A Lovely Dream

Sure I'm Sober Sure I'm Sane

Yup.
Not so hard to stay sober really. Just never leave the house. I need to start meetings again for sure because things like anniversaries aren't a lot of fun. Instead of an accomplishment you think instead about what you felt that day you got drrunk last and how terrible you felt right before the shot hit the back of your throat. The reasons you had for drinking that night and why you drank so much. And those reasons are still there. The feelings you will take with you forever. You may work through them, you may not feel them all the time but they will always be there. Just there, laying next to your dna.

So I need to get to a meeting.  It's on my to do list. Get back into being grateful for being sober and remembering that not being will be really bad. Cause you forget about that when the years wrack up.

So no congratulations necessary. I've simply been too busy to get into trouble. If I don't start doing the things I need to be doing, though, trouble will surely find me.  It always does.

Journal Page from my class A Lovely Dream

 

Me and Stampavie!

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A Lovely Journal Workshop

 
September 1, 2011  to December 31, 2012
 

1) Fine Art Journal Paintings
    Ok great, you can make a background page. Hurray. You can doodle and collage and know the formula for the latest style. But answer me this, do your art journals really mean anything to you?  Do your pretty pages feel flat, random even? By golly we need meaning in our art journal pages. 
You are going to dig this. No drawing required with new technique. If you already know how to draw a face great, if not, great! This class is for both seasoned artists and novices.  

 2) Process Journaling 
This journal is about healing, not composition. Here you are free to do anything and everything and not worry about if its pretty. Content is what is important. Not end results. Any little book will do, a moleskine sketchbook is perfect (the paper is made from cardstock) but I prefer the journal by Laughing Elephant.  It's only $10.00 and the paper is beautiful.

  3) Writing Journal
Stream of conscious writing prompted by specific questions as an aid to further your fine art painting.

 

 

 Monthly Feature Videos
On the first of every month there will be one or more videos documenting the making of a fine art journal page.  Real time footage with calming meditative music so you can see the entire process from begining to end.  Excellent to have as a companion with you as you work on your journal pages.   

Place for you to post your work and writing - in response to my videos and art and life. Show me and your classmates your journal pages.

ONE ON ONE HELP - Privately send me an email at the school that includes photos of your work and I will help you in any way that you need.  One on one help makes the online experience more like a brick and morter classroom.  Students benefit greatly from gentle critiques and encouragement. 

View a sample of my workshop here

ALL OF THIS FOR
$55.00 USD
OR
Combine the Journal class with the Portrait Class for
$75.00 USD

REGISTRATION AND CLASSROOM OPEN UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 2012

Choose Class

Journal Class $55.00 Journal + Portraits $75.00

What email will you use?

Please allow 24 hours to be let into the classroom because it is done manually and not automated.  xoxo

Something Something and Googie

I know I haven't been here and I hope you understand why. The book. 6 months.  It's over now. Manuscript sent in. It's up to the editors to do what they may. My work is done.  And that is entirely why I came to california. To meet those that be and who could make this thing real. Whatever this thing is I've created, put it on the page and get it out there in a real way. So that is done. I can now cross that off the list.

1. Publish Mixed Media Girls Book.

   I can now go home.
   I promise to never leave you again.

Because you see, this, this thing here, is more important to me than anything.  And its kind of weird now and I thought ruined.  How different it was when I didn't hesitate to write, when I didn't think who was reading and if I wasn't going to come across as positive or brilliant on any particular day.  So even when I could write I wouldn't cause. Well, googie will get me, but does anyone else? I'll post on facebook and be dramatic like OMG IM GONNA KILL MYSELF IF I HAVE TO DO BLAH BLAH ONE MORE TIME and I'm lectured about how I shouldn't throw that phrase around.  There are entirely too many cooks in my kitchen. 

But rather than disappear I'll do the opposite. I'll be here.  Maybe I'll hault comments to make it feel like the old days when I had five live journal friends and I was singing secrets to no one.


I have something new something big planned. Something not like what I've been doing. A whole new something. I don't want to tell you yet because I want to do it properly.  Dogs and I leave Monday morning and fly back to jersey. Once I get settled I will begin and then I can tell you about it. Just a few more weeks. Something big and something no one else is doing right now.  I need change.  I feel like I've done it to death and now its time for a whole new everything. (could I be more vague?) Just wait, I want to present it to you in a fabulous way.  I am hoping it will create a very big something.

a whole big something as big as Gigi's hair.

Googie flys in tonight.
I will post again tomorrow.
and the next day.
and the next.
xxx

bff

I know...we didn't live cam. I know I know. 

I know. (bows head)

First I feel out of a tree, then hours later I sprained my foot and couldnt not walk. All while teaching non stop. But being crippled I'd have still done it.  A few of the students didn't feel camera ready so I wouldn't force them. Some were very shy.  

And before I go to sleep tonight I must tell you, my forest fairy experience wasn't wonderful because of the teaching. That was secondary, I was glad to help.  But connecting with friends I had never seen in person before but have spoken to for years. And eating nothing but cookies and cake for three days and laughing so hard it hurt.  BFF