I love to reflect on the past year!
Last week, I flipped through my weekly art journal and it made me realize
how many great things came my way last year! I had lots of reasons to smile,
so let me share some more of the goodness.
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My weekly art journal itself is one of those reasons to smile…
I’m so glad I started this project and I intent to go on with it next year.
It is relaxing to fill the pages during the week, just fiddling around on the
pages without any rules or limits. Picking colours or images that I like,
try new techniques on a page and record the things that happen in my life.
Here’s the page I made last week
Week 48
We had a lot of snow in the Netherlands last week, so I added an old photo
of me in the snow. Wasn’t I a cute little girl? I love my hat with the pompoms!!!
The yellow dots are pearl dots, I desperately wanted to use my new pearl pen
and so I did! I doodled all over the page, just couldn’t get enough of it!
Phinner send me the little labels, with the bird and the mad hatter (thanks!) and
the postcard came from Hanneke. I received it it months ago, along with some
scrapgoodies. I like the image and the quote and now was the time to use it.
Not that I did stupid things last week, but I had a lot of work and I drank a lot
of coffee to stay on top of it. Now, the work is winding down and I presume
that I will be done writing articles by the end of this week (and it will start all
over again one month after that. And so on, and so further 😀 )
And HA, that’s another reason for a SMILE! Last May, I got a call from the
publisher of the Dutch scrap magazine ‘Creatief met Foto’s‘. He asked me
if I was interested in a job, writing articles for the magazine! Well ofcourse!
You all know I love to write,
and it is even better when you
can make a (free lance) job
out of it! On top of that, it gave
me the the opportunity to write
about my hobby!
Although my style of ‘scrapping’
is different then the layouts
published in the magazine,
I love to see all those layouts
laying on my table. And me,
describing them and writing the
story to go with it. Yep, as of this year,
I may call myself a free lance writer!
Sounds good huh?!
For more smiles, I’ll take you to Heesch.
Not only is it there that the publisher settles, he also runs a big scrapbook
store! I saved up the birthday money I got in October (thanks mom & dad!)
and a few weeks ago I not only shopped at the scrapbook store, I also met
some of my blog friends there!
If you’ve seen the photos, you know already that this was a day with a BIG
SMILE! I came home with new scrapgoodies, good memories and blogfriends
that are now friends in real life! (I do wish I could meet all of you now!)
Well, that’s enough smiles for today (Oops, did I really say that?
Ofcourse there’s never enough smiles in a day, but if you long for more
I recomment you hop over to Julie. I’m sure she will have some extra
smilies for you on her blog!)
I’ll be back on Friday with more reasons to smile.
Oh, before I go I have a question for you.
I was looking into it myself, but I can’t really decide which page (week)
in my weekly art journal I like best. Or maybe the best is yet to come?
What do you think? Go to the button ‘Art journals’ in the top menu on my
blog, click on “weekly art journal 2010” and take a look at he pages.
The weeknumbers are under the pictures when you view the slideshow.
I’d like to know which week you prefer. Thanks!
Je t’embrasse!