howl.

“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.

Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.

The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.

Dare to breach the surface and sink.” 

― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

invite

Despite January's deep strides towards it's own middle I have decided to plow on with the advent window art journal prompts for as long as it takes me to be done with them.
These little scraps of paper have been doing work on this gals soul-digging, emotion-grabbing, creativity-pushing capabilities.
And she's lovin' it ^^
I've been promising myself to start an art journal for the longest time and these prompts are just the thing to poke out the inky fingered journaling girl living inside of me.
Today I pulled the word 'invite' so I free-wrote all and everything that I want to invite into my life in this new year.
Do you art journal? Have a link? Please share, I'd love to see it!

envision

My word today was 'envision'.

I'm so happy with this art journaling project and how it is pushing me, not only creatively, but to react and free-write to these seemingly harmless little verbs which have this way of pulling out prose and emotions I hardly knew I felt.

It's been a wonderful project to take part in and I'm looking forward to what the art journaler has up their sleeve for January >.<  

remember

{{ 'Remember'~~Design inspired by Rachel from Pony Gold}}

My second art journal page as part of the Messy Canvas Advent Window project.

Who knew a single verb could jerk such a powerful response? 

opening windows

This week I decided to start following along with Messy Canvas's Advent Window journaling project.

I am arriving a little late to the party as we're less than a week from Christmas but  now I've begun I realize it really is just an inspirational and fun activity that can be done at any time of the year.

You're given 31 written verbs which you should select randomly every day so each day you will have a solitaire word to reflect on, live by, sketch or journal about. 

The first word I pulled was "decorate".

I've decided to use a pretty notebook Dallas bought for me a while ago that I had intentionally set aside and was keeping for a special purpose or project such as this one.

With most of my words I will mostly want to use them as writing or art journaling prompts but this word I decided to take literally.

I pasted it to the center of my page, took out my pen and doodled and decorated every spare surface on the paper.

This is my first art journal project and I'm excited about the next 30 words I will pull and meditate on and what they will evoke from me on to paper.