Someone asked me the other day what art journaling actually is, I was thinking about that a lot this week. I had middle of the night ideas to write an amazing blog post with the definition of art journaling and links to resources. Instead I’m going to write about what art journaling is to me. … More Looking Back : Get Messy Art Journal
Serene: calm,tranquil,unclouded, quiet,placid. Serenity n. My art journal pages this week are about Serenity, and about moments. Life gets busy, crazy and hectic, stressful and spinning, tiring and troubling sometimes. What do you do for a moments peace, a return to calm the sense of tranquil? For me the most basic, simple go to thing is … More Get Messy : Serenity : Week 2
The new season has kicked off in the art journaling group/challenge (Get Messy) I’m in and it’s the season of Serenity. I felt a wave of calm pass over me as I read it on the blog …aaahh just what I need after reflecting and journaling about brave and adventure ! Last season I commited to art journaling … More Serenity : Get messy art journal , week one
The last season of art journaling prompts over at Get Messy Art Journal Challenge were based around the theme of adventure. After the season of Brave I felt it seemed right to take the plunge and join in with Get Messy Thursdays, a commitment to complete pages using the prompts and share weekly for 6 weeks … More Get Messy Thursdays
This is actually my second attempt at writing this blog post, the first one went missing after I pressed save because…that is my lesson for this week. That life doesn’t always go to plan. Nothing too major just a nasty little back pain episode which saw me have to give away some lovely things I … More Life Unplanned
Until this week I didn’t have a bucket list. I started thinking about writing one because it’s one of the prompts for the Get Messy art journal challenge that I’m part of. I don’t think I can know all the things I’ll want to do,before I kick the bucket because I’m changing all the time. … More 10 things on my bucket list : Get Messy Adventure (5)
I love blogging. but the words don’t always come easy. I realise I’ve been mainly blogging about art journaling lately because it’s my new thing, but also because I’ve committed to share weekly on a Thursday and if I hadn’t maybe then I wouldn’t have written anything at all. So this weeks post is a combination … More Go find your mountain
I’m looking at my pages tonight and feeling unsure as to whether they want to be seen, well maybe it’s that I’m unsure about showing them. It’s weird this learning about art journaling thing, some times I have moments when I am certain it is for me, other times I seriously question that. Right now is … More Get Messy Thursdays :18/6
This weeks prompts over at Get Messy have been in the form of a game. Each day we were given one prompt by Vanessa who blogs over at Dans-mon-crane and whose art journal pages (and blog) I find inspiring! So far we have had three prompts and I am loving this game and the pages … More The get messy game
My sense of adventure has got me to here, with a blog, posting about my latest art journal page made with prompts from Get Messy art journaling. This season over at Get messy is based on adventure. In preparation, I had gathered some travel magazines and was thinking about travel. When I looked at this … More Sense of Adventure
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