Soul Journaling Day 1

I turn 50 a month from tomorrow and I am getting a jump on reinventing myself. You can't do it all in one day. It takes time! An ambitious task but I have already lost 20 pounds and am maintaining a tanning salon tan. Next up I'm trying to get enough courage to go apartment hunting. Shush! That's a secret! That's why it's a secret journal!



But I digress... this blog is about the little bits of artwork I do, also in secret, to keep my sanity as a fishmonger. All artwork will be based on prompts from blogs that feature art challenges. This first piece is Day 1 in a Soul Journaling series at Caspiana. It is a simple collage of only dictionary pages. They are glued down and sealed with Matte Medium. This makes absorbant paper easier to write on.  We were supposed to do 3 pages but my journal format is large so I only did one page. I'm not one for following rules. The writing prompt was " Today I feel..." and if applicable use words and phrases from the dictionary pages themselves. I didn't do anything extra, just used a few Sharpies to write with. I like the over all visual appeal and it came out looking like I spent more time than I did. I noticed after I scanned the page I forgot to date it, so I went back and did that by hand. I want to get a good old fashioned date stamp. I hope they still have such a thing at Staples or Wally World.