my journals

ok so i was going to post these photos to flickr.....but it is having a fit....so i will post and write about them here.......

these are pages from an old calender datebook that i am pretty sure i gessoed and added some paint and color to first...now when i am journaling anything is game, just like when i make "real art"....i use anything and everything, nothing is save from me......i just go along and do what i feel like doing at any given time........i like workin in spiral books.....one thing i like to do first to the book is lay the first layer down in this case gesso and paint.......and then i just add stuff as live happens....i go back and forth and forward......but i do like to get to a point and say this journal is done....

ok i name names, so if you don't want you name mentioned play nice, oh but i add the nice people too...i must have well over 100 journals as i have send before i have been journaling since i was 12, i have at least 32 books that are just what i call glue books with pictures that i have collected over the years, more on them at another date........

i use a lot of clothing tags, cuz i am forever buying clothes.....another bad habit i picked up when i was 5........and i love stickers and rub ons......did i ever tell you that i have been cutting photos out of magazines since i was 5,(alot started at that age), i used to cut them out and put them under my bed, and at the time i shared a bed with my ocd sister , who used to pull them out from her side and throw them away......my first journal was all animals sadly i don't have that one......rats......

this one is for johnny.........the punk........love and miss him.........

ok i was going to add more photos, but either the web is having a fit or my pc is not co operating with me.....and if by chance you have read any of this please let me know, give me a shout out.....pass the link to friends and such....i would love to hear what you all think......no matter what.......have a good one while the sun is shining.....

packing up the truck 101

here are some "journals" from the last 10 years there are more, there just in a different place.  so right now i am into packing 101 the easier way to move a lot of stuff, i want to move all my studio stuff today.....i took the 3 white shelves from sugarman's......and i have the white craft cabinets here.....so all the furniture with be white for now.....but white is good, cuz all my baskets and boxes are different colors....and i have some vintage boxes that will show up great against the white......tomorrow i tackle my clothes......you don't even want to know.........but i am so into moving.....out of this place.......

kick back sunday night........

this is my kitty cat shema when she was a kitten .....i resued her for $20 bucks and a t shirt.  she is one crazy cat and smart as a whip......she and bear are playing tag your it.....anyway resting up for moving tomorrow.....just wanted to drop in and say hi....all is good....and what is this noise i here about facebook timeline, that's not like dateline right.....

journals......

ok so if you haven't heard by now, i have been journaling since i was 12.  i have every journal that i have ever written in. the older journals are keep in a green footlocker that has wheels.  the journals from the past 10 years are on in a bookcase in my bedroom.  i have many different types of journals, but the constant thing about them is they all reflect who i am , and what i think.......the photos here are what i would call my journal scrapbook....it is just one of those big plain white page books you can get at any bookstore. this is the book that i put "most" of papers in from where i have been and then i write notes.  i also just go through it at times and place various clippings from magazines.....and when i get to that page i might or might not journal about the page............i have another art journal that i working in right name i was inspired by an art journal and tutorial by an artist named caatje.....http://caatjesartsystuff.blogspot.com i am having fun with it as i can draw, play, doodle and what ever in it.......at any given time i have at least 5 different journals around....i think i have one in every room and my purse.  i have some journals that have taken me 5 years to complete from cover to cover......and it is funny how one changes.... i did morning pages ala julia cameron for 3 years straight and i can't begin to tell you want an eye opening life changing experience that was....for anyone that needs to get a handle on their life i strongly recommend morning pages....if you don't know what they are just ask.

i received as a gift from dover the notebooks of leonardo de vinci, and i swore to myself that i would leave more notebooks to then him....and i may well be on my way.....

the thing is i was getting confused by all the names people call these books, diaries, journals, notebooks, art journals, altered books, smash books....til i just started calling them "the big fucking book of everything.....it just makes it easier for me and i hate to have to be pushed in a box......and a rose by any other name......but i do have to say i like the idea of putting colorant on the books first, but then again i like to see just how the journal will evolve.....and like all my art if i can get it to stay down it stays there......and there are always loss stuff , stuffed in the pages.....all i have left to say if you don't have a journal, you should.......someone once told me they will be the greatest gift that i will leave my children......if you would like to see more of my journal pages check out my flickr site.....just go to the flickr icon on the right and hit coffee with gloria . and look for the set that says journal pages.......i love feedback so please leave some good or bad....cuz it is all good