I SO want to start a group like this! CraftyChica.com Here in Phoenix, I belong to an art collective called The Phoenix Fridas. We got together today and filmed our version of the Harlem Shake. Just because, you know...we're crafty like that!
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Every night for the past year, I have read a page from the wonderfully helpful book Sandy sent me called "Healing After Loss" by Martha Whitmore Hickman. Last night I ended up back where I began, and there was a quote on the page by Charles Beard that I loved: “When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars.” Even though it was quite late, I just had to make a journal page to commemorate one year of grieving for Twister, my foster father. He died less than 6 months after Little Honey, so I was really still mourning her as well. I didn’t think a book would help me at all, and at first I asked Sandy not to send it. But I am glad I changed my mind, because it was such a great support to me. I highly recommend it to anyone who is navigating loss.
The timing of it all was rather amazing, because before I read the page, I had tossed out a handful of rose petals. Last spring I planted roses for Little Honey and Twister, and when Twister’s rose bloomed, I saved the petals. Last night I noticed they had gotten dusty, so I decided to toss them in the trash. I took two petals back out of the trash for the journal page, because I noticed they sort of formed a heart shape. I squeezed black and gray paint onto the pages and then closed them together like a Rorschach test. (PS: Here’s a fun online Rorschach Test you can take: http://personality-testing.info/tests/HEMCR.php. Yep, I’m crazy according to them!) After I squished the pages together, I opened them and added the heart and the quote and let them dry in front of the heater all night. I went to bed with paint on my hands, which is always the best feeling. When I woke up, the page was all dry and waiting for me, which is also the best feeling! When I look back over the past year, it may seem like I haven’t done much. But in reality: I’ve come a long way, baby! |
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