The Art Journal

Watercolor series called Mermaids in Summertime. 

Weekly Flutters

{from anotherfeather's instagram} I want to wrap my bathroom mirrors in greenery now.

Jan of Poppytalk {a blogging hero of mine!} shares a fabric printing DIY

This Anthropology-inspired yarn stitched rug DIY would look great in my kitchen.

This Washi tape cross-stitched pattern {I don't have a source for this pic} would look cute in my laundry room!

I've been craving some fun/ inexpensive ways to spruce my space.  Something listed here will be happening this weekend {maybe more than one thing... we shall see}...

Happy weekend to all!!

P.S.-- links are included for all of these... I just can't seem to change the color of my font {probably a "doi!" moment that I will eventually figure out}.  Just hover around and you'll see where to click.

What we do now...

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.” 

“What we need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.” 

“If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.” 


Quotes taken from The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Wishing some reflection and perspective into our future.