later years that have stopped me from doing some of the things I would love to do.

Take for instance the background to this page.  It began life inked up with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink, but because of the pain I have in my right thumb I was finding putting it on with a light touch was not going as planned and it looked very patchy.  So on with a stencil and some more ink.  Well, that covered up the blotchiness but it didn't look at all right.  A coat of Pistachio paint was next, not keen on the colour although it looks good where the stencil pattern shows through a little.  Another coat of paint, this time Birch, ugh!  No that was not nice at all - back to the Pistachio.  At first it looked a bit like one of those lovely textured paint jobs that Valerie does so well but then it dried - flat!

By this time I was running out of time and so it had to do, now to the figures.  No, they won't do and the story has to be vintage so I can enter it into Wendy's challenge on Art Journal Journey.  Another think.  Yes, Bill Haley can be classed as Vintage.  If you look him up it says he was active from 1946 - 1980, surely that makes him vintage.  And so an alternative story was formed and the page was constructed.

I remember "Rock Around the Clock" coming to our local cinema and some teenagers were asked to leave the cinema for dancing in the aisles at the music.  Now I am not saying I was one of those teenagers or even a bystander but I do remember it clearly.  And so does Ethel ...

"Ethel was a terrific grandma to young Gemma, or so Gemma thought.  Always lots of fun when her gran was around, and the stories she used to tell were wonderful.  Gran had been telling Gemma about the time Bill Haley and the Comets were all the rage.  In fact he was known for being one of the pioneers of rock and roll music, and credited by many with first popularising this kind of music in the early 50's with his band, The Comets.

Gemma had loved listening to gran and her stories and listening to the music that gran played on her old record player.  Gran had been trying to teach her to jive to some of the music and Rock Around the Clock was a big favourite of the two of them.

Gemma's mum had gone to her local craft group, held in the Community Centre and she came back eager to tell her daughter about a tribute band that was coming to their town and playing at the centre in two week's time.  Gemma could not wait to let her gran know.  Little did she know that her mum had secured two tickets, one for Gemma and one for Gran.  At last she was going to hear the real sounds of Bill Hayley and The Comets.

She rushed around to Grans as soon as she could and the two of them began planning what they were going to wear and to brush up on their dancing skills.  Poor gran said "I am starting to think I will never be old enough to know better" as she felt the aches and pains coming on from her old bones dancing about in a frenzy. "

So there you are, I've done my best to use the quote which Wendy chose and also include her other challenge, Vintage, into the story.  Figures were Dylusion ones as usual and the posters were from the internet.  I added some words from Rock Around the Clock to the poster on the right to create a border.