Goodbye 2011

So another year gone! Looking back, it was a year with a lot of high's and also some low's. The year I started this blog and found my own style. I'm really proud of all the pages I made. I so enjoyed making them, I think these are my favorite:

 

 

For 2012 I want to try to Art Journal every day. I love that my journal is in only one style, so I made a smaller one to just play and try new things.
I will work on my health, both body and soul. Will meditate and read more. Enjoy my family and friends.

Hope you will have a fun and safe New Year's Eve and wishing you a happy, healthy and creative 2012!

Last Page of the Year and Finishing Projects

I was making a page for someone else, but at the end I wasn't really satisfied. I liked the page, but not what I had in mind. So turned the page into a page for myself :-) Probably the last page of the year.

At the Dutch Art Journaling Forum we started a Circle Journal. With nine participants we made pages for each other. We worked on separate pages on A5 in the theme the other chose. This are the pages I made for them.

For Ilse, theme Wings
Find your wings and fly

For Ellie, theme Animals
Sweet Chick

For Elvy, theme Quotations
To Wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are

For Marieke, theme Colors
As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life

For Margot, theme Angels
We are each of us angels with only one wing and we can only fly by embracing one another

For Sandra, theme Grids
Think out side the box

For Bonita, theme Quotations
Life is not about waiting fot the storm to pass but to dance in the rain.

For Alda, theme Hearts
Smile, it is the key rhat fits the lock of everybody's heart

Art Journal Pages

Mama's monster
Mommy's monster

Kerst
Christmas

Art Journal Pages

Some pages with a review of 2011 and my hopes for 2012, wrote on the back of the pages about it.

Hoop, geloof, liefde
Hope, faith, love

Art Journal Pages

Still blue here, going to some hard times.
C'est la Vie, I guess.

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Ik ga je zo missen
I'm going to miss you so much

Loslaten
Letting go