Daily Diary – June 23 2011

Happy Thursday. We had a relatively full day here today. We got up and I exercised and then Jake took David to lego camp and I worked and did art and Nathaniel played. When Jake went to pick David up, he took a photo of David and one of his creations. Which made me super-happy even though the quality of the phone picture is not so great.

Then I took a nice photo of David just for me.

In last night’s webinar, someone asked why I don’t scrap my kids’ outdoor photos and why it’s always the ones at home. The sad fact is we’re home way more than we’re out. I work full time at home so most of our days look like this. Pajamas, and relaxing.

playing with David’s books. (and his toes)

or other fun toys. still in PJs.

On a rare day like today, we got all dressed so we could take David to swim class. Here’s Nathaniel, annoyed that he’s in the stroller.

And finally out.

And here’s the big boy, loving every minute of swim class.

And someone here asked about all my books so I took super-quick, lazy shots around my table just to show you, I can do a longer, more detailed post if you’d like. The first photo has two books.

The big blue one is a journal I picked up at Borders and it’s what I am using for Soul Restoration 2. I will show more of it in some other post.

The red one is my daily book. It’s a moleskine with graph(square) paper . I love graph paper. It must be a European thing because I grew up with it and it’s much easier to find in Turkey than it is in the US for some reason. Anyhow this is my main book. Hold my todo lists:

and the daily sketches:

and the daily journaling:

I just started coloring the background with colored pencils, just for fun. so the pages are all filled with happy color. This is my second of these notebooks this year. The first one was painted blue and I just ran out of pages so now I have this one that I painted red.

Here’s another pile:

The book on top there is my daily art journal one I started a few weeks ago. It’s a Moleskine sketchbook and the pages are cream-colored and thick and about 5×8 inches.

The next two books in that pile are the Soul Restoration 1 book which was another random journal that I converted. And below that is the Strathmore Watercolor journal that I started in the beginning of the year for art journaling. It’s also around 5×8 and I just bought the large size of this journal. I’d like to explore watercolor more but for now I am doing a lot as is. I will use this book and the bigger one more soon.

Behind those books is this:

the ATC holder that’s holding my truth cards. And finally:

This is the big A4-sized watercolor moleskine that holds the weeklong daily art journal pages.

And there you go. Those are all my books at the moment.

Tonight’s plan is to work on SR2 homework and possibly go to sleep early. I need to get more rest than I’ve been and maybe even read a bit. Oh, and, you can see a recent layout by me on the Pink Paislee blog today, it’s made using the most awesome, brand-new mistables collection.

Three Things I’m Grateful For:
1. I am grateful Jake made is to DC safe and sound.
2. I am grateful that David loves swim class. I was really worried but it worked out great.
3. I am grateful that I got work done today without stressing and I managed to do some art, too.

Three Things David’s Grateful For:
1. I am grateful I played military with Nathaniel. {* his pick for the journal}
2. I am grateful that I built a car in lego camp.
3. I am grateful that I had swim class.