Showing posts with label kind over matter blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kind over matter blog. Show all posts

Friday, 1 April 2011

Day 2: Wonder [Be Gentle, Be Love e-course]

Quote for Day 2: "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom" - Greek Proverb

The Wonder of Stars.  When the skies are so wide, we are all children of wonder looking up at the magic...

Last week we went on holiday to the Peak District in Derbyshire, the UK.  We stopped in our caravan at a site near Ashbourne.  One night, the sky was so clear and unpolluted by lights that I could see a full skyful of stars.  The visible sky was bigger than it is at home as there were no houses, just trees to obscure the stars.  It was mesmorising staring up - sadly I only have a point and press camera which couldn't capture it and even my husband's DLR camera with tripod couldn't reflect the sight in front of us.


The sky reminded me of the childhood skies I could see, as I used to live in the countryside for a long time and skies were so full of stars then.  The background of my picture is my camera's attempt at recording the night and then I used a white pencil to somehow show what the wonder of it looked like that night.  I love the idea that we are all made of stars, all born to twinkle in our own little ways.


Julie x

Tuesday, 30 November 2010

AJC10 Week 48 preview - discovering quotes

This quote also came from the "Kind over Matter" blog and I wanted to journal it to remember it
http://www.kindovermatter.com/2010/11/dont-give-anyone-permission-to-snuff.html

Credits:
Background - Basic Grey, Color Me Silly Digital paper: Discovery
http://www.basicgrey.com/digital/shop/product/col-d343/collection:current
Floral texture (opacity reduced) - Basic Grey, Sublime Digital texture http://www.basicgrey.com/digital/shop/product/acs-d246/collection:current

Thursday, 25 November 2010

AJC10 Week 48 preview - "Gaze on a Goal"

I came across the Gandhi quote yesterday morning from a blog I follow http://www.kindovermatter.com/2010/11/offering-peace.html The quote is how I try to live my life and how I aim to treat people I encounter as I go. It was such a beautiful quote I did to journal it to remember it and it went with "gazing on a goal" element of a quote included in the parcel.

Credits:
Background and elements from Studio Tangie Baxter @ Scrapbookgraphics, Art Journal Caravan, Week 48 parcel.