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 color, and text.... despite the monochromatic  spirit of a snow less time in NH.
That's an old style card for signing out a book from the library - EKES - on the right and on old index card from Roger's father. He worked at a print shop and had all kinds of interesting scraps.
The blue fabric I purchased recently, the holly Hoffman I'd held onto for years...







and 152-3
and for the brown oak leaves covering the trail we take in the morning through the woods -
I used a Tim Holz paper to cover the old file folder - the tab had an ugly crease. The little tiles are the Bijou tiles from Zentangle. I just got them, and kept to my practice of using new materials upon their arrival.

UPDATE : I have used my scanner, and it is so much easier than the previous one, I can scan my pages - before they are attached to the journal at the spine.
But I can't scan once the pages are attached to the previous ones, so for all the prior pages, I'll be photographing them - after Jan 1.

I finally noticed the error - it was 12-18-18 NOT 12-12- 18

Here is the spread with 12-18-18 as the inspiration.. I originally wrote the numbers large with markers that have a silver edge. After I'd finished the background with the text ( twelve eighteen eighteen written with different tools, in different directions but a similar font all over,)I didn't like the numerals. I cut them out of a piece of paper with a practice mandala on it and pasted them over the pink ones.

As I started the table of contents, I came across another spread with the numbers as the image, they were similar.   It was 11-7-18. The paper is a watercolor folder, cut in half .

Today's numbers look COOL:

12 - 12- 2018 
or 12-12-18
Even in text twelve- twelve- eighteen

twelve - twelve - two thousand eighteen 

I spent a couple days' work sessions on this Zentangle Town - with rixty, vega,tipple, and zinger. I used a pencil because I like the look on the file folder, even though it would photograph better in ink. I'm still thinking maybe I should cover the whole page - behind the billboard with knightsbridge border. I don't remember the name on the electrical charge looking one is named.

I completed the top border with a nine-patch quilt square... 

The whole journal is quarter sections of file folders and I have liked some aspects of constructing the journal. It is a stack , a messy stack, nearly 10"tall. I work on two spreads flat on my work space, before attaching them.

I've been following Zentangles' "12 Days of Tangles" for Project packet #4 and got inspired to add some to my journal pages. I combined what they call Haulibaugh with Printemps and got a nice texture in pencil for p. 140.
I adjusted the color and contrast a bit so it shows up a bit better... and really like the effect.

for this spread, I used a multi-color pencil 

They have a name for the large, sun figure...I filled in with some others.. 

art journal entries for December 6,7,8

 sticks and Haiku...







Serendipitous collage - whatever shows up, and whatever interests me the paisley shape is what I use when we have rain, there is a small beach stone in the lower right of page 136

 The beach stone can be seen on subsequent pages... the lower left of the right hand page is the watercolor paper under the last hole cut to accommodate the beach stone... I did paint the top section and ended up with spots on my fingers which I  got on the stone - an accident-, and near the hole on the right- a second accident...