Jeudi Journal - Last Minute

I must say that the quote for this week's Jeudi Journal tempted me to do something about my blogging as I am always at the last minute but I turned over a new leaf this week and did this one early.  maybe it was because I love anything to do with "Time".  If there is a challenge for "Time" I am always ready to join in, it really inspires me to do something with clocks, or time pieces.

So it was perfect this week for me to link my journal page challenge with Wendy to Art Journal Journey where Eileen had chosen "Inspired By .." as her topic.  Sadly Eileen is no longer with us so this is another entry in memory of a lovely lady.  I also chose to paint my page Blue which tends to be a 'go to' colour of mine when choosing clothes in particular which is rather surprising as the Grammar School uniform was Navy Blue.  Maybe, because it was so many many years ago I have got over the aversion to my school uniform.  

Anyway, my story this week is about two brothers.  "Joe and Jed were two brothers, often mistaken for twins because they looked so much alike except that Jed was considerably taller than his younger brother Joe.  They owned their own business, a small engineering firm, where Jed was the businessman and Joe was the one with the ideas and the skill and dexterity to get things done.

However, Joe was often late in producing the blueprints for the next piece of machinery they were making.  Production was being held up and Jed was getting a tad annoyed, it was always happening, in fact he had just about had enough and he told Joe so.  He went on to say that he thought they should employ another designer to help keep production up and the men in work the whole time.  

This angered Joe who wanted to be the only one responsible for what they produced, after all the company name was "Grimes and Grimes" and he didn't want some fresh young guy from university with his new fangled ideas coming in and stealing his thunder.  He liked it when he went to the business dinners and he could show off how good his designs were and how the company was thriving, because of his work.

What he didn't realise was that Jed played an equal part in this business by juggling jobs around for the workforce and making sure that the business was always coming out on top.  Without his knowhow the business would fail but then as Joe said "nothing makes me more productive than the last minute" sadly Jed could not argue as that was what always happened."

As I said, I painted the whole page blue, I used a clock stencil down one side of the page (no mean feat when the journal is at the end almost and the pages are buckling with the thickness of what has gone before - you all know what I mean) and a burgundy paint to ensure good coverage.  I also had a large clock face from Tando which I have not used and saw that there were two smaller ones in so I settled on the middle one and used it as a stencil to draw the numbers around the sides of the circle.  That meant I could place the smaller figure with hands outstretched to represent the hands of the clock - it fitted in perfectly.

So here you have it, my entry for Art Journal Journey in my Jeudi Journal.  Hope you enjoyed the story which was a bit different this week.