Lilac Luna Journal

I'm taking a Rec and Ed class Paper Arts class....we're learning different ways of altering old books....which basically means that you find old hardcover books and add your own art to them to change them into something new....i think that this will be one of my new favorite creative joys....Some of my favorite ways of altering a book: cover the background page with watercolor pencil and water, oil pastels and oil, acrylic paints, or pastel rubbings over templates, adding tabs to the edges, adding pockets, gluing in photos and magazines images and words, adding envelopes, stamping, journaling, collage.....some ideas for themed altered books i may want to create: a book of yoga asanas, an address book with photos, a gratitude journal, a travel journal, a collection of quotes, a scrapbook, a cookbook, and more.....

I am grateful....for the sunshine at last in the middle of winter, for living next door to a wild and undeveloped field, for living walking distance from the woods, for freedom to come and go as I please, for the mystery of a small empty wooden house shrine (which Jamie and I still need to find a Buddha for).....the sunny days would not be so glorious if not preceded by millions of shades of gray....