My Moleskine arrived last week and I think I'm in love. How could I have doubted you Mr. Skiné? We've hit it off so well. It started off as a blind date of sorts but ended with laughs, drinks and lots of fun crazy stuff and I LOVE him. My only problem (and it sounds superficial) is he's a little stuffy with his black outift and the dumb elastic closure thing. But we're working on it. Poor Mr. Skiné though. I think he thought he'd be out and about in some Swiss business man's breifcase, dashing to summits and meetings, the highbrow life, and here he is stuck next to my dusty bedside table and getting his nerdy cover all decked out in glue. Sorry. I still love you.
I'm really eager to start a mixed media journal and I've been reading up on it to get some ideas for supplies and techniques. I realize it's a no rules diary but I still want it to have some style and have it be pretty. I don't think I can justify another Moleskine purchase just yet (if only, sigh) but I really think I want ANOTHER journal for crazy uncontrolled thoughts and the mixed media business. Hmmm, maybe I'll try to make one. I'm starting with a collage group on Saturdays through my local library which please, PLEASE don't let it be a scrapbooking class because I have a little imagination spot in my head where it's going to be all these funky artists types and I don't want to be disappointed. It's nothing against scrapbooking but I'm just not into traditional scrapbooking at all so a scrapbooking class to me would be a waste of time. I think this might be something fun though because I know a few of the people involved and they're funky artist types. SOooo, I need the new journal for my collage group.
All these journals and I haven't even showed my datebook which is my other, other journal where I can jot down my to-do's and my planetary notes. It's where I've been slowly getting hooked on mixed media for the past few months because I do about a month in advance each time and then draw and cut and paste and stamp the daylights out of it until it looks ready to write in. I got the date journal model from Geninne Z's blog and flickr set and I've really had fun with it. It's so much more personal than a store bought date book and so charming to pull it out and write a date down as everyone else fumbles with their iphone. Yes I'm old fashioned. I'll share some bits of it when I get a chance to lay everything out and do some photos.
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We sell blue, red, pink, and green moleskines at my bookstore. (Well, not *my* bookstore, but you know what I mean.) There are also some larger sketch and journal moleskines; those do have the traditional black cover. Let me know if you want me to pick one up for you.
That is so cool. Where do you find the time for all of this? I barely have enough time to keep up with the photography. I wish I had your stamina.
Alison - Ohhhh, I really wish I had an actual store nearby that I could just go into and browse for them. Thanks for the offer! It's so sweet of you but I do actually get them for a good price off of the internet.
Jennifer - I HAVE to do this otherwise my brain will turn to pudding! ;/ I really just do it at night for about an hour or so in bed. Sometimes when I can I draw with the kids as an activity but otherwise it's just a little block of time each night. Oh and I guess I do carry my sketchbook everywhere with me so that maybe adds up to an hour or so a month of sketches. My Saturday collage class (every other Sat in fact) is a deal Seb and I worked out because he's taking a Thursday night sport class so it's our trade off. This is why I hope it's good because my free time is so dang precious!!
You sound worse off for free time than I am! I read during that one hour block of time.
OK OK - enough with the artistic inspirations! Now you have forced me to do something. Anything in fact with all the magazines, drawings, paints and other items I just couldn't part with in hopes of turning them into something else. Now I have to do it. When? That's a good answer, but I suppose I can find a moment or two.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Jennifer - yeah reading has sort of fallen by the wayside. I do have some new books that are calling my name though.
P - happy to oblige :) have fun with those paints.
OK, well, just let me know if you ever need a hot pink Moleskine! :)
Have you read The Decorated Page or The Decorated Journal by Gwen Diehn? I found them both really inspirational, although I am just starting out on the art journaling thing. Have a great time at your class. It sounds like fun!
And I have some old letters to send you too - the reflections of 25 years ago. If only we knew about MP then - what we could have done.
Alison - Have you bought one for yourself?
Erica - I think I'm going to order Claudia Hellmuth's book. I think she's got a lot of good techniques. Have you heard of her? What's been bugging me lately about the book industry and mixed media-art books is that anyone and everyone's publishing these art books and 90 percent of it's just fluff (ie. a light expansion of what you find on their blog). I'm really careful what I order because as you know it's expensive with international shipping!
Praers - Oh I'd love to see those. Yes I wish I'd started keeping a journal back then. I guess our letters are kind of like these journals.
I hear you on the book industry. There are soooo many artist books out there now that just seem to rehash the same techniques. I just spent some time perusing Amazon.com and have to wonder if I would buy any of these books if I were able to leaf through it in a bookstore.
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