Welcome to my new space!

Hello my friends! You've arrived at my new space for me and only me! Since my GC blog has gone completely store related I needed a place to just write about me, my life and my new obsession, art journaling!

I made a big leap a few weeks ago and signed up for Tangie Baxter's Art Journal Caravan. I've always been drawn to this type of art but never knew where to start! lol I've collected scrap kits in this altered style and tons of physical papers and bits for years.... what to do with them? No clue lol You can get a closer look at what's included on the Art Journal Caravan Blog.


What prompted me to do this is the horrid year I went through in 2009 and it didn't end any better than it began. More about that later... Right now I want to encourage you to check out this class! Whether you want to try your hand at something new, recall what it feels like to make art just for you or have the urge to journal your thoughts and feelings, this class will get you there!


Now, for the fun part! I want to show you what I've been working on! omg this is complete therapy for me! I have my first 2 pages to show you and then a little something else I've picked up already on this journey.


This first page was inspired by a journal prompt. The prompt was "what makes you feel safe?".

Full credits can be seen here.

We're encouraged to really get down deep with the journaling so I let it all out and it was great!

(This is my first play date with blogger so please excuse any spacing *issues* lol)

Ok second page. This is what made me completely fall in love with this process! omg I sat down to do a sad, angry *get it all out* page about my fiancee leaving me. Yeah you don't want to know lol but I'll be telling backstories in later posts. Anywho, that was my intent. Get those feelings out of my head and let myself move on. Well, it didn't exactly come out like that, check this out !!

Full credits can be seen here.

Looks like I am moving on cause this turned out so FUN and the things on the page have meaning to me about what I was trying to say! Oh, the joy I felt when I saw it finished!! That may sound lame but this has really been holding me back lately and I needed to do something with those feelings, kwim? Phew, that page felt good to do. :)

So I obviously have some serious blogger googling to do, I keep taking all that space out and it keeps popping back up! I hope you'll consider taking this journey with us. We've found support, inspiration and that "Anything goes" within this new group of friends! I hope you'll join us!

Love & Hugs, Lisa