Here’s today’s page.

I’m still feeling a bit down and overwhelmed and tired and now a little sick so I wanted to make something simple but with a positive message. So here we go. Because beauty is everywhere. All you need to do is look. As for the page, it was yellow, I sprinkled some white india ink, glued some ribbon, doily, flower, butterfly and letters. Simple simple.

Here’s today’s page.

This is just a reminder that it’s ok to rest. It’s ok things will get done. It’s ok, you will be ok. I need to say it often lately.

This page mostly uses water soluble crayons. some tissue tape by Tim Holtz. A few bits of my mind’s eye paper. Ribbon, flower, and that’s it.

Here’s today’s page.

There are several areas in my life where I am in growth mode right now. At work, I am trying to get a deeper understanding of how some of the parts of the browser/renderer works. At home, I am working on being kinder and calmer with myself and my kids and my husband. And I am trying to walk/run more and eat better. Progress is happening but often slow. Sometimes two steps forward and one step back. It’s hard. Growth takes time and patience. I am trying to remind myself that so that I can hang in there and keep at it.

I used the watersoluble crayons here but it’s not watercolor paper so it only absorbed a bit. I cut random oval shapes, wrinkled them up and inked them and then glued them randomly. I then cut clouds off of a cloud paper and added the letters. I also added some graphite along the edges for fun. The leaves are old American Crafts paper I own and the clouds are from My Mind’s Eye as are the letters. I adore those Lush chipboard letters.

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Here’s today’s page.

If I had 20 minutes yesterday, I only had 10 today. I went to work for a meeting and didn’t get home until 5:15 and light was almost completely gone. I was going to give up but then i saw this butterfly. And I grabbed my water-soluble crayons and i just decided to have fun quickly. I did red to light orange on the back ground. Added a fabric house, the butterfly and some text. That’s it. Super quick. Look how crooked my letters are. I really had no time. It was do this or do nothing.

As for the words, today was the first day in a good two weeks i relaxed. I slowly did some to-do items and I got a bunch of work done but I didn’t feel unbelievably stressed and worried and I remembered that life is good. It *is* good. I need to remember it more and let go of anxiety more.

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Here’s today’s page. I am still enjoying the watercolors.

Completely different thing today. I’ve been thinking about Christmas a lot lately. I cannot wait to have the holiday season begin. I love it so much.

I wanted to use copics but i waited until it was really really late in the day so i rushed through the whole thing and made several mistakes. And you can see how much i rushed. But i was losing daylight and wasn’t going to be able to take photos. So there we are, something odd and weird and very imperfect today. Here’s to doing better tomorrow.

Here’s today’s page. I am still enjoying the watercolors.

I’ve been working really hard for the last few days trying to prepare the content for my winter 2011 classes at Big Picture Classes. So much so that my arms are hurting from typing and I am tired and worn out. So this morning, after I wrote another lesson I told myself that I wasn’t going to get the second one done. I had originally intended to write two lessons today. But I am completely spent. So I told myself it’s ok to rest. Things will be ok. They will get done.

I used watercolors, some beads, ribbon, and flowers. Pretty simple. I wanted the beads on the top right to look like clouds and the starfish to feel like the sun. I don’t know if it worked and the leaves are way too shiny and too many. But despite all that I still like it..

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Here’s how it looks in the book.