tonight our friend's parents are hosting the 15th annual barn dance!
live music and dancing in a barn . . . SO EXCITED!!
i found these boots for the man-friend at rehab today. i hope they fit. they'll be perfect for tonight!!
last week i bought nancy sinatra's "how does that grab you?" vinyl at the same vintage store . . . i've been spinning that on the record player a lot lately.
slept in late. started the day at breakfast with the man-friend. picked a million cherry tomatoes at the garden. used our new walkie talkies to chat with my girls down the street. found a new storage thing for our records and record player. now i am listening to lady gaga on vinyl and organizing my craft supplies.
i think i am about to cut the neck off a bunch of t-shirts so that i might actually wear them and then i'll go blanch and freeze our surpluss of summer squash and eggplant . . .
then PRACTICE!!! oh it's so muggy.... i should really switch from beer to water.
Journal Prompt Number 4: What does your heart look like? It can be literal, it can be symbolic, it can be broken and need fixing...anything!
i'm really happy with the way this one turned out. the process i've been using for this challenge is to read the prompt in the morning, think about it all day and once an answer comes to me i'll sit down with the pen and paper and work it out.
for this one, the idea came while shopping for vinyl records with my roommate, miss A, i was sorting through some emmylou harris albums when i had the vision of a heart shaped record. this isn't what i ended up with, but it's what got the ball rolling. i thought of all the allusions that could be made from the fact that my heart was a record or a phonograph or a record player . . . scratches, skipping, needing to be heard, needing to be dusted and cared for, having a message to relay, a sad song, a happy song, spinning round and round, feeling outdated, feeling pre-loved and thrown away, feeling rehabilitated and renewed, crackling with life, oozing romance and kitsch at the same time. i added the lyrics to an over the rhine song called "born." it is a beautiful picture of a heart growing and learning and loving and being willing to try again. the story for this song came from the couple that fronts Over the Rhine (Karin and Linford) and their relationship when it hit a rocky spot. allegedly, they bought a case of wine and drank a bottle every night until the case was gone - not that alcohol is a way to solve your problems - but this helped them to open up, to laugh, to remember their love . . . and there you have it . . . the urban legend behind this lovely song, this amazing band and part of the inspiration for my journal page.
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now it's off to bed . . . just finished a late night of watching the celtics lose to the lakers. whoops.
today is day one of run with scissors' 30 day journal challenge . . . and i was going to use this pretty journal that i already have, but after looking at everyone's personalized journal's . . . i sort of want to buy a new journal and decorate the cover myself. so i might not start the challenge until tomorrow when i can get to the craft store.
not a very good start to a 30 day challenge, huh? whoops :)
in other news, i've been a vinyl fiend lately. i've had a few awesome vintage and thrift finds (esp in the vinyl dept) that i'd love to blog about. BUUUUUT right now the man-friend and i are off to pick up our first ever FARM SHARE!!!! whooo-hooo!!!!
