Tucking into Monday

I decided Mondays will be a good day for my on line classes.  I did read the first lesson on Colorlove 101 but then remembered my Altered Book tutorials and my calendar journal.   So...

No colorlove just yet! lol

But I can combine the other two.  Pockets were the last tutorial I did and I think they will be a great addition to the journal.  My memory is toast so I need to find a better way to remember what is memorable.  Tags!  And tucking them into pockets works for me!

I can't believe I 'lost' 2 weeks in July.  I got Jolina's birth day but there will be some vague picture images happening.  sheesh  This is the back of June and the title page for July

I was running out of time so I'll need to fill these in better.  This is where the memory lapse stated. lol

I need to have a better idea of what the week's layout will be to incorporate room for the best event of the week.  Hopefully the 14th was a loss of memory day!  I'm learning the value of outlining with a black pen. Then the numbers will show up better.

I need to do some creative inserting as I missed a whole week in placing the pages.  :(  This is a real bummer when two coordinating pages have to be separated.  A valuable lesson to learn is that mistakes can be fixed very creatively!
I felt that I finished kinda messy and weak..  :((  I do think I will have another look at these two as I head into this next month.

But I have been doing better in August.  The left is the last few days of July and I started right in with August 1st.  The pocket is deli paper!  But I should try to get some more brown on this page as...

August needs a cooler palette.   I'm starting to get a better, more groovy flow.

I want to do more sewn pockets and that takes a bit more planning.  The next lesson for the Altered books was zippers and I'm resisting as they aren't turning my crank. But doors and windows is going to be good.  I have one or two already in my Leaves book and the lesson has some more cool ideas.

I also like the 2 page journal spread in the sorta watercolour sketchbook and try for one or two times a week.  Radiant Rain is pretty cool!

I'm still juggling all my various projects.  The barn/workroom is very physical so I do that on alternate days.  I'm still tweaking my mixed media drawers so they are handy.  The pegboard needs painting and the melamine needs cutting and legs figured out so I can get sewing.  I do feel we are making progress and the to-do list is getting tattered as it goes in and out of the pocket for checking and crossing off.  Four more pavers for the walk and then the fence posts.

Altered Book

I somehow have gotten out of sync with my AB posts.  

 It might be the distractions!

Somehow I was thinking Elizabeth at The Altered Book Lover had us on pockets.  I had a wax paper envelope that I put leaves into.  I sprayed some of the coloured cardboard leaves various colours and put them into the envelope. 

I particularly like the idea of sewing the pockets on.  I also want to put more pockets in my calendar journal to hold ephemera and tags that will have info and events. This is a stamped coffee filter, used but dry! 

So my Leaf book has a pocket on the inside cover.  I tried to make it with some room and not just flat to the page.  I am realizing I am needing to start to pull this book together;  hence the circles.

 Then I made a tip in for the summer section and made a pocket from a paper doily that  had been used as a stencil.  The background is scrapbook paper with a decoupaged image and I added a bit of cotton lace, a flower sticker and some stamping to the doily pocket. I'll put tags in which will probably hold flowers with leaves in their stems.

I then got busy on a folded page.  This needed 3 pages which I don't have in the leaf book so I made this in another altered book which is 'Just Me'.

The right and left pages were painted and then stamped with circles to coordinate with the centre which has scrap booking paper on it and is folded and glued down.  I punched 2 small holes for buttons which hold a clear circle from a cd package.  I used a paint pen to add something to the clear circle.

This 2 page spread will detail my non existent exercise program!  ha!

I have post it notes throughout the leaf book.  We do have an over view of the lessons so that must explain why I had been making a window.  ???

That is for an upcoming class so now I am really confused! lol

But I am learning lots and certainly enjoying this Altered Book tutorial.