Wreck This Journal, Week 3
June 20th, 2009
Oh, I'm feeling so sleepy this week! After a day of errands today, I felt the urge to take a nap, which I may still do. But first, I want to share what I've been up to in Wreck this Journal for Jamie Ridler's fabulous book group!
I crumpled one page and threw it across the room, where it landed next to Space Ghost (the well-loved toy of my cat, Sadie.) It almost looks like Space Ghost caught it! Hehe! Sadie must have brought him into my studio so that he could play fetch with me. Good kitty.
This next one is contributing to my journal smelling a bit funky. I think the "take your journal in the shower with you" exercise is gonna happen this week!
The instructions were to sample various substances in your home and document them. I sampled olive oil, glass plus, jerk sauce, green tea soap, lemon lotion, shaving cream, listerine, face scrub, and lemon hand lotion. I enjoyed it, but wished my substances were a bit more colorful!
This book has been a lot of fun for me. It's definitely an encourager of play, which I'm a big fan of. I hope you've been able to be playful in some way this weekend!
17 Responses
Earthy!
Posted by: organicsyes | Jun 20, 2009 at 7:52 pm |
Great to see what you’ve wrecked. I like the sample of substances – there are some interesting ones.
Posted by: amateur-in-art | Jun 20, 2009 at 8:28 pm |
I’ve not done this page yet but I’ve been having fun!
Posted by: Sharon | Jun 20, 2009 at 9:28 pm |
Haven’t tried the “substance” page. Looks like it could be a challenge os smells!
Keep on wrecking.
Posted by: Beverley Baird | Jun 20, 2009 at 9:53 pm |
Love the space ghost!
It’s fun finding pages that I haven’t stumbled upon yet.
Posted by: Heather Plett | Jun 21, 2009 at 12:07 am |
I’m afraid I can’t do that shower-thing!
Pouring my tea was hard enough…
But burning was real fun and throwing too.
Greetings from Germany!
Posted by: LaWendula | Jun 21, 2009 at 1:04 am |
So many substances and interesting smells.
Looking forward to see what happens in the shower exercise.
Posted by: Maia | Jun 21, 2009 at 4:14 am |
I like the way some of the substances have made the paper transparent! Lovely wrecking!
Posted by: Rose | Jun 21, 2009 at 4:16 am |
Leah, that is a real step outside your comfort zone/box exercise. Mind if I share it with my Moleskine Round Robin Group?
Posted by: Leslie | Jun 21, 2009 at 8:27 am |
Love your wreck work. This journal is really helping us all to push the boundary.
Posted by: Hybrid J | Jun 21, 2009 at 8:38 am |
Love what you’ve done! Very artistic looking; no surprise there.
Posted by: Janet | Jun 21, 2009 at 9:16 am |
Glad to see the cat is still involved! We wouldn’t want her feline left out!! He he. All great fun!
Posted by: Lisa | Jun 21, 2009 at 2:49 pm |
Haha, will be interested to know how the shower exercise turns out!
Posted by: Andrea | Jun 21, 2009 at 4:21 pm |
Is the blue stuff shaving cream!? Love it, Leah. One of the things I appreciate about this process is how creative people can be with simple things. Like, throwing a piece of paper across the room is not very dramatic. But where it lands is fascinating! And what a cool choice to take a pic of the landing spot. I love how much I learn about all my new friends as I watch you wreck, and express what you wreck.
Big hug,
Gretchen
Posted by: Gretchen Wegner | Jun 22, 2009 at 3:57 pm |
Hmmm yes, if we play it safe the proper order would be to a) sleep with the book; b) muck it up with food substances then c) take a shower with it. How’s that for being anal?! Your journal must be positively fragrant!
Posted by: Kim | Jun 22, 2009 at 4:37 pm |
You picked a good group of substances to test. So what if they weren’t colorful, the type of products were interesting
Posted by: Kristin | Jun 23, 2009 at 8:47 pm |
My kitties want your kittys toy! Thanks for visiting my blog.. its all new to me, but I am so entertained with all of this groups talent and wilingness to share
Posted by: judi | Jun 24, 2009 at 12:23 pm |