October in my Journals & Creative Bits
It's been a little while since I shared any journal updates with you, so I apologise for my absence. I finally have a quiet day and thought it would be the perfect time to look through some of my journal pages and creative projects from last month, to pull them together into this newsletter.
Things continue to be challenging here, with my partner still receiving palliative care. However, I'm doing my very best to make the most of the good days, stay creative and keep documenting life in my journals.
One of my favourite projects in October was creating collage leaves. I shared the leaf shape templates on Patreon and then we covered them in a variety of different ways.
For these I used some scraps of vintage papers and washi tape. I also made others with gelli plate prints and patterned papers. They make lovely decorative additions for your journal pages.
For my sister's birthday in September we went pottery painting at China Blue in Totnes, Devon. It was the first time I had done it and it was so much fun.
I've now been able to pick up our glazed items and I'm really pleased with how my vase turned out.
I think I would like to try a potters' wheel one day, but this was a lovely no-pressure activity which I really enjoyed.
Unfortunately I've not had enough time to record any videos for YouTube recently, but I have continued to share a video on Patreon each Friday. One of my favourite activities last month was gelli plate printing, using a combination of leaves and stencils. I picked autumnal colours and enjoyed trying out lots of different combinations.
The prints are great for using in collages, as decorative journal pages and would make lovely additions to greeting cards and happy mail too.
In the photo above you can see that I've used the gelli prints on two of my journal pages. One of my recent spreads is called "27 before 2027" where I have written a list of things that I would like to achieve before the end of the year. Most of these are not big activities and some of them are just for fun, so I'm hoping it helps to give me a positive focus over the remaining few weeks of the year.
Not journal-related in the slightest, but I thought you might enjoy some photos of Barney at Paignton seafront. It was late afternoon and the sky was absolutely stunning, definitely no filters used here. It was crisp and breezy, a perfect Autumn walk.
It's difficult for me to do much planning for next year at the moment, with everything so up in the air. Instead I have decided to focus on values, to make sure that I am living in alignment with my core beliefs. I created these pages during a Patreon video and I will now spend the next few weeks getting deeper into this topic in my journals.
Finally, I worked on these art journal pages over the course of a month, just adding one new mark or element each day. It meant that I could be intentional about what I added, without needing to spending lots of time on it at any one sitting. I'm so pleased with how it all came together.
I really hope you enjoyed seeing some of my recent journal pages and creative projects. I'm wishing you a lovely November and I will be back with you soon, Helen x
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