I found some beads at home and wanted to incorporate these into my work somehow but I didn't want the to be barely seen and so instead of trapping them in between layers of fabric I just decided to sew them on to a piece of fabric instead. I liked that you could see them and I'm thinking about doing some more with beads sewn on top of the fabric. The next piece down I put in a piece of paper just to secure it because I didn't want to sew this piece down being as it's more of a pocket and I thought you could take things out and replace them with other things but then I realised that it wouldn't go with my theme of memories. You can't swap and replace memories so I don't think I'll be using this idea of a pocket again. I liked using bead though so I went an bought some alphabet beads and sown them to some fabric spelling out the word 'sun' but instead of just leaving it, I decided to put a layer of fabric over it and sew them together to trap the word. I like the idea of trapping words.
Below I decided to use words some more but going more with Richter's way of working with paint over photo's. I used words that were relevant to the time the photo's were taken. I used green and purple on the top photo because of the frog relating to nature and the purple because it was night time and the colour reminds me of one of the friends I was with. The bottom picture I also painted a smiley face as well as painting words. The smiley, I think, expresses my happiness and contentment at that time more that words could. I like this idea but I wonder if it was a little too cartoony and so I don't know if I'll use it again.