So, if you're in my group, you've seen this already. If not.. here's your challenge this week.
“Without Music, Life would be Blank to Me.” ~Jane Austen
I need music like most people need air.
The funny part? I can’t carry a tune in a bucket and as small children, my kids
used to ask me “Please don’t sing Mommy.”
My dad had musical gifts and so does my husband and daughter. I wish I could sing, I used to play the
violin but it was always a struggle for me to make music, but oh, do I
appreciate it.
Music fuels my creativity like nothing
else, in fact, if you put me in a room with some paint, some pens, a lot of
paper and some music, I’m pretty sure I’d stay there indefinitely. If you send
in wine and chocolate I’m sure of it!
So this week I encourage you to embrace
music as inspiration. Maybe you want to incorporate a song into your pages, or
maybe you are inspired by a particular band. Maybe just create something based
on what you are listening to.
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| (forgive the pics, but that’s one of my first tangles ever!) |
This wasn’t
to be my week for the prompt, I’m pinch hitting here… so I don’t have my
journal example done, but I have used music as inspiration multiple times in
the past.
This was a guitar that I made for my
Dad for Father’s day.
As I said, he’s musical. I repurposed one that was well
loved and it is playable, but had some scratch and dent. I used the song he
used to sing me as a little girl, Country Roads by John Denver to tangle him
something that was meaningful to us both, The music is around the outside and
there’s a quote about it taking someone special to be a Dad on it, because
remembering that song takes me back to being 7 years old. That’s what music
does. (If you want to see more pics here's the post where I originally shared it)
This week
I’m actually working on a banjo, but my journal pages will be created using a
favorite song that always inspires me to create.
I hope you have fun with this, and let it take you where it will.
Music can be a time capsule, a holder of emotions and therapy all at once. When combined with other types of art, it might be the most powerful force of all!
I can’t wait to see what everyone does with this!
*Not sure what happened with the Mr Linky, but I've replaced it!*
I hope you have fun with this, and let it take you where it will.
Music can be a time capsule, a holder of emotions and therapy all at once. When combined with other types of art, it might be the most powerful force of all!
I can’t wait to see what everyone does with this!
