Catch-up

Life documented 

Week 38: Theme for September-Admit You're Happy-Do what makes you happy 

Quote: It is not how much you have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Prompt: Use very basic supplies to create an art journal page, focusing on technique, not art supplies.Technique: Use paper and scissors to create your own circles, or any other shapes that make you happiest.

Week 39 

Theme: Admit your happy do what makes you happy

Quote: The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise.  It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. Ashleigh Montague

Prompt :Use distress inks to make your journal page background and add pockets to represent what makes you happy.  I have decided to do seven pockets which represent family, art,Christmas,  birds and nature, sewing, tea and friends. .so many things make us happy.

Life documented & Journal 52

Week 40 

Theme: Admit your happy do what makes you happy. Quote: How beautifully leaves grow old.  How full of light and colour are their last few days.  John Burrows

Prompt:  To use something from nature to create a spread that represents the changing of the coming season.//FALL: Descend freely by the force of gravity. The season when leaves fall from trees: Autumn. Synonyms: Descent, dive, decline, diminish, drop, decrease, fall off, reduction. Prompt: Create a spread that honours fall – either the season, or the experience of falling (away from, into, out of…). Oracle: What is falling away? What are you falling into? What are you falling out of?

Journal 52

NURTURE:To help someone or something grow. To hold something, such as an idea or a strong feeling, in your mind for a long time. Synonyms: Cultivate, encourage, incubate, foster, nourish. Prompt: Create a spread that celebrates the things that nurture you/the ways you nurture yourself/the way you nurture others. Oracle: What needs to be nurtured in your life right now?

STRENGTH:The quality or state of being physically or emotionally strong. The ability to resist being moved or broken. The quality that allows someone to deal with problems in a determined and effective way. Synonyms: Energy, force, might, muscle, potency, power, vigour. Prompt: Create a spread that celebrates your most potent strengths. Use strong, bold, forceful colours & symbols.  Oracle: Where is your strength required at this time? Where can your strengths be most useful? What force are you exerting? How strong are you feeling? How might you feel stronger?

Art journal journey 

Week 40 

40. Image: sports/ball/equipment. Word: challenge. Prompt: the science of solitude. Technique: stamp your page with bubble wrap or other unique texture. Quote: don't take every challenge as a problem, take every problem as a challenge.