The flowers are made from scrap book papers and buttons. I used the pic below for my facebook front page.

As many of you will know, for years I designed and taught doll making. For the last few years I have focused more on Mixed media art including journaling. I think one of the reasons I love journaling so much is that it is portable, it is small in size and you just need a small amount of desk space, not an entire studio. The last place I lived was a 2 bedroom apartment and there really was very little space to do art work. Now I am living in a 3 bedroom old and roomy house and have art space at last woohoo!!!

We are redecorating the house room by room and this one needs a lot of work. And I am a messy creator, however I am showing you pics anyway, just to give you an idea of the space I have now.

I ended up buying a couple small bookcases from Warehouse which sit on the table and this way I can see my paints, sprays, mediums etc all out in front of me. Otherwise I find I have bought good stuff but never remember to use it.

One of the important things that this blog will focus on is being authentic in your journaling and in your artwork in general. What I mean by that is, do you take a class and find that afterwards your work looks like the teachers work? Or do you try to always make your artwork as authentic to your unique self as possible.?? I have seen many journals that I can immediately identify as a close copy of another artist..for instance Teesha Moore or Dina Wakely. Is that OK with you? Or would you love your work to be truly unique and only go to classes to learn the techniques.

How do you get your art to become unique??? How do these people who are amazingly different get noticed? Is it because they are different. One example of this would be Jesse Reno Have you seen his work on you tube?? Check out the video I have provided here.

Until Telstra Clear gets my broadband connected I am using a T stick and its taking ages to get these pics up.I will try again and let you go to the links and think about the questions I asked. I will be back tomorrow with more.

Would love to hear of any comments you have.

luv Di