A personal challenge - try and write something every day for January 2025
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Snow flurries dance past the windows, whirling and rolling before landing on the already frosty white ground. I'm glad to be inside. During the winter months I am home more - as primarily employed as a horticulturalist, I am busy beyond belief during the 'growing season' and although I diversify during the winter months into arty, craft or wreath making workshops, I have the utter pleasure of have days off during the week to 'play'.
I recently discovered something new to me - 'perpetual journaling'* - which entails sketching or painting an item from nature once weekly in a book and repeating until that book is full which if done correctly can last for years. Be still my beating heart.
I started mine in November (when I first made this wonderous discovery) and look forward to painting and adding my work each week. I love that each time I add to my book - you can see a visual change in the seasons. It also makes me look at my subject of the week so closely - making me notice the tiniest of holes in a leaf, the thinnest of spines on a stem, the curliest of fronds, the crispest of dried foliage and it feeds both my gardening and arting heart.
I love that when I am out walking I could just chance upon the perfect subject for scrutiny then sketching. All this joy and pleasure from something so simple.
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I sense your happiness with your new journal. Just before Christmas I filled a notebook that I'd been using for almost 2 years with a record of the quilts I've made for Project Linus. It might not be neat but it brings me such joy. I can look back and think did I really make that? So keep on with your journal as it will be full of treasures. x
ReplyDeleteI am! I love how the other books have developed over the years and am looking forward to mine growing like that too. Keeping a creative diary is quite rewarding when you look back and see what you got up to ❤️
DeleteI've been enjoying your paintings over on Insta. I don't mind having to stay in more...always lots to do to amuse myself and it gives me all the more reason to read more. Arilx
ReplyDeletethank you ☺️ and yes, having a day here or there to do 'what ever' you want is just the best 😁
Delete'perpetual journaling' now that is something new to me m'dear, does indeed sound simple yet worthwhile and fun. I often think about logging the wildlife that I attract into my own garden (yes shockingly this gardener has nearly completed his own!), perchance this may be the way to go.....
ReplyDeleteGreat job drawing the teasel. The sketching is a wonderful way to pass the winter season.
ReplyDeleteThank you ☺️ it is a great excuse to stay indoors and warm whilst the weather is a bit wild outside.
DeleteJust doing something regularly is strangely difficult at times..but is a good discipline
ReplyDeleteI agree, it also helps bring a sense of normality while the regularity gives gentle boundaries.
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