Pulling out old articles and writing new ones…
Same with blogs & journals. A few old and some new. {the archive will be here soon!}
I guess there’s a lot of that in January, looking back & forward at the same time…
Here is last week in journal pages. Mostly pages without writing, but I made a page, took a photo or wrote every day this week. {which was my goal. yay! me.}
Sometimes I just wear myself out. I’ve been thinking a lot about my journals and how I keep them. {too much I think…} In an effort to loosen up, I’ve been doing free drawing in my Morning Pages and current journal. Just put the pen down and see what happens. No filtering thoughts. These swirls & dots {that’s what came out} drawn with PRANG metallic brush markers on a watercolor wash. The “stars” in the upper left-hand corner are made by dropping kosher salt on the wet wash and brushing off when dry. Tea tags and stars from my stash of random stuff. Quote: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” I love Oscar Wilde.
Colors & thoughts from the kitchen/great room. A designer from Ethan Allen made the comment, “She will show you who she is.” I like to think he was talking about me and not just the house. 😉
I want to use this journal to capture conversations & ideas as well as make art pages. Page on the left has a quote from my friend Amy {“They handle the transition because instead of getting smaller, their world gets bigger.”} plus the time for our next get together so I won’t forget. The doodle that I doodled while talking to her looked like a calamari appetizer gone bad, so I covered it up with layers of paint & tissue. I guess I didn’t have to mention it, but it’s what I’m wrestling with these days. Rough drafts, mistakes & messiness. {that and body image…}
The oldest Brilliant ordered some cool belts from Fossil that came in a box with this awesome packing tape. The page is waiting for words. Btw, I also love vegetable stickers; these are from avocados & a pomegranate used to make Liz’s Pomegranate Guacamole. So good. {I’ll post the recipe soon.}
This Exacompta journal is already getting bulky and I still have about 90 double page spreads to go… so, I cut out some pages and made some list pages. Have decided that this will be my Read-in-2010 list. {I also want to add a Books-I-Want-to-Read list & a Movies-I’ve-Watched list.}
This page is called “Lady Grey Tea – layer 1” I don’t know what it’s going to be yet. I included it because this is the kind of page that is new to me: a page that is in process & not finished all in one go.