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Showing posts with label Wreck this Journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wreck this Journal. Show all posts

Thursday, June 11, 2009

My Creative Space..

Posted on 12:15 AM by fdgdfg
My these Thursdays really come around fast, I've had very little time to create this week but I'm very busily jotting down ideas and dreaming of the coming weeks when I can finally get back into the swing of things. At the moment it is all marking and report writing but I always have a pen and paper handy for moments of inspiration. My creative space is a stash of my favourite new bits and pieces and the random contents of my desk that provides endless hours of fun and inspiration when procrastinating.

Sources of Inspiration - Alexandria by Nick Bantock, my Holga and Polaroid cameras, my 'wreck this journal' and some lovely bits and pieces I found in Tasmania.

Reliquaire is perhaps the most incredible and outrageous shops I have ever visited, if you are ever in Latrobe you must go there. I never leave empty handed and this time was no exception. I found some gorgeous Belle and Boo badges of my favourite series of season illustrations and a very sweet little scribble journal by okt-ober dee.

How gorgeous is my new tea cup! An early birthday present from my family, who always manage to find the most perfect apple gifts for everyone. It is just the right size for a perfect cup of tea. I'm also adoring the gorgeous novel 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society' which I finally bought at the airport after many months of procrasting. So glad I finally picked it up.

My 'wreck this journal' page this week was an interesting one which required some creative moments indeed. Still in progress I had to take a break from the ink licking when people began to stare at me..


Make sure you head over to the wonderful Kristy at Kootoyoo to join in the fun and show off your Creative Space.

Well my hands are numb and the sun has set so quickly that I am now sitting in the dark so I'm off to pop the kettle on, turn on the lights and settle in to some more marking with a nice hot pot of tea. A very busy weekend ahead working on reports so my posts for the next few days will indeed be short and sweet. I just can't wait to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Much love and pots of tea
xxx



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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Journal love and destruction...

Posted on 12:49 AM by fdgdfg
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train." Oscar Wilde

For the last ten years, my handbag has always contained at least one product in which to write in. If I leave the house without my journal, I feel I am missing a little part of myself. I have tested many a diary, notebook and journal and I am currently hooked on the daily moleskine, which is perfect as it gives me a friendly little reminder of how many days I haven't written for. My journal has a little set of rules, all pictures must be securely stuck down with 'good' glue, only artline pens are allowed and there must be an image, photograph or collage every two pages. I'm not sure why this is, but it is the strange little agreement my journal and I have come to.

2009 moleskine...

Reading Three Buttons fabulous blog recently I noticed she also had a journal, but this wasn't any ordinary journal, she was spilling things on it, sticking stationary in it and even collecting fruit stickers for it. I was hooked! What was she thinking, how could she ruin a beautiful journal. It was of course 'Wreck this Journal' by Keri Smith, an amazing opportunity to lose oneself in the art of journal deconstruction.

I was so intrigued and determined to change my controlling journal habits, I just had to buy a copy and thanks to the lovely people at Readings, my 'Wreck this Journal' arrived in the mail this afternoon.

Flicking through the pages I was both delighted a terrified. How can I do some of these things to a journal! I sorted carefully through each page to determine what would be a nice easy task to begin with....

This was never going to work, I don't drink coffee and I didn't want to give up a nice hot cup of tea to saturate my new journal! (You can see I was having control issues already).

So I came to another page, that I thought might work a little better.. I mustered up the courage to pull the tea bag out of my cup and...

Tea art was created!

One page down and I'm only a tiny bit concerned that half the journal smells like tea and is totally warped but I am quickly realising this is the point of this wild ride. I'm really looking forward to documenting my 'Wreck this Journal' adventure and now just have to find the courage to wreck another page!

Hope you are having a delightful Wednesday. I'm off to crochet, read, journal and catch up on some silly reality TV.

Much love and journal wrecking!


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