Mon's work in Danielle's journal

Danielle's beautiful journal has the theme of: A witch's book of mirrors.

Danielle asked for a herbal theme so I chose to journal about my current fascination with Ikaria, a little Greek Island known for its citizens' longevity.

Herbal teas are drunk frequently on the island and I have been experimenting making my own mixtures with what I have on hand from the garden.

 

I kept my palette quite restricted and muted to go with the vintage theme.

The pages came together quite spontaneous and without much planning and I enjoyed working this way.

Book Of Mirrors

I want to take you today on a journey

 through one of our gorgeous art journals.

This journal belongs to Danielle in Western Australia
She has chosen a magical theme.

She has asked us to work in her gorgeous 

Book of Mirrors

in a vintage style.

We are about half way through our swap 

so getting the journals in the mail is such a treat

an artistic feast. 

You can see how much love and detail

 Danielle poured into her journal

She has prepared us a beautiful space
for magic to happen. 

Now to the pages done by our members- 

This gorgeous page was done by Jan ,
who has blogged about on that link
It is steeped in meaning and has so much to look at.

This page makes me smile
we are blessed with a whole range of different artistic styles
and Nicoles pages are always cute and positive and quirky.

Roz contributed next with this beautiful bee inspired page
including some lovely photographs she took 

and some vintage bee hives.

This is Pams lovely pages,
she was quite challenged with a subject so totally out of her comfort zone
and came up with a gorgeous and meaningful page.

Janene's moody atmospheric pages
show her wonderful ability with colour and layers.

For my pages I went with a herbal and healing theme
and just because there is so much room I did 2 spreads.

The first page focuses of Sage
I look at the healing, spiritual and magical properties of this wonderful herb.

Then I did a page on herbal remedies

 for depression, anxiety, insomnia and nervousness.
In the week we lost Robin Williams to depression 

and having it in my own life I felt it needed to be here.

Danielle's gorgeous journal is filling up and will be such a treasure when it wends it way all around our beautiful country and heads back to her- it has finished NSW now, next stop Queensland. It is cold and dreary here right now with winter having its last few weeks and making us feel it. I wish I was joining Danielles journal and heading north.

I also wanted to share just how clever and resourceful Danielle is- this gorgeous journal is made from recycled paint cards - love it.

Book of Mirrors....Roz

Roz has asked me to share her entry into this beautifully made book.  She has done a superb job and I hope my pics do her pages justice.

Confessing to a total ignorance of the subject, and admitting it scares the bejesus out of me I am persevering.

Here are the pics of Roz. pages.

Finally time to post!!

                           My first page was from Danielle's beautiful Journal Book of Mirrors

 

Jan does Book of Mirrors

It is almost the end of April and I am ready to post the wonderful Book of Mirrors off to Roz. Had some nice time over Easter at my art desk.

Wow, this journal is so beautifully made, Danielle has done such a wonderful job.

I wondered if I could do it justice. But I just had fun and chose something from one of the many Celtic books I have.

I used crackle medium and acrylics and some washi tape to create the mood!

 

 Then I just had fun doing stuff and also added a bone I had found on the beach last weekend when we were at Shellharbour, I think it is from a sea bird.

I hope you like it Danielle. I certainly enjoyed your journal. 

(Sorry some of the photos are not round the right way. Still learning how to blog. Guess it will get easier. )