You mentioned that you were feeling a little agitated when you recorded this. A strong wind will often do that! As ever thank you so much for all the videos. They help me cope with my current disabilities, keep me cheerful and thinking of projects I can do when I am able. xxxxx
It takes courage to not stay in the past, but you can use those memories to learn to move forward with grace and joy; in the end you will even be gratefull for the change, which in essence means you are living a new (and hopefully) better life ❤ Loving the two sides of these pages Kathryn 🥰 Take care 😘
I could hear the storm! So good to have a cosy warm home to shelter in. I thought you sounded lighter in this video, maybe because the last loose ends have been tied so to speak. Good to hear the smile back in your voice xo
I like both pages - and your ideas - very much, Kathryn. It's good to see and hear that you're finding multiple ways of expressing - and thereby, processing - your feelings. To make something positive out of the negative is a gift to yourself. Onward and upward. Have a good week. ❤
Hi Kathryn! This two pages are a perfect reflexion of what you have achieved in the last few months. You have closed a dark door and open a better brighter one. You did it and you deserve praise for that. Thank you for sharing how you feel. Big hug and love! ❤
I vicariously enjoyed your storm. We are sorely in need of rain here....along with some hope. I also loved how you were so ready to move on to the second page...done with that dark time!!! Beautiful to watch this process and be inspired. Thank you, Kathryn😻
@@k3n.clothtales So true....or store it up for the times we need it. I am not going to get political. But, at this point, I think that many of us in the U.S. are in a grief and anxiety state in a way we have never experienced before. I am feeling so sad. So, I pick up the needle and thread and listen to Braiding Sweetgrass..
Hi K3n, I just have to say, as just saying this to someone might be a kind of relief for me, you’re so lucky to have escaped and have your life to yourself and your own space, I don’t know if I’ll ever escape. I really love these pages and think that perhaps journaling in this manner about in depth feelings could be a wonderful medicine for the heart, mind and soul. I’m absolutely going to try it! Thankyou again for sharing this with us, take care and blessings to you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤
Hello, I am so sorry you don't feel able to escape. I have an underlying sense of relief at all times, even when there is anger, sadness, grief etc on the surface. I really hope you can find a way to be happy, however that looks. ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Oh my..... " I have an underlying sense of relief at all times, even when there is anger, sadness, grief etc on the surface." So beautifully said. That is exactly how I felt when I was walking on a similar journey. That underlying sense of relief was what kept me going post-divorce, as all of the other emotions swirled inside me. Thank you for saying it so beautifully and accurately.
Hi Kathryn. It wasn't my intention to do such a journal ... but maybe 'it has to be'. Since two days I have here all old photos of my family. The occasion was: someone e-mailed me about her father, who was a friend of my father in their young years. I was looking for photos of a trip they made together in 1953. Okay, I found those photos. And I found lots and lots of interesting old photos that had never been put in albums. Some brought back memories of my childhood. Some were even from before I was born. And now you talk about birds, recognising their songs. My father was very good at recognising birds he heard! I think I will make a journal about him. With birds in it too.
Journaling with images and/ or intuitive journaling is such a great way to express ourselves and to document our life, growth, thoughts etc. Love to do it myself AND love to watch you doing it! The blue bird also made me think of freedom: and off she (you Kathryn!) goes, flying high towards new horizons!😀💖🍀❤️🥰😍🌷
Thank you so much for last weeks link to Michelle, i followed something she suggested where she very cleverly painted napkins with cornstarch and water to turn them into paper. Revolutionary !!!! You should try it, it makes fabulous paper to collage with. I love it and will certainly now be on the lookout for lovely paper napkins ❤
We all are who we are because of our pasts and so we then need to choose to stay on those paths, or like you, start on a new road. It too will be made up of both good and bad. ❤
It's Monday, start of the evening. Weather here (Hampshire Wiltshire border) was really bad yesterday and overnight, and near gale force wind today - I hope you are safe, and damage free. Made a sachet cappuccino coffee, going to relax and watch. E❤
It's windy here today also. (upstate NY) I'm enjoying how you use pics and color to express your feelings and thoughts. And as a divorced lady of many, many years it was so great to finally get that last piece of paper and go back to my maiden name and move forward with a wonderful new life ! ! 💛💚💛 Time to take Flight. . . . .
Re Stella’s ball and the sofa - I made a draught excluder (stuffed with old socks etc) and in the summer it lived just under the edge of the sofa - bonus was that it prevented Tove’s ball going under the sofa 🙂 🐕 🥎. The sound of the wind & rain sounds like the sea - maybe encouraged by the fence/sea picture that you had 🌊
I know exactly what you mean about not wanting to "waste" your paper even though it might be perfect. I am a quilter and often use cloth similar to a perfect fabric because I can't bear to use it and no longer have it available in my stash.
I haven't found any of my Mod Podge items turning yellow, but then they are not stored in direct sunlight which can make a big difference not only for mod podge but other sealers.
I am really enjoying watching your process as I'm trying to do more collage/art journalling etc. I also follow Lisbeth and I've been binge watching Kelly's videos since you mentioned her last week 😂 I bought some felt furniture pads for inking (the ones for chair legs etc.) which seem to work 🙂 edit: I've stuck one on a wooden drawer knob. Thanks 😊
Thank you for taking us on this journey with you, Kathryn. As an aside...it's very windy here today, too (on an island in Lake Huron of the Great Lakes in Canada), so it seemed fitting to hear the strong winds in your world today. Kind of like the time your dogs were barking, and I could see the neighbours dog across the road. Sweet little connections.
Really interesting one…..gorgeous papers…I’m fascinated by the combination of spontaneity and contrivance in producing this journal and how it is so neat. I’m naturally unable to be like this for this type of thing (not so in sewing)which is the attraction to this method for me. Also when you talk of limiting choice is helpful as I get overwhelmed sometimes by indecision. Being conscious of what you are going through mentally and still able to find ways of expressing yourself visually is so clever and a great strength. Hope you are safe in your home with the manic weather we in s.w England are experiencing 🙄
Thank you Susan, it's been crazy today, thunder, wind and heavy rain interspersed with short periods of calm and sunshine, we managed a quick walk in one of them. Hope you are safe and cosy ❤️
Dear Katherine, So happy that the last of the legalities are over for you. When you said that, I had this overwhelming urge to sing loudly enough to be heard all the way to France! “So long, farewell Auf Wiederseh'n, adieu. Adieu To yieu and yieu and yieu!” Forgive me if it seems irreverent, but song lyrics enter my brain at the drop of a hat! Very happy for you!
Hi Kathryn, the gorge of Tunkini is in Peru. Love these images. You have come a long way to healing and I admire your fortitude. I’m in Massachusetts USA and this morning sitting at my dining table my house suddenly started to shake and the windows rattled. There was a 3.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Portsmouth NH. Was a bit scary at the time.
You need to recognise your ikigai - your life’s worth. It’s right there. Do what you love, do what you’re good at, do what the world needs, do what you can be rewarded for. You create: that’s it. That’s your life’s worth. Embrace your ikigai. PS - I’m sad you lost the little birdie on the fence. Maybe he was facing the wrong way?
Kathryn that was wonderfully deep and great for your process. Your future will be bright and beautiful. Keep magic in your mind and faith in your heart 🙂
Those "foam" foundation (makeup) applicators work great for inking. I'd be feeling very anxious with that wind, wow I'd be getting really bothered with it 😁
With that feeling of backsliding, two steps forward, and one step back, read Piaget's theory of learning. We learn in an upward spiral, and as the spiral turns, it dips down a little before going into the upward spring again. Also the Gestalt circle of mastery there is the initial learning coming from insight and as we practice the new learning we go back and forward before reaching mastery and then come into homeostasis as we have integrated. I love the image of the tunnel, behind us from the past, having some light, because there is light from the past of course, that we may need to rediscover as we go forward. I also love your Emily Dickinson quote. I too have Yorkshire and Lancastrian ancestory both recent and far past going back to Viking invasion . My surname, Illingsworth, is a Dane Viking name meaning enclosure, from around the Haworth area. Also my great grandmother was a Yorkshire lass who moved to Manchester where my paternal grandmother was born. Your journal has so much numinosity for me. Your collage skills and use of images is stunning. Arohanui from me in Aotearoa New Zealand ❤❤❤
Love the idea of a looking back and forwards - I’ve had an idea hovering in the side of my mind about trying to find a single image for each month of last year…mmmm, think that I’ll explore this. Also really enjoying the word tin idea, only problem is that nothing goes into the recycling until it’s been scoured for words 😂
I look back, and thank God , FOR ALL MY UNANSWER PRAYS, Thank GOD, I see the things i thought i wanted ,? needed? I just go, I wouldnt be who i am now, Iv been to shit and back, so many times, i thought WHY me, and WHY would GOD not let me go to the next world, Most of my life ,iv hated living, BUT now i see the big photo, i am so luckie, im so blessed, and ohhh so greatfull Sometimes, we get what we need, sometimes. we get what we need to become the person, we never know was in use,
Re the dauber, I’ve seen cotton reels used with the felt pads (used for chair legs) glued on. The stick you’re using could work too. Do check out the cheap shops, I’ve seen them in ours for $2, obviously not originals but that’s ok.
I'm going to be honest here. In each of these videos I look at your piece and think, this is a hot mess. Where is Kathryn going with this? And then I see the finished work and am just amazed at how you have pulled together a stunning, meaningful piece. ! I'm assuming the divorce was finalized last week. I hope you poured yourself a copious amount of ginger beer and did a little dance. 😀❤
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My favourite reminder to myself is, "DON'T LOOK BACK, YOU'RE NOT GOING THAT WAY". 😀🦋
That's a good one ♥️
@@k3n.clothtalesyes also there is the analogy of look through the windshield as you drive, not the rearview mirror.
Yes! That's a good one ❤️
You mentioned that you were feeling a little agitated when you recorded this. A strong wind will often do that! As ever thank you so much for all the videos. They help me cope with my current disabilities, keep me cheerful and thinking of projects I can do when I am able. xxxxx
Yes. Strong wind always sets me on nerve...😐
I was thinking the same thing, both that K3n seemed agitated and that the wind was affecting me too.
This turning point in you life: it is good to know that you are taking care of yourself as you move forward ❤
It takes courage to not stay in the past, but you can use those memories to learn to move forward with grace and joy; in the end you will even be gratefull for the change, which in essence means you are living a new (and hopefully) better life ❤ Loving the two sides of these pages Kathryn 🥰 Take care 😘
Yes! Thank you! 😊
Some of my friends have reminded me that “grief is not linear” whenever I have tough days after having good ones. ❤
I could hear the storm! So good to have a cosy warm home to shelter in. I thought you sounded lighter in this video, maybe because the last loose ends have been tied so to speak. Good to hear the smile back in your voice xo
Thank you Rita, it is a relief ❤️
@ 🥰😊
The Italians say"sempre avanti" ... Always forwards ❤
that's a good quote for our slow stitch comfort coverlet......thanks
I like both pages - and your ideas - very much, Kathryn. It's good to see and hear that you're finding multiple ways of expressing - and thereby, processing - your feelings. To make something positive out of the negative is a gift to yourself. Onward and upward. Have a good week. ❤
Thank you Jill ♥️
The wind whooshing round your home makes it sound as if you are on the seashore!
Hi Kathryn! This two pages are a perfect reflexion of what you have achieved in the last few months. You have closed a dark door and open a better brighter one. You did it and you deserve praise for that. Thank you for sharing how you feel. Big hug and love! ❤
Thank you so much!❤️
A journey. A breakthrough. A step back. A process. 💖💖💖
I vicariously enjoyed your storm. We are sorely in need of rain here....along with some hope. I also loved how you were so ready to move on to the second page...done with that dark time!!! Beautiful to watch this process and be inspired. Thank you, Kathryn😻
Thank you Candace, it's a shame we can't spread the rain - and the hope - around so that everyone gets an equal share. ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales So true....or store it up for the times we need it. I am not going to get political. But, at this point, I think that many of us in the U.S. are in a grief and anxiety state in a way we have never experienced before. I am feeling so sad. So, I pick up the needle and thread and listen to Braiding Sweetgrass..
These compelling pages write an intriguing story of life, with no doubt as to a happy ending.
Thank you Ann, I hope so ♥️
Hi K3n, I just have to say, as just saying this to someone might be a kind of relief for me, you’re so lucky to have escaped and have your life to yourself and your own space, I don’t know if I’ll ever escape. I really love these pages and think that perhaps journaling in this manner about in depth feelings could be a wonderful medicine for the heart, mind and soul. I’m absolutely going to try it!
Thankyou again for sharing this with us, take care and blessings to you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤
Hello, I am so sorry you don't feel able to escape. I have an underlying sense of relief at all times, even when there is anger, sadness, grief etc on the surface. I really hope you can find a way to be happy, however that looks. ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Thankyou so very much ❤❤🙏🏻
@@k3n.clothtales Oh my..... " I have an underlying sense of relief at all times, even when there is anger, sadness, grief etc on the surface." So beautifully said. That is exactly how I felt when I was walking on a similar journey. That underlying sense of relief was what kept me going post-divorce, as all of the other emotions swirled inside me. Thank you for saying it so beautifully and accurately.
It is so Nice to see how making this journal helps you to express yourself and comforts you,your journal is a real piece of artwork ❤️
Thank you so much!
Hi Kathryn. It wasn't my intention to do such a journal ... but maybe 'it has to be'. Since two days I have here all old photos of my family. The occasion was: someone e-mailed me about her father, who was a friend of my father in their young years. I was looking for photos of a trip they made together in 1953.
Okay, I found those photos. And I found lots and lots of interesting old photos that had never been put in albums. Some brought back memories of my childhood. Some were even from before I was born.
And now you talk about birds, recognising their songs. My father was very good at recognising birds he heard! I think I will make a journal about him. With birds in it too.
That sounds lovely ♥️
Journaling with images and/ or intuitive journaling is such a great way to express ourselves and to document our life, growth, thoughts etc. Love to do it myself AND love to watch you doing it! The blue bird also made me think of freedom: and off she (you Kathryn!) goes, flying high towards new horizons!😀💖🍀❤️🥰😍🌷
Thank you Machteld, I learn so much doing it, I hope you are doing ok, lots of love ❤️
Thank you so much for last weeks link to Michelle, i followed something she suggested where she very cleverly painted napkins with cornstarch and water to turn them into paper. Revolutionary !!!! You should try it, it makes fabulous paper to collage with. I love it and will certainly now be on the lookout for lovely paper napkins ❤
Kelly 😂 not Michelle
Yes I have done that too! She has some brilliant ideas ❤️
We all are who we are because of our pasts and so we then need to choose to stay on those paths, or like you, start on a new road. It too will be made up of both good and bad. ❤
Thank you Betty, that's absolutely true 😊
I make my dobbers by sticking washing up sponge to sparkling wine corks. 🍾 xx
Excellent idea, gives me an excuse to buy some prosecco 😂❤️
It's Monday, start of the evening. Weather here (Hampshire Wiltshire border) was really bad yesterday and overnight, and near gale force wind today - I hope you are safe, and damage free. Made a sachet cappuccino coffee, going to relax and watch. E❤
All good here, very windy and rainy but no damage. Enjoy your coffee ♥️
@k3n.clothtales E♥️
@k3n.clothtales E♥️
It's windy here today also. (upstate NY) I'm enjoying how you use pics and color to express your feelings and thoughts. And as a divorced lady of many, many years it was so great to finally get that last piece of paper and go back to my maiden name and move forward with a wonderful new life ! ! 💛💚💛 Time to take Flight. . . . .
Thank you Doreen ♥️
Re Stella’s ball and the sofa - I made a draught excluder (stuffed with old socks etc) and in the summer it lived just under the edge of the sofa - bonus was that it prevented Tove’s ball going under the sofa 🙂 🐕 🥎. The sound of the wind & rain sounds like the sea - maybe encouraged by the fence/sea picture that you had 🌊
That's a good idea, I have my Granny's dog draught excluder, currently living curled up in the wardrobe. I will put him on tennis ball guard duty 😜
I know exactly what you mean about not wanting to "waste" your paper even though it might be perfect. I am a quilter and often use cloth similar to a perfect fabric because I can't bear to use it and no longer have it available in my stash.
You take care of you ❤❤❤❤
Great expression Kathryn. I thought of the words, "embrace life" and "soar". Love your light and dark pages.
Just to let you know that Modpodge gets yellow by time, so don’t put on top like we do with mate medium
I haven't found any of my Mod Podge items turning yellow, but then they are not stored in direct sunlight which can make a big difference not only for mod podge but other sealers.
Thank you, I won't, it's also really shiny which I don't like ♥️
Thank you for sharing
A big journal for a big personality (and talent) Kathryn xx
Thank you for another lesson in journaling and in life. I truly love you
I am really enjoying watching your process as I'm trying to do more collage/art journalling etc. I also follow Lisbeth and I've been binge watching Kelly's videos since you mentioned her last week 😂
I bought some felt furniture pads for inking (the ones for chair legs etc.) which seem to work 🙂 edit: I've stuck one on a wooden drawer knob.
Thanks 😊
That's a good idea, I think I have some in 'that drawer ' in the kitchen 😁
@@k3n.clothtales 😂😂😂
Thank you for taking us on this journey with you, Kathryn. As an aside...it's very windy here today, too (on an island in Lake Huron of the Great Lakes in Canada), so it seemed fitting to hear the strong winds in your world today. Kind of like the time your dogs were barking, and I could see the neighbours dog across the road. Sweet little connections.
I hope you are safe and cosy Kate ♥️
@k3n.clothtales I am, thank you. 💙 I hope you are too.
beautiful creative pages,thankyou for sharing your journey with us xx
Really interesting one…..gorgeous papers…I’m fascinated by the combination of spontaneity and contrivance in producing this journal and how it is so neat. I’m naturally unable to be like this for this type of thing (not so in sewing)which is the attraction to this method for me. Also when you talk of limiting choice is helpful as I get overwhelmed sometimes by indecision. Being conscious of what you are going through mentally and still able to find ways of expressing yourself visually is so clever and a great strength. Hope you are safe in your home with the manic weather we in s.w England are experiencing 🙄
Thank you Susan, it's been crazy today, thunder, wind and heavy rain interspersed with short periods of calm and sunshine, we managed a quick walk in one of them. Hope you are safe and cosy ❤️
Dear Katherine,
So happy that the last of the legalities are over for you. When you said that, I had this overwhelming urge to sing loudly enough to be heard all the way to France! “So long, farewell Auf Wiederseh'n, adieu. Adieu To yieu and yieu and yieu!”
Forgive me if it seems irreverent, but song lyrics enter my brain at the drop of a hat! Very happy for you!
Thank you Judith, I heard you! A joyful song is never unwelcome ❤️
Çalışmalarınızı seviyorum, ellerinize emeğinize yüreğinize sağlık ❤❤❤❤😊
Hi Kathryn, the gorge of Tunkini is in Peru. Love these images. You have come a long way to healing and I admire your fortitude. I’m in Massachusetts USA and this morning sitting at my dining table my house suddenly started to shake and the windows rattled. There was a 3.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Portsmouth NH. Was a bit scary at the time.
That's scary, I hope everyone is ok. Thank you for telling me about the gorge ❤️
You need to recognise your ikigai - your life’s worth. It’s right there. Do what you love, do what you’re good at, do what the world needs, do what you can be rewarded for. You create: that’s it. That’s your life’s worth. Embrace your ikigai.
PS - I’m sad you lost the little birdie on the fence. Maybe he was facing the wrong way?
I hid him behind the collage, it is a shame. Maybe I need to find a tiny blackbird and stick him back on ❤️
Gosh that was windy. ❤❤❤
For me, the best part of my past relationship is my children.❤😊
Yes, mine are not with my ex though so can't thank him for them ❤️
I love the way these pages came out. Very cool
Kathryn that was wonderfully deep and great for your process. Your future will be bright and beautiful. Keep magic in your mind and faith in your heart 🙂
Those "foam" foundation (makeup) applicators work great for inking. I'd be feeling very anxious with that wind, wow I'd be getting really bothered with it 😁
It was quite disconcerting but thankfully we didn't have it as badly here as other parts of the UK ❤️
With that feeling of backsliding, two steps forward, and one step back, read Piaget's theory of learning. We learn in an upward spiral, and as the spiral turns, it dips down a little before going into the upward spring again. Also the Gestalt circle of mastery there is the initial learning coming from insight and as we practice the new learning we go back and forward before reaching mastery and then come into homeostasis as we have integrated.
I love the image of the tunnel, behind us from the past, having some light, because there is light from the past of course, that we may need to rediscover as we go forward. I also love your Emily Dickinson quote.
I too have Yorkshire and Lancastrian ancestory both recent and far past going back to Viking invasion . My surname, Illingsworth, is a Dane Viking name meaning enclosure, from around the Haworth area. Also my great grandmother was a Yorkshire lass who moved to Manchester where my paternal grandmother was born.
Your journal has so much numinosity for me. Your collage skills and use of images is stunning. Arohanui from me in Aotearoa New Zealand ❤❤❤
I love that about the spiral, I will look it up . Haworth, Brontë country ☺️
Love it!🥰
Love the idea of a looking back and forwards - I’ve had an idea hovering in the side of my mind about trying to find a single image for each month of last year…mmmm, think that I’ll explore this. Also really enjoying the word tin idea, only problem is that nothing goes into the recycling until it’s been scoured for words 😂
Yes … I have started a word tin too … 🙌
Makes me less cross about the junk mail 😁❤️
As you worked on the LH page, I kept thinking about the Mines of Moria. Maybe you're escaping the Balrog! On to LothLorien!!
Yes! What a wonderful thought ❣️
I really love your finished dark side. 😊
I do hope you don't blow away!!!
I am still here 😉❤️
I look back, and thank God , FOR ALL MY UNANSWER PRAYS, Thank GOD, I see the things i thought i wanted ,? needed? I just go, I wouldnt be who i am now, Iv been to shit and back, so many times, i thought WHY me, and WHY would GOD not let me go to the next world, Most of my life ,iv hated living, BUT now i see the big photo, i am so luckie, im so blessed, and ohhh so greatfull Sometimes, we get what we need, sometimes. we get what we need to become the person, we never know was in use,
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Corduroy works well for ink daubers
Thank you, I might have some 😊
Nicely done.
Re the dauber, I’ve seen cotton reels used with the felt pads (used for chair legs) glued on. The stick you’re using could work too. Do check out the cheap shops, I’ve seen them in ours for $2, obviously not originals but that’s ok.
Thank you, I might have some of those felt pads somewhere ❤️
You could draw a fence!
I could, I did think of it but I wanted it to be all collage. I am stubborn that way sometimes 😁
@ I understand🙂
@@k3n.clothtales Maybe you can make a fence by folding and cutting a fence shape, kind of like how we fold and cut snowflakes. Just an idea.
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I'm going to be honest here. In each of these videos I look at your piece and think, this is a hot mess. Where is Kathryn going with this? And then I see the finished work and am just amazed at how you have pulled together a stunning, meaningful piece. ! I'm assuming the divorce was finalized last week. I hope you poured yourself a copious amount of ginger beer and did a little dance. 😀❤
A nice metaphor to pull something good from a hot mess ☺️
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