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Summer Bucket List and My Art Journal
Watch tons of Classic Hollywood movies
This should be easy!
Read at least half of Classic Club list
Hmm. Not a priority.
Make lots of art and crafts
Well, I’ve put a lot of pressed flower art in my art journal, worked on redoing my first quilt, and worked on dresses for my sisters’ birthdays.
Spend time outside: stargaze, watch the sunset, swim, swing, catch lightening bugs, sleep outside
I’ve spent some time, but I need to make it more of a priority.
Dance
You would think this would be easy.
Go on several day-trips
I’ve been to the zoo and a baseball game at our local university, and I want to plan one for my birthday.
Jane Austen Festival and local art festival
I’m doing the latter for certain..
Go on or at least schedule one major vacation
I meant myself, but our family is going on one in January
Take a trip with my grandparents
Work extensively on genealogy
Make frozen custard
I should’ve focused a bit more on, um, less costly options.I had tons of pressed flowers, so I’ve worked on tons of pages for my art journal. I’ve rather more pressed flower pages than I would like, but I’m still learning this art journal thing. These are my best pages to date (05/26/2017), I think.
Didn’t that iris press gorgeously?!
My paper back copy of the Jane Austen novels split, so I decided to use the pages for crafts. -
Winter Journal and Hand Lettering Craze
Please ignore my corpse fingers, yikes. I want to learn calligraphy and fancy scripts; here I practiced some with gel pens. I have sort of tried out calligraphy over the years but never pursued it seriously.
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More Bookish Randomocity
I have my Classics Club list here, and I have a Goodreads list (although I often add as I read rather than fill in my to-read list completely) . . . but these stickers are just so fun (sparkly smiley faces), and I wanted to write out a list. I considered it after reading this post. I can be a paper list monster and have put a lot of them on the computer or away in a more organized manner, but I think this is a good list to have although if it was on my wall in might be better.
I have had this project in mind for a long time, perhaps a year or more. I printed off “22 Things Happy People Do Differently” from a linked post on Pinterest with the plan to make a little booklet with Bible verses pertaining to each point underneath the points. The paper and various cardboard pieces stayed in my room for months. A couple months ago I carefully wrote out the points and some verses. I want to draw flowers with appropriate meanings. We had a few books that contained flower meanings and then I got a book from the library, and I probably need to just pick a flower for each instead of trying to find the perfect one, but maybe I will get another book to find more meanings. All this mess plus verses, I think, are on the scrap paper..JPG)
I might have already posted a photo of the front of my Fall scrap-journal, but here is another.
These are all the books that I have read this fall. I think this journal will span several Autumns. Btw, I know the British say Autumn, and there are kind of snobby mocking pins (regarding U.S. usage of “Fall”) about it on Pinterest. Some say it is French, but the root of any Romance languare word is Latin and here is the profound Latin definition of “autumnus” from Whitaker’s Words. My Latin dictionary desktop dictionary did not have anything better. I find Anglophilia just a bit annoying . . . and ludicrous. Number one reason being, most of the people obsessed with the British have major British roots. Trust me, I have more reasons.
I filled out several pages of quotes from the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries; he is sooo quotable as are the books general. -
Of Books and Scribbles
Weeks and weeks ago I won a giveaway on All Things Beautiful,and I received these pencils and pencil case from Moxie Makery on etsy. I do not usually pick bright colors for myself, but I like these and this design; they are so cheery.
Scribbling Project #1I made this little blank book into my first quote book. I would eventually like to have a bigger and more organized one, but I like this for now.
Of course, I messed up the very first page; I will need to find cream cover-up and then doodle a design over it.
Scribbling project #2
I finally bought a journal to begin scrap-journaling. I tore out a couple pages every few pages in order to allow for room for items I paste into the book. Here are some sample pages that do not show my journaling.
I will publish a post or two about our St. Louis trip fairly soon.
I tore this out of a book I was given. I have been writing down the books I have read this summer.
This is my Fourth of July page before I wrote on it with a silver gel pen.Bookstore HaulFor the past several years at the end of the school year our family makes (or tries to make) a Coldstone Creamery and Half-Price Books trip. Here is my haul:
I wiped out the prodigiously large Gaelic section. The only items left were duplicates of the CD set. Yes, I know I have two dialects/languages which might not be at all the same; I can learn both.
Well, I have to start my collection somewhere, even the middle of the series.
Does this need an explanation?
The one on the left reminds me of a Scott O’Dell book. I feel that these journals are too beautiful to tear up for scrap-journaling. We will see if that lasts. Now they grace my shelves along with all my other beautiful and blank journals. Whatever.Scribbling Project #3I have had this journal for a while, and when I re-read the Harry Potter series earlier this summer break, I decided to use it to scribble my thoughts about this series. Of course, I thought of it when I was several books into re-reading. I want to remember to use it every time I re-read and sometimes after I re-watch the movies too.
Total nerd notes.
I probably should do a Harry Potter week or two of posts like I plan to do for The Hunger Games.
