heart the art-week 22 (book)

i ♥LOVE♥ this week's HEART the ART prompt! ok, i pretty much love them every week, but this one was particularly cool: gina wanted us to record for posterity what book we are currently reading...or the latest one we loved, if they are not the same. fortunately, i am loving my current reading group book, the lacuna by barbara kingsolver, and how cool is it that frida kahlo is one of the characters, so i could use one of her self-portraits (cut from a museum brochure) on my page:

(patterned paper: daisy d's, creative imaginations, doodlebug & cross my heart; leaf stickers & butterfly punch: martha stewart; flower dies: cuttlebug; brads: oriental trading; ink: colorbox; tissue paper & decorative packing tape: michaels)

of course, the portrait took up almost the whole page! (did i mention i am finding my 4x6" pages too small?? i've decided that in future, my art journal needs to be 5x7", at least!) so i made it into a little flap using some decorative packing tape...and it's not even close to centered...and...

ok, so the logistics of this one got away from me, but i still love it anyway! i mean how can you look at frida and her parrots and NOT smile??! and the whole point of this little adventure--to me-- is to play around, try new things, work more loosely, record some stuff that's happening right now, and just generally have fun! mission accomplished! ♥♥♥