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A page from my art journal...

I've really been getting into this list making as a means of self-exploration this year. Today's list is about what makes me feel healthy: mind, body and soul. I thought for sure that exercise would be on the list, but there is a finny thing about list making. The list can sometimes surprise you. You find yourself adding items to the list you may not...

from the pages of my art journal

I am not a soccer mom or a dance mom... but I can proudly call myself a music mom. Those who are not music moms, let me fill you in on what music moms have to do. This weekend is a typical weekend for a music mom. Friday night, I took my daughter (this is my music kid) to a concert to hear one of her teachers perform. Although this was a casual performance in a...

A page from my art journal...

I am grateful for so many things but first I want to say that I am so grateful that we live in the communication age so that I can get great ideas and share my thoughts on a blog. My whole business of being an artist would not be possible, at least not the way that I do it, without a computer and all the comforts of modern living. So for all those things, I am...

Creating an Action Plan by @schulmanArt, Miriam Schulman

What my art journal looks like now...

My art journal is really starting to evolve.. Although I still use it to make pretty to-do lists ( it is also my Planner Pad, after all) I also have been using it to dig a little deeper. Instead of waiting until the end of the year to reflect, I am choosing to reflect at the end of every month. This month...

List what you should be proud of....

Art Journal Prompt: List the things that make you proud!

 Sunday is quickly becoming the day where I get to do a little soul searching through my list making. You can read how I got started doing that in this blog post. The art journal prompts are from List Yourself, by

How a To-do list gets converted

Last summer, I bought a Planner Padto help me keep organized with all my ideas and various to-do lists. Although I love it, I don't use it in all the ways that it is intended. I tend to grab whatever page is available to write to-do lists and been using the month view to pen in appointments. Lately, I have been adding gesso and acrylic paint on top of used pages to...

My Sunday Rituals

I am not sure if this is hypocritical but I am sitting here at my computer at 8:15 in the morning writing a list of Sunday rituals knowing full well I will get to very few of the ones I listed today! At around 9, my whole family is piling into the car for a road trip to Gettysburg Pa to visit Gettysburg College. My daughter is a high school junior and we are doing the good old...

Greatest Comforts (chocolate free version)

This week I am listing "My Greatest Comforts" (based on Moorea Seals #52lists project, found here) When I first sat down to write the list, chocolate in its many forms kept popping up... dark chocolate, hot chocolate, m&m's almond Hershey's kisses-- it was like Eureka! No wonder I can't lose these stupid 5 pounds. So I set out to make a chocolate free...

(goals for 2014 #1: Keep an Art Journal)

A piece of my art journal... using list making to explore myself

Planner Pad got turned into an art journal!

I kept a journal religiously throughout high school and college, using it to pour my feelings out about unrequited crushes and being overweight. Sometime, around the time I met my husband, I let go of the process of writing in a journal. Around this...