Exotic

November's theme for Snapshot Girls was 'Exotic'.  My life was really busy and I had no ideas for photographs.  I saw posts on Facebook from several people who had visited the Chihuly exhibition at Kew Gardens over the summer.

So I cheated.  I didn't get to Kew but I have been to the Chihuly museum in Seattle.  So I used photos I took whilst there.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

X

In our Living Your Word of the Year group we are using a fortnightly (bi-weekly) A-Z challenge throughout the year to help us focus on our word and live it out.

Because of the way I have made my journal it's a case of going with the flow of what background the pages have when I turn to them.

I read Valerie's post for the letter X.  She mentions that an X crosses things out.  This made me think about how Jesus died on the cross to defeat evil and sin in our lives.  When we accept Jesus into our lives we become a new creation.

I could see this image in my head as I thought about Jesus on the cross.  I made it on the computer.

Here are my pages together.

My word this year is Commit or Commitment.  There is no greater commitment from Jesus to us than to die on the cross.

'For the greatest love of all is a love that sacrifices all. And this great love is demonstrated when a person sacrifices his life for his friends'.  John 15:13 (TPT)

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Join Our Inspirational Facebook Group: Living Your Word of the Year

Join Mary Brack, Valerie Sjodin and I in our Facebook group where we are giving participants the opportunity to live out an A-Z of their own word throughout 2019.  Mary explains what we are doing in her blog post.  We don't like a lot of rules, so we will have suggestions and options to spark creativity, and to help in recording and exploring our word’s meaning in visual and fun ways. We will each blog about our experiences and our art.

 Living Your Word of the Year 2019

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Cas Holmes

I have just spent 3 days at Littleheath Barn doing a workshop with Cas Holmes called: Stitch-Sketch-Books.

I love Cas' style of teaching.  It's a mix of her demonstrating a technique with her asking participants lots of questions so that we learn to explore alongside her.  We were given some activities to try on the first morning and then we launched into a practice piece to try out Cas' techniques.  I collaged two small pieces.

They dried overnight and the next morning I made two wider pieces.

I machine stitched and handstitched on my pieces and folded them to make a zizgzag book.

I had intended to cut up the narrower pieces and put them in between some of the wider bits.  However in the end I cut up the narrow pieces and sewed them into the main piece to make smaller zigzag books within the main zigzag book.

The back shows the stitches and some of the papers I used.  I can still work into the back if I wish.

Some of Cas' questions are really thought-provoking but some answers are quite simple but you're never sure which is which.

I must admit that several times over those days I was reminded of the old story about a Sunday School class:  A Sunday-school teacher asks the class of young children, "What is little and grey, eats nuts, and has a big bushy tail?"

After a moment one child replies, "I know the answer's probably supposed to be Jesus, but it sure sounds like a squirrel to me."

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice