Journal 52, Week 33: Comfort Zone

At Journal 52, the artist prompt for Week 33 is “Comfort Zone,” which Chelle defined as “a place or situation where one feels safe or at ease and without stress.”

I'm not big on using a lot of words on my pages, so this one seems a bit too wordy to me.  But at least I didn't have to write the words.

I'm not sure why I glued the cat picture and "cute" saying down before anything else, because it really messed with my layout.  Of course, I wasn't thinking when I did.  I only knew I wanted to include the cats in the stress free zone somewhere.

I identified two stress free comfort zones, one of which was my office, the other my craft room.

Believe it or not,  I stamped a computer (very old style) after the words.  I don't really have to worry about feeding the boys because they always have plenty of food and water, especially now that Squiggles has quit throwing his toys in the water bowl.

I stamped the old time sewing machine to show I sew, and I cut a piece of watercolor paper I had painted.  There's always coffee close at hand.  I drink it all day long (and night time, too). The cats are not allowed in the craft room.  I always say that cat fur and glue are not mixed media!

When I get tired of sewing and throwing paint around, I retreat to my office, where I once again get on my computer and visit my favorite blogs.  Many of them are posting about the time most "normal" people in my time zone would be sleeping.

I always take a few minutes to love and hold each cat before they find a favorite spot on my office couch and go to sleep.  I repeat the process when I head to bed and they follow me into the bedroom.

As always, my substrate is a used file folder that I painted with purple and yellow acrylic paint.  I found some coffee images and the cute stamped cat quote in my scrap basket.  I picked up the computer UM stamp in a grab bag when my friend Kathy and I went shopping on Wednesday.  I had borrowed the sewing machine stamp from Kathy back in April and she didn't want it back when I offered this week.  The words were all computer generated, and the cat came from a magazine.

Thanks for visiting and following me through this very wordy J52 entry.