Explore perfection

Today's prompt from Shimelle was about perfection.   And as my journaling says I reach for excellence in what I do rather than perfection.  In fact I made a mistake when I was writing and in the past I would have got a new piece of card to write on.  And in fact I probably would have done in striving for excellence but thought I would leave the crossing out as a reminder to myself!  In the past I would have drawn lines so that the writing was straight and possibly done it on the computer so that the writing was perfect.  

In addition it was suggested that we add a photo to our playbook that we were particularly pleased with and I really like this one that I took on Kirsty's course a couple of week's ago.

The other thing you will notice is that despite cutting everything to 6"x4" these cards don't match!  I may well cut them all to size when I've finished. It just depends how much it irritates me.

And the other thing is that the postcard pages I showed you are upside down in the playbook.  I punched the holes at the end that looked right but when I went to read it the rings are on the right rather than the left.  Just means I have to keep turning the book.  Perhaps that's part of the playing!  What do you think?

Explore days 2 & 3

On Tuesday Shimelle invited us to find a postcard and send it to ourselves.   I found this postcard from our visit to the Lake District in April.

 Our task was to write about adventures in our lives so I made a list of things I've done.  I didn't actually post it though!

And day 3 was about maps and to make some circular embellishments with maps.   I decided not to journal about this but to use a Tim Holtz stamp instead on some Paper Artsy paper.   I used an old map and a tourist map with some plain paper for the embellishments.

Online classes

One of the many classes I've signed up to is Colour! Or is it Color? with Big Picture Classes.

And of course, it is COLOUR.

This week I'm attempting to catch up with the 3 weeks I've missed.  Week 4 is released tomorrow.  I signed up at the same time as my friend Nicki, so if you would like to see what I should have done have a look on her blog.

The pre-class activity was to make 6 tags.  Here are mine:

I'm not keen on the blue one, but it will do for now.


The blogs of a couple of my friends from the U.S. are well worth a look too!

Firstly there's my friend Paige who has been blogging every day since her 43rd birthday having set herself the task of writing every day for 366 posts.  She's now on #357.   If you want to see why she's doing it you will have to go back to the beginning.

And then there's my friend Kaere who is stepping out into online courses for the very first time.  So for all my journaling friends have a look at this: Planet You.   It's not an art journaling course ~ it's about the words!   Why not sign up with me?