journaling

Hello! I’m alive! Haha, actually I’ve been around, just a bit busy working on an album cover project for a new artist, babysitting, getting sick with the flu, continuing my redesign of the trash shop and adding new products, reading some Sarah Dessen and my backlog on Nylon magazine. I haven’t had much time for anything else, let along things to write about for the blog. I’m hoping that changes…

So, for 2014 I decided to give myself my own “one little word.” For this year I chose brave. I chose brave for various reasons, but the big reason for my choosing it was because it was the last of my “goals list” I made myself towards the end of December. I wrote “be brave,” because lately I’ve been a complete worry-wort and it’s sort of getting old. I’m tired…

I’ve been adding to my new art journal slowly. I sort of deviated from Elsie’s prompts and have been journaling things that I feel match the theme that this journal has beginning to take on. I’ve named the journal Cool Kids, the title from the Echosmith song called “Cool Kids.” I thought the song fit very well with the theme of the Free People catalog images I’ve been using. I…

Just some new art journaling pages I’ve done in the past month. A few of the pages were created using prompts from Elsie’s (from A Beautiful Mess) Art Journal All Year class. The others were inspired by this Free People catalogue that I’ve been tearing pages out of for a while. So I kind of kept with the catalogue’s color scheme and theme, I just loved it so much. I’ve realized…

Awhile ago I discovered art journaling. Essentially, art journaling is like keeping a sketchbook, except each page is a finished piece. Plus, it’s mostly a mixed media type thing. Most people use actual sketchbooks for their journal, some use composition notebooks, and then others make their own journal from different types of paper, which is always so cool to look at. For me, I just used an old day planner…