Alphabet Art

You know how you have all these "have tos" on burners and they occupy you mind and then finally you have them all finished?  And you know how you sort of totally go into a "rest" or "relaxed" state, rather a stagnant period where you don't do anything, just recouperating?  I think that is where I have been since last week.  I can't seem to get up and actually "create" much!  But, over in the BAJ (where our leader needed a rest too) she started this alphabet journal pages starting with Z and working backwards.  These have been about all I have been working on, and even those I have been slow on.  I think they are like on O and here I am on W.  But, they are nice for light arting!  It rather amazing to me of the themes I have have found in my life with just the four I have completed.

For X I immediately thought of xeroscaping.  When we moved to our place here, we planted buffalo grass around the house to hold the dust down, some junipers to go along with the naturals of sage, cactus, rocks and desert dwellers.  We love it!

For W, I thought of window.  But what to put in the window?  I tried lots of different things and then got side tracked onto  manipulating photos.  I used this really really old bottle of ink remover on the eye and the sunflower.  It changed the colors and look, as you can see.  And somehow, they morphed into a face.  I call this a window into my mind...