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My main blog is back in action.
I had to rearrange quite a few things behind the scenes, and at the time, I didn't have the energy to fiddle with "all the things". Which is why I created this blog.
As of the beginning of July this year, I have restarted my blogging on my main website, which is:
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| Mieke Moontiger |
If you want to follow me there, please do!
I'm not sure what will become of this one as time goes on... Will have a think on it.
Hope you have a very nice day!
First of all I want to wish you a wonderful New year!
I always feel excited when a new year comes along. The feeling of a clean slate and daring to dream that you can make positive changes for yourself.
The joy of starting a new journal, pages full of wisdom, yet to be discovered.
A new year always gives me hope.
My apologies for not being active for the past two months. It has been quite a road concerning my health. Still not fully resolved, but working on it!
Last night, when the minutes were counting down towards 2019, I was wondering what I would like to start my year with, so I could set the tone for the new year.
I grabbed my fountain pen, and started sketching in one of the last pages of my 2018 journal. It didn’t matter that there were lines in it, I wanted my year to begin with something that I loved.
It is based of a tutorial from Tamara Laporte on the Woman Unleashed retreat in December.
I also have a sketch in my art-journal that is waiting for me to add color, doodles, shade… But this bear just wouldn’t wait to get out! He is a little wonky but so adorable!
I hope you had a wonderful New Years Eve and Day. I’m wishing you all the best!
Mie
Health wise still not at my best: I can hardly eat. Stomach is painful and stubborn for some reason, I’m hoping it will pass soon. (Might be just a virus going through my system, but you can’t do anything about it, just wait it out.)
I’m going to give my body the time it needs to heal and in meanwhile I also did some more backgrounds.
Loved how the above one came out!! Napkins, gesso and self made alcohol sprays!
These are still ok if I want to achieve a more shabby background. (cheap chalk pastel above and water-soluble chalk pastel: both fixed)
Love love love this one! Inkpads and white gesso… Yum!!
I love the colors, but I don’t like the fabric for inside a journal. (Neocolor II)
Cheap gel crayons that are soluble (would be ok as a shabby background, but they have trouble moving around.) And again not too fond of the fabric.
I also did some playing around with different mediums:
As you can see I tested various mediums. Sometimes I feel that i haven’t got the faintest idea how to work with watercolors, but gouache goes perfectly fine. (Probably a bit too uptight with watercolors and being more loose with gouache.)
In meanwhile, I have another background drying in my art journal. But it is still far from done. That one will become an actual spread this time. No sneak peeks yet! Patience!
I hope you are healthy and creative and are having a good time!
See you soon!
For the last couple of weeks my body and I have had some misunderstandings. At least, that is what I think they are. I’m easily fatigued, stomach has issues, bowels have issues, also had quite a few stubborn headaches…
I did go to the exercise center. Did the things, did the work. Came home: did dishes, cleaned up… And then body said stop. But that was ok because, I had done exercises (lost a bit more weight) and also managed to do some household.
Usually I keep my phone on silent, and that is why I had missed a call that informed me my household help was sick. This meant I had to rearrange stuff. (Also because this week has a holiday in it, I have no cleaning help.)
And then my mind goes: I have to do ALL THE THINGS, and starts stressing, which means my body starts stressing… (not fun!)
Ok… It only took me about a half hour to scroll down my facebook-feed and find this picture below… But every time I see it I have to laugh, cause it is so true!
That is how it has been the last couple of days…
I’m trying to stay positive!
Let’s hope it all goes back to normal very soon.
See you later!
As I was telling you yesterday, I was feeling a bit emotional. And of course when you feel like this, things tend to happen: you drop a whole container of small embellishments on the floor and your cat is having a joyous time (while you just want to clean it up and still haven’t found what you were looking for: I had lost my stencils.)
Suddenly I had this ‘feeling’ (not really sure how to describe it) and I had this urgent need to look next to my desk. (I have some boxes piled on top of each other with adhesives, collage material, etc.)
And what do you know… My folder with stencils was at the top, under the table!
People who follow the mixed media world, know that this period is when new art classes can be signed up for, places can be won via giveaways… Very exciting with what courses come out and how they develop over the years!
I have followed Life Book by Tamara Laporte since 2014. And through her I met Effy Wild. Who also does a year long program called Book of Days.
But this coming year, she is coming out with a new version, a collaboration between her and several other artists called: Book of Days: All Stars.
So, of course I had to make sure to leave comments everywhere, and sharing her new course, hoping to win a spot. (And to be honest, winning a seat on a year long course, that hadn’t happen to me before, even though I have tried for years!)
It so happened that someone I knew on Facebook was also giving away a space for free because she is guest teaching on Book of Days: All Stars.
I was the fourth one to share and make a comment. But you know how it is: leaving a comment, kind of hoping you will win, but trying to be realistic and not getting your hopes up too high.
So yesterday evening, while I was fumbling about with the embellishments that were literally everywhere on the floor, Rachel Harries (Blog, Instagram, Facebook-page) posted that she used a random number generator and number 4 was the lucky winner!
At first I wasn’t even sure if 4 really was my number. I had to go check the original message
But OMG! I won a seat on next years Book of Days!!!Wonderful! Amazing! Woohoo!
I can’t wait 'til next year!!
-Dances around-
I hope you get some exciting news too in the near future!
Love, Mie
