12 months of photos

Every month on 12 Months in View we take a photograph of the same place, preferably at the same day and time.

I take photos of my back garden from my bedroom window.  Here's the view this month.

So now we have 12 photos.  How will you display yours?  You could print them all out and stick them in your journal.  You could make a mini book with them like one of those flicker books.  Or you could blog them!

In the UK we haven't seen a real difference between the seasons like we usually do.  In the last 12 months we have had a phenomenal amount of rain and unseasonably high temperatures in the Autumn and Winter.  So sadly the photos don't show the stunning difference we normally have through the seasons which I was hoping to show when I first thought up this challenge.

Here is my year:

Maybe you could choose another place to photograph and take one a month for the next 12 months.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Identity: Crisis

Today is the first of a series of posts based on Identity: A Study of Ephesians.  The subject today is Identity: Crisis and in the teaching Rob talked about Saul hiding because he didn't see himself in the way that God saw him.

In my notebook I answered some of the questions.  I used the initial that is available on the Identity blog as a heading.  I used washi tape and doodles to decorate the page and wrote in different coloured pens. This isn't my usual handwriting - although similar. I tried to write fluidly using the whole space between the lines.  This way I didn't get into the whole 'I can't do this because I hate my handwriting' thing!

I printed out the prophetic word that was given to me and stuck it in my notebook.

I printed out the relevant scripture that ad been mentioned to me.  I left a blank page so that I can come back to this topic if I wish.

I showed how I made this journal here.   I went through it and worked out where I would make a journal page for each session of the study and put post-it notes.

 I printed out a large version of the downloadable letters so that I could use the sacks.  These represent the supplies that Saul was hiding behind.

I traced over the sacks and transferred them to my journal page.

I coloured them in with water soluble crayons.

And went over the crayon with a wet brush.  The colour underneath was slightly reactivated and blended with the wet crayon.

The main point for me from this session was that I should stop hiding and so I took the words that had been spoken over me.  I drew them in pencil and then went over them with a black pen.

I used the original inks that I had put on the papers but with a brush this time to colour the letters and the arrows.  I added a Teal ink as well.  I decorated with pens in white, black and silver.  I added a small amount of journaling.

If this has whetted your appetite to join in then do!  Go to the Identity blog to find out more and sign up for emails and the Facebook group.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

February

This is the last month of 12 Months in View starting with An Introduction to February.

I think the most important thing I learned at the Make It Personal workshop was to 'not think'.  It wasn't a new concept to me but putting it into practice has always been difficult.  However I managed it and took the same approach to this journal page.

I knew that I wanted to base the page on the words 'The day the music died' but hadn't any picture in my mind of how I would get to it.

I looked through a pile of papers I had and found some sheet music, a dictionary page and some stars that I had cut out from something else I'd done.

I glued the music paper and the dictionary paper into my journal.

I scraped Gesso over the page with an old credit card and then stuck down the stars.

I sprayed Dylusions Inks over the page.  The paper the stars had been cut from had been a play sheet painted with acrylic paints so the stars resisted the ink.  The gesso reacts with the inks so they are paler than if they are sprayed directly onto paper.

I wrote the words with a black Copic pen and then wrote again with an orange crayon.  I added the black and the white lines to the page.

I didn't think or plan while I was making the page and I am really pleased with the result.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice