Journal 52, Week 27: Kindness

Over at Journal 52, our prompt for Week 27 is kindness.  I need to apologize to Chelle and everyone who visits, because I have not had much time to make art this week.  I've been busy getting ready for visitors, hosting a dozen people who ate, drank, and shot off (legal) fireworks in my back yard.  There should be an after party that includes clean-up, but that was left to the host and her two worthless furry helpers.

To top it all off, I tried to use my card reader to read my SD card, but it won't load.  I am not sure why, because I was able to take photos off it earlier yesterday.   But when I started to download the step out photos today, along with my T Stands For Tuesday post, I couldn't get the photos to load into my computer.

So I hope you have a bit of kindness for my art this week.

I started with one of my used file folders, and started to add gesso.  I realized I really didn't have time for the gesso to dry, so dry brushed the brush over the page.


It seems like every time I write something in my own handwriting, my brain gets ahead of my fingers and I make a mess of things.  In case you can't read it, it reads:

Show kindness every day, hour, and minute.

I found a card I thought sounded OK, but one word didn't fit.  Can't even remember what it was because I rejected it and placed a dymo label over it that was much more positive: happiness.

I love this quote from Mark Twain that I printed on a background I had made previously.  Yes, I was looking for any shortcut I could find this week.  If you can't read it, it reads:

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

I wrote the week number twice because I thought the scrapbook paper I added looked like it needed something to tie the piece together.

Here's a final look, now that you have seen all the details.

Thanks again for looking, thanks for your generous comments, and I hope to see you at Journal 52, too.