More Journaling in the Red Journal

Some new entries from the last few days (mostly this past weekend) in my Red "Thoughts" journal. As usual just kind of random thoughts that come to me and things that inspire me at any given moment. They were all kind of fun.

More of my NaNoJouMo Journal Pages

Journal page Nov. 6- Being a Woman

Musings on how I feel about being female. Funny that since making this I got a bit outraged at how the news is headlining stories about the female police officer that stopped the shooter at Ft. Hood army base as "Unexpected Hero." Like I said I'm no feminist, but why should it be SO unexpected that the hero who stopped the guy was a woman? If it was a guy who was 5'2" tall would THAT be so unexpected? I mean really! That's the stuff I think is really uncalled for and the media doesn't even seem to realize they are doing it. Just give the lady the same credit they would give ANY police officer who did what they would be doing in the line of duty.
Ah well... we still aren't quite there yet with respect to equality but for good or for ill we have differences and they aren't all bad.

NaNoJouMo continues

I've kept up so far, posting the first 3 days worth of my journal entries (I spiffed up the first page a little since the last post, some of it faded a bit more than I had hoped). So far I am enjoying doing this - I hope I can keep it up all month... which is a tall order for me. It's easy to do for a few days, but I really do go in spurts and doing anything in a constant, disciplined manner is hard for me on a regular basis. This will get particularly tricky on days when I work from 8 a.m. through 10 p.m. Not sure how that will work out. But the effort is worth at any rate, and when I do set goals for myself I can be fairly dogged (some might say obsessive?) in meeting them. So we will see how I do... the main thing though is to have fun with it. So far I have!

More Journal Pages at Sharon's

Created more art at Sharon's today.... we are having such fun! More pages for the altered book are shown here. I kinda started on the cover, still not sure what I want to do with it though. Stay tuned for more to come! This has been a great creative retreat for me. I haven't done this much art for a long time!

Journal Kit

For the latest Street Team challenge I've put together a journaling kit... from things at The Container Store (I work there part time). I was pleased to find out that my favorite journaling book Journal Revolution fits perfectly inside so I can take inspiration with me as well as tools! The second photo shows the second layer with my Moleskine journal.

Next I show the small boxes inside that hold markers and small stamp pads and colored pencils, a glue stick, x-acto knife and a double stick adhesive dispenser.



The next photo shows small cups to hold embellishments. They are magnetic on the bottom and I stuck small round metal discs that have adhesive on the back so they stay in place and don't rattle all over the box. The last photo shows a clear pouch that holds some individual pages for another journal, some scrap paper, tags and clippings from magazines to add into the journal. I've made a few pages already using my kit, I'll post those on Tuesday.

the start of a new journal

The start of a new journal... on kromekote (shiny) white card stock... using stamp pads, paint, rubber stamps, handwriting and what ever comes to mind. I decided to go back toward my comfort zone so I would actually do more stuff. I can toss in new things as I go I figure, but this way I'm more likely to actually work on it more often. (or so I hope). So far I'm pretty pleased, I cranked these out pretty quickly last night. I think I was really ready to make some art.

Finding the Words

This is often the question... so many things to say until I sit down to do art...then not sure what I want to say... so I said just that... I had to start somewhere, right? Seems like I have either too much to say or nothing (or I can't think of anything to translate to art... my friends will tell you I ALWAYS have SOMETHING to say!). I think this stumps most of us at one time or another... so I decided to put it down, invest some time in it. Still loving using the Photoshop brushes.

Crusade 16 Journal Your Blog

Ok, here's the real, hands-on, cut, paste and paint version. This was a bit of a struggle... had to rip up the first attempt and re-place them on a new sheet to try again. I didn't like the paint, it got too unfocused. This one is still a little all over the place, but I like it better. These were my blog banners for the What's Your Muse Crusade from a few months back. I have another few blog items to try out but didn't get them done last night. It was fun to get out the paint and slop it on. I haven't done that in a while. I wanted to get more rubber stamps in, but wasn't finding what I wanted. I liked this theme so it was fun to do something extra with it. I probably could have done a page for each muse now that I think of it. Too bad there's not enough time in the day/week to do all the things I think of doing!

More Wrecking of the Journal...

So more wrecking has been going on and it's still fun. Still haven't taken it into the shower yet...I think I have to build up to that one! LOL but have burnt it and torn it put gum in it... maybe will do some more tonight. Getting a good photo has been a challenge, need better lighting I guess. I want to do a lot of the pages, but I suppose it's good to pace one's self and not get too many done at once... savor the destruction! It's weird 'cause it's hard and yet fun at the same time. Maybe the cats will help with it... they seem to like destroying all my other things in the house! Here's the next few I have pics of.