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I have been so busy with wedding plans that I haven’t done much art.  I have been doing creative things for the wedding, which have been fun and very rewarding.  And I’ve made curtains for our kitchen.  Soon, I’ll do a post with pics of all the wedding stuff, as well as one with pics of the things we’re doing to the house.

In the meantime, here are a few journal pages I’ve done recently.

I just read an interesting article about this man’s journals.  He’s a designer so most of them relate to design ideas, but he includes lots of other things in them as well.  At first, I was struck that for 26 years he continued to use the same type and size book.  I have been all over the place with the books I’ve used since I started journaling.  How wonderful it would be to have them all on a shelf, the same size, looking to tidy.  Not to mention  to have them actually close!

But as I read the article the second time, I was thinking about how inconsistent I am (well, in everything) in what I journal, how I journal, etc.  I used to write a lot more and now I do more art.  I have literally 5 different journals I’m working in right now.  Not because they’re for different things, just because I keep starting new ones.  I love starting them, but not staying with the same one.

This theme keeps reappearing in my life.  My inconsistency.  I have the same unanswered questions each time it appears.  Do I really want to be more consistent?  If so, then why don’t I work toward being more consistent?  If not, why do I keep hammering myself about my inconsistencies?  Is there a compromise in there?

I have been focused on nothing but moving and the wedding.  I am all moved and have everything completed for the wedding.  We haven’t gone “out” in quite a while so last night we went to an outdoor Merle Haggard concert at the local casino.  It was so nice to get out.  The weather was beautiful and the people-watching was rich!  And Merle is always good.