Mixed media memory book
This past summer, my husband and son and I took a vacation to Los Angeles. The weather was blissful, the sights were breathtaking, and we did, in fact, see an actual TV star in person.
When we got home, we missed it so much that I decided to make a memory book, with one page devoted to each place that we went. I used the same Teesha Moore technique I told you about, in a prior post. Here are a couple of my first pages.
Venice Beach is a gritty, artsy, drugged-out bazaar. People try to peddle their garage-band music up and down the beach; acrobats and musicians perform; artists show their wares. I bought a really cool necklace from a street artist — it was fashioned from recycled junk and a shoelace. Some of the skateboarders can do amazing things! Every other shop sells “medical marijuana” and has a long list of ailments it is supposed to cure. So some of the people hanging out on the beach display some pretty “interesting” behavior!
My Venice Beach page, pictured above, could never capture the entire experience. But it includes the skateboarders, the ocean, the psychadelic atmosphere, and the gritty, edgy artists-in-residence. My favorite part of the page is the raw, unhemmed fabric that runs along the edge of the page.
The tar pits were a little underwhelming. Just one small, smelly, brackish pond behind a metal fence. A few burbles now and then; nothing very exciting. However, my son entertained us by sharing You Tube reviews of the tar pits. Apparently, Ray William Johnson said that the tar pits smell like Chewbacca’s backside!
