article: Hooray - Journal made & cover done! | written down

This hasn’t turned out quite as I imagined and I certainly didn’t plan on just labelling it “I’m thinking”, lol. But actually that seems appropriate because I am doing quite alot of that recently. The cover and back are made from art canvas board which I cut to 8” x 8” just because if “felt” right. I’m using book rings to hold it all together and I like the fact that I can use whatever medium I want inside to create/record on (cardstock, in whatever colour I fancy, water colour paper etc…). If it gets too thick I also have larger book rings I can use instead.

I can really empathise with the comments that many of you have written down (no pun intended), as I feel very much the same. Identity crisis, inner critic, perfectionist …

This is the first time I’ve played with crackle glaze and I used it for no better reason than I wanted to! The shaker box, haven’t done one of these for years, is supposed to represent my brain. I punched circles out of some shrink plastic and just randomly wrote down the things that were on my mind at that point in time. Things I needed to get done. The “scatter brain” part of it is a label that I was given around the age of about 7 or 8 (by a school teacher “Julie is a scatter brain!”) and it just sort of stuck. I feel at times that my mind is very scattered, there is so much to think about and, it seems, so little time to do it.

Well, I’ve started now and I do mean to go on. I’m really looking foward to splurging myself in my journal.

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