New book

I've finished my first Book of Days journal. Perfectly timed to the 6 months mark, so now I have changed to a new, larger size book. There's lots more room to be creative, but it can also seem a little daunting to fill up the whole spread, though really great it you want to add a face! I'm liking what I've achieved so far...

And one more

  The BOD project, run by Effy Wild, has really been a great encouragement to use my journals. I LOVE my journals. The feeling you get when you hold them in your hand, the slightly splayed pages with the colours and textures just peeking out. It's just so seductive, you can't resist flipping through them!

 Here is another double spread, inspired by a great teacher that I have mentioned before, Ady Alamanza.  Here is the link to her doodle tutorial Doodle Girl . I love the method she uses.

The words are from a current song, but I have a different, personal meaning from the original context.

More BOD

Back to the Book of Days journal group ( led by the graceful and talented Effy Wild) A few more entries here. I really don't think that I will be able to keep up with an entry a day. Maybe a 'Book of Weeks' would have been more sustainable for me! We'll see!
This entry is for Thursday 4th ( see, I'm already a week behind) I visited my Dad. He's just got out of hospital after a 5 week stay...yes...he was in for Christmas :(
  I'm so concerned. He's such a long way away from me and I really don't think he's strong enough to be on his own. But what can we do eh? He's a grown man and loves where he is! *sigh*

 Anyway,....gardening used to be his therapy so I've included a few flowers. The spread is more about the healing energy I want to send him.

Book of Days. Outside cover.

Have you joined up with Effy for her Book of Days yet? (Link is over on the right of the page) I love prompts, and I love to watch others work. Book of Days promises both!  I chose my word for the year...' Embrace'...this will remind me to let go of the pain of  losing my much loved Mum and embrace the love that I find with my two new grandchildren.

 On the left is the outside of the book (an upcycled reader's digest) . That's Kassidy there on the front page with me, she was born on the 16th of December. My grandson is due in April. Lots of texture here with mulberry paper scrapbook papers, tissue paper. Stamps, dribbled and sprayed ink, paint through punchinella and rub-ons completed the top layers



On the right is the inside front pages.  I used butterscotch and 'vintage paper' ink pads...rubbed onto the surface and blended out with baby wipes. A darker brown was used for the stencilling of the flowers. The pocket on the left will hold a letter to 2011. A hidden pocket between the pages on the right will hold a letter to 2012. The 'Ex Libris' words were already there. I researched and found out that it is latin for 'from the library of'...very apt, so I will add my name underneath!