hi ho hi ho it’s back to work i go.
yep. i put on pants and did that.
i went to work.
walked in the classroom. looked around. sighed.
then got to work.
i continued reading the one and only ivan after lunch.
and so on and so forth.
now i’m here posting more pics of my travel journal. i finished it yesterday. my solution for extra blank pages that i didn’t feel like filling? glued them together. i love having my travel journals, but when i’ve been absorbed into it for a few weeks i have to resist the strong urge to throw the &%$!@ thing into the trash can. truth. just get so sick of looking at it.
this one in particular has a lot more writing and fewer pictures than, say, my travel journal to sweden. so be it!
having the pool in the house was a serious distraction. a very pleasurable one morning, noon, and night. i practically lived in a towel when i wasn’t out tromping the streets, exploring volcanoes, lagoons, and lakes with julio.
splashing, reading, listening to music, floating on my back staring at the sky.
i seriously don’t see how anyone can get a travel journal done if they are doing regular traveling.
with people.
who like to gogogogogogogogo.
who don’t keep travel journals themselves!
a mystery!
Thank you so much for telling us that you have a hard time working on your travel journals while away and you are sick of them by the time you are done with them!! I’ve always admired how you seem to be able to spend time journaling on your adventures. I sometimes get things stuck down but that is as far as it goes. To know that you have a hard time with is makes me feel less guilty. I have soooo many unfinished travel journals. But, the ones I have finished, I treasure. Just seeing the pictures and words brings my memories back as fresh as the day I made them.
Well, i know you don’t think it’s a showstopper, but I love it. You have truly made this sketching travel journal into a hybrid of your former styles (before you were sketching) and the current MAM interests. It’s a hard act to follow! I still can’t quite bend my noggin around just how you do it – hint hint…there’s another class in here somewhere…thank you for following my jaunt to the UK on IG! It was rather thrilling!
i loved your trip! and hope to get out there sometime soon myself.
thanks jane, you’re awfully nice.
Your comment about not being able to travel journal whilst traveling with folks who go,go,go is spot on. my only solution–write. I kept Field Notes notebooks and filled two with all the details of where we were and what we were doing and how many accidental fires my husband set…all good and all ready to be added to the journal that I’ll make ‘some day’ and which will also contain pictures. I love seeing what you have created with you journal–such a gift!
xoxo
i loved following your european adventure on IG.
xo
so fun to see hunter in rome!
We had a blast!
Love you are going to glue the blank pages together. I have two I skipped accidentally and came to the same conclusion yesterday. GReat minds think alike right?! 👍🏻
I’m loving those street critters. It’s a trial going around with others when you’re trying to do your art. I know even with photography, I need to look, look, look, wait, absorb. I’m never in “snapshot” mode. I think I wished you happy birthday on FB, but I’ll send some more wishes in my best Jiminy Cricket voice!
oh the more the better, dahling!!!
I’m still channelling your thoughts confirming my original suspicion that we are twins separated at birth: I, too, get absolutely sick of my travel journals before I’m done with them. Love the glue-the-pages together idea and will do so one my Thanksgiving trip to New Orleans journal this very afternoon! Last year, before a trip to the British Isles, I spent an entire year sketching daily from life so I could do so on my trip. On the 2nd day there, my friends joined me (no artists) and I didn’t do another page the whole trip!!!! Way too much distraction, but a wonderful trip anyway and plenty of journalling back at home!
ultimately it’s about THE PLACE for me. writing is easy for me to do but the non-stop sketching in order to get enough material to fill a sketchbook. not so much. if i start to feel like it’s a chore i just STOP and wait till the spirit moves me. so glad i left a few blank facing pages alone just in case i needed to glue them.
i guess the bottom line is not every travel journal needs to be a show stopper. right?
I’m loving this book. I used a lot of stamps in my London ’16 travel journal and plan to do it again for my upcoming trip in May. Stamps are wonderful!
What size is your book? And you used a corner rounder on the pages, right? I have thought of getting one, on and off. But I have so many craft supplies I don’t use…
I need my own swimming pool just like the one you had.
sandra, it’s a 5 by 7 landscape …the pages were cut out of a moleskine i took apart, they came rounded like that! i just resewed them into the new covers.
i too LOVE the stamps. i got the idea from jose naranja…he uses stamps so beautifully in his sketchbooks. now i get them for every place i travel…
Yes, I totally agree. You have to have some time/space to do any sketching in a travel journal. I love to see everything I can so it makes it hard. By the time you get back to your room after walking 6-10 miles, I am exhausted.
I t is HOT here today.I cant think to do Anything at all. so I have grazed the fridge, ordered a lemon tree and some licorice plants.And now I am reading Stardust. Theneighbours dog is sad about his solitary state and the ceiling fan stirs the humid air .also fantasised about going to festival in new Zealand..Away to the local pool to mix it with the local kids..Hope your birthday was grand and you get your birhday wish.
what a lovely day you have planned! stardust…? going to investigate
How lovely to have the distraction of your own private swimming pool! Each trip has its own rhythm, doesn’t it? I so agree that I get sick of my journals by the time I’ve spent so much time with them. And it IS hard to keep a journal when traveling with others who are on the move. A dilema, for sure. Happy belated birthday!
yes to different rhythms for different trips.
thanks for bday wishes 🙂 !!!