For the longest time I have dabbled in art journalling - taking the odd class here and there, creating bits and feeling like they weren't right. I'm not sure who they were supposed to be right for. Everything you read about art journalling tells you there are no rules.
Over the last year I have slept with a notepad or ipad beside the bed and as the night drifts around me and sleep eluded me I would jot. I wasn't sure what I was doing it for. Just to get it out I suspect. Over the last few weeks I have felt myself being pulled back to those jottings. The need to create has been growing until it's screaming at me but each time I have sat down to try I haven't been able to make it work.
Suddenly with a few heart felt conversations with some who know me far too well I have found the push I needed.
So I have embarked on a new creative adventure and I am just doing it. I'm playing with digital stuff and using Tangie Baxter's Tangible Plans - they are like building blocks for art journal pages. Tonight I made my first page.
Words - photos and mixed media style papers are going to be my foundations.
If I grow enough pages and I learnt to accept what I make then I hope to turn it into a little book for me to keep. One page done - here's hoping I find many more.
