Journaling in January - Day 27

"Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise
will sooner or later have to find time for illness."
~Edward Stanley

A very fast page done just before sleeping. I have been thinking how unfit and inflexible I became. I sit in the car, work 8 hours sitting in front of a computer, then go back home and excluding some chores (where I have to stand) sit some more... before I lie down to sleep. I used to be very active and would like to bring that back to my days. Tomorrow my brand new, shiny and beautiful treadmill will arrive!!!!! I am going to play games and bribe myself to use it. Feeling more fit already! xo

Journaling in January - Day 26

Misty is expressing her emotions on journal pages this week.  I'm joining in... more open than I usually do. What came out yesterday were questions... Many people know exactly what they like. Not me. It is starting to bother me that I don't know what my favorite color, movie, book, food, style is... You would think I am solving the world's crisis or something like that when I think about what is my favorite anything. Maybe I should spend the time answering to questions and getting to know myself. Wouldn't that be an interesting theme for a journal?

Playing with crayons

I admit that I cheated. I don't have Crayola crayons, so I used my water soluble ones. You will see on the following photo how using the crayons looked. Horrible! I guess the very textured paper in my journal is not a good combination with crayons. At least - that's my excuse. I added gesso and color pencils and I think it looks better that way. Still very silly... it definitely brough the child in me.

Word

Everything is something you decide to do.

I messed up the words completely... but it can be corrected. As many bloggers, I chose a word for this year. I really wanted to snap Sharon's EXPECT, but there was another word stuck in my mind. It is 'choice'... as in - I want to be aware that everything I do, think, dream is a choice. Even when it doesn't seem like - it is... I guess I have to choose what to expect in order to expect it....

Fabric, embelishments...

Challenge for today was - embellishments. buttons, beads, fabric added to the page. I started by painting a face on a piece of canvas. My plan was to add it to the journal (either by sewing it to the paper page or attaching it with eyelets). After I painted it, it felt like cheating... like I didn't challenge myself at all. So, down came the boxes with fabric and ribbons and "stuff". It has been a long time since I made anything with fabric. I pulled my machine (that lives under the table), decided that the gold colored thread is perfect and started piecing it together. Unfortunately, the day is slowly coming to an end and I can't finish it. But it was really fun.... I'm not sure if I want to finish it as a wall hanging, art pillow or some kind of bag; but I'll show it when it's done.

Pink

Yellow

I saw the idea for the silhouette filled with text on one wonderful blog and knew that I'll have to try it myself. Unfortunately, I can't remember which blog so I can't give proper thanks.
It reminded me of the shadows that Sharon and I were playing with and the lovely day we spent driving around San Francisco. We had to go up, up, up the very steep streets (can you say steep streets?)... You can see that Sharon was too afraid to look forward:
To be completely honest - I don't like those streets either. Specially when you have to stop and start many times. My husband was driving and this is how I was taking pictures of Sharon:
Laughing at our silliness, but with my eyes completely shut. We had to go up in order to see this:

and this:

We took photos of our shadows:

And later played with them in our little books:

That was a very wonderful day. (miss you)