Flower Journal

I haven't been doing much card making over the last couple of days. Besides having company for New Years, I'm been doing some deep cleaning and organizing. This is the kind of cleaning where you dump out all that is neatly put away and analyze it and discard what you don't want. I was inspired after I "helped" Gameboy clean out his room. He has grown like a weed over the last few months and we cleared out all the clothes that are too small or that he won't wear. His space is much more manageable now. I want my office/computer space and the Card Castle to be have that same feeling. I'm anxious to check off that particular one of my goals for the 2008.

This isn't exciting yet, I just thought I'd show you the start of one of my new projects.

I bought a little water color book a long time ago. I recently decided to cover it and call it my Flower Journal. I'm going to practice water coloring with some of my favorite flower stamps. I know, I know it's not purple, but it's still for me. Every once in a while I like to have something non-purple. I'm sure a lot of the inside pages will be purple-ish. I think I'm going to take this and my water color pencils in the car line for a while. I made that decision because of the cleaning spell I'm in. I 'm trying to figure out a more manageable way to satisfy my need to color.


Do you see all these purple pencil boxes? They are sorted by subject and labeled(although you can't see that because of the flash) and filled with images that have been colored or painted or water colored--- some of them were done several years ago! Will I ever use them, probably not, because I'm still coloring and adding to it on a regular basis! I'm going to give away or throw away most of the images OR go ahead and make something with a few of them.

My 10 year old niece told me at Christmas time that she loves to make cards (smile). I bought her some supplies from Michaels for Christmas and promised that I would send some more stuff later when I cleaned up my room. I think she may be the recipient of some of this stuff.

So in compliance with my first New Years goal ( to be on the computer less ). I'm going to turn it off for a while so that I don't stop and check the bulletin board or google reader or blogs every time I walk by it. Have a blessed day, and I'll be back tonight.