Because this year I celebrate and cherish everything that I was, that made me who I am, I cherish ME!
I cherish art, my art journal, other's art journals, and I cherish sharing with these wonderful arty people with good hearts.
And above all else I cherish my family and friends because life is really, really short.
One of my goals this year is to learn as much as I can about art/art journaling by immersing myself in it and being cretaive everyday, so I joined in on Effy Wild's Book of Days.
I found it and I am already making an honest effort to journal for at least 5 minutes everyday even if it is about stupid things.
So, I thought this would be a great addition to my year of art! And so far I have had so much fun with it!
I started by going shopping for a new journal as my current journal doesn't have enough room in it for 52 new spreads plus any "special day" pages. And of course, I couldn't find anything here in town. So, I took some advice and started looking at my old books for one to alter.
I found one!
Not that I want to see this book destroyed.
No, I find this book very dear to me and I decided it would become my Book of Days for 2012!
A photo from inside my book, these are flowers I pressed years ago on my last trip to Louisiana, when I bought the book.
And, on to the project at hand...
These are the pages I started with.
And after some paint, post-its, watercolor crayons, printed words and numbers, and more paint, this is what the layout looks like.
The words, close-up. I took them off some scrapbook paper I was going to use but the design was just too big to fit in my book.
And finally...
Yeah. I think I over grunged the word Cherish and the numbers. But eh, I am still happy with it!
It was fun and tomorrow I will work on the layout for this week.
I avoided dishes and laundry to complete this today, so I guess if I want a place to sleep tonight and bottles to feed the baby out of, I guess I had better get to washing.
Please excuse me!
:D
I cherish art, my art journal, other's art journals, and I cherish sharing with these wonderful arty people with good hearts.
And above all else I cherish my family and friends because life is really, really short.
One of my goals this year is to learn as much as I can about art/art journaling by immersing myself in it and being cretaive everyday, so I joined in on Effy Wild's Book of Days.
I found it and I am already making an honest effort to journal for at least 5 minutes everyday even if it is about stupid things.
So, I thought this would be a great addition to my year of art! And so far I have had so much fun with it!
I started by going shopping for a new journal as my current journal doesn't have enough room in it for 52 new spreads plus any "special day" pages. And of course, I couldn't find anything here in town. So, I took some advice and started looking at my old books for one to alter.
I found one!
Not that I want to see this book destroyed.
No, I find this book very dear to me and I decided it would become my Book of Days for 2012!
A photo from inside my book, these are flowers I pressed years ago on my last trip to Louisiana, when I bought the book.
And, on to the project at hand...
These are the pages I started with.
And after some paint, post-its, watercolor crayons, printed words and numbers, and more paint, this is what the layout looks like.
The words, close-up. I took them off some scrapbook paper I was going to use but the design was just too big to fit in my book.
And finally...
Yeah. I think I over grunged the word Cherish and the numbers. But eh, I am still happy with it!
It was fun and tomorrow I will work on the layout for this week.
I avoided dishes and laundry to complete this today, so I guess if I want a place to sleep tonight and bottles to feed the baby out of, I guess I had better get to washing.
Please excuse me!
:D
Hi Michelle...thanks for following my blog! I really like what you are doing for Effy's Book of Days. I hope you're having fun with it! I look forward to seeing the rest of your altered book.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting me, and for the very nice comment Andria! I look forward to seeing yours as well! So far 2012 is off to a stellar start!
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