Journal Pages from last few months

(Notice the dainty pinky finger shadow that I consciously tried to avoid with each photo! ha-ha)

My Totem Snails

Journaly Pages

As usual, once I get motivated to update my blog, I start back-tracking to add stuff that I haven't shared yet!  Here are some of my more recent journal pages.

Today's Creative Projects

Here are some of today's creative projects!  I'm taking the online Radian Goddess e-course and one or our tasks was to do a Radiant piece of art work.  I've been wanting to draw/paint more people but put it off because I think I don't know how....but just like I tell my Kindergarten students when trying to draw something difficult, I decided to have fun and try my best!  So that's what I tried today, which is something totally new for me.

Also today I was reading one of Louise L Hay's books.  She writes that lack of self-love is at the root of most people's problems and that one way to work on overcoming this is to say positive self-love affirmations in front of a mirror!  So I decided to create my own affirmation card and keep a tiny little mirror on my alter so that I'll be inspired to practice.  Re-organizing my alter was another creative project for the day!

Home-made Stamps

Inspired by Mindy Lacefield, I made some home-made stamps out of craft foam and a wood-burning tool.  I gel-mediumed an extra layer of foam on so that I have something to hold onto. My lack of wood-burning skill definitely gives it that made-by-a-kid look, but I like it!

Artfest!

Last week I went to the last Artfest and have yet to share photos.  On day one, I took a class with Sunny Carvalho called "Cuff Me."  We learned how to needle-felt and hand stitch cuffs and made paper-clay buttons to add onto them.  Beginner efforts for sure, but it was a fun class!

On the 2nd day, I took a class from Erin Faith Allen called "Soul Portraits" where we combined self-portrait photos with collage and pen-and-ink and more....  I'm in love with using the dip pen now.  Shy about posting journal pages with my photo on it.  I like the first one better, but the 2nd one was less planned which tends to be a good thing.  I also got started on a third page, but have yet to finish it.

And on the third day, I took a class with Mindy Lacefield called  "All A Flutter" or something like that. Lots of fun prompts to create the background and then demos on how to collage/paint birds.  So much fun!   More photos to come of other artwork inspired by these classes! 

Saturday Morning

This morning I have been working on cleaning, dusting, organizing, vacuuming everything in my bedroom including my little alter.  Though I lately have a slight aversion to cleaning, I've noticed that when I'm in a room that's clean, organized, colorful, inspiring....that I tend to feel the same way on the inside.  Good motivation for being an inspired domestic goddess!