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!