Creative Juices Flowing

Tomorrow is a day I have been waiting anxiously for.

It is the start of JEANNE OLIVER'S CREATIVELY MADE WORKSHOP.

Words cannot describe how super excited I am for this class to start.

What I would do to have won the lottery this weekend

so that I could quit work and stay home just to do this workshop all day.

Guess it will just have to be good enough to come home from work

and start it tomorrow night.

Last Thursday I made the mistake of watching one of my

favorite shows: Grey's Anatomy.

It was a mistake because although I have been doing

better with my grief over my mom's death,

I was unprepared for the scene in which a girl had

to take her father off of life support.  On the show,

the process was much faster than how it is in

real life.  My mom did not pass as quickly once

she was taken off of the ventilator, as the actor on TV.

Re-living that night was heartbreaking for me.

It took it's toll on me that night and the next day.

Luckily, I was able to come home from work

early on Friday and pull myself together.

I did what works best for me now.  I went to my

art journal and started working on that.

This journal is proving to be a huge

therapeutic tool for me.  Little did I know

when I signed up for this class back in the summer,

that I would need it so badly.

Perhaps I was led to that class by a power greater than

myself who knew what the future held for me.

Here are a few pictures of  this weekends assignments and entries.
For those of you who are looking for some wonderful creative class to take,
I would strongly recommend signing up tonight for Jeanne's class I mentioned up top.
Just click on the link I posted and it will take you straight to it. 
Hope everyone has a great week.

My first full week.  Picking a color that represents me each day and a word to describe how I feel.
Also illustrating the weather for the day.

First Card Peek assignment.  Cut out magazine pictures for a month, then choose 1 to
recreate each week.  This weeks was the barn.

Not sure you can read it, but the directions for this page are on the left.
Divide paper into 4 rooms: Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual.
Fill in room with words and images that represent how you are feeling.

Close up of page.