it's no surprise that with everything that has happened in the last few months, well... since june when the bean had surgery actually, i lost a desire to create. of course i still had to, with deadlines for kenner road and my other assignments, but honestly i wasn't enjoying it like i had before.
everything felt like it was forced and i wasn't creating and experimenting and feeling like i loved alot of it. it's one of those conflicts that creative people go through, i know this. everything ebbs and flows and sometimes you feel like you are on fire, everything you create is a favorite. and sometimes the last thing you want to do is walk into your studio {or wherever you create} and make something. right? right.
so.
to say that i finally have my muse back i feel is an understatement. i'm finding the process of just cutting and gluing and creating to be such a wonderful joy again.
one of my most precious creations this month is the layout above. last year my mother gave me a copy of our italian family lineage, containing info dating back to my great-great grandfather who was born in grumento-neuvo, italy in 1873.
it is precious.
she typed it in all capitals on her typewriter and although my copy is not the original, i don't care. it is a piece of my history that she created. i can see her sitting down at her desk {which i was lucky enough to inherit} typing out our lineage to give to my grandmother.
click. click. click.
it is a record of my people and it makes me happy.
this was fun.
some of you may recognize that old jalopy as the logo on the kR website. i wanted to create a piece to display it in the studio because that picture makes me so happy. it has been a wild year and a half, full of lessons galore, and this piece is where it all began. with our pictorial logo and a little idea about recording moments & inspiration and creating kits to inspire others to do the same.
the box is an old box i found junking that was tattered and worn {perfect!}. i added the end caps from a vintage piano roll as feet and then lined the front edge with mini glass tiles that i have been waiting forever to use.
my bean. when she was about 3 years old she used to wrap her little raggies {her comfort blankets which are just cloth diapers, lol} around her body for dress-up. i know it comforted her and made her feel good. they are and have always been her go to buddies and the picture just makes my heart smile.
this was a quick display. i wanted to use the negative banner piece that was left after i punched out the banner piece for the lineage layout and i had this antique schoolhouse photo that i have wanted to use for a few months. the stand is a vintage receipt spike and the felt is from the sassafras lass feltie pack from the ramble embellishment add-on. quick i tell you, like 5 minutes.
and last, but not least, the secret garden mini book add-on has my heart. when i put the kit together i had a completely different idea of what i would crate. but then i started stitching and gathering the insides and i realized that the jbs calendar cards {again, from the ramble embellishment addon} would be perfect for documenting one favorite photo from each month of 2009.
i could marry the gcd glass brads.
to make the inserts i stitched two months together on front and back and then printed out a favorite 2x2 photo and applied it on top. added some little scrap bits of the 7gs ephemera {in the ramble addon} and punched holes. quick and simple but oh so wonderful.
that pic of the bean above is from when she came out of her surgery last june. i have tried a million times to start recording that but this is as close as i can get still. so many hard memories and when i think about her, and all she went through, her pain. it still hurts my heart.
but in this pic she looks like my sleeping angel, and that's why i adore it.
obviously i still need decembers.
have a wonderful & merry tuesday!
xo
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