"You can never have too many shoes or friends" is the quote Wendy sent to use this week. All I could think of was having a party in my Journal - lots of people and lots of shoes. In reality I searched through my images of the legs I use at various times. There are more female looking legs than male and so I found lots of legs, in fact I didn't use them all. This is linked to Art Journal Journey where Erika has got Spring Birds as her challenge this month.
I had a page in my Pan Pastel book that was already coloured and had some flower heads stamped on it with Versamark and then the colour put on with a sponge. At the top left corner was a piece of tissue paper with letters of the alphabet stamped on it, what the reasoning for this page I have no idea but I decided to make a flower out of the legs. However, people have grown used to reading a story with my Dylusion pages and so I had to make one up quite quickly.
"Helen was chatting on the phone to her friend Sara and they were talking about some of their other friends who seemed to have lots of money for lots of things such as exotic holidays abroad, weekends at Spa Centres and who had flash cars to drive around in.
Now both Helen and Sara worked hard, had well paid jobs or so they thought, but neither could afford to live like their other friends.
"Mel has so much money she doesn't know how to spend it. The other day she was on about getting turkey teeth." said Helen.
"What? What on earth are turkey teeth?" asked Sara. A minute later the penny dropped. "Oh you mean Turkey with a capital T as in the country" she said. "I thought you meant teeth like the bird, a turkey, for a minute." Both girls collapsed into fits of giggles.
"I know Mel got a lot of money left to her by her grandfather" said Helen, "That's why she had that lavish twenty first birthday party. I didn't have wealthy grandparents and mum keeps doing the lottery but never wins anything. Guess we weren't born to be rich."
"Hold on," said Sara, 'we have far more than she has, than that whole rich lot have. You can never have too many friends or shoes. We both have those in abundance, and I have my Tilly, my little bird. And our friends are sincere and our shoes, well, some may be from the local charity shop, but we do have lots of them. Mum was only saying the other day I had to get rid of some of them to make room for other things. I told her I am a shoe addict."
Both girls laughed before switching their phones off, but not before they had arranged to meet down the road after lunch to show off their latest pair of shoes to one another."
