Been There Done That

Michelle Ward's February Crusade is #48 Been There Done That.  This one is the second in her "Evidence" series where she encourages us to use our journals as a place for documentation.

I decided to create a spread about a play I attended recently; Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Ernest" which was organized by the local English Drama Group. 

Here is the break-down of my evidence and thoughts for anybody who wants to forensically study this:

Historical/Practical Evidence

• The parking ticket proves I managed to park the hub's car in town although I did hit a metal gate with the bumper.  But just once.
• I bought an entrance card from a scalper and for a moment while assembling this spread I thought it had the wrong date on it!  Turns out it was a ticket for the night I actually attended, but this made me realize I should quit worrying about speaking bad German and instead be a little more observant in my transactions. 
• The use of images from the flier incriminates me.  This is direct evidence that I did not return it as promised, and am instead a thieving scoundrel.

Observational Evidence

• My friend Cat, the director, can host an amazingly well run and entertaining event.
• Some Germans can speak better English than myself, and I'm a native speaker! Dang, that's impressive!
• Performance artists are fun, and a man playing a very convincing woman's role always steals the show.

Creative Evidence

• I decided I really like speech bubbles as a compositional element.
• Although I like the yellow dots around the bubbles, I regret the long skinny quote in yellow. 
• I like peach and black together.

It was sort of cool to compare this artwork with my previous outcome from C45.  I'm now aware of my speech bubble attraction and want to explore that a little further...

For now *insert exclamation point in bubble* THANK YOU Michelle for another fun creative adventure!!

Wondering about the Crusades?  Read more here.

Comments

[Veronika]

I was going to say that this journal entry looks lovely but now that you've confessed your love of speech bubbles I have to say that this work is outstanding! :)

[michelle ward]

TJ - *insert APPLAUSE APPLAUSE in bubble*
Fantastic forensic evidence page. (btw, you are going to love the next challenge) Love hearing your breakdown above. You should print this out and tuck in somewhere. How fun that you captured a night out. Love the bubbles and dots. Thanks for sharing with the team - and for linking us to your very cool post about the crusades. Bravo! *take a bow*

[Lay Hoon]

Love the speech bubbles. You are so creative to split the evidence into categories. The journal spread looks fabulous.

[Verna]

Awesome breakdown of your page and evidence! I love your use of the speech bubbles and how you weren't afraid to share your incriminating evidence! LOL. Great page!

[iHanna]

Great page. Speech bubbles are so cool, I love to use them too, especially in my diary where I say things to myself or others say things I should be reminded of. :-)

[Helen]

Love your pages. The lettering is very beautiful and ofcourse the speech bubbles (love that expression!)

[Sarah]

As we used to say when we were kids when me met someone new who made us laugh and smile straight away – “you’re FUNNY, I LIKE you :) ”

I chuckled along reading this blog entry and I really like your journal pages too. I have a couple of speech bubble rubber stamps tucked away somewhere, you have inspired me to go and rummage them out.

I’m glad to have found your blog via the Crusades, and will have a good look around the rest of your site later on