 Hey guys! We are here for another week for My Creative Year, the Facebook group, and if you don't know what that is, it is a teaching and mixed media group, a free one over in Facebook, and you can join it by clicking on my link tree, which is in the description below. When you click on that, you're going to find every place I am on the internet, including the Facebook group My Creative Year. We do a lot of tutorials over there, and daily creative words and things like that, and it's a really great supportive community. So anyway, think about joining. The topic for this month is salvage, and last week we explored the idea of salvaging ourselves, salvaging those parts of ourselves that get lost, of recognizing that you're worth salvaging. This week our prompt is repair. Whether you take it literally or you take it figuratively, it's an interesting prompt. So when I did the image transfer, of course, because this paper is thin, I did a little bit of damage to the paper, which I expected, and I kind of knew that was going to happen, and I was okay with that because I knew this other prompt was coming up. So we're going to explore the idea of repairing ourselves, but also repairing the book. So I'm going to set the book aside for a minute, and we're going to like clean off our table. And I have some just plain masking tape, plain old masking tape, and I'm going to put a couple pieces out on my table right onto my plastic mat, and I'm going to get a marker or pen. I think I want to use these colors that I used on the face, and I'm going to do some journaling on the tape about repairing myself, repairing my relationship with myself, and repairing my self image, and really exploring the idea of repair. You could do it figuratively or literally, and you could do it towards yourself or your relationship or something else that's going on with your life, but do some journaling on some tape, and then we're going to put the tape on the book to fix the spine of the book. So I'm going to do that, and I'll be right back. Journaling on the tape with those pens is I don't remember if these are water soluble or not. I guess we're going to find out. So we are going to take them off of the table now and put them aside. Let's bring our book back. I do have my page protectors in here, but for this part of this, I think we're going to take them out or at least slide them out partway so we can get the tape in there. And this journaling on the tape is about getting out your feelings and expressing your feelings. It's not really about having anybody see them or be able to read them. I like the way that looks. Simple, quick, easy. Repairing your page, repairing your self-image, repairing maybe a broken relationship. I want you to do some creative journaling about that, writing about that, expressing of that onto your work this week, and get it out of your system. So if you're like me, there's, you have difficulty admitting or articulating those issues. So to help you be better at that, get it out on the page. You don't have to speak it out loud to even yourself, but get it out on your page. Stop holding it in. That's not healthy and get it out. Now if your tape won't stick to your paper very well, then because of sticking it on the table first, make sure the pen that you used is waterproof and then put it on with some gel medium and get it really stuck on there really well. I like where this page is going. We will be back next week with some more things to add to our page. I do think actually before we go, I am going to, I really want to make you, this you are worth salvaging bolder and brighter. I'm really liking that on the page. So let's repair that. Let's see with a darker pen. So this is a jelly roll pen. So let's repair that, that layer, that image, that writing by making it darker. That's perfect for the moment. Alright, that's it for right now. I'll be back next week with the third and final prop for the month. I hope you're having a good time. Again, if you would like to be part of the My Creative Year Facebook group, the link is in my link tree, which is in the description below. Click on it. You'll find me everywhere I am on the internet. We hope to see you over in the Facebook group. It's a great community over there. And that's it for the moment. Don't forget the most important thing. Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. And I'll see you later. Bye, guys.