I am coming to the end of this journal. It spans the last half of the year. In my next journal, I want to try journaling more regularly and making sure I put the date somewhere.

It's interesting that I'm finding it challenging to finish off the last three pages. I can't figure out the issue here. I mean, seriously! I've come all this way and am getting stuck at the end. The pages are prepped and I have some images taped down but I just don't know where to go. Has this happened to you at the end of a journal? How do you push through?

30 Days in Your Journal

I am having fun with Julie Fei-Fan Belzer's 30 Days in Your Journal. Her videos are great! Quick and good ideas to get you going. Now I just need to find more time. This is definitely a theme of mine. Why is it there never is enough time????

Art Play

Last Wed. I invited my girlfriends Marissa & Kathy over for a day of art play. We each got into our groove and had a great time creating in our journals. I think we are going to try to make it a regular thing!

Still trying to figure out how to set up the journaling classes I'm hoping to start teaching out of the house. I'm anxious about it. Will it be sustainable? Will people want to learn?

Now that my son's football season is over, I'm hoping to really have more time to paint and play. I volunteered to be picture mom and capture great shots of the team at every game. As it started to get cold, my husband volunteered to take over being the team photographer! I have spent a ridiculous amount of time putting together a slideshow for each player so they will remember their fantastic season. The team was undefeated 8-0 and the party is this Sunday. I still have to burn the DVDs!!

Last week, school pictures came home and I was SO happy that both of my kids looked great!
Last year, my son's picture was SO HORRIBLE I burst out laughing which made him very upset. I just couldn't help it. The picture was THAT BAD. These pictures are fantastic and both of my kids look fabulous. Their smiles say it all.

The background was inspired by Donna Downey. Love the layers!

Halloween

Happy Halloween! Kids and friends are going trick-or-treating after school today. This year ......
Mad Scientist and Pinky - from PacMan!

Hope to find time to finish my journal! I'm at the end and it's time to make a new book.

Happy Halloween everyone! What is your favorite candy? I love it all but am trying to be good this year. We'll will see.

Experiment

I created this spread a few weeks ago and I really like the colors and distressed effect I created. I really need to start keeping notes of what I do because I can't remember. Then, someone asks me what I did and I have no clue! Maybe I'll create a journal just for demo-ing different ideas and writing down my steps. How do you keep track of your experiments?
(the face and body are from Teesha Moore and the arms are tape by Cavallini.
"squeeze the day" is from a Boden catalog)

copics

I've been playing around with my Copic markers and trying to get down the shading. It is trickier than I thought! I think it would help if I had more variation in the same color families. I've been using the Bristol smooth paper which I think is perfect for these markers. They leak through, but I kind of like how it looks on the back! So many yummy colors to choose from. Dick Blick is having a sale this weekend! Guess where I'll be??

Such a great quote from Steve Jobs. What a visionary! He changed the course of this world.