Olly Olly Oxen Free

Let's bring 'em home guys. We lost impetus once the delays started, and then life got in the way... I was trying to set up a coordinated homecoming for all the little molys. It's clearly not to be. Patrick, I'll send you yours. Zenia, you have mine, so you can finish it off and hand it over soonish. Carla needs Lorraine's address (computer problems) to send Lorraine's and Zenia's on.

hmmmmm

any news of our project? Where is yours and where is mine?

Joker - on Lorraine's book

Last night I finished Lorraine's book. Her topic was about "other worlds, fantasy, alter-egos...." The drawing I did was on my mind since the day I read her post about the topic. This has a lot to do with Tarot and two books I like: A book of fireside poems, Solitaire mystery. Here's my own encounter of Joker:

He waived his hands and murmured "shooo", all of a sudden dozens of flies flew away from the back of my head. My vision changed, my mind cleared, my senses heightened. I began to hear a poem sung to me within. "Once I planted some potatoes in my garden fair and bright; Unelated long I waited, and no sprout appeared in sight. But my "peachblows" in the cellar, on the cold and grimy flag, all serenely sprouted greenly in an ancient paper bag". Then my Joker friend laughed a thunder-like laughter and began to sing. "When I think on the happy days I spent wi' you, my dearie; and now what lands between us lie, how can I be but errie. How slow ye move, ye heavy hours, as ye were wae and weary! It was na sae ye glinted by when I was wi' my dearie." I blinked and he was back to my beloved deck of cards in no time. I had no idea these two poems/songs would one day became the love stories of my life. My Joker friend had just showed me a movie running backward......

I had a great time with Moly_x_10 group members!

The most delayed entry from Patrick

Dear All, My apology to a serious delay, hope you'll like my entries.

Carla: I'm sending you Zenia's book and yours together.

Lorraine: I'm finishing yours this week and then ship to Carla.

‘What’s in your Moleskine’ Contest Deadline 11/14

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Doodley, doodley do!

Had so much fun with this. Just kind of doodled away.

Freedom

My entry for Patrick. I've FINALLY completed my entry in Patrick's book. I had an idea... thought it all through... even went as far as to think "I should write this down," and then thought "nah it's fine, I've given it this much thought, I won't forget..." only to promptly forget! Still have no idea what that idea was, but I'm happy with this as my contribution to Patrick's book. Looking forward to getting mine back now!

They're coming home

The next mailing date brings all the molys home again. I think we should try and be as prompt as possible so that we all have mailbox joy at roughly the same time. That gives us a week to finish them up and get them in the post a week on Monday. Any problems, just let the person you send to know...
I hope you've all had as much fun as I have.

Doodles for Carla

Doodles for Carla, originally uploaded by Kel_eh.

I had so much fun with this! It was actually very therapeutic for me and I had a bit of a break through about my mixed feelings about 2008 so far. I never ever use a ballpoint (yep, I'm allergic) so it was very good for me to get over myself and grab the closest.

Alter Ego for Lorraine

Alter Ego for Lorraine, originally uploaded by Kel_eh.

Bad, bad, procrastinating girl! This is very late on it's way to Patrick.

I had this all worked out in my mind, then I realised I was just reworking Lorraine's own entry in her own book - not cool. Then I had a really cool superhero idea, but with no story or depth to it. After some fooling around drawing the mannequin this idea started to develop and just really tickled me.

It's drawn with a black uniball signo, always my pen of choice. I love the way it starts behind Zenia's entry and finishes with a torn edge, like some grubby newspaper cartoon discarded in the street.

Carla's book...

Has come to play at my house... will get right onto it and pass it onto Kel ASAP.

July's Posting Day

Greetings all,

It's been a quiet month on here so far - I wanna see the pretty pictures!!! Having said that, I am finishing off my entry in Lorraine's book, so no pics from me yet.

And where are the Molys?

• Patrick, I'll be sending to you this week.
• Carla, do you have Zenia's yet?
• I believe the other 3 are all in London...
  

At this moment...

Lorraine's is at my house.
Zenia's is probably on it's way to Carla's.
Mine is on it's way to Lorraine.
Patrick's is at Lorraine's.
Carla's is at Zenia's.

Patrick has a break this month, and Lorraine will end up with two.

I am really enjoying watching everyone's books fill up with such original takes on the themes.

Kelly's is on it's way back to England!

If I was not me...

Here's my entry in Lorraine's moly. The theme is alternates so I thought about an alternate me. I often wonder who / what I would be if I wasn't my shape / colour / shy-self. Would I be a wife and mother, would I be a traveller, would I be a singer? I chose to explore one of these alternate Zenias. So here she is... the girl I would be if I wasn't me.

It's going to Kelly for coffee on Thursday.

Patrick's book arrived from Carla today and it looks fantastic. It survived being left on a soggy doorstep perfectly (the dear old post office will be hearing from me very soon, let me tell you.)and is now sitting by the fire with a cup of hot chocolate. Zenia, any time you want Carla's book it's ready...

Patrick's Time Moly

On its way to Lorraine today!

Received from Kelly Zenia's Book Today

Just received Zenia's book from Kelly today.  The package was sent from Beijing.  I'll be traveling to Japan soon, so I will probably send Zenia's book to Carla from Tokyo.

Carla's

Well here's a not wonderful pic of Carla's Doodle Moley. Posted from my phone, which is why it's a bit rubbish, it's my first go at the panoramic thingy.

Kelly's Entry for Zenia

Kelly's Entry for Zenia, originally uploaded by Kel_eh.

Zenia's theme is all about "what do you see when you look in my eyes?" My take on this was to sketch out the shape of my eye using some of the messages you may receive if you were to look long enough. I liked the idea of the eyelashes being made of words like "beauty, desire, flirtation". (HB and 2B pencils, watercolour pencils, Pitt artist pen M)

There is a close up detail in Flickr too.