Neither an End nor a Beginning

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
~Hal Borland

Creative Planner

This is the cover of my creative friend’s journal-planner …
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.  ~Mary Kay Ash
Collage journaling — also referred to as scrapbooking, creative journaling, art journals — is my right brain method of planning and pondering the realities of the universe — well, my universe! [...]

Put it in writing!

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. ~Napolean Hill

You are here …

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. ~Belva Davis

end of year. art. vision board.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
~Winnie the Pooh
The end of the year is fast approaching, and in the midst of the holiday rush (and misadventures ) … My best ideas pop (pop, pop!) into my head! Probably more about allowing myself to have scheduled time “off” … [...]

Building Your Own Skyscraper

There are times when creative planners find it difficult to simply begin a project. Especially projects we label, “big” …
We do this since we are big picture planners; we make sweeping strokes to outline the path we see in our mind’s eye. Details make us tired and tend to lead us to distraction.

But here is [...]

Life: In Freehand

Freehand drawings are something I make a policy to avoid. The act of sketching a freehand drawing — without guides or measuring— just seems too daunting!
Perhaps it is because my freehand drawings tend to look odd or out of proportion. (I did successfully learn how to sketch from the techniques Betty Edwards presents [...]