Jessica Backup

My recent lack of blogging has meant that I haven’t even mentioned what the latest theme for Monthly Makers is! If you don’t know, Monthly Makers is a creative challenge me and eleven other bloggers arrange, where we release a theme for every month to inspire you to create! More info at the end of this post. But the theme is “Letters & Words” and I just love this theme so much. I started making pixel sortings with words initially, but I didn’t really feel it, and after a day of making collages in school I just really wanted to make a collage. I made it in a new way for me though, and used watercolours to paint paper that I used in the collage, which gave me a lot more control over colours than using pages from a magazine would! And oh, I painted pages from books! That’s the “words” part. I let the pages dry and then tore them apart to get this white edge that I love so much. And what did I create? Well there’s a starry night ...

I’ve been so busy creating these past few weeks. I found pixel sorting, and I’m still obsessed. Kendra. Amy.  Gabriella.  Anna.  Nicole. Rory.  Sarah. Aurora II. Diana. Fiona. Maria. Nina. Matilda. Erica. Elsa. If you want to keep up with what I create I post regularly on both my new art instagram account and my Facebook page . Also, these are all available in my shop on Society6! Check them out here . If you want to read more about my thoughts on pixel sorting and my art I’ve written a post on Bored Panda about it. You can read it here .

So I started school two weeks ago. It was exciting and nervous and crazy. It felt unreal as I was waiting for the bus, the morning air damp against my skin, the first sun of the day warming my cheeks and every thought ever being thought at once. That first day was spectacular and sososo tiring. I wasn’t ready for how tired I’d be from starting school again, and how hard it would be to go back to normal after three inactive years of illness and headaches. But back to my first day. The teachers all welcomed us with a song about the school. Like, it was not like we all sang it with our own melody, but we very well could have. Am I at Hogwarts? Probably. After introducing all the different classes and teachers they welcomed every single student by giving them a sunflower. WE GOT SUNFLOWERS. Sunflowers from the schools own garden. I think Professor Sprout went to get them or something, I don’t actually remember. The sunflowers stood all mighty and powerful on a table...