Woken once again by the gardeners chopping back any visible green left on the hedges, I got up at 8.30, Kev was already up. I did my yoga and biking after making the bed. I then showered to save me having to run around like a mad woman in the morning. Plus Kev goes in before me, and after that fall a couple of years ago in the bath, I'm wary of having one with no one else here to help me, although we have the walk in shower, you never know. I have always been able to trip over a match stick! Once all the jobs were done I started work on stamping and painting images onto canvas to transfer on the dyalog cover we are painting. Then I doodled the cover as it was dry enough to do, It's coming on nicely and will be perfect for my insert books as we go through the year. I'm so happy that I found those day by day videos on YouTube of Dyan doing hers. It is the best way I've found to keep a diary of any kind. Yeah I do my blog, but the dyalog is a creative process that I have managed to do daily since I started in May last year. I had a lot of her stamps anyway as her quirky style captured my imagination. Long before I knew about her day by Dy's as she calls them. They are great to flip through and the covers being canvas will soften and wear with time. I have no idea who I will leave them too once I'm dead and gone, or if anyone would want them, but we are as She says making history and my account of this unusual period of time might be of some interest to someone, you never know. But even if not, I've enjoyed every minute of putting them together, learning new techniques and carrying them forward into my art journals, even my card making, which I still do by the way, just not as prolifically as before. I like doing journals as they are a record of my art and techniques which you can see by flipping through from the start until now. When you make a card, the majority of them end up in the recycling bin, no matter how long they took to make. And if I forget to take a picture, that idea, or technique is lost. I will always make my cards for others, and for Trish to sell on Etsy for me, but my methods have altered since I started. A lot now are intricate colourise die cuts ( Tim Holtz) or stamped images.
I like the freedom you get with a journal or dyalog, the only limit is your imagination, and you don't have to constantly reign in your creativity to fit a brief. When you make a card it has to "suit" the audience you are making it for. When you do a page in a journal or dyalog it doesn't matter. I think that's where the mindfulness comes in you can get lost in the process without worrying that anyone else likes it. Kev often looks at my pages and shakes his head, "bonkers" is his usual response. But it doesn't matter, because it's for me by me... It doesn't have to make sense.
Anyhow the cover is done now, awaiting insert books packing it out once they are done.
I also watched Discovery of Witches this afternoon ( Kev downloads it at 2am, when it first appears) I could watch all of it now as the episodes are all available, but I want to watch it weekly. I'm sure I've told the tale of being forced to binge watch something when we lived with other people and I did so out of politeness, but it totally ruined that series for me. All the episodes blurred into one, and I lost interest. I don't want that to happen with this, as it's been done far too well to be rushed.
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