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ID: Lorraine's Journal "Repurposing" 

closed: 5.5"w x 8"h

Created: February 10, 2008
When I first heard the theme "Repurposing", 1; I didn't know what it meant, then 2; when I was told what it meant I thought, sheesh, what kind of topic is that. But I'm so glad she chose it. It made me stretch and I must admit I really love the results. Since her journal started out using altered and sewn copper to decorated and painted velvet I thought I might as well continue with the textile type of materials. This is a beaded circle (which I thought was symbolic) I made about 20 years ago to put onto a fancy dress I was supposed to make. Well I never made the dress, so the circle just lay dormant in my bead box. I would look at it every once in a while when I needed some beads and think, what will I ever do with this. There's the old adage "if you don't use it within a year, you should throw it away". Well if I had done that (or even ever do that) this page would never have been created.

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I first glued the circle to a piece of olive green Bazill Monochromatic cardstock so I wouldn't ruin her pages with wet glue. Then attached it with double sided tape. The circle is larger than her pages so the textured part of the cardstock shows on the reverse side.

I used a direct to paper method of applying circular streaks using Versamark Chalk stamp pads in a pinky and light green tone.

I used a flexible drafting tool to draw my lines for my quote using a micron pen. Then with a quill nib and Magic Color acrylic inks (Mars Red, Delta Violet & Chiffon Green) wrote in the quote using a new monoline alphabet I learnt in Lynn Slevinsky's class "Rennie Mackintosh"

Quote: Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything. Heraklietos of Ephesos

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