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Guess I’m a little late to the party, but I hope you all won’t mind. Here’s the cover of my journal. I needed to keep things a bit linear for the cover. Otherwise, I was afraid I might scare myself away before I even got started!

My feelings about this project are very mixed. Yet with each different feeling, I’m peeking over an edge into something a bit unknown. Sometimes, I feel that I’m on top of a tall building, peeking over the edge of the roof to see what is below. Sometimes, I’m hanging off the edge of that building, barely holding on, trying to peek up over the edge to find something to help me. Whether the edges are just representing a new medium or technique. . .or a more complete expression of me through my journaling, I hope that by the end of this journey that I’m no longer peeking. I want to be looking straight ahead into a new beginning!

The clown face is just painted with acrylics (and a few MM products!). That face is my first tiny little peek out over the edge!! =D

Thanks to Shimelle for this awesome opportunity!

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This is my first entry. Not so sure on the art side yet, but I did have lots that I wanted to say – more than I expected, and I am now wondering if I need a bigger book. I don’t write small, and it looks like the words are going to start pouring out, but for now I will try with this book and maybe use more than one page (who’d a thought it?)

Shimelle’s prompt for this page totally struck a chord with me, I am at a real turning point in my life, and I do not want to be sitting here in 20 weeks time with nothing changed. Hopefully writing something in this book each week will be the push I need to make the changes happen, rather than just talk about them happening.

Not sure if you can read it, but I am a working mum who wants to be a SAHM, but not sure how to get there.

thanks for looking,

Bev

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I finally was able to break out the White Lightning whitewash I purchased at Memory Lane years ago. I had a great time brushing out the edges of the photo.
The huge belly horrifies me, but I’m hoping that as I look back at this journal in the years to come, it will make me laugh.
Thanks for the inspiration

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This is what I have done so far on the first page, part of the image can be seen through from the front cover…
The theory behind this was partly how I feel, divided into lots of different “personas” and partly how I feel like time is going to quickly how I don’t use it properly … etc …
All of this is stuff I’m going to write “YES in my own handwritting”
SCARY – I know …. over the top of the TIME background around my divided photo…

again thanks for looking

Louise F

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Finally completed my front cover ..
printed most of dark text using text boxes in word and then printed it direct onto cardstock, the light text is letraset…
Got all nostalgic doing the letraset, took me back to my design degree days when the closest thing to a pc we had was an IBM typesetting machine (!?)everything else was done sitting at the drawing board with a layout pad, pantone markers and some letraset *big sigh *

The square in the middle is a cut out through to my front page ..

Thanks for looking

Louise F

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...i loved using paint again…haven’t done it in so long…it was nice to think of all of the things i am working on in this spring time…i used the prompts shimelle gave us by printing them & cutting them into single words…seemed appropriate to include…i have been wanting to go beyond the rules i place on myself so going beyond the page with border was liberating too…such fun to play…

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this is my cover…i’m hoping to figure out the resolution soon…must ask my husband…my book is 6×12 (or 12×6 depending on which way i want to turn it!)...i thought it would be a good change from 12×12…that’s my big stepping outside of the box (or scrapbook page) for now…but i’m excited to do more…there is a lot of freedom in ‘no rules’...i like it…

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I’ve finally got around to posting my journal. I’ve been so busy but managed to have a very theraputic time creating the journal and introduction page. I’ll post the introduction page later along with my “spring page”. Thanks for looking.

Karyn

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This is the second page of my Time pages. This one was created at work today, on my desk. The majority of my workmates thought me strange when I turned up with a 2Peas metal lunch box and opened it to find lots of craft supplies.

I wanted to capture my frustrations with my normal lack of personal time during a working week, so printed out my outlook calendar blocked out with everything I am doing today.

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