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Inspired by The Beatles, I'm learning this song on the guitar right now!

29 April 2006

this was one of the very last photos i took of murph...last roll of film...only hours before i finally had the vet drive forty minutes to come and put him down. we spent a couple hours at the lake that day, and he simply sat next to me on the rocks, in the sun, taking everything in. it was like he knew.

 

he was only four years old.

 

i have kept these memories so deep. hidden in boxes of photos, behind the closed doors of my heart. the kinds of memories you shove so deep because of the ache. but the trouble with those kinds of memories is that they're not the kind you can just push away in some box under your bed.

 

when i lost murph that July 10, 2002 at 4:15 in the afternoon on that sun-flooded ridge at his graveside, a piece of me died along with him, a better piece of me...

 

it kills me to think that i will be going through this with morley...with matea...some day. it makes me never want to have dogs. but then i try to embrace everything i've learned from them....they live so in the moment, and i owe them that...to live in the moment with them...for as long as i can...for as long as they'll be here with me.

My welcome page to my visual journal. Includes a stencil of me as a teenager.

washi yuzen A6 journal

lots and lots of paint, some stamping, altered collage image

This book was included in the Visual Journals exhibition at Abecedarian Gallery in Denver Colorado in 2011.

brush pen over watercolour

First part of Boogie journal spread from June 27, 2011...

 

I blogged about these pages here

lostcoastpost.blogspot.com/2011/06/changing-how-i-documen...

When I was flying back from Oregon in July, I listened to Caroline Myss' book on tape "Advanced Energy Healing" and doodled in my journal while I listened.

 

July 2011

vintage graph paper, stamping, gel pen, words from magazine

Elements of Art Sketch & Write journal

My second watercolor in my Everyday Life series. I love my clothesline. :) All those colors and the soft sound of the fabric snapping in the breeze is just happiness for me.

 

Watercolor and watercolor pencil in watercolor moleskine.

Birthday Journal (made from Paper+Cup greeting card) - Blogged Here

Friday's journal page

Some recent journaling - blogged HERE

visual journal entry from today:using a piece of torn notebook paper sewn onto a piece of fabric. Fabric image was created using a photo transfer with a transparency.

I haven't uploaded journal pages in a while, mostly because I haven't been journaling.

photo, paper from magazine, pens

by VanAnh, grade 12

book box open to show the pages. This book was included in the Visual Journals exhibition at Abecedarian Gallery in Denver Colorado in 2011.

Winter chores on the top of my popularity list. I love to:

 

1. Stack wood in the wood shed.

2. Take the wood stove ashes out in the sled.

3. Freeze dry the laundry.

4. Shovel snow.

 

Blogged at the Burbs..

11.5 in x 33 in Moleskine watercolor journal, Golden Paints, Crayola Airbrush pens, Neocolor 1 oil crayons, Sakura Gel Pens, Daniel Smith Watercolors, Crayola crayons, Portfolio pastels, PITT Pens, Colorbox Pigment Pads, Tim Holtz Distress Ink, painters tape

 

Really bad haiku:

 

Many mannequin heads

still waiting for the cover

of their stylish hats

 

You wonder why I haven't written haikus since the fourth grade.

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