After recuperating from the Top 2000 blog party the atelier is in full swing again. I am working on several projects at the same time, switching from one to the other: collage, art journaling, creating tiny mini journals… it’s all there on my desk.

WOYWW #397

The art journal that you see is my latest Chronicles that I bound in December. Empty page, ready to be filled in 2017 (in case you missed it, see the cover & binding here.) I always start my Chronicles with my ‘One Little Word’ that I choose for the year to come. For 2017, I choose “Laugh.”

I hand-journaled my considerations and thoughts about the word in the background. This is what it says: “I thought quite some time about what I wanted my word for 2017 to be. There were a few words on my mind that all circled around the one feeling I was looking for. Words like ‘Enjoy’, ‘Happy’, ‘Fun’, ‘Light’. You know, I wanted it to be a ‘light’ word, a happy word… and I asked myself if those words weren’t more of a wish than something I can work on… But then again: it is MY word to choose and there are no rules, are there? So I choose a word that may be more of a wish for 2017, a word that covers all the others: LAUGH. That is what I want to do more in 2017: Laugh.”

I’ve been keeping my Chronicles art journal since 2010 and yes, that is SOME STASH of journals! I can barely hold all those books… (and these are only my Chronicles, I have lots and lots of other finished art journals on my bookshelves.) The top journal is the new one for 2017, you can see those pages are still blank…

I wonder what will be jotted down on those pages… I hope this year brings a lot of fun and laughter for all of us!