Make Tiny Art Journals, To Spark New Ideas & Insights

1. Introduction And Project Overview: Hello, everyone, and welcome to this class on Tiny Art Journals. I use them quite regularly when I need to spark new ideas, or I want some insights into things, or maybe I get some answers to questions that I didn't even know I needed to ask. They are such a lovely, creative, intentional process that the things that come out of them can often be quite a surprise. I'm Dawn Cawthra, and I usually introduce myself as an artist, designer, and analistic health educator, and I am those through things. But what do those labels mean? They don't come anywhere near close to revealing. Whole person that I am. And this is where allowing yourself to play and make these tiny art journals is a really revealing process because you can be who you want to be. You know, you can ask the questions. What comes next? Am I ready to step through the porko into being somebody else? Maybe the inspired me to write a short story. This is quite funny, actually. On the morning of her 64th birthday, Eve suddenly remembered who she really was a magnificent, multi dimensional being who had squeezed herself into this tiny body. I wonder she was expanding. In all directions, she was trying to escape. But then she realized what she would miss, a beautiful family and all her friends, so she decided to stay. So I can be a storyteller if I want to be. I can make my art and just doodle and turn it into this, but then becomes inspiration, landscapes to explore, seascapes to delight. Mountains to take Mbath away. All in good time. This was a really lovely one to do, actually, because it really reignited my passion for wanting to travel and see different landscapes. And this is what I'm trying to get over to you here that by, you know, creating these lovely little books, you really can be inspired in ways that you hadn't thought of previously. So, as you've probably gathered, the project for this class is to make these lovely art journals. I'll take you through the whole process of how we turn a flat piece of artwork into a three D little book. And here you can see this is the original artwork, which I haven't turned into a book, but by taking a photocopy of it, I've been able to create a little book anyway, and just play with it. You can do the same process by taking a few photocopies of your original artwork. Now, this is the original artwork in here. And then I've taken a photocopy of it, and I've turned it into a very different looking book by using a different fold and have, in fact, created yet another little story, which, by the way, I like reading these little stories to my grandkids. They find them quite funny. And the beauty of creating two or three of the same one is that you can hop it in your bag on your way out or slip it into your pocket and just take it with you and be inspired wherever you are, and, you know, just sit and doodle wherever you might find yourself. So let's take a quick look at what materials you're going to need for this class. And I'll also share with you my favorite art supplies that I'm going to be using as well. I'll see you in the next session. 2. Materials For Making Tiny Journals: To make these lovely Tinir art journals, you can use any materials that you like playing with. You could use watercolor, go ash, acrylic, Celtic pens, crayons, colored pencils, pastels, anything at all that you like playing with. It doesn't matter, just so long as you can make a mark on the paper with it. But what you will need, regardless of what materials you use, you will need an A four sheet of paper. Now this is one that I've cut down cut in half from my mixed media pad. I'm using one that is 250 GSM, which is a good paperweight. And you can sort of tell it's nice and stiff, or you can just go with copy paper. Again, I'm using navigator paper, and that's 120 M squared. So anything in between those are absolutely fine. A pencil and a ruler, which is optional. But as we go through the instructions, you'll see why you might need those. You will need a pair of scissors. You'll need a glue stick. I'm using Pritt stick. Either a spoon or a bone folder for making really nice creases. And if you've got one, then a cutting mat and a little craft knife. But if you don't have a cutting mat and a craft knife with a ruler, you can always just use scissors. And that's it. That's the basic art supplies for making these lovely journals. But I'll see you in the next session where I'll show you the favorite supplies that I'm going to be working with. 3. Choosing Favourite Supplies: I've just been gifted these lovely Kura taki watercolor paints, and I'm going to be using these today, mainly because working from a palette rather than tubes, is a lot quicker. You know, the colours are already there. They're already mixed. I don't have to go into lots and lots of mixing because that's not really what this is about. And yeah, I can get, you know, the paint onto the brush so much quicker. And then, obviously, the paint onto the paper. And because this is about finding your rhythm and your flow, I want to be able to do this, you know, fairly not overly fast, but, you know, with a nice flow to it. So I'm going to go with these gorgeous watercolor paints. And a while ago, I treated myself to some new oil pastels, some fabrian castle oil pastels, which I haven't even touched yet. So I thought now was a good opportunity to maybe bring some of these in, as well. So these are going to be the main materials that I'm using today. I'll no doubt add other little pieces as I go along with maybe acrylic pens or black fine liners, which are usually my go to anyway. But we'll just see how this process unfolds and which bits of these materials that I end up using. I cut down a sheet of my A three paper, and as you can see, I didn't quite get it in two exact halves. So I'm going to do two sheets today and paint, um, you know, one style on there and another style on that one. And then when they're folded, you'll see the different shapes that the books turn out to be because the papers are slightly different dimensions. So that's good, you know, that sort of happy accident there happened because it gives me an opportunity to show you then how you can create books with different shapes, depending on the size of the paper that you use. I also just treated myself recently to this little set of quill brushes from the brand is called Artway. And excuse me, the lovely thing about a quill brush is that it's a really good all round brush. It's sort of full belly, and in its fine point, allows you to make sort of really full sweeping marks, but also quite delicate details as well. So you know, I'm going to use these because they also hold a lot of paint or water, which means that you can paint for longer than before you end up having to, you know, put your brush back in the paint or in the water. But you don't have to use quill brushes at all. The whole purpose of this really is for you to get your favorite art supplies out. You know, don't be going out and buying expensive things. Use what you've already got. But the ones that make you feel a bit excited when, you know, you take the lid off them or you set them out on your working space, use the ones that make you feel excited that make you want to I'll make that first mark on the paper. That's the important thing here. So it doesn't matter what brushes you're using or what materials you're using. Just get the ones out that really make you smile before you even start. 4. Painting The First Journal: I so there are absolutely no rules to this whatsoever. It really is a question of getting the first mark on the paper and then going with where the flow takes you. What I would recommend, however, is that for your first one, that you maybe start off with circles because circles are such a universal shape, and they are, I don't know, there's something very comforting about a circle. There's nothing edgy about it or cranky or yeah, sharp or anything. So it's like by starting off with a circle, you're already making the process as easy for yourself as you possibly can. So the question is, what colors I think I am going to explore this row here, actually, and just keep it to that four palette, those four colors in that palette there. And let's see how this turns out. So I'll be using different brush sizes and different shapes, and curves, semicircles, full circles. So let's just start. Wow. Wow. Oh, you know, I mean, what an amazing mark just to start off with. Simply love it. I've got three containers of water here because I do like to dip into the first one to rinse the brush. Then the second one to make sure that I've got it fully clean and if I need to a third one there, so that I'm definitely, you know, not contaminating the brush each time, particularly, as you can see with these four colors here, they are all pretty different colours, so I don't want to be muddying them. I love that. I love the way that has just made its own mark there. Don't want you to overthink this at all. I really, really don't know I say that in all my classes don't overthink it, but it really is just about getting you flow. So, you know, maybe you could do what I'm doing. You could decide which colors you're going to start with, so that you've taken that decision before you put the first bit on the paper. See, I mean, just look at these. Aren't these lovely? These are so lovely. I'm just letting this do its own thing. I really am I have absolutely no plan at all with this. No, I must say, these are really delightful to work with. It's lovely when you find supplies that really, you know, work with how you want them to work, basically. I've not used these before, so it was going to be a bit of trial and error as to how they would turn out. You see how easy it is to work with circles. You know, there's nothing complicated about that at all, is there? Oh, we've got into a little curve there, and that's absolutely fine, too. Well, these are beautiful together. Must say I'm very impressed with these. Really impressed. I can see. What I was just about to say then was, I can see these being real inspiration for many projects. So that's the first little insight that I've got there, and we haven't even started to fold the book, but already, I can see just by using this color palette, obviously, particularly these paints, that that's already given me an idea, which is marvelous. This isn't about making things perfect, remember? This is about playing and just seeing what comes out in that moment. Now I can get a much fineer tip there with that lovely point on the edge of the brush. It's rather nice, isn't it? Just take that one and throw that one as well. Oh, liking that. Very much liking that. Oh, this is so exciting. Let's have. Another one there as well. See what happens sweep it more paint on there. Let me just sweep that around. I'm twisting it as I'm going there. There's a bit of a curve to it there. I'm not going to try and alter it, make it into something different, and just leave that exactly as it is, and get some more paint on that brush and see what happens if we do it around that way as well. Very nice. I think I'd quite like to go back to this color here. I'm going to swap brushes again just because I can. Well let's try this little one. Go back into that color there. Now, I kind of feel I want to do some sort of I don't know, petaly things maybe. That's what's inspiring me right now. A bit more water on there. I and of course, this is the beauty of circles that it can often lead you to making flower shapes. Sort of want to do something else around here. I'm just playing with making marks, allowing that playfulness to come through. I don't have to fill the whole page. You know it's quite good sometimes to leave some white blanks. Occasionally, I paint the whole page, but in this moment, I don't actually want to. Of course, what I could do here is add a bit more water to that and let it bleed into it like a watercolor would. These Kura taki paints are cross between a go ash and watercolor. You can work with them quite thick like you would a go ash or you can really water them down into more of a watercolor effect. As I'm showing you here. You can see as I go further and further around, it gets lighter and lighter. I feel a spiral coming on look. We'll have a few more of those. You can see how quickly you can make something happen here. I'm just going to do some brush marks around this. Let's bring one or two more in. So be experimental. The thing is that when you fold it, it won't look like this looks, and that's the beauty of it because you can't plan it, which is great. And that's what brings the element of surprise and for me, joy into it as well, because you really, really don't have a clue how it's going to look when it's folded Oh, look at that lovely thin line there. By using the point and then pressing down a bit further so that using the body of the brush, you get this lovely contrast look. Now, again, that's a nice thing for me to have discovered with these new brushes that I can make very different shapes of marks look. So that's something for me to explore. So that's another thing that I've discovered already, just by doing this piece here, which will inspire me for doing different artworks. Now, I think I want to bring something else into this bit here, but what do I want to bring in? Well, look what my brush is already doing, so let's just do that. Let's just bring an elongated circle into it. In other words, an oval. Interesting. And I think for the moment, I'm going to leave that just as it is. Set that to one side and let it dry. I might come back to it and add some more marks, but for the moment, that's enough. So that can just go to one side and dry. 5. Painting The Second Journal: For this sheet, I've turned the paper around. I've even turned the paints around. And again, this is part of, you know, trying something with a slightly different perspective. And I'm going to do this sheet also with circles, but in a more watercolor type fashion. So whereas the other one, I did wet paint onto dry paper. I'm now going to just wet this paper all the way down with this lovely fat brush. If you don't have a brush like this, you could use a flat brush that would get the water onto the page, you know, fairly quickly. I don't want to saturate it too much. But I do want it to be wet. So there are so many elements to making these tiny journals. You know, you can be inspired just by the colors. You can be inspired by the shapes that come onto the page. You can be inspired by the shapes once the book is folded, which may then even inspire words. And yeah, I just love this process. I find it really revealing. So I'm going to be using this palette here of these four, and I'm also going to bring in this lovely sort of denim blue as well. So let's start off with this slim brush here. I'm going to start with that denim blue. I want these to bleed into each other a little bit, if they will. So you can see that I'm making sure that the edges meet each other. Again, I'm not overthinking it. Now, that's got quite thicker and you can see the difference between that color and that and that's okay. You can also see how that's going to bleed into that, which is rather lovely. I'm doing this quite quickly. If I need to wet the paper again, I'll do that. I notice my circles are getting bigger as I'm going along. That's also fine. I'm just going to wet the paper a bit more because it's drying pretty quickly actually. I do want them to bleed into each other a bit. Now, we getting some nice merging of colors there into each other. Now, obviously, you don't have to do this, like I'm doing it at all. You can do it however you wish to do it. I'm just using this as one particular way of getting circled onto the page. You can see how fast I'm doing this. And we've got different depths of colors going on here, but, you know, it's a color palette here that's working really well. So even though we've got different tones of the same color, it's all looking great actually loving it. Really loving it. Again, I can see this becoming a different artwork. That's just delightful. Okay. This bit down here is dryer. So let's see. I just keep it dry, but let those paints run into each other with less water actually on the background on the surface of it. Let's just see what happens. I like the white bits in between. It's making it feel quite fresh, actually, although this bit here, of course, is really kind of blended into itself. Again, that's part of the experimentation. Look how different that bit there looks compared to that bit up there. And like I say, once it's folded, it will look very different again. This is an interesting process, I must say. Now what I am going to do is paint right up to the edge here and I'm going to go back around these edges so that I don't have any white around the edge. Now, you will end up actually cutting off quite a bit of the edges. So even though I'm painting up to the edge here, it will actually get cut off in parts. Although at this point, you won't know which parts are going to end up being cut off. And again, that's the beauty of it. I simply love the idea that we can turn these into books, and turn a two D flat sheet of paper that we've had a lot of fun with just creating now, like this. Even if you didn't do anything else with it, but you just left it like this, has it slowed your heart rate down? Has it brought a sense of calm? Has it allowed you to be fully present and not think about anything else whilst you're doing it? Because if you can answer yes to any of those questions, then that alone is a reason to do it. Because you're just giving yourself permission to fill your own well up. That's the way I always see it. It's about filling one's well up. Because when our own well is quite full, then we're much, much more able to be available for others then. But when we're running on empty, you know, we've hardly got anything left to give really. Now, I think I started off saying something there and I've lost my train of thought, and that's okay as well. Sometimes it's quite hard for me to actually talk whilst I'm doing this. Because for me, it's a very inner experience. And I don't always want to add words, but obviously, if I didn't add words, you wouldn't have a clue what I was talking about. So I do apologize if I've lost my train of thought a little bit there. I'm sure you will forgive me. And I think we will call that a day. I love how that's turned out. I really do. Again, I need to let that dry completely before I start adding anything else to it. Let's put that to one side and we can start working back on the other one now, which, as you can see, oh, it's almost dry, not quite, so I'll just leave that for a little bit longer, and then I'll bring you back in when that one's fully dried. 6. Making Marks: I was going to start on the other piece first, but I've changed your mind after a little break, and I'm going to start with this one instead. Now, before I do anything on that, it's a really good idea for any of you to just take a photo of what it looks like before you do anything with it. So not only have I taken a photo of it, I've actually even done a couple of photocopies of it, as well. Reason I've done that is because I want to demonstrate a folding with you and a different application to it, if you like, which I can't do obviously once I've put some marks on there, but I can show you then with the photocopied paper. So I'm now going to use the pastels to make some more marks onto this one here. And again, I don't have anything. I think you might just put that over there so that I can keep it steady. I don't have anything in mind, but I am going to just, yeah, go in with some marks, really, see what inspires me. So I've got a color here very similar to this. And what I want to do is to just put a little bit more detail into this bit here that merged that merged into itself. So I am literally just adding marks where I think it would benefit from it, really. Probably do something here similar. Not making this too complicated because really it's when the page is turned into a book, that's when even more inspiration comes into it. Because it sort of takes on a different form to what you're seeing now and that sparks new interest. So, you know, at this point, it's kind of like just taking a little bit of time to see what's in there and what extra marks you might want to make. In fact, I've pulled out that green, but I'm going to pull out this white color because I want to add a bit more light to this section here. And you can see that there's a bit of blooming went on there. So I want to just encourage that a bit more. Somehow. Now, obviously, these are oyal pastels, so you can, you know, blend these in. Got something going on there. Lo with that white one with that little bloom. So we'll just add a bit more to there, maybe a little bit more around there as well. Now, there may be sections of it that when you see it on the page like this, after you've added some marks to it, that actually you're not all that keen on. But again, it will look very, very different once it's folded. I know I keep saying this, and obviously, you're going to have to trust me on this one that it will look different. So this is a new way for me to use oil pastels on top of these Kuri taki watercolors. So an experiment for me here as well. And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to carry on playing with that a little bit using these oil pastels here and just see what extra marks I end up making. And then I'll bring you back into it when I've just taken that a wee bit further. So as you can see, I've added a few marks there, a few more marks there. And what I've also done is get some little cotton buds and just use them for blending in. So I've not added a huge amount more. If we just look at it compared to the original, you know, you can see I've added, obviously, certain bits to it and everything. But I'm going to leave it at that now, and then when I folded it, we'll see if I want to add more to it or not. You can see here that I have added more to the first painting that I did. I've used the cotton buds again to just blend those oil pastels in a bit to make them wee bit softer. So if I look at the original, I mean, obviously, this is the photocopy of the original, but you can see there that I've added quite a bit of color to that, although still keeping, you know, the curves and the circles, keeping that theme. So now we are ready to do some folding and turn these lovely flat sheets of paper into gorgeous little journals. So I'll see you in the next session where we have a look at how to fold. 7. The Fold: Here is the photocopied version of the original one here. I'm going to show you how to fold by using the photocopied version first, and then I'll show you the same fold, obviously, but using the much thicker paper so that you can see the difference between folding with thinner copy paper and thicker mixed media paper. So the first thing is, we're going to fold in half. Now, the more accurate you can get your folding, the better, obviously. But you will never get the edges to meet fully, which is why we end up cutting some of the edges off. Now, I'm using a bone folder here. But if you don't have a bone folder, you can just use the edge of a spoon, and it will do the job just the same. Turn it around and fold it in half. Like this. Getting those edges to meet as accurately as you can. You know, anything where you're doing a bit of paper folding, if you can fold accurately, it does make a difference, to the finished product. Open it back up again now, and where this midline is here, this middle line, you're going to take the edge and fold that edge up to that middle line like that. And then do the same on the other side so that those two edges meet in the middle like that. So you end up there with it looking like this. Now, what I want you to do here is to just scoop that bit up side to side, those two edges into the middle and just reinforce those folds there. And then turn it all the other way around and refold it again using the same folds, but just on the other side. And the reason that I'm suggesting you do this is because it actually just helps when you're folding it together to make the actual book. It just helps to make it a wee bit more flexible. You might be able to manage without doing this, but I find it helps. So you end up then with basically either a W shape or an M shape, depending on which way you've just stud it. Now, what we want to do now is to take this middle section here, so unfold it again so that you've just got that much showing there, and you'll see that you've got a fold right here. And very carefully, with your scissors, you're just going to fold up to that mid line there, basically. So that's what you end up with there. And here is the beauty of it. Turn it over, pinch those two end pieces together, and then push towards the middle like this. And that is how you end up with a little book. Isn't that clever? Honestly, I just love being able to combine art and craft together so that you end up with something that's really functional, you know, and also having made it yourself. So I'm going to show you that bit again, so place your paper back down on the surface like that. Pull these two end pieces together like I'm doing, and then push. And bring it up here. And this is why I make the suggestion that you fold it both ways, as in, you fold your paper one way and then you unfold it and refold it again on the same fold lines, but from the other side of the paper. So it just makes it much more flexible to be able to do this. Now, what we need to do now then is to glue it in place. So basically, you've got number one, number two, number three and number four. And that's where you want to be put in your glue. So simple glue stick. Now, the reason I use a glue stick rather than something like mod podge is that it's a bit drier. So you don't end up getting lots of, you know, glue coming out of the edges because it's really important that you actually make sure that you get your glue on the edge itself. So let's go around the edge first. Cover the whole of that bit there. Then go on to number two. Now, go in the line of your cut, otherwise, you might find that you end up tearing it. Look, if you pull it up like that, you're kind of going against the cut, so do your glue stick in this direction. Doesn't matter if you go over into that one, doesn't matter at all. Come down to number three, again, following that line of the fold, sorry, of the cut, I mean. Make sure you get it over the edges. Doesn't matter if it goes over these two edges a bit. Just we want those edges to definitely be glued. And then back up to number four, get more glue out if you need it. Make sure that glues right on the edge there. And then turn it back over again. Do exactly the same. As you did before you started to glue it just to try it and push those two to the middle. Now, the thing here is to pinch the edges together first. So make sure you've got all those edges going into the center, there. Turn it over, push those edges together again so that you've got them going into the center. Give them a good squeeze. There we go. And then lay it flat and basically just, you know, press it down with your hands. All sides. Flip it out like this and glue it that way as well. Then that way. And there you have it. That is your book. Now, at this stage, this is when it's really good then to decide what's going to be the front of the cover and what is going to be the back. So you can play around, do you want it to be folded that way, for example, so that it opens like this, or do you want that to be the front cover so that it opens like that. So this is the point at which to play around with it because then you need to decide which is your front uni back before you start to cut the edges. Now, I don't know if you can see there, but you can see that the edges don't meet. And this is where we do a wee bit of trimming. Let's go now onto the original sheet. Now, this is a lot harder to fold. So this is where, you know, I just want to bring to your attention that it does make a difference, deciding what density of paper you're going to use. So exactly the same principle. Going to fold that in half. Turn it over. Fold it in half, just like we did with the other one. Turn it round again, fold into the middle. Then the other side. There we go. Then I'm going to turn it over and fold it all that way as well just to keep it flexible, as flexible as it can be, which is even more important when you're using a thicker paper. Fold those bits into the middle there. Makes it much, much easier to work with. And well worth the effort, which you'll see in a moment. Now, if you're a bit worried about, you know, getting the cut wrong, then by all means, use a ruler to just market for yourself. And then you've got a really good strong line there as a guide. There we go. Have a practice at the fold before you put the glue on. So we're going to pinch those two ends together again. Push it together, and there we know that we've got our book. So open it back up. Number one, number two, number three and number four is where the glue is going. Now again, even more important, it's a thicker piece of paper to make sure that you've got that glue right up on the edge. Okay, turn it round again. Pinch the two sides together. Now this is a bit stiffer, obviously. And what you can do here is actually really grab those two sides now and even stick them a little bit as you're holding onto them. Make sure that the top bit is meeting. Like the edges are sticking. Turn it over. Get those points right into the middle there. You can see what I'm doing there, pushing them right up into the middle. Now, this is what I mean about if you haven't got enough glue on at this stage, it will come apart. So I thought I was being pretty careful there, but obviously I wasn't before I stick it down completely, I'm going to add a bit more glue to these edges just to make sure. The That's better now. That one started to come a little bit there. But I think if I press that down now, really press hard with the flat of my hands, turn it over. I'm trying to be careful because I've used pastel here. I don't want to smudge it any more than I need to. Fold that that way around as well. What I could do is use, a piece of kitchen roll or something and just do it that way so that I'm not actually smudging any of the painting that I've done. That seems pretty well stuck down now. So again, this is the time now to decide which is going to be the front and which is going to be the back. 8. Trimming The Edges: I've decided that this is going to be the front of my book here, and that's how it will open up. So because this is, you know, the thick, you can see it's much, much thicker once it's all glued together because you've got two lots of thick paper glued together on each page. So I'm actually going to use a craft knife, a cutting mat, and I do have one of these lovely big rulers here that means that I can square it up as I'm cutting. Now, if you don't have one of these, what you can do is just use a ruler or just, you know, do it by eye. Tell, this is not about being perfect. It's about creating a little something for yourself. That allows some expression in that moment. If you don't have a knife, then just trim the edges with your scissors. Now, what I've done there is I have gauged it from the spine because the spine will always be straight. So then I'm going to turn it round, line it up with the spine again, just like this. Pull it back a little bit so that I make sure that I trim all those pages. You can see how thick the paper is by how long it's taking me to do it. And that's torn it a little bit at the bottom, but that's okay. We'll just trim that little bit off look. And then I'll turn it over and line it up with the spine again and then just trim that top edge. Now, I also like to trim the corners. There we go a little bit of extra just on there look. I like to round the corners off because I think it just gives it a much softer edge. And basically, I'm just doing that with a pair of scissors. So I think that looks a lot nicer with curved edges to it. 9. The Inspiration: So here I folded the first painting that I did, and as you can see, I'm adding one or two more details to it. And this is what I love about this process that, you know, once it's folded from a flat sheet, then it takes on a very different appearance, a very different look to it. And there's an invitation then, if you like, as to what else you might want to add to it to make it look even nicer, to make it look even more beautiful. It kind of invites questions for me, which is often how I end up using the images on it to ask questions that I didn't even know I wanted to ask. And then as I go through this process of carrying on making art and decorating it, answers come up, which is incredible. As I continued to decorate it, this was the question that came out. Where do I go from here? Now, I didn't know I needed to ask that question particularly, but the questions come up. And as I've then followed the flow or looked at the images that were created on the flat, it's brought out, yeah, brought out an answer. If I stay playful and light hearted, I feel sure that my path will be clear. I don't need to push and pull or worry about the future outcome or my direction of travel. I am always guided when I trust and stay in the present moment. And this is so true for me. So absolutely true. And it's really lovely to have a reminder of that because sometimes, you know, in the business of life, I can lose sight of that. Now, this was the photocopied version of that original one. And that also has invited a question as well. Now, you can see the two covers there on the front. It was the same painting, obviously a photocopied version of it, but I've chosen to fold it slightly differently, so that's become the front of that one. And the questions here, what if I let myself flow? You can see how the images have played into this. So that when I reach a crossroads, I can see the wider view and understand that each direction gives me different possibilities. What a lovely process. I'm making art, I'm making craft, and I'm answering life questions that I didn't even know I wanted to ask, which is fantastic. I just love it. Now, with this one here, This is how this little book now has turned out, and I don't know what's going to come beyond those images, and that's okay, which means I'll just sit with this. I don't have to find an answer right now. I don't have to see if there's a question in there. It might just be that that is simply a little book, a work of art. I might end up giving it away as a gift. I might send it as a birthday card to somebody. Who knows. But what I did do earlier was I folded up the photocopied version. And I sat very quietly by my window looking outside, watching the snow or looking at the snow because we've got a very snowy landscape here right now, and I just sat and doodled this. It's so beautifully cold and snowy outside. I haven't been outside for four days except to fill the bird feeders. Dream, imagine, create. It's a great opportunity for a simple quiet reflection time and deep, deep rest. Which is exactly what my body needs right now. So don't dig the car out of the snow. I can bake, cook, use things from the freezer, and simply enjoy this rare, quiet, still moment in time. 10. Enjoy The Creative Sparks: So I really, really hope that you've enjoyed doing this class. I hope you've enjoyed doing it as much as I enjoy making these journals. And, you know, if you can start to incorporate it as a regular practice, I think you'll really find some great insights in it. I personally find it a lot easier than writing in a larger journal. I think it's because each time I come to a fresh page, it's kind of like, yeah, there's something fresh in me that actually wants to be expressed, even though I might not know in that particular moment exactly what that expression is. But this is why I love them so much because it comes through the color. It comes through the form, it comes through the words, or sometimes, you know, one or the other, or all three combined. I'd love to see what you managed to create as usual. So if you'd like to upload something by hitting the projects button, and if you could leave a review for this class, that would be wonderful. Take care, and I'll see you in the next class. Lots of love.