and when you open your eyes...it´s may!!

yes. i should update again what happened these months:

i made 2 new ROD style journals (spring2011 and walking)
i started a new visual journal
i snowshoed and hiked at least twice a month
i started running once a week
i tried pilates (but i prefer yoga and continue going to classes twice a week)
i finished a 75km walking event
i am currently trying to do a spring cleaning and to declutter my environment (home, bag, desktop...) and my life in general

suddenly it is almost december...

and the first snowflakes are here

and i wanted to try them
and i went snowshoeing last weekend

and then managed to get my december daily album ready to go:

gathered papers and other stuff, printed daily sheets, made a cover with a beautiful handmade paper i found at a local store and punched holes. still a lot to be made but i´m already prepared to start in a couple days...

autumn bliss

this weekend i´ve been hiking

all those greens and oranges and browns and greys (pantone palette is minimal compared with such landscapes) mixed with the blue sky and that wonderful autumn light...inevitably make my soul vibrate! we spend 8 hours walking and the day was gone in a flash

i don´t know if it is the ephemeral nature of this bliss that
compel us to enjoy it so deeply
but i guess that when you think something won´t last forever you strive to squeeze it to the full...

first photos of my first "remains of the day" journal

i finished my first ROD journal last weekend, but the weather was so rainy and the light so grey that i couldn´t take proper photos. i say my "first" because i´m already planning my "second", this is so addictive... i couldn´t wait to start filling it up so, althought i still have to do some of the first days of october back, i try to write something on it everyday

one of the things i´ve done to use what i already had is to print directly onto claudine hellmut sticky canvas some digital papers and use them as scraps or embellishmentsi make a collage of some different papers (these are from home tweet home-kimds at oscraps.com) and print them onto the canvas (i have a regular printer HP Photosmart)then i cut pieces that can be used like fabric and stitch over them and i also can use them like tape for instance in this page i left the back paper on so when i want to put a photo or something under it i´ll remove the paper and will stick the photo with the canvas and will be able to flip it over
now, this weekend my main goal is to clean and organize home so the crafting issues and the plans for making "my second" will have to wait for a while...

when i´m not walking i´m crafting

last weekend i embarked in a big adventure of walking...100 km!! we spend 20 hours and 33 min almost without stopping, just some minutes every now and then for having some food and drink. we started in the early morning on saturday and arrived on sunday at dawn, walking in the night along the forest is such a nice experience...i was tired but happy of having accomplished that challenge.
but this weekend i´m envisioning a relaxing crafting one at home... i hope i could go on with my journal project, i´m loving making my ROD journal and hopefully i will finish it tomorrow and will be able to start filling it as soon as posible (my idea was to start it on october 1st and include last weekend trip but i´m afraid i will have to make a "retrospective" ;-) so i´ll reserve the few first pages for it). this has been an amazing discovery and i´m in love with it.

have a great weekend!

hi, there!

i know. i´ve been a very bad blogger lately. i´ve never been a good one but now...the worst blogger since last april or so. i have no excuse. it is not exactly that my creative activity was completely dead or my life empty of nice things but i had no time or no mood to write about it.

i think i should write first a long list updating some thougths and factors that have led me to this point, although i´m afraid it will be a too long one so maybe i need more than a post...

i have been re-organizing my mind in creative related issues. actually right now i am in a desperate search of minimalism and simplicity, partly because of this economical crisis and partly because i need more room physical, mental and spiritually.

this summer i´ve been focusing mainly on photography and i´ve become to start loving digi scrapbooking. i also discovered totally rad actions and i´ve been playing a lot with them-totally love!-, and i´ve done quite a few digi layouts more or less oriented to create a photobook by mixing simple layouts and enlarged photos.

my second love these last months has been walking and hiking, and that has kept me away from home and from my working table most of the weekends resulting in less art done.
but these last weeks something has ligthen up inside me and i´ve found myself in a great urge of making stuff. i still love paper and glue and pen and paint...too much!

after a few trials and thinking a lot (rather strange in me) and then reviewing the videos from the last class i took with ali edwards (yesterday and today) i´ve taken a decission: i will make my scrapbooks -those i want to be seen (and admired;-)) by others- in a digi/hybrid "graphic magazine-like" simple way. my inspiration here: ali edwards of course, paislee press, molly irwin...

and i will make art and visual journals to tell my most personal stories (and i´ll decide if i´ll show them or just will keep them for myself) and in these journals i will free myself and will put all my creativity to work with papers, stickers, ribbons, paint, fabric... or whatever inspires me in that moment.

so well, sumarizing, rigth now i am totally into art and visual journaling.

as i needed a little push in this subject i signed up for a couple art journaling classes:

remains of the day by mary ann moss

memories and reflections by kelly kilmer

both are different styles and concepts but i think both are amazing.


...and here i am. trying to find time to fill my creative blank. and wishing to be a better blogger to share all of it!

week in the life {TUESDAY}

orange for breakfast...

preparing a quick-test at work...

a healthy salad for lunch...

i´ve skipped my tuesday´s yoga class as i didn´t feel quite good...

today i wear my blue nike sneakers...

not a good face either, so i needed a solution...

i transplanted this aloe to a new home...

take a snack for my daughter and went to pick her up from school