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Sanctuary of the journal page
The chaos of life with a family (or I should say with a teenager) has put a stop to my Face a Day challenge as well as pretty much every other creative project I was juggling. Somehow, though, I managed to find my way back into the sanctuary of my journal pages where I found much creative solace and release. Here are some recent pages. I would love to hear how you manage to stay on path with your creative urges when life has other plans...
I also have the first test batch of bowls back that I've been working on, still waiting for the right clay to arrive, but in the mean time I've been taking a lot of frustration out on some stoneware clay, pounding and pounding. Hopefully my supplies will come this week and I will have time to make and fire some gifts for many friends I will soon be seeing. Less than a month until I head off on my adventure... HOLDING ON TIGHT
those bowls are incredible galia, as is your journal! keep your chin up girlfriend! xo carlanda
ReplyDeleteThank you honey pie. Gxx
DeleteThis is all so beautiful Galia, I especially love the bowl. Family life can be so demanding and stressful at times. We've been going through some pretty hard stuff lately too, I totally know what you mean and feel for you girl <3 Hang on to your art, hang on to beauty, it really is healing and nurturing. Lots of love to you from one mother's heart to another...
ReplyDeletexo Laly
Thank you Laly, love to you too from my mama heart.
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Wow! Gorgeous art journal pages and the bowl is so beautiful!!! Did you throw the bowl or handbuilt it? I hope family life settles back for you. xoxo
ReplyDeleteThanks Monika, the bowl is hand built. More coming soon.
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Oh my goodness, every picture here is so beautiful. The bowl is gorgeous. You are one talented lady!
ReplyDeleteThank you Jane
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Challenges are good and spur us forward, but what's really important is that we are moving forward even when we think we've not succeeded at one of those challenges....and you are SO moving forward! Your journal pages touch me so deeply, they are just gorgeous and moody and so full of heart. And of course, the bowl is stunning as well. You're rocking a fabulous creative life! ♥
ReplyDeleteYes, i know it doesn't always look like we are moving forward in the moment, it is only when we take the time to look and see how far we've come, and allow ourselves the permission of some credit, that we can see the cumulative progression of our work, built only from small steps sometimes.
DeleteHere's to rocking a fabulous creative life.
Thank you
Gxx
Allow the challenges and frustrations to become the fuel for your creative fires and you will always burn bright! I've been a parent for over 30 years and I watched as my father abandoned his family to pursue his dreams and my mother abandoned her dreams for her family and I have forever been following the middle way...which is, and always has been a razor's edge. Some days I felt as those I was succeeding as a writer and failing as a parent and other days it was just the opposite. Then there were those golden days when everything seemed to flow and those awful days when everything fell apart. Now that my youngest is 18, I see how that my love of my sons has cooked me and ripened me and my love of writing has made me a better parent. It's a journey...an intense, heart-opening, exhausting, overwhelming unfoldment that gives us as much as it takes out of us. What BEAUTY life is creating through you!
ReplyDeleteYes, the tight rope walking of parenting and balancing on the creative edge. Sometimes the line between balance and snap is thin. Here's to more of those golden days and to the journey, we wouldn't have it any other way.
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Love your bowl and the journal pages...my creativity has been confined to my journal pages too lately. Maybe I will get some time to get into my studio soon but till then...I always have my journal.
ReplyDeleteDebbie
"I'll always have my journal"- :)
DeleteGxx
Lovely journal pages, and gorgeous bowl!
ReplyDeleteThank you
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What a visual feast! Absolutely gorgeous :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Malini
DeleteI would love to make use of my art journals the way you do, as an outlet but also beautiful creations in themselves. I just don't seem to have found a groove with them. And that bowl is heavenly. So many talents! :) I always love coming here. Wishing you peace and time to yourself as you need.
ReplyDeleteIs there anything you CAN'T do? Loving that bowl...
ReplyDeleteYour journal pages are so beautiful! They remind me of the place I can go to rest and a retreat, to my own journal, long neglected. Thanks for inspiring!xx
ReplyDeleteThese journal pages are very breathtaking. There is so much passion, soul and whimsy in each work. Beautiful and outstanding job.
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