03 January 2025

keeping up 2024...

one of the things i did, sort of, keep up with was my yearly journal/planner...  i could never figure out what to call it.  it is a journal, it is a planner (calendar pages, etc), i put art in it, it's part bullet journal too.

i started working with these a few years back, inspired by a favorite art teacher.  it starts with just a plain composition notebook and grows from there.  when i first started i would switch to a new notebook whenever the current one was full.  then in 2023, i took the covers off a second notebook and taped the books together so it is all one book per year.

as you can see in the photo below, it becomes quite large and unwieldy.

2024's planner/journal

near the end of october i started thinking about how to make this a bit smaller, not necessarily in bloom but in just general size.

so this is what i came up with for this year.

last year (on left) and this year (on right)

so far, i'm really liking the smaller size.  the new one is a Moleskine Cahiers lined journal. they only have 80 pages so i have no idea how many i'll end up needing to get through the year.  but i decided i would glue covers together and just keep building the depth.

only three days into the new year and new journal/planner and it is already blooming wonderfully.

after spending a year calling it my planner/journal, a journner, and my life; i've decided to call it my collective.  it's not a grimoire or a book of shadows, so collective sounds nice.

anyhoo...that's it for today.

though i did want to let Debra know that i agree with her comment, chocolate is definitely the way to go. :-)

love & kisses & magical wishes...

~*~



 

2 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

You are so creative! I like how you entitle your collectives "this is me . . . v.#" I hope you will share some of your art pages here on your blog.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

I know you do a lot of fab art with faces. There's a link party held every Friday on a blog which I think might interest you if you want to participate. I do so every once in awhile when I've got some relevant art. Everyone goes to look at each other's art and comments. They are all very nice and supportive. It's a great way to let other people visit your art. The link party is held on Nicole's blog called "DVArtist, Art, Food, Gardening" and the weekly post is entitled "Friday Face OFF." Here's the link to her blog if you're interested --
https://beadwright.blogspot.com/