Mom and Dad, didn't cry all day today! Lisbeth gleefully reported to my husband Garry and I when we popped in to see her yesterday to deliver a couple of new packs of colored paper.
(A clear, happy day is a rarity for Lisbeth. Constant neurological interference causes her to be on an emotional see-saw. One of Lisbeth's two
seizure foci is located in the
front left temporal lobe, the area of the brain which rules behavior. Depending on where Lisbeth is in her seizure cycle, and the amount of "jiggling around" going on in there, she is like a puppet on strings regarding her emotions and behavior).
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Lisbeth agreed to demonstrate her paper cutting technique. She starts by placing an overturned plastic plate onto an 8" x 11" piece of paper. (
Lis and her helpers have made a nice little paper cutting nook for her to work on her snowflake/mandalas. A little studio corner in her living room.
Lis cleaned her pink desk all out to make way for some new supplies, like the pastel and bright colored papers we brought).
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This is the plate Lisbeth uses. She has used this
101 Dalmations plate for over 15 years to cut hundreds of snowflake/mandalas. (
101 Dalmations Little Puppies Get Stolen, Lis's name for that movie, one of her famous
Lis-isms, was one of three favorite movies of hers when she was a young girl:
101 Dalmations, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and
Hook. She watched these films over and over and
over. It finally
occurred to me one day that
all three of these stories have at their core something or someone who is stolen or lost. The puppies are stolen, Pee
Wee's bike gets stolen, and in Peter Pan, there are the lost boys. This is poignant considering Lisbeth's loss. She was a healthy, normal little girl up until the traumatic onset of her illness when she was six years old. Like all folks with a
TBI, Lisbeth has the experience of a distinct
before and
after to her life. She remembers being well, and mourns for the life she used to have. This has been a struggle for Lisbeth and the cause of significant depression).
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Tracing...
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Her favorite cutting shears at the ready...
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Cutting the circle. Lisbeth will demonstrate the folding and design cuts in a future post.
All Happy!
So good to see her happy!
ReplyDeleteTRUE! Thankyou for your post!!! I was wondering how to photograph Lisbeth's laminated flakes to put on her etsy shop, and copied your against the sky pics!!! xoxoxoxo
ReplyDeleteBold and Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteCheers! to Lisbeth. ;P
Thankyou, Teri! And thankyou for following Lisbeth's blog! xo
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