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My bad mojo with this journal continues.
I can’t say that I hate these pages but they are definitely not my favorites. 
I’m playing with different styles, mediums, colors and textures.
I do know that I am learning through my process but sometimes I think I should just gesso over the whole works and start again.
However, I must say that there are areas of each of the pages that I really like…just not so much the pages as a whole.
The last page in my Watkins journal. Gathered from bits and pieces thrown in a drawer.
The photo is me from a couple years ago. It was an extra from a scrapbook page…yes, have been known to scrapbook every once in a great while.
I wrote a personal journal entry on the back of the date due slip in the pocket.
All I have left is to do some things with the outside covers of this journal. It’s been a fun experimenting journal. I’ve started using a date stamp so I can keep track of what I did and when. You always think you’ll remember but I have learned that I just don’t.
This journal spread was several days in the making.
I started with light colors…then went to orange and rust…then an overlay of cooler pastel colors.
I finally settled on some flowers. I had intended on having the flowers be the background color and covering the rest with another more solid color but it all went to pieces.
Oh well. Trying new things and failing is all a part of learning.
I decided that the quote Enjoy the Moment was perfect. I needed to just sit back and enjoy.
It was more about the process than the result this time for me and that’s ok.
I finished the very last page in one of my journals, which ironically happened to be the inside cover.
The bold orange made me happy. When I spotted the quote in my stash I knew it was meant to be.
Other bits and pieces also found their way into my hands from a drawer of randomness. I keep thinking I need to sort that stuff but sometimes chaos is best for my creative process.
This heart makes me so, so happy.
The texture… The inking on the edge… The the fact that its asymmetrical…
Yeah! Love it when things work out.
If you’d have seen the mess I made yesterday in another book, you’d truly understand why this one has restored my confidence. YIKES!
Something light, bright and Spring-like was what was called for last night.
Must have been the sunshine that had me feeling the love.
The direction and colors I started with for this page got totally covered up. So strange how things work out.
The background is a page I put together to make a custom Photoshop brush several years ago. It never made the cut so I stuck in a drawer and it promptly disappeared. It surfaced yesterday and was the perfect second beginning of my journal page.
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