Hi in my last post I said I really wasn't pleased with my January calendar page, it was a struggle to do with limited resources and because I was so tired I kept making mistakes. I was so pleased when I got it finished even if I didn't like it!!
However next morning I realised I had made another mistake which I hadn't noticed! I had spelt 'breathe' with out the 'e'!!!
As one of my friends reminded me in the words of Tim Holtz 'embrace your imperfections'.
Well I tried, I really did, but that missing 'e' continued to bug me.
So finally this morning I did a bit more to the page and added the offending letter.
I did some doodling and added a bit of stickles at the top of the hearts and some stamping on the background, hoping that these small changes would make me like the page - it didn't!!! Must be the state of my head at the moment - definitely got the after xmas blues!!! LOL.
I realised that I hadn't filled in any of the days, which is a surprise as I did every day last year, but I realised that was my negative thoughts about the page stopping me from doing it.
I did briefly consider throwing it away and starting again but when I started doing the altered art and art journaling 2 years ago I promised myself that I would throw nothing away because you can always come back to things late and find a great use for them.
So I am sticking with the page as it is now and I will fill in the missing days tonight. I'm going to write using white pen so I think that will make a big difference to how the page looks.
In year to come when I look back I will probably find that I like it with hind sight!!!
So here it is January revised!!!
I love the sentiment and I'm going to try and follow it during the year.
WORK GENTLY
BREATHE DEEPLY
LAUGH FREELY!
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I can't understand why you don't like it... It is lovely. I too can't do with spelling mistakes and have to correct them if I make any.. that is the teacher in me. Cheer up 'twil soon be spring xx
ReplyDeleteI am with you on changing the spelling as that irk's me too but as for the page itself I think it looks great! Glad you did not throw it away!
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