journaling

it has been a very busy week

now it's friday, and I feel the need to string at least one cohesive thought together

my journal is a good place to go for that

lately I've been using a large sized spiral notebook

(instead of the mini moleskine I've used before)

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I begin with covering every bit of the lined paper with something

(torn up bits from magazines and my clipping stash)

my glue is

my ever present jar of mod podge

applied with a cruddy but big paint brush

(usually I use matte instead of gloss, but I happened to grab this one today)

for my "thought"

I like to take a paragraph of text and circle the words that mean something to me

then I block out the rest

and finally I gesso and pretty it up with pencil or paint

my words today:

silent

past

hope

share

who

memory

place

     step 1: circle words                                   step 2: block out the rest                           step 3: gesso and pretty it up 

then I take those words and use them to string my thought:

I add some more bits and scraps

pretty it up with gesso, paint, pencil, etc.

and in about an hour I have some of my sanity restored

:)

happy friday

we're skidding into the home stretch here

hopefully you are too

:)