Soulistry Week 7: Secrets of the Spiritual Life

Feeling a bit better so I decided to start the Art-ing of Soulistry again through the Book of Day Premium Program.

 They are up to week 10, I'm trailing behind having only finished up to week 5 before my health took a hearty tumble downhill. 

That means I have the luxury of picking and choosing what to do, bonus! Started with week 7 since the prompt jumped out and my muse grabbed it happily and danced off to do it...

Journaling side reads:

Week #7 - Secrets of the Spiritual Life

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"The Whole secret of the spiritual life is just this painful struggle to come awake, to become really conscious" -The Creed of Christ- Gerald Heard

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For me 'coming awake' has been my struggle with/in-between/around my Christian Faith but also my belief and 'worship' of the older Celtic beliefs... Fairies, Nature, Seasons and the turn of the Sun/Moon.

It is a dance and I have several partners...

Sometimes I struggle and trip with one, sometimes I dance fluidly and gracefully with another... then the tune changes and it goes the other way. Each step is part of this dance, each partner to me is as important as the last... or the next. Often we all dance together in a Ring... THIS is when I am at my very best, THIS Harmony Dance is what I wish for. 

Art Journal side reads:

Balance...

Finds a partner or more...

and join the dance...

 I danced in the morning when the world had begun

I danced in the Moon & the Stars & the Sun...

I came down from Heaven & I danced on the Earth...

Dance then, wherever you may be... I am the Lord of the Dance, said He!

and I'll lead you all, wherever you may be, And I'll lead you all

in the Dance, said He! I am the Dance & the Dance went on...

Book of Days Catch-Up Post Part 2: May 31st - June 19th

All caught up! *yippee!*

Celebrating small victories each and every day as:

 My Brain tries to cope with the Lyrica, 

My Body tries to cope with the disconcerting sensations in my core from my prolapsed bladder and 

My poor Psyche/Self/Muse is fighting for some air space in there. 

One of Today's Victories: 

Got my Book of Days ALL caught up... right up to and including Today!

*woot-woot*

May 10th - 30th was posted up June 14th:

http://keepsakescrafts.blogspot.ca/2012/06/book-of-days-catch-up-post-may-10th.html

Today's posting is May 31st - June 19th

Bonus:

This also completes the 15th and 16th Multi-Day Spreads.

Used as much Happy Mail as I could... if you sent me something it just might be hiding in my BOD. ;O) Used stamped images on envelopes, cards and well... you can see for yourself. 

AND

Before I forget... 

Pop on over to here:

 http://keepsakescrafts.blogspot.ca/2012/06/200-follower-blog-candy-want-in-on-draw.html

For a chance to win some Blog Candy!

June 19th:

16th MDS -DONE!-

June 11th:

15th MDS -DONE!-

The entries are backwards... (cuzzz..)

You can get a small taste of that silly-all-over-confuzzled feeling right along with me!

June 19th:

Wee envelope from Happy Mail with an image that was on an another envelope made into a Journal Spot.

 

June 18th:

Another beautifully decorated envelope bit.

June 18th:

Full Spread

June 17th:

Father's Day

Happy Mail Paper.

June 17th:

Full Spread

June 16th:

It's a Happy Mail envelope bit... stamped with 'Happy Mail'!

June 16th:

Full Spread

 

June 15th:

Happy Mail Calender page... 

Journal bit is a scrap of paper used as an under spray guard for Glimmer Mist. 

 

June 15th:

Full Spread

June 14th:

1st day catching up on BOD. 

Paper was cut from a scrap saved from 'testing' a bunch of markers to see if they were going to be 'mine' or 'the kids'... lol. I have lots of greens for some reason... *shrug*

June 14th:

Full Spread

 

June 13th:

WOYWW 'cheater'

 

June 13th:
Full Spread

 

June 12th:
Art inside a Happy Mail Card.

 

June 12th:
Full Spread (open)

  
Full Spread (closed)

 

June 11th:
Day After the Night Before... 
Hospital all night because of the prolapsed bladder, followed by doctors appointment.
Happy Mail Paper.

 

June 11th:
Full Spread (open)

 

June 10th:
Feeling 'off'.
Happy Mail Paper and NEW Signo Pen *purrrrr*

 

June 10th and 11th:
Go together.

June 10th:
Full Spread.

 

June 9th:
Wallack's Warehouse Sale... *swooooooon!*
Blogged about my haul:
http://keepsakescrafts.blogspot.ca/2012/06/wallacks-warehouse-happy-happy-sale.html
Used a bunch of the sale stickers to cover the back of a postcard.
Painted over them so I could Journal.
Added 'The Best' Deal sticker over top the others.
Added as a Tip-In.

 

 

 

June 9th:
Full Spread

 

June 8th:
Used one of the Postcards the boyz got as party invites... 
Bic White-Out roller strips over the info and then Journaled over top.

 

 

June 8th:
Full Spread

 

June 7th:
Quick ink over the base paint.

June 6th:
WOYWW 'cheater'

June 6th:
Full Spread

 

June 5th:
Highlighter marker, washed out with water over the base paint.

 

June 5th:
Full Spread

 

June 4th:
Highlighter marker, washed out with water over the base paint.

 

June 3rd:
Paper from a Happy Mail envelope.

 

June 2nd:

Happy Mail Tag and Mini-Envelope...

Colored the stamped image and border punched the wee envie.

June 2nd:
Full Spread

 

June 1st:
Happy Mail envelope... colored the stamped image.

June 1st:
Full Spread


May 31st:
Spoiled Journal Tag from making a scrapbook page... 
Over border punched but still useful.

 

Scrap Our Stash Design Team Page: June HOMECOMING Challenge

 Read all the details for the 

June HOMECOMING Challenge: 

HERE!

Sooo... 

A project about any changes since joining the Design Team here at Scrap Our Stash:

As an encore to last month's page about our Celtic Betrothal Handfasting Ceremony in 2009 I made a page for our 1 year Wedding Anniversary in 2011. When I joined all the wonderfully talented ladies here at SOS it was January 2011 and I had *just* gotten married. Now we're swiftly heading towards Wedding Anniversary #2. 

The wheels of time keeps turning!

On our 1 year anniversary we had a nice lunch out, then since the weather was so beautiful we went for a walk in the park our Betrothal Handfasting Ceremony was held. We brought a pretty stone from our garden with us and placed it on the large flat rock we'd stood on to say our vows when we had our hands tied together. We also took some pictures... my favorite being the one of our shadows over that special rock. 

Page base is a My Mind's Eye: Life Stories sheet... part of the much drooled on, but barely used stash.

I cut a piece of white vellum to go across the page, it's slightly wider than 12" so I folded the extra around the base paper on each side. Dug out a Fiskar border punch (threading water) and punched along each edge and threaded the ribbon through. Ribbon is a Celebrate It St.Patrick's Day pattern of wee plaid shamrocks. When threading them through I flipped the vellum around so the stems are facing the photos each way.

Photos were cut using the cutter I saved that never worked right... cuts the edges all 'shaggy' which has it's uses... then I sanded them with an emery board. When attaching the largest photo I left is open underneath on the right so I could hide some journaling underneath. Journaling block is from Little Yellow Bicycle's 'Lucky Me' Journaling Tablet. I punched it with another border punch (leave it to weaver), sliced off that strip and attached it the bottom of the block, then punched the top again to match. 

My favorite part of this page is the LYB Clear Cuts Lucky Me 'logo' with the 'EST.2009' on it: The Year of our Betrothal Ceremony. The September is a rub-on from Bohemia. 

Will be slipping this page into the back of our 'I'm still working on it' Wedding Album, lol. 

Now it's your turn to take the June HOMECOMING Challenge. 

See all the details HERE!