MY-STORY
This is going to be an interesting few months of challenges. I have started a 17 x 12 "book using
Mixed Media. I am calling it
"My-Story". I want to leave it
as legacy. It is like an art journal, but
focused on things that interest and are about the Inner Me. It includes pages of zodiacs, moons, animal
symbolism, empowering pages, and when I get the main things done, I will be sharing
an art journaling page per week. As
well, there will be other artist activities such as: I will show you how to make your own
empowerment deck of cards so you can draw and focus on one of the empowerment
cards. I will show you how to carve your
own stamps out of fun foam to go along with your-story. I will focus on a section for each week and a
new technique. It will be mixed media so
anything goes. So collect your goodies
that you think you might add. Decide on
a color scheme or thematic scheme you hope to choose for YOUR-STORY.
MyStory- Months
At the back of the book, I have saved two pages each
to dedicate to each month. It is here
that I express things that I need to watch for, things that are important in
that month for me, etc.
I began June, but the house got flooded so it is
really incomplete, but no worries, you should leave blank space for adding to
at a later time. June has a
tip-out. I used some stickers, put my
calendar on the page with my personal symbols used on that calendar. I put in astrological information and put
both things to watch out for as well as positive things. It helped me know what to work on that
month. You can do your pages in any way
you please. It is good to just get it
down for reference. I used one of my stamps I made from craft
foam.
For July, I used the insert from a birthday card (a
pop-out birthday cake) in the center of my two pages. Again, I added a calendar with personal
symbols. I found some magazine bits I could
cut out to add to my page. This is the
month of my birthday so I put some of my characteristics, according to my birth
date, on the page.
For August, Lamas celebrations, I used some of my
older art journal pieces for these two pages.
The calendar lists some good days, which I needed to focus on this year,
and then I put in some challenges for me for the month. As well, I added some empowerment ideas.
For September, that I am currently working on, I
painted a woman on the one page and then added curvy strips of August colored strips
radiating across to the other page.
Again, a calendar, this time typed.
This is the season of Mabon, a season to be reminded of "letting
go". This is what I will be working
on in September. I will be adding more
things as I move into the month. I will
know what THE PLAN is, for my cancer diagnoses, and what kind it is, on the
28th.
Each month will continue on and when I get the
months of this year done, I will do an additional art journal of MyStory to add
as an addendum book. This one book will be outgrown and I want to keep going
and(not do daily pages) but do important dates as I go along. This book will be passed down to my
granddaughter, as will the further books that I do.
Be sure to leave space to add-in. Enjoy yourself doing this. It is empowering. It gives you a voice that will carry on to
whom may find it, or to someone you pass it on too. It will be your authentic voice telling your
story rather than other people doing so.
Enjoy!
©Carol Desjarlais
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