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We’ve been out-of-town for almost a week again.  Again.  So many trips since June….

So many wonderful experiences, so many beautiful places, so many beloved people we’ve been able to spend time with…

 

…so many blessings along the way…

…but SO very happy to be home at last!

{a bit of white gesso painted willy-nilly on a vintage printed page makes a nice background, I think!}

A few new journal pages worked on during the last few weeks when I had some time…

This one’s my favorite….can you guess why?!

I love the magazine page background for this—the richness of the color is so much fun behind my sweet vintage girl in black & white…heart in hand expressing exactly how I’m feeling right now…

A few sweet memories tucked away.  Just waiting to be pulled out whenever I may need them…

Having fun here with a couple of new punches I found while out-of-town earlier this summer in an Archivers store.  Sure wish we had one in my state—no luck there, yet!

{in a Moleskine journal, covering a page with Kraft paper every once in a while makes the journal a bit sturdier}

So even though travel is wonderfully fun, here’s to beautiful autumn…time at home.  Cozy fires, baking, quiet time with the family…

…but mostly just being home.

Julie

LiveJournal Tags: art journal,home,thoughts,blessings

Pretty Little Things

One of my favorite things about journaling is that I can fill each and every page of my journals with the things that I love…

…all the prettiest of pretty things in this world—whether they be images, words, thoughts, colors—anything I wish.  Anything I love.  Anything I dream of or aspire to.  Anything…….

And in the kind of world we live in today, where pretty things and thoughts and ways are not always at the forefront of our daily life…

…having the ability to fill your home, your family, your days, your heart, your mind, your pages—your life--with the things that bring happiness is a very, very good thing.

 

See you soon with something new.

Julie

LiveJournal Tags: art journal,freedom,pretty things

Getting Personal

Learning new things is fun.  And scary.  Sometimes it forces us to look at ourselves more clearly--and put what we’ve learned down on paper…..

Hope Wallace Karney’s class, “Layers of Thoughts” is doing just that for me.  Besides learning new tricks & styles {guided by Hope’s lovely personal journaling style}, I’m figuring out new ways to extract bits of my life and put it into a Moleskine book {one of my favorite things!} that will be mine to keep…

This particular exercise turned out very much like Hope’s—with the exception of my thoughts and pictures, of course—but the layout is much like hers…

 

Here, elements of style and substance—what we show on the outside and what we are on the inside…

 

What guides our personal style?  Never really thought of myself as having a “style”, but perhaps I do, in my own way…

What makes up the core of us—the heart of us?

I’m finding great joy in this journey—the staring at a blank couple of pages for a few moments {or minutes~or hours!}, pen in hand, and seeing what comes pouring out…

Sometimes, it’s a bit of a surprise!

Haven’t you been in love with the gorgeous full moon this week?  What a beautiful, heavenly gift…

See you soon with something new.

Julie

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