 Hey guys, how are you today? I am so excited. I got another journal finished. This is a large delusions journal that I started in either late 2015 or early 2016. I don't remember. I do think this is one of the last journals I did when I was still teaching with Claudia Rossi over at Crazy Island University and I think this is the 2016 journal. I think I don't remember. I've had this sitting here so long I don't remember. How bad is that? Anyway, as you can see I decorated the cover on it before I got started and don't you just love the way I love this cover. It's actually held up pretty well. I really haven't had any problems with it. It's acquired a few new marks and paint smudges but I love the way it looks and I've had it turned back on itself a couple of times so it's really held up well. We're going to do a journal flip here and I'm going to share the journal with you. Now this page here actually, that's a mistake. I usually glue these two together because I don't really understand why those are that way. To begin with, this page here there's one in the front like this and one in the back. It doesn't really open all the way and they're really hard to work on so I usually, I guess I forgot, I usually get started by gluing this page to the inside cover. There we go. There's some great pages in here. I love, I always see 2016. So this has been sitting in my studio for almost, almost two years. How bad is that? That's a long time for me to have a journal sitting around. This one doesn't want to come out. Oh there we go. It's been in there too long. So some of these are 2016 work from classes I took. This is one from Peony and Parakeet. Some of these are classes I taught in Crazy Island University. My portion of those classes that are displayed in this book is available for purchase in my Etsy shop and this I believe is one of them. So is this one. I've forgotten now. So is that one? Yeah, that one. So there are quite a few of these in the beginning. These are actually doors that open. You can tell that needs wax on there. So that was a fun lesson. I'm so happy to get this journal done. This page ended up being the cover of the book that I wrote which is also available in the Etsy shop. I love this page. There's some really, really great pages in here. Some fun art experiments, trying different prompts from different things, different things different people suggested, inspiration from bits and pieces I cut out for collage. This copy of this picture, these two pages is available as a print download in my Etsy shop and I may scan a few more of these because there's some really great pages in here, some good work in here. If you have suggestions for certain pages that you would like to see me scan and put in the Etsy shop I can do that as long as I'll have to take a second look at it and make sure it doesn't violate anybody's copyright, you know that I haven't shown anybody else's work in there. This is a fun one. Some of these pages have lots of heavy like collage work and stuff on them so they really weigh a lot. Toward the end of the book I was really discovering that I really loved the leaving some white space, not always as I turn the page, not always but I was really loving leaving white space and working with the negative space to create an interesting composition. I was having a lot of fun with that and honestly just being free and playing there was really a lot of fun to be found in doing that. Yeah I used some bits and pieces of collage paper that I received as happy mail. This is covered in napkins in the background that I was given in happy mail experiments with a new stencil that might be coming out soon. This is one of the pages I was talking about where I was inspired by the bicycle image to create the page around it. Quite a few of these end pages were pages like that. This is one of them there's actually a piece of collage on there if you can see it besides the quote and this is one too this I could have drawn this but I had this collage image in my stash and I really wanted to create a page around it so how fun is this page? I love this one I love the composition I love what it says over here love it. There you go going forward to a new adventure so here's a journal flip of my large collage journal from 2016 and 2017. I can close it up now and put it on the shelf and go forward to the next adventure and I hope you join me don't forget to check out the video's description for any relevant links you will find a link down there to a site called Link Tree and if you click on that it will take you to a list of every single place on the internet you can possibly find me so you can follow me all over the place all right that's it for today everybody don't forget to support my channel if you can and the free content here and over in the Facebook teaching group my creative year if you'd like to join my creative year for a year of free long mix media fun and inspiration the link for that is in the link tree so go to the link tree and go join that Facebook group there's also the link to a tip jar an amazon wish list and a bunch of other stuff if you want to support me that's it for right now the most important thing is to go out have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys