August Blogalong - Day one - Let's Start with a Giveaway...!!!

Today is day one of the August Blogalong!  As I write this post, there are 81 people signed up over at Effy's for the blogalong, and I'm so excited to be one of them!  Talk about daily inspiration!   Welcome to friends, both old and new! Click here to join in with us!I will be here each day in August, with something to share - creative projects and process,...

Paint Over Collage...

Hey there friends! I just finished my Book of Mirrors spread for this week, and I'm excited to be able to share it with you!  We used the Paint Over Collage technique; and here's how mine turned out...Someone quoted this lyric from Leonard Cohen yesterday, and it was just what I needed to hear.  In case you can't read it, here's what it says..."The birds they sangat...

Here's what's Coming...

I miss my daily blogging practice, and I'm going to participate in this to help me get back on track...Starting August 1st, I will be posting every day for 30 days.  Want to join in the fun?  Click here to find out mo...

Reflecting on my earliest memories - Evolution of a Page...

Hey there everyone!  Happy Saturday!  I created a page for my Book of Mirrors this week that I want to share with you, but before I start, I want to say thanks to IHanna and Dawn for their suggestions about my Life Book Dilemma!  (scroll down to the post below this one to see what I'm talking about). I decided to continue on in my art journal rather than fighting...

Life Book Update...

It's been forever since I've done a Life Book update for you!  Here's what I've been doing...This first spread is the result of Effy Wild's Artful Shamanism lesson.  This is a representation of what I saw on a journey, guided by Effy...  I had to split it in half to fit it in my Life Book ring binder.  I thought it was interesting that the message I got...

Book of Days Meets Lollapalooza 3 Meets Glue-it Tuesday...

Hi everyone!  I am so excited to share my new Book of Days journal with you!  This is the complement to my Book of Mirrors, which I shared in the last post.  Where the Book of Mirrors records my inner world, This Book of Days contains the daily documenting of my days, or  outer world, so to speak.   Together they cover the whole Book of Days process.I...

Book of Days Session 2 has started - yeayyyyy!!!

Hi everyone!I'm so excited that the second session of Book of Days with Effy Wild has started - yeayyyy!!!Book of Days started as a workshop for me, and has progressed into the regular spiritual art practice that I have always wanted.  In the Book of Days (BOD) group, we look at what's going on in both our inner and outer worlds and express them through art journaling. ...

Last of the pages in the linen bird journal...

I've got a few more pages from my bird journal to share with you, before we move on to July... These are all done with backgrounds made beforehand with leftover paint from other projects... Just added an image here, and outlined the design on the right... Wrote with molotow marker on this one...And that is it!  This journal is done - finito!  This...

Filling Up An Old Journal...

I've got a beautiful journal that I started in 2011, when I took Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's "30 Days in your Journal" class (awesome class by the way); and have been adding a page to here and there since then; and also using it as the place to swipe leftover paint at the end of projects.  I recently realized that all of the pages that were left now had beautiful backgrounds,...