More WIP Journal Pages

I'm working some every day in my wire/plaster Wandering Muse journal, from Jeanne Oliver's class, along with my stitching and wire wrapping, which I do while watching TV. It may be only a layer painted, or glued, down, or a few marks, but I do something to it! My journal stuff is on the dining room table, which lets me stand up to work on it and stretch my legs at the same time, as I think of something to add. A good thing, because I tend to sit too much! 😀

Right now I have something on about half the pages, so they are on their way! The rest are still the textured white with marks made in the gesso/marble dust while it was wet, and a few have a tiny bit of collage, or a word, which may get covered when I actually start working on them.

I shared the first pages in progress in a previous post. Here are three more that I have started progress on since then. I have actually done a bit more to the first one since I took this picture. 

There's no theme here, and I journal intuitively, having no pre-conceived ideas when I start pages, or as I work on them. I just go where they tell me to go on this fun adventure, and some of my wire-wrapped beads will be added to the spine, and maybe a couple of other places when it's done!

This spread has two failed magazine photo transfers on it, but I am making it work! To start with, I drizzled Sepia acrylic ink all over both pages! I like it! 

This spread may be done. Not sure yet. That's a real wild turkey feather on the right page and little bird cages at the top. The quote says, "God loved birds and invented trees; Man loved birds and invented cages." by Jaques Deval 

Not sure what I'm going to put on these pages yet, but they started out with the cute little bunny collage on the left side!

I shared these pages before, but I added the bird and the rose since then. These are printed copies of two of my favorite pictures of my parents and me in the fifties (I was around 5-6). The girl on the right page is my older cousin, by 8 years, Kaylean, whom I idolized when we were growing up, and though she moved away when she was eighteen, and I never saw much of her again, I stayed in touch and never stopped loving her. She passed away in 2017, four months before my mother died, and I still miss both of them every day, and always will.

The words say, "Don't Believe Everything Your Mind Thinks!", torn from a magazine. The bird and rose were torn from the front of greeting cards and pasted on. I'm not sure what else I'll do to this one. I kind of like the simplicity of it like it is. We'll see!

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