Day 40–42 (fri-sun): update and creative stuff

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!

Day 34 (sat)–39 (thur): an update

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!