Good morning!

So, I woke up at 4:15 this morning. Wide awake at 4:15! I don't know what's up with that, but I do love waking up bright and early! I'm a little anxious to see if I'll be able to keep my early bird schedule with this new semester... all of my classes are in the evening, so I probably won't even get home until close to 10:00 p.m.! I might have to set my alarm for a little later, anyway.

Anyway, this morning has been great already - I had an email from Smitten & Hazel, letting me know that I won their giveaway!!  I'm so excited - that necklace is so pretty!!

Image borrowed from Smitten & Hazel

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In other news, I'm officially done playing with the blog layout now. There's a new banner, all new sidebar buttons, and links to my current projects: 52 Weeks and my Art Journal (I finally uploaded all of the pages onto Flickr). I spent wayyy too much time over the past 24 hours messing with it! What do you think? I think...I love it. :-)

Click the button on the right to see my art journal!

Journal Love

Here are a couple of my favorite art journal pages I've made recently -

Lots of colors and patterns!

I go through phases where I prefer neutrals, and very simple palettes...

and then my mood changes and I want everything to be colorful and bright!!

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I wasn't sure what I was going to do with my weekly Instax photos... but today I decided that I definitely wanted to incorporate them into my art journal. I considered making a separate journal with only my weekly photos, to chronicle the year, but...they're already chronicled online. Why not just incorporate them? So I made the 2 pages with the Instax above this afternoon.

Does anyone else keep an art journal? I LOVE mine!!

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Happy December-Eve!!

I'm really excited for December.... it means the end of the semester (and...graduation!), holiday fun, and a new year! All things I'm looking forward to very much.

Being the last 2 weeks (week and a half, now!) of the semester, I've already mentally checked-out, and have been spending most of my "free" time journaling. It feels so good to be doing something creative again!! I love school, but the creative side of my brain (the better side) suffers greatly.

I thought Mr. Darwin looked a little sad, all alone on the front cover of my journal, so I started a background for him. I think he's much more comfortable now.

I had to do an owlette page. Have you seen this???

Too. cute.

I had a lot of fun ripping up papers and sticking glittery stickers all over the place :-D

Aren't those flowers the best? I bought a massive...barrel??...of them at A.C. Moore the other day - all different colors, textures, and prints... so much fun!

As always, I'm so glad that today is over...Tuesdays are my worst day! But, its nice because its all uphill after that!