This week's inchie theme is "fishy." I immediately thought of something from years ago (I think it originally came from something George Bernard Shaw wrote while pleading the case for Esperanto). I love the English language and I love playing with words, but English has serious flaws in logical spelling. So...ghoti spells fish! the gh in laugh produces the sound of "f." The o in women produces the sound of "i." The ti in nation produces the sound of "sh." ghoti=fish.
Today's word for the Every Inchie Monday challenge is "electrifying." I thought of bright colors and lightning. So, I cut a piece of fabric and hand sewed a piece of coated telephone wire in sort of a lightening flash shape on it.
For this week's Inchie every Monday challenge, the word is "mirthful." What's more mirthful than a happy Buddha?
I had a busy day today. It started out with an interesting self-discovery. After geting Snow Leopard installed on my desktop, I mistakenly believed that I had lost a year's worth of work; I was aggrevated until I couldn't find last year's photos, then I cried. I had no idea how attached I was to my photos until I thought they were missing (they were hiding, but not deleted). They are back where they belong (sort of - I have a learning curve ahead of me with iPhoto11).
So, after having everything found/restored by Brittney, my computer guru, I spent this evening working on the second lesson from Marie Otero's Journal Magic class , which I am posting below and posting my inchie for Every Inchie Monday, also below.
The theme for this week's inchie is "maudlin." I used a [much reduced] photo of a cemetery statue for the primary image of my inchie.
For my journal page, I decided to focus on bird images.
I still have a lot of organizing to do with the spiffy new computer system, but it should be a happy task now that I know things are hidden, but not lost. It's sometimes surprising how dependent I am on my computer and all the treasures that I have stored on it.
The inspiration word for today is "powerful."
I used a photo I took of a pyramid when I was in Egypt in 2009. I then reduced the photo to one square inch, printed it out, and scraped it with a needle and colored in the sky and sun with markers. I considered redoing it to color it more smoothly, but I decided I like the rough feeling of the lines.
