Thursday brings us back to Art Journal Journey and Valeries lovely 'Anything Goes' theme for the challenge. That gives Wendy and I free rein to do our normal Journal pages and still be able to link in. Why don't you go and read the rules and see about entering your journal page? Of course, I did the page fairly quickly but now have a story to weave around it. Here goes:
"Esme and Lolly were friends from way back in High School and they both lived on the next avenue to one another so it was easy to team up and do things together - things like socialising, crafting together and ... exercising!
Lolly, whose real name was Lorraine, was a little chunkier than her friend Esme, and secretly a little jealous of her friend being so slim and having what everyone termed 'a good figure'. Esme, on the other hand, was a true and loyal friend who always looked out for any of her friends and was there with a shoulder to cry on or a hand that was willing to help in most anything.
Both girls had signed up for yoga classes and had had great fun going out and looking around the local store for something suitable, but eye catching, to wear. But, that was as far as Lolly had got. Always the first one to sign up for things and the last to carry them out.
It was a Tuesday late afternoon when the two girls met up on the way home after work and as they made their way home the conversation turned to what they were doing that week. Esme was bubbling over with all the exciting things she had planned, and inevitably it turned to yoga classes.
"I love my yoga" she said, "and it is doing wonders for my posture and my total well being. I don't know why you have never come along with me. It is such fun and the other girls who do it are a great bunch, and we go and have a glass of wine at the pub across the road afterwards. Why don't you come tomorrow night?"
"Confession: my yoga pants have never been to yoga" said Lolly, "and to be honest I cannot see them ever going. Besides which I am signing up for the local slimming club, I need to lose some weight."
"But, yoga would compliment the slimming diet" said Esme. "You need to do exercise along with the better eating habits and it is so gentle and calming, it really would work for you and compliment the diet. We could skip the pub afterwards or you could always have a tonic water or something, slimline of course. That way you would not be going against the diet."
"No, it's not for me." replied Lolly.
"So I can't persuade you at all"
"No"
And with that the two girls carried on walking home and the subject changed to what crafting they were going to be doing that night. It was Esme's turn to play host so she hoped her craft room was tidy enough for the two of them. Hers was so tiny compared with that of Lolly, but at the end of the day, did it really matter, it hadn't before so why should she worry about it tonight."
