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It's the last Tuesday of the month so that means it's time for our Teapot Tuesday Tickle Challenge.
This week's challenge is brought to you by guest hostess
jkanack, Jean.
CHALLENGE:
Today's tickle challenge will be to use kintsugi (kintsukuroi) and wabi-sabi on your creation. Kintsugi is a Japanese art from around the 15th century, where lacquerware and pottery were repaired using gold, silver or platinum dust. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. It is closely associated with the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which is recognizing and embracing our imperfections and flaws.
In more modern times, kintsugi and wabi-sabi have been embraced to symbolize difficult times in our lives. All humans go through experiences that have broken us, created cracks and revealed our flaws. Instead of throwing oneself away, like a piece of broken pottery, we, through time and care, repair those broken places in ourselves and learn to accept our imperfections. In truth, in Japan, a piece of pottery which has been repaired with kintsugi is more valuable than the original.
Kintsugi was done as a MIX about 6 years ago, so it might be helpful to check out that gallery. Your creation does not have to have an Asian theme, but should have some kind of gold, silver or platinum material that resembles a repair. Kintsugi can look like a crack repaired or it can be a whole section of a piece.
Optional: Jean sent several pictures to inspire you which I have attached below and that is all you need for the challenge. But if you are on Pinterest and would like to check out her Kintsugi Art board, you will find itHERE.
SEND CARDS TO: This week our destination is each other! Once a month, we send our cards to each other!
Check out the thread with a green arrow icon in the Teapot Tuesday Extras forum. (I'll add a direct link in the next post, but until the site bugs are fixed I cannot edit this thread and retain any sanity). If you are participating in the card exchange please go to that thread and follow the instructions. Make sure to sign up by bedtime on Saturday 29th (yes, we're leaping this year) Feb 2020. Your destination recipient will be PM'd to you on Sunday.
I will also link Jean's card in the second post of this thread...
Quick Link to today’s Teapot Tuesday Challenge Gallery: MMTPT605
Be sure to you use KEYWORD MMTPT605 in your upload and post a comment here so we can all see your card!
Do you know someone that could use some well wishes, encouragement or all around warm fuzzies? Consider nominating them as a guest of honor (a.k.a. destination station) for an upcoming tea party. Send your request to jacqueline via PM or e-mail [email protected]. Include SCS Teaparty Request in the subject line.
Thank you Jean for a fun and interesting challenge. I'm loving the gallery so far and seeing everyone's take on this technique....many ways to interpret it. Here's my card saluting my fellow Teapotters...
Thank you Jean for this super fun challenge I loved this so much I've made 3 cards, now i'll wait and see who I'm going to send my tickle and chose one of these to send...
Awesome Challenge, Jean - I am going to have to make a few more of these to go to some "broken" friends along with the history which is a beautiful story of rebirth to a stronger more beautiful version of oneself.
Jean this was a great challenge!! This is one of the very few I have
done since my cataract surgery. I have not been fitted for glasses yet,
so I do not know if this photo is clear or not. I hope it is. LOL
__________________ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
I am using this one for the tickle challenge. My first one, I
completely forgot that it was the tickle one. So this one is it!!
__________________ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
__________________ The Difference Between Try and Triumph Is Just A Little Ump Wednesday: Alpha Challenge
Thursday: Ways To Use It Challenge
Monthly: MMJ Challenge….get inky and have fun
got it sent but missed uploading it....super idea...good for getting one out of comfort zone...Here, is my Kintsugi Vase.
__________________ We as people are raindrops of colorful ink , falling down Crisp and Clear, each a different shade more vibrant then the last, but once we realize at the bottom of an endless abyss we all fall into the same inkpot forming one color, only then can we come together as one My son.
MMTPT605 ~ February 25, 2020 ~ Kintsugi Does It
Link to sign up thread, Jean's cards
