September Creativity Project Day 1

 

Day 1 is journaling - half is a catch up of the last couple of days spent at the wedding and the other half is the "rules" of the creativity project (a copy of yesterday's blog post).  I will try to take before pictures (hopefully better ones!):

September Creativity Project

Well it looks like I will be working in a Smash Journal during September!! I'm super excited to start working in one of these - I've been wanting one since they came out and they have been hard to find - sold out almost everywhere! I finally got my hands on one a couple weeks ago.  So here is how my creativity project is going to work:

• I will complete a page in my Smash Journal every day starting today September 6 and ending October 6 (I'm starting a little late because of the wedding I was at this weekend). 
• Pages can be anything I want - and isn't that what Smash is about? Smashing random bits of your life into the journal - things you like, things about you, things that inspire you.  So it will be a combo about me, month in the life, art journal.  
• I will do a blog post at least 5 days a week (Mon - Fri).  Posting photos of the page from the previous day.  (tomorrow you will see today's page) - hopefully this will take care of the problem I had last year when I frequently waited until 10pm to make something and then still had to post it that night! 

At the end of the month I will have a completed journal!  Looking forward to this - will show you my first page tomorrow!

September Creativity Project

If you have checked out my blog thoroughly or if you have been a long time follower then you know last year at this time I was also in a creative rut so I challenged myself to 30 days of creating - every day in September I did something creative. (click here to see last year's project)  I did a little bit of everything but mostly ended up working on an art journal.  I want to do something similar this year but I'm thinking instead of just saying I can make anything I want to focus on one type of project.  So I need your help deciding:  should I do 30 days of tags, art journaling, or 30 days working in my new Smash journal (sort of 30 days about me/month in my life journal).  Let me know what you think by taking my poll here:

I am going to be out of town for the rest of the week celebrating my brother-in-law's wedding - so you probably won't see anything from me until next week.  I will be starting my 30 days of creativity project on September 5th (and go through Oct 5th)  and posting at least 5 days a week in September - looking forward to getting back to creating and blogging!

My Weekend

I spent my Saturday in the dark praying trees wouldn't fall on our house.  Four trees did go down - one on my car - one taking out the neighbors cars, and two narrowly missing our house - luckily no major damage!  Thanks Irene...

I can't believe this didn't hit the house - you can't even see the end of the tree from here - but basically it landed on our back deck railing!  How was your weekend?

Uncle Dustin Layout

 Here is another layout I made last weekend while "locked" in my craft room!  I have been trying to work on ways to include multiple photos in one layout so that I don't end up with entire books from one day/event/weekend.  (I take A LOT of pictures!).  This layout is about my nephew - Jarmon.  We were at my Dad's autocross event last month and my dad asked my husband if Dustin wanted to ride in the car with him.  When Jarmon realized Uncle Dustin had left he got really upset (we joked that he was worried that it wasn't safe for Uncle Dustin to be riding with "Pop Pop".)  Jarmon loves his Uncle Dustin - I can barely get him to pay attention to me let alone be upset when I'm not around. (and yes maybe I am a little bit jealous....)

From the Studio

I think my studio clean up is officially over.  I still need to take pictures and do a "big reveal" - hopefully I will have that ready soon.  But for now I am going to show you what I have been working on.  We went to NYC for our honeymoon in 2007 and I have been holding off on scrapping the photos because I wasn't sure how I wanted to.  I really wished I had been doing travel journals back then because now I have these photos (and sadly not that many) and a few brochures but I can barely remember anything about that week!  (I have a terrible memory!).  So now I am going to go back and make a mini for it.  I have only worked on the cover and inside of the cover but thought I would share - the cover has a vintage NYC postcard from 1909 cut out to fit the circle on the front of the 7 gypsies book cover:

And finally a sale update: I added more items to my "Spring/Summer Cleaning Sale" in my Etsy shop.  This is the last of the items - so get them while they last.  

Farmer's Market Layout

If you "like" my facebook page then you know yesterday I decided to lock myself in my craft room until I got something done.  I figured I would force myself out of this rut!  Well 3 hours later and I finished two layouts!   Which isn't really all that much but its a start.  Today I am going to share with you a layout I made to document our Saturday mornings at the Farmer's Market:

 

Come back later this week to see the other layout I created!



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