Daily Journal Candy

So I was going to do a tutorial and share some sneaky tricks on how to cover the backs of your canvases with brown paper. Somehow I ended up doing some fall flower arrangements for the house, working a little with the clay, and this journal page. We're not mentioning the shopping wherein I buy the most amazing pumpkin cookies ever.

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Unidentified sailor from Nana's old photo album. Ooh la la!

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Daily Journal Candy plus Sneak Peek

Latest journal page

Sneak peek at a clay figure I made last week that I'll be putting up on eBay this weekend. If I can bear to. This face just kills me. :)

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Eh. Some days you're just not feeling it.

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Self portrait page made after watching Diana Trout's video. Watch for an upcoming review of her new book, Journal Spilling. It's on my favorites list. :)

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This is my husband's great-great-grandfather Herman Schultz and his boys, who opened the first bakery in Abilene, Texas, when it became a township in 1881. I have the original photograph in an album but his grandmother also had a big stack of cheap b&w copies she had made of lots of the old photos. They're perfect for journal pages. :)

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"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn. " - Elizabeth Lawrence

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First page in a new journal. Yum!

Lists

This is my journal page for the Journal Pages prompt "Lists". One of these days I'll post some more journal pages, some finished, some in progress and write a little bit about how I get "from here to there".

You can always click on the picture to make it bigger. :)

Journal share - 52 Questions

in the interest of posting more content every week i'm hoping to share one of my journals or gluebooks. this week's book is a tag journal. i am using it to answer 52 questions posed by emily falconbridge. there is a flickr group to check out everyone else's tags/journals as well.



this is obviously the cover. it's bound with a ring from the office supply store so i can easily add tags as i go. although this is a shipping tag, i'm not being particular about size. i like the random sizes and shapes.

inside cover and page 1
1. hopes for 2009

page 2 and a small extra tag
2. am i scared of change?

3. do i believe in fairies?

4. when i look into my eyes i see.....

5. how do i feel today?

6. if i could do it all again, would i change anything?

7. what would you do if you knew you could not fail?
8. what was the last thing that made you laugh out loud?

9. what was the last brave thing i did?

10. name 5 movies that inspire you creatively (i skipped this one)
11. what keeps me awake at night?

12. what are you grateful for right now?

this is a tied folder at the end that keeps all the questions.


in other news my son, cameron, and i started this year's seeds friday. we already have 3 inch plants for many of them! wow. we planted:

onions - white and yellow
carrots
spinach
simpson lettuce
bibb lettuce
mixed salad greens
brandywine tomaotes
cherry tomatoes
sugar snap peas
blue lake beans
radishes
beets
crookneck squash
bell peppers
cucumbers
canteloupes
watermelons

yum. i can't wait. we'll rent a tiller next week to break the ground.

what i do for fun

when i'm not sewing (which isn't much lately), painting or drawing, i like working in a visual journal. somtimes it's just a paste-up of inspiring images or stuff i want. sometimes it's more scrapbook-y. i started this one at the first of 2008 and it's rather large and in an existing book - 9" x 12". later i'll share some of my 5" x 8" ones. i have books and books filled. the heart sticker on the cover is from wolfie and the sneak.

mary, two days one week

cardinal, bike ride

journal outside

she talks to angels and neil gaiman

sketch and deer photo