Hold Dear

love of journaling...

Ever since I've been home from Journalfest, I don't know what it is but I am a woman possessed! I am doing things. I feel motivated. I'm doing things around the house. I'm organizing. I joined Weight Watchers and am eating healthy again. I started a walking program. I stayed out of my studio for a few days but when I was ready to get in there, the first thing I did was work in my little passport souvenir journal from Journalfest. And I finished it. Crazy. I don't know what or where this energy is coming from. I bet if I journaled about it, I could work through it.

As for the Journalfest souvenir journal, I have a few pics to share with you. In our welcome packs for Journalfest, Teesha and Tracy gave us a mini-journaling kit which included a 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 blank notebook which is the size of a passport. I actually started a journal for the event prior to going but when I saw the little passport-sized blank journal, it took me all of two minutes to decide to bag that one and completely restart. I saw Teesha's passport journal (inspired by Orly Avineri) when I took some classes with her last August and knew the potential!

Here's the pics...

Some side views...I've realized that these views are what inspire me to journal the way I do. All chunky, mismatchy, colorful...love it!

Click on pictures for full view.

And some of my favorite pages...




Fun stuff! While I was at Journalfest, I made the decision to register for PLAY 2012. Oh man...I can't wait! I went last year and it was the best!

Take care and see you soon! 

 

 

hello!

It's been quite awhile since I've done any blogging...I hope this things still works!

:-)

The last few months have been very busy and I've had so many adventures! And If I let myself, there is the opportunity for me to feel guilty about being so "behind" on my blogging but, thankfully, I don't go there. I've got enough deadlines with work, volunteer commitments and other things that I decided a long time ago to be kind to myself and not add guilt to the whole blogging thing. After all, this is supposed to be fun, right?

My most recent adventure was attending Teesha and Tracy Moore's fabulous Journalfest event in Port Townsend. It was absolutely marvelous! I hardly took any pictures on this trip and I'm not quite sure why. Maybe I was just too busy taking it all in. It was my first time, but it sure won't be my last! My classes were with some of the most amazing artists (and my friends!) ... Orly Avineri, Liesel Lund and Brian Kasstle. I'll take some pics of the work I did in each of their classes and share with you in another post.

My friend Pam Keravuori also signed up for the event so we traveled and hung out together, and we had a blast! Here are a few pictures...

Pam in Monticello Antique Mall ... she was on a mission to find a suitcase to tote her journaling supplies...here is a candidate she's considering.

The view from the common room in the dorm. This was the first morning and no other morning was near as gorgeous!


Journaling at The UnderTown with a little Mexican Hot Chocolate. I since bagged this version of my Journalfest souvenir journal since Teesha included in our welcome packet a passport size book to use. Check out Teesha's version of the passport journal here inspired by Orly!.

View of the grounds at the fort. The tree colors were gorgeous!

Pictures from Brian's class...

There were a lot more people in Brian's class but this is the version that has me in it (thanks Chad!) :-)

I'll be back soon to share pictures of my Journalfest layouts as well as pictures of my little Journalfest souvenir journal. Eeek! It's so cute!

I still want to do a post about Rachel's first Handmade U event but I will save for another day since I'm already way overdue on that one! Rachel posted about the event here and here so I hope you'll go visit her in the mean time.

I will leave you with a few pictures from an apple pressing party Glen and I went to the weekend before Journalfest. What a FUN Fall experience that was!!!

 



And the juice was absolutely as good as I could have ever imagined!

Until next time!