Hi Friends!
Hope you are all doing well and and Happy New Year! I am really pleased to have managed ONE blog post so far this year! I really must do better next month! Anyway, here’s a look at my page for this month.
Today’s Art . . .
It is of course, my January calendar journal page, and it is inspired by Erika’s January theme of What’s Up? on Art Journal Journey. I liked her second suggestion for this theme of “what have you been doing” and so I based my page on things that have been happening this month.
These things include the following (clockwise) :
– my word of the year – wholeness, with some supporting words (nourish, enriching, flourish)
– yoga
– my Christmas cactus (still in flower since the week before Christmas) Photo above
– Happy New Year!
– Cat Cafe – multiple visits so far this month!
– Reading more books
– Miss P’s birthday (now 12) and vaccinations (and yesterday Miss Lily back at the vet for her usual problem) 🙁
– crocheting
– my sister’s birthday and the cake I made (vegan coffee walnut cake – a favourite!) Photo above
– The new season of the Great Pottery Throw Down (love this show!)
– my winter anemone is in flower! I brought it into the kitchen when we had the minus 5 temps and she rewarded me by bursting into flower 🙂 Photo above
I used watercolour pencils for the colouring but I didn’t activate them with water – they are just nice to colour with – and then went over some of the outlines with a black pen.
Let me know what you think in the comments. As always, thanks for reading!
Ingredients
old A4 bullet journal, watercolour pencils, pencil, black pen, old calendar page,
Challenges
Art Journal Journey – What’s Up?
It sounds like a good month, and I’m glad you went with a What’s Happening With You take on my AJJ. theme. It makes a super calendar page. . That coffee walnut cake looks amazing. I have Mary Berry’s recipe and one of these days I am going to try it. And it looks like 2026 has started off well too, but I suppose crutches are still being used? Hope it’s been a good reading month too. Thanks for linking up to AJJ, and I hope the rest of your month is fantastic too, hugs-Erika
ps- I never got to finish my New Years cards so I think I’ll go with Valentine’s Day ones. Grin
I love Christmas cactus. I thought of buying one.
Happy New Year, Elle with cats!
What a beautiful, colorful month January has been!
You’ve already accomplished so much, and there’s still so much to do!
Have a good rest of January!
Hugs Elke