It's Thursday again and time for another journal page for Art Journal Journey where the lovely Mia has chosen "Fish" as the topic for the challenge this month. Why not pop along to Art Journal Journey here and see some of the lovely entries that followed the great inspirational piece by Mia. You would be most welcome - but read the rules please to make sure your journal page is the correct size and not too small.
Elizabeth, I hope the storms have abated for you and the weather is not affecting you too much now. Thinking of you.
What a pickle I got in with the page for this week. All was planned, I was to take my journal away with me for the weekend and just do the background and stick in a couple of fish I had stamped and a tag I had been given back in 2015. I just love the little octopus (octopi or octopuses?) on the tag. The tag was made by a very good friend of mine who is now terminally ill and I thought it was a lovely way I could keep it safe in my journal by using it as part of a layout. That way I would always know where it was when I wanted to look at something she had made and remember her.
Well, I forgot the glue! Did take the stamp for the bubbles but then only had a black Memento pad and my head was elsewhere as I intended to stamp it second generation but just did it directly on the page. I wasn't even sure which way up it should be so am hoping that you think, like I did, that the shadows fall below. I decided to do my writing between curved lines to represent the waves of the ocean and the background was done in two shades of Distress Ink which I left looking rather blotchy to echo the movement of the water.
Just a tiny story today because I want to include some photos from the weekend:
"Mabel and Ethel, two sister fish, were swimming around when they came across a school of octopus. Ethel flipped over so she was facing Mabel and said "look at all those octopuses, they are so young and oh so pretty."
"Don't you mean octopi" replied Mabel, always ready to contradict her sister.
"No, I mean octopuses", replied Ethel, flipping back and turning her back to her sister. "Octopuses is the preferred plural as it gives the word an English ending to match its adoption as an English word.
"Ah, but ... " said Mabel, "in the early days it was known as octopi because in Latin the words ending in 'us' get pluralised by replacing with "i", surely you know that."
And so the two of them went on and on arguing as to what the plural of octopus was.
Mabel suggested they agree to disagree which is something she always did when the two sisters argued, or even fell out for a couple of fishy days.
"Oh, for goodness sake" shouted Ethel, who was tired of her sister's nit picking, "rather than agreeing to disagree, why don't you just be quiet," and off she swam heading for the school of octopuses (or octopi?)" She had had enough of her bossy sister for one day.
What do you say?
Hope you all had a lovely weekend and those in the UK enjoyed the long Bank Holiday weekend in honour of Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee. Street parties were held in lots of places and Morecambe, where we were on the Sunday, attempted to have the longest street party by having tables all down the Promenade.
