I've had the past 2 days off work, so I took it easy
& played in my art journals. The top photo is of the
spread I created for this week's "Art Journal Gypsies"
exercise. The bottom photo is of the inside cover to
my new "Book of Odd" aka "The Big Book of the 3Bs".
I wish I could stay home for another 2 days & play!

The Book of Odd...

After I got all of my housework out of the way,
last night & into the wee hours of the morning, and
all of this afternoon, I have been on a bookmaking frenzy.
Now that I haven't any outside art projects to work on I am
finding new ways to use my creative imagination. I took an
old vinyl 3-ringed binder and cut it down to a shape of a book
that I like working in; a tall skinny book, that is approximately
11 1/2"H x 7 1/2"W, with the pages slightly smaller in width.
I then grabbed up my supply of cardboard pieces and went
to town, cutting up all sorts of shapes to use for its pages.
I have semi-circles, triangles, 2 halves of a cross,
even a tree, & house shaped page. All that I
have left to do, is to play in my book now!
Above are images of my book, so far.

Art Journal Gypsies spreads....

'Afternoon everybody!
Here are some of the spreads that I have created
over the past few weeks for my Art Journal Gypsies blog.
Every week I post a new exercise for anyone that is
interested in creating their own art journal along with me.
If interested in joining in, you can view my Art Journal Gypsies
blog, and the weekly exercises I've been posting there by
clicking on the following link:
http://artjournalgypsies.blogspot.com/
I am posting these weekly exercises just for fun, and
to hopefully share in the art journaling experience
with others that enjoy keeping their own art journal.
I'd really love it if you'd join me! I am loving the
freedom of playing in my "stay @ home" art journal.
Warm hugs for all, Vale :)

The final calendar journal for 2008

Well, here is my final contribution to our 2008 calendar journal
round robin. This year's CJ RR has gone by amazingly fast;
I can't believe we've already reached the end of our art
journaling journey! This time around I worked in
Lizbeth's journal. Above are the pages I created.

I've had a couple of days free to myself, so I
worked on my spread for this week's exercise
over @ "Art Journal Gyspsies". Above is what
I've created. I decided to use a freestyle poem
that I wrote. Since the first page of my spread
turned out to have a rather dark & serious
atmosphere to it, I thought I'd take advantage
of my initial "V" and use "Stone Maiden", my
poem about an encounter with a vampire!

More calendargirlz round robin work....

Here are my latest contributions to the "Calendargirlz" round robin.
This month I worked in Patty's "Inuit Art" calendar journal. I have been looking
forward to seeing this particular CJ. I kept to the theme of the journal
as much as I could since I really love the artwork of the Inuit people.

Art Gypsy Journal....

Over the past few weeks I have been working on a new journal, an "Art Gypsy Journal". I've created another blog and I have been posting weekly exercises there, following the steps I am taking for each weekly spread I create. If you are interested in checking out the blog, or joining on the weekly exercises, you can do so by clicking on the link below the photos:
http://artjournalgypsies.blogspot.com/

And, BTW, I would be absolutely thrilled if any of you would like to join in! The exercises are into their 3rd week now, but only one spread a week is created. So, it isn't too late to join in! Anyhow, I thought I'd add photos here of what I've created in those 3 weeks. I hope to see some familiar faces joining in @ "ART JOURNAL GYPSIES"! Warm hugs, and happy art journaling!
Vale :)