Sunday Weekly Wrap-Up

This past week I worked on a few collages, but the main creative projects were writing.


Journal 52
I am behind in the weekly challenges, but I thought the new one for this week would be a fun challenge:
HANDS

I made a hand print on the painted background, then brainstormed what we can use our hands for - I ran out of space, not ideas!

Practicing Gratitude
Bernice at "Newly Creative" has started a new challenge for May, on expressing gratitude.
The first project was to create a "Give Thanks For" journal spread so that each day you can express something you are grateful for.
Here's mine:

May Calendar

Here's my May Calendar for the monthly calendar challenge at "Kathryn's Wheel"

Photography
Had to share some of the flowers sprouting today! Yeah for spring!

Also Linking With:

Creative Every day

Inspire Me Monday

Made it Monday (Jamie Ridler Studies)

Art Journal Every Day

AEDM

Here it is November 1st and Art Every Day for the month of November has begun. This is a wonderful way to encourage your creativity and make time for art.

Leah Piken Kolidas of Creative Every Day has hosted AEDM for several years and  provides much support and encouragement. It is also a wonderful community of artists.

I will be taking part, as I have for the past couple of years. As I wrote about on Sunday, I will be creating a set of quote cards, with my art and quotes that have meaning to me.
This is my first one:

I also quickly carved a new stamp - just an abstract with straight lines to get me back into carving. I want to continue work on my course and on stamp carving this month.

While visiting Collage Diva, I came across this very interesting twist on tracking your gratitudes.
Lauren Tober is hosting a daily  photograph challenge.

 As she says:

"What ever your camera of choice, come November, fire it up and start photographing the things that make you the most grateful"

I love this idea and as I am already writing out what I am grateful for most nights, I am going to add this element of photographing what I am grateful for each day.

Today I am most grateful for art - that it definitely feeds the soul.

I will not be posting daily, but will most likely post on Sundays as part of my Sunday Weekly Wrap-up.