2009/06/30
2009/06/29
You’re unique, you’re a wrecker
This is a quote from Keri Smiths other (one of many) book: „Living out loud“:
„Best of all a journal is a great collector of all things that make you UNIQUE!
Thoughts, ideas, feelings, dreams, favorite things, memories... Be your own research project!“
That’s the thing that I’m now feeling, when wrecking.
It mirrors ourselves and our environments. And who can ever jugde about that: is it better to have lace in your journal or a footprint (in fact you can have both!!!), is it better to colour with a stick or a feather? Does your stains come from pasta sauce or from dandelion? Have you spilt coffee, tea or milk?
Who cares- it’s just you and everything you do with it, is the right thing!
And that’s the fun about it. You can look, what others do and you can still love the way your journals looks.
(the petal was white before drying)
And besides all that: Cover and paper are great, the ideal material, I really wish one can buy this journal also in a blank version to continue the journey, when finished. (perhaps I should suggest this to Keri Smith)
I really love the pages‘ smell and what it feels like to touch it.
„Best of all a journal is a great collector of all things that make you UNIQUE!
Thoughts, ideas, feelings, dreams, favorite things, memories... Be your own research project!“
That’s the thing that I’m now feeling, when wrecking.
It mirrors ourselves and our environments. And who can ever jugde about that: is it better to have lace in your journal or a footprint (in fact you can have both!!!), is it better to colour with a stick or a feather? Does your stains come from pasta sauce or from dandelion? Have you spilt coffee, tea or milk?
Who cares- it’s just you and everything you do with it, is the right thing!
And that’s the fun about it. You can look, what others do and you can still love the way your journals looks.
(the petal was white before drying)
And besides all that: Cover and paper are great, the ideal material, I really wish one can buy this journal also in a blank version to continue the journey, when finished. (perhaps I should suggest this to Keri Smith)
I really love the pages‘ smell and what it feels like to touch it.
2009/06/27
Wrecking with animals...
Not only that I (ab?)used a snail for my first experiences with my journal, I also taped a fly on my random-page and today, doing the dirt-page, I disturbed thousands of ants by grabbing a little bit of dirt. Panic! Everyone was carrying eggs away and I stood there, feeling not only as a journal- but also as an animal-wrecker. Pooh!
But the result is interesting. Do you see the woman, dancing in the breeze on it? And the little girl close behind her?
Nice sign! (Perhaps it’s a little bit like those ink-pictures, that psychiatrists used to deal with in former times.)
The hand was much fun. Haven’t done this for a very very long time.
And on the magazine-page I circled words like morning sun, silver, shells, stillness, sisters, sleeping beauty, centaurs, drift.
I’m also glad to have a Madonna in my journal. You never know. And Maria is my second name. ;)
Happy wrecking week-end to everyone!
But the result is interesting. Do you see the woman, dancing in the breeze on it? And the little girl close behind her?
Nice sign! (Perhaps it’s a little bit like those ink-pictures, that psychiatrists used to deal with in former times.)
The hand was much fun. Haven’t done this for a very very long time.
And on the magazine-page I circled words like morning sun, silver, shells, stillness, sisters, sleeping beauty, centaurs, drift.
I’m also glad to have a Madonna in my journal. You never know. And Maria is my second name. ;)
Happy wrecking week-end to everyone!
2009/06/26
Wrecking, the seventh day
Tomorrow it's a whole week ago, that I started wrecking!
It still really is a thrill.
So today I found the one and only perfect cherry on my cherry tree (although it's a bad year for cherries, because of the rain).
The random-page is full now. On the left corner is the fly, that was enoying me, while doing my journal. Sorry for that, but I just have to kill it....
"Lache" means "Laugh" and is to remind me, that there's nothing more important in life than laughing (besides love, of course).
And the handprints belong to my daughter Svea and me.
Thank you all for your lovely comments, it's great to be a part of this. Gives me the real "one heart-one tribe"-feeling, I love so much about being in the internet.
So, go on wrecking, you all!
Ah and thanks to Jamie for the wonderful SWAP-idea- this is soooooo exiting!
It still really is a thrill.
So today I found the one and only perfect cherry on my cherry tree (although it's a bad year for cherries, because of the rain).
The random-page is full now. On the left corner is the fly, that was enoying me, while doing my journal. Sorry for that, but I just have to kill it....
"Lache" means "Laugh" and is to remind me, that there's nothing more important in life than laughing (besides love, of course).
And the handprints belong to my daughter Svea and me.
Thank you all for your lovely comments, it's great to be a part of this. Gives me the real "one heart-one tribe"-feeling, I love so much about being in the internet.
So, go on wrecking, you all!
Ah and thanks to Jamie for the wonderful SWAP-idea- this is soooooo exiting!
2009/06/25
Wrecking on (day 6)
Some insights:
I’m looking forward to Jamie's video update tomorrow.
And it’s great to peep around in other blogs, what you all made of it! Such wonderful ideas!
I’m looking forward to Jamie's video update tomorrow.
And it’s great to peep around in other blogs, what you all made of it! Such wonderful ideas!
2009/06/24
Wreck this journal- day #5
Does any one know this guy?
Yeah, that’s right, it’s „Mr. Lloyd Loom“ himself and his suggestion is to make a paper chain. But I would prefer just sitting in one of his chairs...and RELAX.
But- as always I’m challenged by this little journalfriend of mine...although it really likes to relax on this hot day too.
Today is my letting-go day and as a ritual I will let this page go. So off you go over the cornfields and the meadows...(very windy today)
What else. Ah yes, I finished the Circle Page with a little help from my daughter.
And! I’ve dreamt about my journal. I dreamt I was cutting through most of the pages. In fact, I’ve only cut through one page (so far). Does that mean, that’s what I have to do???!!! I’m not sure about that...
Suggestions:
Write a letter to your journal, as if it was a friend. Write a letter to your creative self. Hug it. Say: I’m so glad, that you are still around me, although I’ve neglected you so often in my life.
Remember: it’s never too late to have a wonderful childhood!
Try more.
Create and destroy.
Destroy and create.
Take care!
Yeah, that’s right, it’s „Mr. Lloyd Loom“ himself and his suggestion is to make a paper chain. But I would prefer just sitting in one of his chairs...and RELAX.
But- as always I’m challenged by this little journalfriend of mine...although it really likes to relax on this hot day too.
Today is my letting-go day and as a ritual I will let this page go. So off you go over the cornfields and the meadows...(very windy today)
What else. Ah yes, I finished the Circle Page with a little help from my daughter.
And! I’ve dreamt about my journal. I dreamt I was cutting through most of the pages. In fact, I’ve only cut through one page (so far). Does that mean, that’s what I have to do???!!! I’m not sure about that...
Suggestions:
Write a letter to your journal, as if it was a friend. Write a letter to your creative self. Hug it. Say: I’m so glad, that you are still around me, although I’ve neglected you so often in my life.
Remember: it’s never too late to have a wonderful childhood!
Try more.
Create and destroy.
Destroy and create.
Take care!
8 Things- Values
8 Things- 8 Values that Guide My Life:
1. Stillness
2. Gratitude
3. Being in the flow
4. Compassion
5. Love/ Agape
6. Feeling the angels around me
7. Belief
8. Inner guidance
More about it
1. Stillness
2. Gratitude
3. Being in the flow
4. Compassion
5. Love/ Agape
6. Feeling the angels around me
7. Belief
8. Inner guidance
More about it
2009/06/23
WTJ- the fourth day
Lot’s of fun with my journalfriend.
The bride’s theme is what I am chewing on. So my journal hast to wear something blue, something old, something new and something borrowed. Hihi.
It’s a very windy day and I thought hanging in the tree would be a new expierince for my journal friend.
My daughter is a journalmaker by nature, when ever something’s on her mind, she makes a little book. And this is our table: two crazy artists at work.
Chaos, but creative, I like that. And she likes sharing some pages of WTJ with me, the chewing-page oder the page with the vegie prints, which are nature prints.
Poppies make really nice little stars, I like that!
She also helped me to make a little bag inside the journal, where I store a page from a book, I really like „The Awakening“ from Kate Chopin. (read it, it’s great!!!)
„Find a way to wear the journal“, I would suggest: „Find something to wear for the journal“.
A scarf? Some knitted bad? A felted bag? Cloth, to be wrapped in? A ribbon? A bracelet? A chain?
More suggestions:
Be tender to the page next to the scratch-page. Stroke. Put feathers on it. Draw something smooth on it.
Write a poem you learned by heart on one of the pages.
Print your favorite e-mail and put it into it. Print a random e-mail and put in into it.
Dance with it!
The bride’s theme is what I am chewing on. So my journal hast to wear something blue, something old, something new and something borrowed. Hihi.
It’s a very windy day and I thought hanging in the tree would be a new expierince for my journal friend.
My daughter is a journalmaker by nature, when ever something’s on her mind, she makes a little book. And this is our table: two crazy artists at work.
Chaos, but creative, I like that. And she likes sharing some pages of WTJ with me, the chewing-page oder the page with the vegie prints, which are nature prints.
Poppies make really nice little stars, I like that!
She also helped me to make a little bag inside the journal, where I store a page from a book, I really like „The Awakening“ from Kate Chopin. (read it, it’s great!!!)
„Find a way to wear the journal“, I would suggest: „Find something to wear for the journal“.
A scarf? Some knitted bad? A felted bag? Cloth, to be wrapped in? A ribbon? A bracelet? A chain?
More suggestions:
Be tender to the page next to the scratch-page. Stroke. Put feathers on it. Draw something smooth on it.
Write a poem you learned by heart on one of the pages.
Print your favorite e-mail and put it into it. Print a random e-mail and put in into it.
Dance with it!
2009/06/22
Wreck this journal- the third day
The main change is that my journal has a new look on the outside.
I’m sorry, Keri, but THIS isn’t your book anymore- it’s mine and it’s beautiful.
I also made little changes, for example this page:
This is my favorite page: the summer flowers...
And after being so rough with my dear journal, it deserves a nice treatment in new wool, wrapped up all over and taking the smell of sheep. Hm...........
(But it’s still wet from the rain barrel, this poor thing.)
Thank you so much for all your comments! CU!
I’m sorry, Keri, but THIS isn’t your book anymore- it’s mine and it’s beautiful.
I also made little changes, for example this page:
This is my favorite page: the summer flowers...
And after being so rough with my dear journal, it deserves a nice treatment in new wool, wrapped up all over and taking the smell of sheep. Hm...........
(But it’s still wet from the rain barrel, this poor thing.)
Thank you so much for all your comments! CU!
2009/06/21
Wreck this journal- the second day
„Say hello to the garden, dear Journal!“
(Have you invented names for your journals?“ I thought about it)
The more you personalize it, the more it becomes your own, your friend (sounds corny, but for me, that’s true). Normally I put an Ex Libris in my book with name and date and that’s it.
But with this journal, where everything is possible, I do more and more to make it a typical Lawendula-thing. *s*
So, I started today with little things, knowing that there will not be a single page, that will be ready on one day (except for the burning page, the loosing page and the page that a friend, in my case my 7-year-old daughter will do for me).
Working with it, I feel my urge to disobey the rules. Why must I make holes with a pencil? I’ve done it three times, it’s boring. So I started to draw. That’s much more fun.
I really really enjoyed sewing.
Using vegetables to make prints....no I can’t do that and thought of leaving it, but then I found the rest of a cucumber und used that.
There is another thing, I can’t do: tear out my favorite page! No. I won’t.
Am I going to manage the shower? Have you already? What was the hardest thing to do?
Have you used blood in it? (I’m thinking about it)
I’m glad to get comments- thank you so much! It’s real fun, sharing this thing. (My German blogsisters are not that enthusiastic on this thing. It’s against all that is typical German: following rules, cleanliness, trading books like treasures- which is something I really like about my country- we really have great books, very good paper, low prices)
And there’s the big question: what’s it all about? (We are not the „just-for-fun“-nation)
Later:
Oh oh oh, what have I done????
I was facing my biggest fear (the shower) and to make it short, I dropped it into the rain barrel. Oh oh, it’s really wet and the pages stick together now. Will they ever get loose again? Get dry again?
I hung it up on the clothesline. Journal-Laundy, why not? (Thought of putting it into the tumbler- but....)
Other things were: Composting. Ok, I know, only one page (I will do this soon), but I throw the whole book on the compost, just to try. It was ok.
And later:
It’s ok, I‘m calming down, the pages are drying in the sun and I’m still able to open the book.
Things that can also be done in/with it:
Make drawings with a lipstick
Making prints with a teabag
Store herbs in it
Carry something with it
(Have you invented names for your journals?“ I thought about it)
The more you personalize it, the more it becomes your own, your friend (sounds corny, but for me, that’s true). Normally I put an Ex Libris in my book with name and date and that’s it.
But with this journal, where everything is possible, I do more and more to make it a typical Lawendula-thing. *s*
So, I started today with little things, knowing that there will not be a single page, that will be ready on one day (except for the burning page, the loosing page and the page that a friend, in my case my 7-year-old daughter will do for me).
Working with it, I feel my urge to disobey the rules. Why must I make holes with a pencil? I’ve done it three times, it’s boring. So I started to draw. That’s much more fun.
I really really enjoyed sewing.
Using vegetables to make prints....no I can’t do that and thought of leaving it, but then I found the rest of a cucumber und used that.
There is another thing, I can’t do: tear out my favorite page! No. I won’t.
Am I going to manage the shower? Have you already? What was the hardest thing to do?
Have you used blood in it? (I’m thinking about it)
I’m glad to get comments- thank you so much! It’s real fun, sharing this thing. (My German blogsisters are not that enthusiastic on this thing. It’s against all that is typical German: following rules, cleanliness, trading books like treasures- which is something I really like about my country- we really have great books, very good paper, low prices)
And there’s the big question: what’s it all about? (We are not the „just-for-fun“-nation)
Later:
Oh oh oh, what have I done????
I was facing my biggest fear (the shower) and to make it short, I dropped it into the rain barrel. Oh oh, it’s really wet and the pages stick together now. Will they ever get loose again? Get dry again?
I hung it up on the clothesline. Journal-Laundy, why not? (Thought of putting it into the tumbler- but....)
Other things were: Composting. Ok, I know, only one page (I will do this soon), but I throw the whole book on the compost, just to try. It was ok.
And later:
It’s ok, I‘m calming down, the pages are drying in the sun and I’m still able to open the book.
Things that can also be done in/with it:
Make drawings with a lipstick
Making prints with a teabag
Store herbs in it
Carry something with it
Eight
As seen on the blog of into the dawn
8 things I'm looking forward to:
1. exchanging „wrecking“-experiences
2. pottery market in Schwerin in two weeks
3. watching all the Ida Lupino films my darling has sent me
4. watching my daughter finishing her first own knitting-piece
5. reading my new book „the trouble with poetry“
6. learning to speak Italian
7. learning to sew with a sewing machine
8. being 7x7 years old
8 things I did yesterday:
1. baptising my journal
2. making my own knitting needles
3. talking about this really bad summer
4. making a wonderful salad
5. blogging
6. go for a walk after rain
7. spinning a wonderful yarn with bamboo and linnen in it
8. watching a beautiful rainbow
8 things I wish I could do:
1. speaking English like it was my mother tongue
2. speaking Italian, Spanish and Svedish
3. sew with a sewing machine
4. sing really well
5. playing piano or cello
6. living in Cornwall
7. gardening
8. pottering
8 shows I watch:
none
(have got no TV)
8 favorite foods:
1. Salad
2. Goat cheese
3. Chillie Spaghetti with fresh vegetables
4. Hägaan Dasz Strawberry Cheese Cake
5. Onion Pie
6. Garlic bread
7. Vegetarian Lasagne
8. Nirwana chocolate
8 places I'd like to travel:
1. Mexico
2. Cornwall
3. Wales
4. Tasmania
5. New York
6. Cook Islands
7. Hawaii
8. Norway
8 things I'm looking forward to:
1. exchanging „wrecking“-experiences
2. pottery market in Schwerin in two weeks
3. watching all the Ida Lupino films my darling has sent me
4. watching my daughter finishing her first own knitting-piece
5. reading my new book „the trouble with poetry“
6. learning to speak Italian
7. learning to sew with a sewing machine
8. being 7x7 years old
8 things I did yesterday:
1. baptising my journal
2. making my own knitting needles
3. talking about this really bad summer
4. making a wonderful salad
5. blogging
6. go for a walk after rain
7. spinning a wonderful yarn with bamboo and linnen in it
8. watching a beautiful rainbow
8 things I wish I could do:
1. speaking English like it was my mother tongue
2. speaking Italian, Spanish and Svedish
3. sew with a sewing machine
4. sing really well
5. playing piano or cello
6. living in Cornwall
7. gardening
8. pottering
8 shows I watch:
none
(have got no TV)
8 favorite foods:
1. Salad
2. Goat cheese
3. Chillie Spaghetti with fresh vegetables
4. Hägaan Dasz Strawberry Cheese Cake
5. Onion Pie
6. Garlic bread
7. Vegetarian Lasagne
8. Nirwana chocolate
8 places I'd like to travel:
1. Mexico
2. Cornwall
3. Wales
4. Tasmania
5. New York
6. Cook Islands
7. Hawaii
8. Norway
2009/06/20
Wreck this journal- first day- update
I was „baptising“ the journal. That was real fun. More fun than I thought it will be.
I took it out in the garden, after a heavy rain, threw it onto the wet lawn. Take it to my favorite parts of the garden.
Put some lavender in it (my name!!!), now it smells wonderful.
Put a petal of a rose in it. Looks beautiful. Found a snail on the street and put it in the book. It was hiding inside its house most of the time. I sat and watch for a while, took pictures, enjoyed.
Take it for a walk, threw it into the air.
Covered it with soil.
Everything was wonderful. After that, I took it into the house and wrote down what I had down with it.
I made a felt ribbon to wrap it round the journal.
I made it my own in putting things in, that are typical me: lavender, felt, wool, embroidery yarn, labels etc..
I really like my journal. It’s feel, it’s smell. A great experience!
Please visit also this post
I took it out in the garden, after a heavy rain, threw it onto the wet lawn. Take it to my favorite parts of the garden.
Put some lavender in it (my name!!!), now it smells wonderful.
Put a petal of a rose in it. Looks beautiful. Found a snail on the street and put it in the book. It was hiding inside its house most of the time. I sat and watch for a while, took pictures, enjoyed.
Take it for a walk, threw it into the air.
Covered it with soil.
Everything was wonderful. After that, I took it into the house and wrote down what I had down with it.
I made a felt ribbon to wrap it round the journal.
I made it my own in putting things in, that are typical me: lavender, felt, wool, embroidery yarn, labels etc..
I really like my journal. It’s feel, it’s smell. A great experience!
Please visit also this post
Wreck this journal- the first day
I just wanted to know what’s the hype about this.
We don’t have a tradition of journalmaking in Germany, so journals mean almost nothing to us. What resembles this thing is „Kein Buch“, which means „no book“.
So, I got the original from amazon.de today and I just flipped it open on the „pour your coffee“-page. The tea mug was standing nearby, so off you go, lovely tea into the book....huh, it’s a strange feeling to do something that you’re normally avoiding as anything.
But I’m still alive after this faux-pas!
My own page number MUST be 42, it’s my age and the combination of my favorite numbers 6 and 7. And it’s 2 times 21, which I really love.
On the other page their are the materials. I marked the things I liked with an ! (for example: tears, needles and thread, sticky things, sticks) and the words I have to look up in a dictionary with a ? (So I can improve my English while wrecking this journal, isn’t that great?!)
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