I may have mentioned that I am starting to "play" with art a tiny bit. Play is a hard word for me to use because it's not something I do often or well. And art, well, I just thought that was the name of some guy I hadn't met yet. But I am trying. And I'm inspired by many posts about creative journaling from 
newport2newport , like this and this and this.
There's also been a whole lot of "visioning" going on, such as talked about over here on Shrinking Violets and earlier in the weekd_michiko_f came over to work on vision boards with me. You can see her finished board over here.
Vision board foreground - This is the board when I thought I was done and before I got the bright idea to play with a background
Final vision board for my writing life. I made so many beginner's mistakes on this one but it was a learning process for me. I didn't set out with the intention to mount it on anything so this ended up being built from the top down instead of from the bottom up. Gluing mistakes caused a ton of wrinkles which make the perfectionist in me cringe but I just keep telling myself that the wrinkles merely represent the bumps in the road on my writing path. I also did packing tape image transfers and while it was fine in theory, I didn't like the shiny bits of tape that came through. I roughed it up where I could with my crayons. After doing this one I feel better about moving forward into my vision journal.
More art in the next post too.
newport2newport , like this and this and this. There's also been a whole lot of "visioning" going on, such as talked about over here on Shrinking Violets and earlier in the week
d_michiko_f came over to work on vision boards with me. You can see her finished board over here. And here's mine. (Click through to see larger pics.) 
From First Forays into Art"
This was how I started - with a magazine page glued over poster board and pens cut from Levenger catalog. I had a vision of a board of pens but I'm not crazy about the final version with the pens. I would have rather had a group of them like in this picture.
This was how I started - with a magazine page glued over poster board and pens cut from Levenger catalog. I had a vision of a board of pens but I'm not crazy about the final version with the pens. I would have rather had a group of them like in this picture.
| From First Forays into Art |
| From First Forays into Art |
Vision board background
| From First Forays into Art |
More art in the next post too.
There are so many stories only you can tell.Tell them, please.
Who am I?I was born on the Cancer/Leo cusp and share a birthday with Ernest Hemingway and Robin Williams. The similarities don't stop there as I can go from depressed to ecstatic without ever passing go. I feel scared most of the time though my friends call me brave and I find it easier to believe in my friends than to believe in my own abilities to make what I want out of my life.
Who am I? A wife, a mother, a daughter, and even, gulp, a grandmother.
Who am I? A writer who never gets tired of playing with words, even when the words are hard to find. A writer of books for children and articles for grown-ups and many things in-between.
Who am I? A motivational speaker, writing instructor, workshop leader and full-time follower of dreams.
Who am I? Read and find out.
Susan Taylor Brown
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"Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties."
--Bonnie Friedman
"As writers, we must be willing to feel our sadness, our anger, our terror, so we can reach in and find our sweet vulnerability that is just sitting there waiting for us to come back home."
--Nancy Slonim Aronie
"Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is."
--Anne Rice
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This resonated with me. I'm there with you on learning to accept wrinkles and bumps and imperfection (in all aspects of my life).