Believe {one little word}

Last year was

DO.

I did not do.

Big fail.

But...

 

Do you know how many quotes there are about failure not being a negative thing?

A lot.  Thank goodness.

I may need to refer back to them often this year.

Because this year is all about believing in myself.

Believe

My word for 2014.

Somewhere along the way in 2013 I lost my belief in myself.

I'm not sure where, nor how.

But happen it did.

However, I intend to get it back.
And luckily I will have a little help along the way.

With this guy.  Ha!

See last year started off with me saying quite loudly that I will do and succeed because,

"I'm a bad ass unicorn!"

He was tucked in my stocking this past Christmas to remind me throughout 2014

that I am indeed

A Bad Ass Unicorn.

Here is to believing in myself again.

 

Do you have a word for 2014?

 



A Journal of Typography

I made a journal awhile ago.

 

 

And I shared a glimpse of it back in June.

I love this thing!

First off, this old day book is a fantastic and odd size of about 6"x15".

It's tall and skinny.

 

 

I thought it would be the perfect place for me to practice my hand lettering.

I sewed in four signatures of watercolor paper

and then got started on the intro page.

 

 

I added only a thin strip of paper to the inside cover, instead of covering the whole thing with paper.

There was something I found very pleasing about the original inside cover.

Maybe the contrast of the original paper color and the bright white of the watercolor paper.

I happened to have an antique sheet music cover page sitting on my desk next to me when I started to draw and found myself inspired by its graphics.

They made everything so pretty back then.

 

To say I am happy with my new place to practice lettering

is an understatement.

I'm pleased as punch.

 



And Then This Happened

So I was going to blog last week,

but then I finally got around to making this...

 

and then this happened...

 

Then before I knew it,

I had picked this up...

 

and this started happening...

and then it was Monday.

There was also lots of celebrating.
Celebrating of the boy
and then the SIL
and then the Farmboy.

It was a pretty good week.
I hope yours was too?