Dream weaver

I want to begin by reminding those of you who played in Art Every Day Month last November, that Leah now has the sign-up sheet available.  I'm not sure why we need to sign up, but I wrote her to ask if she was hosting AEDM again this year and she said she would post the sign-up sheet which she now has.  So please consider joining again this year.  It would have been incredibly lonely there if so many of you, my dear friends, had not joined me there last year.

Today I'm once again joining Eileen aka The Artful Crafter our host this month at Art Journal Journey.   Her theme is Dreams and/or Wishes.  This is also my nod to Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Somehow, this never made it to the AJJ page, so I've linked it now.

I have a friend who has breast cancer.  After a double mastectomy, they were sure they had eradicated the cancer.  Now it has spread to her brain.  Actually an area of the brain behind her eye.

I created this for her.

I hope the dream catcher catches all the evil in her body and she can become whole again. And since this is a Christmas dream catcher, I want her to be around for Christmas this year.

The doctors plan to give her radiation treatments as soon as her surgery heals.  She takes 10 pills a day, and according to my friend Scott, each pill costs $800.00.  Thankfully, also according to him, the pills are experimental, and they have been subsidized.

I plan to place this in a frame and give it to her.  I started with a sheet of 110 lb. card stock, computer generated the words to the song, and ran it through my laser printer.  I then colored the page using my green, pink, and copper handmade shimmering mists and a brush.   Finally, I placed the dream catcher, which is a Christmas ornament, on the page using E-6000.

These are the words to Dream Weaver, written and sung by Gary Wright (1975):

I just closed my eyes again
Climbed aboard the dream weaver train
Driver take away my worries of today
And leave tomorrow behind

Ooh, dream weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe we can reach the morning light

Fly me high through the starry skies
Maybe to an astral plane
Cross the highways of fantasy
Help me to forget this pain

Ooh, dream weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe we can reach the morning light

Though the dawn may be coming soon
There still may be some time
Fly me away to the bright side of the moon
And meet me on the other side

I found a frame in which to place the completed assembly, then tried to add it to the frame after I removed the glass.  Unfortunately, since it was so bent, I had to sew it to a piece of 110 lb card stock.  The completed size is 8 X 10 inches (20,32 X 25,4 cm) inside the frame.

I forgot to get a photo of the assembly in the frame when I gave it to my friend Scott to take to her, so Scott took a photo with his phone and sent it to me late yesterday.  I think it goes well on the wall that was chosen.

Thanks so much for joining Bleubeard and me today.  I hope you will also join us at Art Journal Journey.  Let's not forget Breast Cancer Awareness Month, either, please.