Ongoing Altered Journal-a-long-CLOSED--see last page for NEW THREAD

[Phizzychick]

They look great! I love your bird pages!

I need to get my first ones finished today, I keep going back and messing with them some more!

[selkie]

Post-college, active duty US Coast Guard and getting married section.

[Phizzychick]

Unfortunately that's a really faint picture for me, I can only just make it out on my screen for some reason. Looks good from what I can see though! Are the two postage stamps sea related?

Here's my finished second spread. The circles are summer and snow flakes.


The plays start on the next page, so this is just pre-journal journal stuff

[selkie]

Unfortunately that's a really faint picture for me, I can only just make it out on my screen for some reason. Looks good from what I can see though! Are the two postage stamps sea related?

The one on the right is Women in the armed forces during WWII.
The one on the left is the world shaped like a heart - we got married Sept after I graduated college and we were both in the USCG at the same time for a while. The left page is far from finished - it has the chart of the entrance to NYC harbor - I was a vessel traffic controller there!

I need to figure out how to work the scanner on our new printer...

[Phizzychick]

They sound like perfect stamps for you! I love that you've managed to get so many references to your past into those pages!

[selkie]

They sound like perfect stamps for you! I love that you've managed to get so many references to your past into those pages!

Because I'm doing it as an autobiography, every single piece has one or more references to my past!

[noooitaremybirthday]

Panthermoon: I looove the "do birds cry" page. It reminded me of a horrible dream I had last night, that my bird flew away and I saw a hawk catch her and eat her!!! I think I'll do a page depicting my dream today... The other pages are lovely as well!

Phizzy: AS usual, your pages are fantastic You are definitely an artist I would love to emulate

Selkie: I am also impressed that you squeezed in so much meaning in just 1 page

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Selkie- Is that a picture of a Harry Potter Lego with a Giant Time Turner on the right page? Oh am I just so excited for the HP movie that I'm just imagining it?!

Phizzy - You're page is amazing! There are so many things that I love about it! You have an amazing eye for color, design, and how things come together!!

Panthermoon - I love all you're pages, expecially 'Do birds cry?'!

[Phizzychick]

Thanks! I think the same about everyone else! I really like the way everyone has been incorporating words and phrases into their journals so I'm trying to do that for this one. It's harder than I thought though, I like words more on other peoples than on mine

[noooitaremybirthday]

Here are yesterday & today's pages:


playing on my current obsession with woodland creatures


based on my nightmare last night!!!! My lovebird, Kitty, is my homeboy! I've had her since I was 13, and I think I'd LOSE IT if anything ever happened to her.