Monday 6 June 2011

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... was what blogger called my saved post. I quite like it so am calling it that too. Minimalist and quite stylish I think! There are a few pictures today as these pages are all linked. The first page is a pen drawing with water added-is this pen and wash? I think it might be. It is of a little girl found in a photo in a drawer in a basement in a junk shop. It is a sweet photo. She reminds me of my Mum when she was little. My Dad recently showed me a box of tiny old photos-mainly of my Gran as a young woman, doing day to day things like being on their farm, posing with a young man, and standing next to someone's motorbike. There were pictures of old pets which were sweet and touching somehow. I have never seen them before which is terrible I suppose. You can see how easy it is for these things to get lost from families and end up abandoned in junk shop drawers. Oh well, I shall look after whoever she was now. Until my stuff ends up in junk shop drawers. I am just depressing myself now!
The brown page is a list of all the second hand purchases I made in a short period of time a couple of weekends ago. It was, as I have written at the bottom, a spree. Some were for the garden, some were for collections-the musical box-which I will show some day on circles of rain, and some were just for fun! (Well they all were really)

Then there is a photo of the actor Peter O'Toole. I have just re-watched the whole gruesome Tudors series, and he was great (and funny-the writers must have felt the need for a bit of light relief from all the torture) as one of the Popes.

Another photo transfer page-this time of a photo of one of my dolls. The drawing is of a woman in the other photo I bought that day from the same place. This one's date is earlier I would say.

Then the two pictures themselves-I will make a pocket in the journal to keep them I think.

6 comments:

lynne h said...

oh my sarah, i love, love this... all of it... xoxo

Sarah said...

Thanks Lynne!

Lori Saul said...

I was drawn to this blog by its beautiful and intriguing name Sarah. What wonderful and expressive journal work to be found here. I really like the combination of photos, sketches and handwritten entries- they all tie together to create a collage of thoughts and feelings. Wonderful!

Sarah said...

Thanks Lori!

Kat Mortensen said...

This is so amazing!
(I was just thinking about O'Toole, actually because I'm reading Wodehouse's "Heavy Weather" and Peter played a role in the t.v. version. He's always a hoot, isn't he?

Kat Mortensen said...

Oops! Sorry, Sarah. I was following this blog, but culled a ton of them the other week and didn't recognize the title. I'll just pop in from the link in your sidebar, if I may.

Kat

Big apologies for no phone call - my injuries from falling down the stairs put me flat out for a while and then other things happened, as they do. Are you still on Messenger?