WTJ Mega Catch Up

It's been a while since i've done a post.

My WTJ has been ticking over, some of the pages are complete and won't get added to. Some might get changed completely. Others will be added to gradually over weeks and months. 

As you can teall i have made my own and i have followed a list i found on line, what i liked about the journal i just was it was a bit wrecked before i started.

Introduction and Materials List

Number the Page and Leave this page Blank

 The favourite page i've done is below. - Spill your coffee here. I drew a mug on each page and coloured it in with Aqua pencils and spilt Tea and Coffee

Spill Your Coffee Here. 

 I also like the next page. you can't really see the holes i've poked and i found some felt flowers which i think it was from the Early Learning Centre (ELC) when my local store was closing down.

Poke with holes

 You can see the wholes i've poked better on this next page

Draw Fat Lines and Thin Lines

 I also like the next page

Hand Prints

 I hate this next page, no idea why i drew a turtle 

Target Practice

Scratch this Page

 I haven't done a Pencil rubbing since i was at school, at first i struggled, but then we found loads of old coins from all around the world so i went a bit crazy

Pencil Drubbings

Tear this page and stick these pages together

 I took my book and pens on the bus to do the next page

Draw lines whilst Moving

 The next set of pages is a mixture of scrap book paper, stickers and cricles i got free with a craft magazine that i didn't know what to do with 

Fill This page with Circles

Chew this Page

 I had a Nibble 

I had a chew

Make a Funnel

 I made a funnel out of the actual book page, then created a new book page to add the funnel back to

It looks like a Funnel

Testing it

Water comes out

Wow it didn't run, i wish i'd used cheap pens 

Crumple

  

Crumple and make a paper plane

Repeat the same word over and over again

Fill the page with stickers

Doodle on the back of an Envelope 

Make a Paper Chain 

Fill with Fruit Stickers

Fill with office supplies and Take me for a shower 

Sew this Page

Fill with Stamps

Fill with Random Items

I decorated the next Page with Viking type items which tied in with a Tee Time challenge

Close your eyes and draw a line between the circles

Add a picture of yourself that you hate and talk about it 

Fill when Angry

Sleep with thr Journal and Document it

Other ways to Wreck the Journal

Draw a picture, Lick your fingers and SMUDGE

Draw with Glue

Fill with 4 Letter words

  Have you got a WTJ? how are you getting on with it?

t'Other Blog

Clothes and Stuff is my other blog, it used to be private and about me losing weight but as i've not lost in a while i've hidden all the old posts and going to blog the clothes i wear.

its not a blog about fashion tbh its just clothes and stuff xxxx

Germany

The first thing that came to mind when i thought of Germany was the Berlin Wall (why Black Forest Gateaux didn't i'll never know!)

The Berlin wall, what do i know about this well being honest not a lot, i know it divided East and West Germany and it was demolished and the Hoff was there, he gets about a bit doesn't he?!

When i thought of the wall before googling i thought of Graffiti and this is what my google image search was.

There are some amazing images and without doing any further German Googling i decided to recreate a relatively easy  graffiti image into my card.

Then i used some other elements i saw to make the book page.

Initially i did a light grey water colour paint on the book page and postcard.

then i bought some cheap brush tip felt pens from ASDA (supermarket) i have bought quite a few promarkers but i was worried about ruining them using them over paint as i've done before.

i am really impressed with the colours and it doesn't matter if they get ruined.

Poland

Another catch up complete. And the book page is done.

I've used tickets I had collected from my trip there.

I've been to Krakow twice. I loved every moment.

It might seem strange but I did almost identical things on both visits.

I went to the most amazing Italian restaurant on both visit. If you know me on real life you will know I'm not a fan of Italian restaurants. I love the food put proper home made fair like my friends papa used to make.

I also went to the salt mines and Auschwitz both trips. Both are amazing places for their own reasons.

I've found it very hard when describing Auschwitz to people who haven't been and I stick to my disruption as amazing. That word possibly seems distasteful but the place is so hard to describe

As you go in through those most famous gates you see what could be a low rise modernish industrial park. Offices. Dentists doctors etc. it's only when you listen and it's very quite and when you go inside the buildings to the exhibitions.

I cried when you have been to Auschwitz they give you a few mins before takin you on a bus to birkenu sorry I can never spell that.

The first time I went I phone my gran in the gap. I love my gran but she drives me batty but I needed to feel connected. She was born in 1931 and her dad served in WWII. To think this told place not all that long ago and to think how the world could be so different if the war ended a different way

Ok sorry. I digress. I you get a chance go.

I did many other things in Poland but as I'm on my iPod I really am struggling to say more

27. Isle of Man

I used a calendar stamp in pink and blue ink for the back ground then with a black ohp pen drew (ahem copied) the symbol. I struggled with the blooming foot. It felt like I was trying to draw looking in a mirror.

Not done the back.

I have caught up with Thailand but not happy with it so not posting that for now xxx

Post cards lost in the mail.

Ops not posted since week 14 how lacks of me

I have done weeks
15 Iceland
16 Romania
17 Norway
18 new Zealand (just realised I haven left space in my book
Oh I have posted these blogged is out of order on my post lists.
19 Bulgaria

20 west Africa. This week we needed to pick a west African country. I didn't I googled west African art. And copied

21 England. This page isn't what I wanted but it's done

Big gap till

27 isle of man