In the land of Gods and Monsters, I was an angel living in the garden of evil

Hiya all, sorry I'm late in posting- you following me on instagram or just casually check I wasn't late posting there and you may have already seen what I am going to post.  The prompt this week were amazing and so positive, as this was the case and me being a dark little monster I did my own thing as they completely wouldn't have fit in with my theme! There are some parts of it which I will use, so I'm sure you will see them next week.
So this week I looked at creepy films and TV shows and used some of their quotes.

Until next week when it's halloween!!!! prepare to be scared!
Lots of love,
Lauren

Black as Midnight, Black as Pitch, Blacker than the foulest Witch

STILL LOVING THIS SEASON!!!! I definitely must be a dark person as I'm loving doing all this creepy stuff and have been flying through the pages once again!

Below I have a mix of all things scary, this week was geared more towards childhood stories and memories- at first I thought where am I going to start I didn't have a dark childhood at all!

So a childhood story I used was one my Dad made up to tell me and my brother. Where we lived when we were younger was pretty an estate but there was one house that was guarded by gates and you never saw anyone coming in or out. So my dad made up this character called Gudjee Borland who lived there, I don't think it had it's intended results as me and my brother would add to it with things like he would sleep on a bed of nails and eat his boogies (I know! but we were like 6 and 7!).

I also looked at some nursery rhymes that have the reputation of being dark and also for childhood stories I was told decided to take the Disney twist and use the original Grimm versions, which as you may know are VERY dark. I only have one page for snow white- I'm working on some others but wanted to meet the Get Messy Thursday deadline!

I will be sad with this season ends.

Lots of love,

Lauren

My whole life is a dark room. One. Big. Dark. Room

I love love love this season, I have been so productive and ideas keep pouring out of me for the creepy/dead theme. It probably says more about me than it does anything else. Not much chit chat this week I have lots to show.

Tried lots of different things this week, as you can see I kept myself busy. After Karen's amazing tutorial last week on handwriting, I have tried to perfect my own.

Can you recognise any of the quotes/ song lyrics I've used?

Stay spooky,

Lauren

Shake thyself from the dust and arise

Let the Season of the Dead begin- Keeping with the creepy theme my meet the author page is told in the style of The Legend of Lauren of the Valley. I have wrote a bit about myself in the style of a old legend/ghost story which little bits of information in there included about me.

Below is a creepy quote from the Shakespeare play 'Richard III', when picking a quote I wasn't sure which one to go with but last night I saw 'Richard III' at the Rose Theatre (everyone go see this play) and took away this quote from watching it. The full quote is,

"And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, to entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined

 to prove a villain and have the idle pleasures of these days."

My dedication is simple and to the point, as I theming this Get Messy season around all things creepy and dead- it had to be dedicated to all the lost souls.

Lastly, the page below is a do over from last week. One the inside of my cover last week it said LaurenPearl in silver pen, which I wasn't really happy with. I found this cool sticker and thought it tied in nicely to my theme and decided to put the silver pen to use and outline the pattern in the book.

                                                        

I am already completely in love with this season and am bursting with creepy ideas!

Until next time.

LaurenPearl

Here in the forest. Dark and Deep. I offer you eternal sleep.

The Season of words is upon us and with this season our first task is to find a book to record this alright season in.  From this if we so choose we can alter it to suit whatever style for this season- I am going off slightly and doing my own thing with the season of words and theming it around the dead and all things spooky.  When the lovely Julia  (check out her blog here: http://julestea.blogspot.co.uk) came to stay we went book hunting and stumbled across an amazing second hand book shop in Chiswick which we were in our element looking at old books. I managed to find an amazing looking on called 'Newes from the Dead' which had a skull on the spine. You may have guessed I'm all about the skulls, so Julia came up with the awesome idea to keep my book in with the dead thing- and because I'm a bit dark I thought it was an amazing idea. 

I have decided I don't want to alter my book in anyway, as I go and start doing things with the pages I'm will be painting and gluing all sorts to them, but the way the book actually looked I didn't want to change as it's perfect for what I want this season.

In line with my promise to make more of an effort with my blog and the way I post things, I've had a go at trying to stage some photos. As you can see a far cry from what you get from most people, but I decided I wanted a filter on these pictures to make them look a bit old and creepy, so you can expect that all the way through this season.

I'm really excited about this season and can't wait to see what I come up with as well as my fellow Get Messians!

Remember if you want to get in on the action you can go join up at :Get Messy, it's super fun and everyone is so supportive!

I'm off to go pin things to do with death ( I'm a peach I know!)

LaurenPearl 

Make over!

Hiya, as you may have noticed I'm having a bit of a makeover. I thought the blog was starting to look a bit tired, I had a zillion (actual number) font types and it was time to give it a new look. I did a bit of reading on my favourite Pinterest and pinned some information about blogging and how to make a success of it. If you're interested in looking at what I pinned when thinking about how to improve my blog, here is the link to my board:
Blog Revamp
Lately, I have used this blog as a bit of an after thought and not really planned much to say but instead just posted some of my Get Messy work and let that be that! So going forward there is going to be a bit more content and also more thoughtful writing. More pages are going to appear as I want to share a bit more and really use this place not just for my art journal but for all manner of my project! As I have lots of projects on the go and it's time to start sharing and start writing a bit more. So as I say watch out for some new pages (and some type of order!). Also let me know what you think. I made the banner myself and although it doesn't look like much it took me a long time!   Lauren xx

The last drop of Serenity

Our final week has been around the swap we did a couple of weeks ago, sorry I'm late posting this, but if you follow my instagram you know this was posted for Get Messy Thursday, I just didn't have time to upload to here. So below is my goods from the lovely Elizabeth

Below is my first page I did using some of the goodies, I will be honest I'm still working on a few pages but wanted to post my first finished one. I used lyrics from a Years and Years song that I keep listening to called 'Eyes Shut'.

Lastly nothing to do with Serenity, but I just liked this quote from Ginger Rodgers.

Lots of love,