Time to Play…

Hello, my friends!

I feel like I haven’t had any playtime in Blogland in a million years!

Three weeks away visiting family almost immediately followed by a week of camping in the redwoods…followed by finally arriving at home…and all of us got sick!

So, there hasn’t been a lot of creativity around here lately, and I’m trying to find even the tiniest spark of it left in me!

I loved finishing up these pages in my art journal, though…I’d started them before all the busy-ness of summer began, and just doodled & lettered them up while watching the Olympics until they were done…a little playfulness is just the thing when you’re worn out!

A little Shakespeare & a bit of Hans Christian Andersen is just the thing to fix anything!  A quote from each of these favorite authors paired with some lovely found images…

A vintage marionette paper doll found online and the perfect fairytale castle.  I was having the hardest time finding just the right castle image, but my memory finally led me to my bookcase filled with beautiful vintage books…and there it was!

 

…just inside the cover of one of my favorite book series—my set was published in 1920—“My Bookhouse”.  Books really are filled with the most magical things, aren’t they?!

Hope you’re filling these fleeting summer days with lots of fun, imagination & playfulness with those you love…enjoy each and every moment!

See you soon with something new…

Julie

LiveJournal Tags: art journal,summer,Shakespeare,Hans Christian Andersen,castles,doodling

The Beauty of Books

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”

                                                     --Jane Austen

Pages and pages I’ve loved through my life…

…time spent remembering and re-visiting favorite books and authors, characters and places…

It’s a hard thing, to distill into two smallish journaling pages the dearest books read—and some re-read—throughout my life…

…what wonders await me on pages yet unread???

Well, I’m off on another adventure—a week in the redwoods with my daughters…and about 150 other women and girls!  Leaving my poor husband at home to enjoy all the comforts alone…

I’ll be back next week—hundreds of mosquito bites the richer, I’m quite sure!  Wonder if I’ll have any time to read while I’m away…..?

“…but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

--Jane Austen

LiveJournal Tags: books,summer,Jane Austen,art journal

Enjoying Life

{a couple of pages to share with you from two of my on-going art journals}

Ah, home again!

Been gone for three long, glorious weeks…time very well spent, I can tell you!  Time with my own family, my parents (and their 52nd anniversary!), siblings, nieces & nephews…

Time road-tripping, boating, Yellowstone-seeing…

{a page from my Moleskin journal…no water coloring in this one…so fun to write and doodle my way through Yellowstone}

…relative-visiting, playing, eating (waaay too much eating!), wedding reception going, not sleeping, shopping, fire-watching (far too close to us—yikes!), bison watching…

  {taken from our car…This ENORMOUS bison was just walking down the middle of the road!  I could have reached out and touched him…my husband took this picture from the passenger seat—I was driving!}

…walk taking, old friend seeing, rainstorm loving…so many wonderful things!

Yes, time VERY well spent!

 

SO nice to be back here with you all!  Looking forward to seeing what you’ve all been up to!

See you soon with something new…

Julie

LiveJournal Tags: summer vacation,travel,art journal,Yellowstone