Last day off. Well, it’s actually my normal day off after being off sick for two days, but even in that short time, I’ve started to enjoy the comfort of lying on the settee watching TV and scrolling through rubbish on the internet. Just wasting time…
So, it was while scrolling and doing nothing in particular that I saw that a friend had posted a link on facebook about a 30 day journal project she had done herself a few months earlier: http://www.lisasonora.com/30-day-journal-project/
Last month, when I was trying to get organised for my Handmade Book workshops, by putting all my stocks of paper and tools etc all in one place, I came across a studio journal that I’d kept while doing my MA . I’d completely forgotten about it. I really liked the way I’d kept a record of my thoughts, sketches for ideas and even exhibitions I’d seen. I know I needed to do it for the course, but I want to do it again – now – just for me. Getting that link today has given me the jolt to start again.
I didn’t need to sign up for it, but I have anyway. Sometimes it’s good to have others to turn to and spur you on. Bit like being on a diet I suppose – you need to get in the right frame of mind and have a support group to help.
So I made a journal this afternoon out of scrap paper I had (see pic) …and then I’ll sit and wait till 1 August when the ‘challenge’ begins.
( Of course, I won’t really be sitting around waiting – I’ll be back at work and then come the weekend, will de-install the ‘Colonize Revisited’ exhibition at Arena, get the work back to all of its owners and then begin to install the Soup Collective exhibition at Tate Liverpool)
Oh – and finally move into my studio !!
