Christmas Pages with cards...

 PEACE , LOVE, HOPE
p.154 includes a Christmas Card from longtime, dear friend,and one tucked in the pocket from a fellow retiree from EKES, and friend. There's a pale rubbing of my modern tree on the left. I needed to have a balance, contrasting for the colors of the card.





This includes a card from  a former principal, and friend, (a Charlie Harper design)...yes it's sideways. The tree is from something I worked on a few years ago, and it showed up among the stuff on my worktable. I added the dots and Merry Christmas...

I have a few blank pages to finish the year, and have started the backwards Table of Contents - reversed !!! Looking at new journal for 2019, possibly two !!

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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...







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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..