Weekly Intention: Power

Practice by Yolanda Alejandre

Power, my weekly intention. Power to be me and do what I need to do in order to be the best me I can be. Power to start living my life fully. Power that I have without fear to see where it takes me. Power.

Thank you Andrea at ABC creativity for the prompt. I look forward to it each week. May all of our weeks give us what we need.

The Month of Febuary 2011

Art Journal Goals and Intentions for Feb.2011

I love Art Journaling, since I discovered it about 3years ago, it has become my way of setting goals and intentions. I do normal writing journals also but this form of journaling for me has become my norm. My style is obviously collage images from everywhere, this one was mainly magazines I am endlessly tearing out images. I have a pretty big sized box to store them. My February is about love and happiness I wrote my intentions and birthdays.

This is magazine images as a collage and a few pieces of card stock for texture and a rubber stamp, I used a glue stick and sharpie for text, and a satin ribbon to tie it all in.

This page is watercolor, post-its, sharpie and card stock from @jessicagswift goals and intentions packet left over from last years purchase. I really love her stuff.

I added more text in the close up shots. Just what I was thinking and feeling that's pretty much to me what Art Journaling is all about. I love how my watercoloring came out. I was going to collage over part but I decided I wanted it to show through.

Crayon over a stencil mask and then sharpie for text.

This is my end of January page I usually just write out how the month ended. I had posted earlier my January collage page. January was very busy with lots of new things happening for me that when I look back at my previous goals for winter many of them came to fruition in January. This is what I love about Art Journaling. Things don't have to be written word for word an image can represent a goal or plan.

Acrylic Paint smear technique learned from @21secrets (loved it) black lines also same technique, sharpie to text.

Sometimes in the throws of Art Journaling I venture off w/inspiration and do a random page. I had about 5 pages using this credit card technique I was practicing and it makes for great backgrounds. It hit me suddenly that I had had a very vivid and somewhat scary dream. I decided to write about that part in here because I don't think it was supposed to scare me in a bad way but awaken some fears in me to push me harder to face them. Which then inspired a whole bunch of dream/goal setting. I love it when inspiration hits you like a ton of bricks so much so that you just have to keep going.

Gesso for a base dried then watercolor crayons mixed w/gesso using a paintbrush technique learned from @21secrets, Sharpie for text.

Keep going, being so inspired I listed a set of Spring 2011 goals, this was one of my favorite pages before I even touched it with a sharpie but I am so glad that it totally fit for a background for Spring goals. I wanted to say that you can journal anywhere and I often do. Any image can inspire you and can eventually work at some point into a collage. When I discovered this method of journaling I can honestly say it changed my life.

Wishcasting Wednesday: What Burden do you wish to put down?

                                                      What Burden do I wish to put down?

The Burden I wish to put down is financial insecurity, I want to build a savings have a cushion for emergencies. Right now I am doing many different jobs to make extra money and have been coming up with some very creative idea's on how to make more to pay off my small debt and get ahead of the game. I even made a Art journal page about this (will post later). This Burden needs to go away and the start of that is to remove my focus off the bad and change it to the good that I have done so much so far. It's already starting to go away.

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Photo's of my dreams!

I found a great worksheet on Susannah Conway 's blog Unraveling the year ahead it's a fantastic worksheet to help set your year like unravel your year. This is the upcoming 12 months in collage. I keep this in my calendar so it's close to me. I thought I'd photograph it and share it.

Alex

Alex playing guitar

A revamp if you will!

Tonight I've decided that I will use this blog for what it was originally intended Photography. It is my Photographic musing so that is what it will be I will comment on my photographs but things like Wishcasting, Weekly Intentions, and Friday5 will now be on my other blog Refusetodressmyage. So join me there.


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