Hi there, beautiful ones. I mentioned in the last post that I started with Lesson 1 of Life Book 2015 and am “catching up.” I know from last year’s experience that I can skip lessons (I skipped 2), some weeks are an artist interview (no art lesson), and there are plenty of what Tam calls “bonus lessons,” which are less work-intense. I feel no pressure with this matter of ‘catching up.’
Without further ado, here are my pages, and 1 canvas, for February’s Life Book 2015 lessons. For this particular group, I think I used every art supply in my stash.
Week 5 Dream Catcher with Rachel Rice. I didn’t have the doily that Rachel used on her page and instead, used a circlular thing that I crocheted using my own hand spun yarn. Truthfully, I don’t remember when I made this little thing or why I kept it. But it came in handy for this page, as it represents my dream to someday go back to knitting, crocheting and spinning my own yarns.
Week 6 Seeds of Love with Tam. This was another lesson that I saw a lot of posts for and really loved the art that people were making. I enjoyed this lesson so much that I created two additional paintings.
Week 7 Heart Community with Jill K. Berry
Week 7 Magical Mystery Tour with Violette Clark, close-up of my page
Week 8 Treasure Seeking with Mati Rose McDonough. This lesson was on wrapped canvas and I was compelled to re-imagine one of Tam’s Life Book 2014 pages in this lesson.
Week 9 Favorite Favorites with Lynn Whipple
What do you do to manage the feeling that you are behind?
Its enjoyable to look at your art pieces from life book. They are all wonderful!
I was just talking to my husband about feeling behind. As I said to him, “there are always 75 things that I didn’t do today. I have to not feel bad about that, but instead feel good about the things I did do today and let that be the motivation for doing more tomorrow.”
Love the work you are doing!
That is a terrific way to think about feeling behind. Thanks for sharing that – I will totally steal it! Thanks to you and Carrie – I’m glad you’re enjoying my work. My favorite page so far will be in the next group of Life Book pages. I am currently working on Week 13, which is a lesson with Juliette Crane, who is the 2nd reason I signed up for LB 2015. I just love her art. You can check it out here: http://www.juliettecrane.com/