Saturday 23 February 2013

JUST BREATHE .....


If you're a regular visitor here you may notice something unusual about this page?  Its got lots of empty space, which is not like me at all!  Generally I fill every corner with bits of writing and doodling, but not this time ....
It started out like this ... a background made with Caran d'Ache crayons with a little bit of pink ink dabbed through a stencil.  Then I drew some strange, almost organic shapes (was my brain still thinking about arteries and body parts like the other week)??  Dunno really, who knows what goes on in there, I don't even remember most of it!
The black lines were done with a Promarker - I like doing wobbly thicknesses like this, and anyway if I tried to make them all neat, of equal thickness and regular I'd never do it!  If wobbles are inevitable why not make an artistic feature of them?  Then I wrote  "breathe slowly" - and its funny how I didn't know that I needed to do so until those words appeared on the page - my journalling is often intuitive like that.  It felt like I was getting a message from Herself upstairs, especially when the other words turned up.
I do have a bit of a tendency to worry about stuff, instead of handing it over and saying "I can't deal with this, but I know you can", but I think (I hope) I'm getting better at it.  A bit more writing (in my own handwriting yet!) and it was done.  No more words, message received and understood.

Obviously I couldn't resist doing a few dotty decorations, but even these were restrained by my usual standards, and I was quite comfortable with the empty space.  Actually I've been looking at journal pages on Pinterest recently, and noticed that some of the ones I liked the best were very clean and simple.  You wouldn't normally describe my pages that way - another message from Herself?  It may have been divinely inspired, or (possibly more likely) I was in a funny mood.  Whatever.   I like it though!

PS I've just noticed that my visitors have passed the 10,000 mark - and that's with a reset from 0 when for some reason I lost the blog counter!  I'm awed and amazed.  Thank you for coming by.

4 comments:

Deborah said...

The 'breathe slowly' and the spaces in your page are perfect together - like filling your lungs with air perhaps? And I'm with you on wobbly promarker lines.

alexa said...

Yes, I thought 'lungs' too! I like the airy effect very much and how most of the journalling/thoughts are registering way down on the left (just about where the heart would be?). I am always inspired and delighted when I come, Rosie, and it is especially nice that you share so much of your process with us. So I will continue to be one of your many visitors - many congratulations on that total :).

Barbara Hagerty said...

I love this page! I love the organic shapes, and reading about your thoughts about the page as you created it!

Linda Vincent said...

Lovely page Rosie...the spaces are good (space to breath?) I need to take note of this page.....
xx