My Art World : Happy belated New Year!

Happy belated new year! Sorry everything has been so quiet around here the last month or so. I had so much to do over the Christmas / New year holidays that I just basically went offline for the end of November until this past Monday. I have barely even had time to create anything during that time either. :/ I snagged these from one of my other social media feeds so I apologize if anything is a reshare. And some may not make a whole lot of sense, but more then anything it will give you an idea of what I've been up to really and what may be something I'll share more about in the future. ;)

One thing I will talk about is a new project I've decided to start this year. All of last year I kept seeing people post their Project Life or Documented Life pages. You may remember me mentioning them even. If you haven't already heard about these, I'll explain them briefly. Both are mostly just different ways of keeping track of your life and what is going on in it. Project Life is more like a pre-designed scrapbook with slotted pages for adorable scrapbook page inserts/pictures where as the Documented Life Project is about keeping a sort of planner that combines your artistic talents, whatever they may be. I've been wanting to do something similar that's a bit more personal. I started doing a daily post it note project which I still have going on, but it's not quite fulfilling the cravings I have for something to do daily. So I took one of the K&C Co. Smash books I got for Christmas and have transformed it into a sort of art journal smashbook diary. If you've seen these around already, you know that they contain tons of awesome pages that let you smash in whatever you want, however you want. Sadly mine is the older kind with the spiral bound core, although the new ones look to be a 3 ring binder, so that you can easily add, delete, or rearrange pages. You can honestly even make something like this yourself if you wanted, but I like the pages used in the books so I decided to use it instead this round. However, as I am documenting my life every day in this book, this one will only get me to March 1st, so I will be able to decide to do something different by then.

The fun thing about this project is that it is letting me be creative everyday while also looking at my life in review and appreciating it while documenting the parts I want to remember. So far it's been a great daily project. I started altering the pages the week after Christmas and got pretty far, since I wasn't sure how much time I would have once I started back to work and on other projects, but so far I don't think it would take much to create a daily page from scratch. I keep my pages pretty simple, hiding anything I don't care for and putting things where and how I like. Usually I'm just adding space to write on, since some of the pages are filled with large photos or designs, but I have added in some small decorative things where I want to break out the page and just add in some cuteness.

While most of the pages are going to end up as fairly personal, it's probably not likely I will share many of the finished ones. However I do hope to share some of them before I start journaling on them. (I simply hand journal on them so far in my scribbly hand writing, sometimes in one big space or some times I will break it up and write sideaways or something. Either way that's about all I do so far on the pages I have already gotten ready.)

I will try to post some more pictures and tips/tutorials/etc. on this project later for anyone wishing to do something similar.