Wonky versus jaunty ...

Good morning! Trying not to feel Eyeore-ish this dull, cool and supposedly summer morning, You remember Eyeore? "If it is a good morning. Which I doubt.", accompanied by a maudlin swish of a tail ... My own tale is not quite as gloomy as Eyeore's. But possibly as wonky. Or as jaunty, depending on your point of view.
Last week, Sian (up here) and Lizzie (over there) both talked on here in their comments about angles. Not the journalling perspective type, but physical ones where you plonk a photo down and it's not quite meeting the horizontal or the vertical. That could be deliberate for artsy effect, or (as in the case of my first layout) accidental because I wasn't focused enough on the importance of design to realise that it might matter - if you're sort of person to whom these things matter in their own work, that is, and into which I seem to have metamorphosed.
 
Clean and graphic for me has a whiff of the regimental parade-ground, nicely smart and buttoned-up, facing the front, to attention (Sir!), all present and correct - rather than a casual lounging about, propped up against a wall, cap at a rakish angle, top button undone, and wondering what time the mess opens. (Gosh, doesn't that sound an attractive, easy-go-lucky kind of LO to gaze on!) So it was with some surprise that flicking back through the albums I came across this:

It's sort of graphic in a head-tilting fashion, and kinda wonky if you like to keep your eyes horizontal. One day several years ago, I turned my camera on to discover that DS and DD had had some fun messing around with Mum's new digital toy, DS having taken lots of shots of his sister pulling faces. Not just any faces, very typical ones which we all recognised, knew and loved. It didn't take long to arrange them on the page (spacing a bit more even this time, I note), think of a live issue at the time around which to hang the story, and print the journalling. (The stitching and buttons took a little longer, mind you.) Top left to bottom right, it reads:

Tidy my room? You're joking!
Let me think about that ...
You don't really mean that, do you?
You do? I'm seriously not impressed ...
OK! Just having you on!

So there you have it. You can be graphic and casual at a stroke. Alexa doesn't just do simple. She does waunty. Or jonky, as I like to think of it. Is that the sun coming out? Perhaps it's going to be a good morning after all ... :)

Comments

[Sian]

i think I'm going cross eyed now :) Defintely feeling a bit waunty. I love the idea of you finding those dear faces as a surprise on your camera.

[lin thomas]

What a nice surprise to find these photos on your camera. I love the purple and black. I like the wonkiness because although they're at an angle there are still the straight lines of the ribbon, with the ends cut at an angle, tying it all together, if you see what I mean!

[Jacky S]

Love the wonkiness of this one.....and the ribbon brings it all together so well......and what a lovely 'find' on your camera.

[Michele]

I think this is brilliant, Alexa - the wonkiness, the colours and especially the captions - love it all! x