{Good Random Fun} Week 1

The Good 

Yoga is good.

A delight.

A long-time dream realized.

It feels so right to be carrying this new habit,

this new practice,

into the new year.

And is there anything quite as yummy as a new journal?

I love the clean slate/fresh start feel of that first page.

The Random

Zen and the Coloring Craze.

I'm trying it!

Love the colors. Need a pencil sharpener.

Feels a tad random to me.

Yet to totally see the point.

Which, I suppose might be the point? That there isn't one?

It does cross my mind that I'm not great at doing things that produce "nothing" ...

All the crafting I do, which I find enormously therapeutic,

turns into something. A card. A book..... a blog post.

So far, I'm enjoying this, and asking myself if NOT having a point is, in fact the point.

And WHY do I need to always be "producing" something...Hmmm....

The {should have been} Fun

It was NOT a good football weekend for me and my boys.

Saturday night we watched our Ducks drown in the second half of their bowl game.

At least we were together.

It was fun to be down town and hanging at the bar where my son works.

Would have been LOTS more fun had they won!

And don't even talk to me about the Patriots.

Really. Don't.

Too. Much. Stress.

Maybe I should have stuck to coloring?!?

Joining Tamar and Judith

Choosing Words

It's quiet, and I sit alone.

Alone with photos and paper and tape. 

With cutters and stickers and pens.

With possibility.

So many possible combinations!

If I use all my rain photos, I have what I need for two pages. 

There's no noise here. 

No brain noise. It's just the photos, and the thoughts of the walks in the rain. And color.

As I lay out the photos, and attach them, they soothe me.

Do the pearl embellishments remind me of rain drops? I think so. I'll add them. Yes. 

As I choose the words for the title, I think about how odd this winter has been.

So warm. 

I was lucky to have warmer weather for walking this winter. And not too much rain...just enough for a few photos. Look at the rain drops on the leaves and the grass....nice to be focused on something so simple.

Title...title...hmmm.

I think "one" rainy winter sounds good. Like I'm about to tell a story. And it's just this one winter that was rainy. Love these letter stickers. Great color. Simple font...will add some pearly dots. Pretty.

Over here maybe a quote. 

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain."

Kinda corny, but I like it. True enough...not that I dance! 

And now ... to write something. 

Adding my thoughts and my hand writing isn't always easy ~ but I want to include both. I love hand writing.  

I'll just write a bit about walking in the warmer weather. Oh, pretty new pen color. Matches perfectly!

I hold up one page at a time.

And both of them together. 

Accomplished. Finished. Such a great feeling.