Playing around with fabric journal pages

Today I experimented with making fabric journal pages and used my eyelet tool for the first time.  I'm super excited about making a journal that combines photos, fabric, and typewritten words....but need to spend more time experimenting so that it looks less sloppy!

52 Lists-- Weeks 2/3 and my new beloved type writer

Today I was downtown and decided to stop into a used bookstore where it was rumored that the owner liked to collect and sell old manual typewriters.  I fell in love with this tiny, teal typewriter.  I've been wanting one for a while so that I could add typed writing to my art journals without having to use my computer.  Just need to get some new ink ribbon for it, but it works in the mean time.  Other things I did while downtown today included:  taking the bus with Jamie to the Y and taking my first ever Pilates class, going out for lunch to Cafe Japon where I had a grilled veggie crepe and a chocolate croissant and green tea, exploring a few clothing/art boutiques, and splurging on chocolate-cherry turtles from the cherry store.  Yum! 

Here are lists for the 52 Lists project.  Week 2 is "things I learned from my dad" and week 3 was supposed to be things I learned from a place I visited....but I adapted it to be things I learned while traveling as a single mama!

New Journal

Yesterday I finished making a new journal using leftover watercolor paper from an art class that I took, paint that I already had on hand, and an old belt that my son put in the Kiwani's Sale donation bag.  It's like one that I made before, only this time I tried sticking to one color scheme.  I can't wait to start filling it up!

"Pool"

My sister is getting married this summer.  She has 2 different colors of bridesmaids dresses:  "Tealness" which is a darker shade of teal and "Pool" which is a lighter shade of teal.  When I told my sister that I changed the color of my living room from "tealness" to "pool", she got it.  I love both colors, but this color for a wall makes the room much brighter and I'm so happy that I'm on Summer Break and have time for such creative projects.      I also spent some time re-organizing my craft corner and trying to make it look less cluttered.

Art Journal Workshop

On my reading list for this summer is Traci Bunker's The Art Journal Workshop and so far I have tried one of the art journaling prompts.  I'm noticing an unintentional recurring color scheme....

52 Lists Week 1

There is this fabulous blog that I found called (I think) "On the brink...of Something Beautiful."  She launched a project called 52 Lists in 52 Weeks, with weekly listing prompts for those of us who get motivated with writing lists.  Even though I'm already a few weeks behind...I'm planning on catching up this week and I'm so excited about getting weekly journaling prompts!

Flower Journal

Here's a page from an art journal binder that I'm working on that will be filled with flower imagery.  I had fun just playing around with paint, collage, words until I ended up with something that I liked.  Art Journaling is very therapeutic for me.