A short update

Just a short post - and only one this week.

Here are the pages from my Everyday Journal.

I have found it very satisfying to list 3 things to do each day and then tick them off.  I know it might look as though I'm cheating by putting Creative Jumpstart in every day but at lease I've remembered to watch the video each day.  Last year I forgot that I was signed up for it!

This week I'm going to Committed to Cloth to do a 5 day course: Unlocking the Mystery of Creative Play.  I am by turns thrilled to be going and very apprehensive.  I am planning to write about each day on the right hand page.

I'm still writing things that I am thankful for.

I am considering adding another word for my year:  Joy.  Either instead of Gratitude or to run alongside it.  I'll let you know what I decide.

Have you got a word for this year?  If so, how are you getting on with it?

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Art Cloth update

In November I told you how I had cut up my art cloth and then pieced it back together with some bought fabric.

I took it with me to Littleheath Barn and used a thermofax screen to print over the whole thing to try to blend the bought fabric into the made fabric.

I had enlarged a Michelle Ward stencil on my computer and then traced over the images with unwanted dress pattern tissue.

I laid out the tissue stencils on the art cloth. Sorry about the quality of the photo.  I was standing on a chair using my phone!   Now it's ready to sew.

Here each of the large stencils have been stitched on one of the circles to the cloth.

A closeup of the pattern completely stitched.

And here the stitching with the tissue pattern removed.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Another journal update

Our Everyday Journals - Living Your Word of the Year group on Facebook is going from strength to strength.  A lovely bunch of people who are very supportive of each other.

These are my pages for the last week.

I found a picture of the Canterbury Bells online and printed them out and cut round them and stuck them in my book.  I did consider trying to draw them myself but as you can see I didn't!

I shall probably put some more quotes in next month.

You can see how Mary and Valeire are getting on with their journals on their blogs.
Mary: Found on Brighton
Valerie: Valerie Sjodin

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice