Artist Date and Creative Weekend

I've been on a creative high since Thursday afternoon.  I will break down the creativity into snippets of all that happened because I think the long story would probably put you to sleep.

Thursday went from MUNDANE TO MARVELOUS
I started my day as usual at work but chose to take half a day as my daughter had her spring vacation this past week. 
As I got home we were pelted with the most amazing hail storm, so we  waited it out for an hour before continuing on our way. 

Not waiting any longer we drove to the train and went into Boston.  By the time we got there the sun was shining.  We went to a restaurant right on the harbor where we dined on the deck outside or at least attempted to.  Once again we were met by the rain, thunder and lightening were seen in the background.    We moved inside.  During the rain we looked off into the distance where there was a very faded rainbow.  Unfortunately it could not be captured on film.


Following dinner and the rain our adventure took us to the Institute of Contemporary Art.  We saw on display the artwork of Roni Horn.  You can read about her here:  Roni Horn .  She had osme very interesting photographs but most intriguing was her photo display all about Water.  I loved it.
The second artist displayed was Dr. Lakra.  If you are into tattoo art this might interest you.  Here is a video clip of an interview with Dr Lakra:  Dr. Lakra .

After the museum we decided to return home.  Back on the train and home by 9:00pm.  What a wonderful afternoon/ evening.  I must tell you about the train ride home.  On the train was a doctor, or possibly just a hospital worker, either way it was a man in scrubs.  During the ride he reached in his backpack and pulled out an envelope with a 4 page hand written note scrawled on regular school notebook paper.  I wanted to go over and tell him how lucky he was that someone took the time to actually write him a letter by hand.  I remember writing to my friends when I was in High School and college.  I only wished now I had saved all those letters.

So that brings us to Saturday -ART AND ADVENTURE

My Saturday started with a Meet Up of the Massachusetts Art Journaling group.  What a fun group of women.  We meet at a public place and talk, play and art journal for an hour or two.  I find this group so inspirational.  If you live in the Massachusetts area and wish to check it out, visit us here...  Meet Up .  You may even have one in our area.  Check it out.  This meeting we did collaborative journaling.  We came to the meeting with a background complete and passed our journal around for everyone to add a little something to it.  We brought some supplies with us as well.  This is my final journal page.

I forgot to mention I had my daughter with me at the Art Journal Meet Up because afterwards we were off exploring again.  Another wonder outing for us.  We continued our day in Gloucester Ma, on a Letterbox Adventure.  If you've never been Letterboxing you can read about it here:  Letterboxing .  We went to a new park in a town we've never been to.  During our adventure we came across a butterfly that was willing to pose for us....
The route of the hike also took us to a scenic overlook of Cape Ann.  The view was breathtaking.   The Letterbox adventure we were on included 10 boxes hidden withing the park.  We managed to locate 9 of them.  By the time we hit number 10 we learned of a special bonus box but I was too tired to continue so we ended our day and continued home. 

Sunday was PAJAMA DAY
With all the stimulation of the past few days today I unwound and made myself a new journal.  I was so impressed with some of the journals that the women had at the Meet Up meeting I decided to make another one.  I started out thinking I would make it like the ones they had with the soft spine and decided as it took shape that I wanted it more like a book.  Either way here are the results of today's creative endeavour.

Thank you all for taking the time to look and read.  I found this to be such an exciting past few days and my creativity is on the rise.  I am so looking forward to playing more in my journals.  I am also excited to keep making more.  I just love playing with paper.