Laughing with my yaayaa's

For this journal52.com prompt we were supposed to show how we refresh ourselves.  In Junior College, there were a group of us who were not fresh out of school.  We sort of came together out of a need to get thru the classes and not feel alone taking college courses with all of the younger generation.  We would meet every week to talk about our art projects and figure the whole college life thing out.  We became a wonderful support group. When we all graduated and went our separate ways we decided that we had to meet once a month in one of our homes. We would drink wine and share our current projects.  More important, we held each other up in life.  Lots of laughing and wine!!! that's what it is all about!

The technique for this page was really cool.  I made stencils out of hot glue by making designs onto a cookie sheet with hot glue gun.  When the hot glue cools down, simply peel them off of the cookie sheet and place them on your page.  You can then use spray paint or make your own spray paint and the designs show up on the page!  I then painted my "young at art" friends on top!

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