Gotta Make …

Look, it’s NOT a journal page! Ever since I got a Ravelry account, I forget to post my knitting stuff here. I thought I’d show this off, though, since I don’t have a new journal page but I do have a new shawl. I call mine Eventide but the pattern is called Daybreak. These are not my usual colors for clothing, but I couldn’t resist them. The orangey pinky one is called Archangel and I think the dark one is Cordovan. They are Malabrigo sock yarn and oh so yummy. If you have a Ravelry account, you can see my other knitting projects there. My username is Gottamake. I’ve got a cozy green cardi blocking now so I’ll have pics of that soon. I’ve actually got lots of things finished since my last knitting post here. Maybe I’ll remember to post some more soon, just to break up the journal page posts a bit, LOL.

I did this spread in my journal for MMM’s theme of wings & love. If you click it, you’ll get an image big enough to read. It was too big to put here.

Yesterday’s page, done in a simple gluebook style, from yesterday’s junk mail. I put the wrong date on the page. I saw 04 on the page next to it and put a 5 on there without thinking. It should be a 7. Oh well, it isn’t the first time and I’m sure it won’t be the last.

Yesterday’s and Today’s page. I drew the bird and used watercolor crayons to color him, trying to make him look like the bird in the magazine clipping. On today’s page, I did something I haven’t done in a while. I ripped a section of the image away, and drew it back in. If you enlarge the image, you can see where I ripped away the girl’s midsection and redrew it with colored pencils. I also ripped off her head and gave her a new one. I’m not crazy about the head, but oh well. This paper doesn’t take the pencils very well, so I coated it in gesso, first. That makes it a little too rough for getting details, though.

Just a simple page with a quote for yesterday.