Enchanted Skies Bag (Part Two)

I haven't had much time to do a lot more on my bag, but here is what it looks like now!

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I'm really happy with the Fireworks fabric I picked up, especially that there are so many colors! I'll be adding my pockets next (and thus, zippers). Still on the prowl for a better strap, but I can make my own if I can't find one.

As you can see in the picture, there is no real closures... No magnets, no Velcro (it was among the first to go). Since I have the zipper I haven't had a problem with stuff falling out, but I'd still like to add a closure soon.
  
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The 30-Day Journal Challenge: Day 21, 22, 23 and 24

Journal Prompt 21:  What was your favorite story from today??

Journal Prompt 22:  What are some things that you are looking forward to?  These can be monumental things or they can be silly little things too!

Journal Prompt 23:  Today is a free choice page!!!  A free choice page means that you can create a page using whatever you want and journaling about anything you want!!  Have fun with this one guys!

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I'll admit it, it's fun to see if I can get prompts to make a collage on a spread. This one has three... Admittedly, I do enjoy writing in the margins of my pages, haha. The "Dear Diary" drawing is a very condensed version of my Diary entry for that day, where I did indeed began work on my scrapbooking line (As of right now, I have three patterns drawn out and a page of cut-outs). I'm really nervous about making that official post but I'm determined to conquer that fear and just go for it!

 Journal Prompt 24:  Alright, today we are creating a Top 10 List.  This Top 10 list can be of anything!  This can be a Top 10 List that has already been established but that you want to document, or it can be a Top 10 list that you think up right this second!!

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Ten Japanese Kanji that I know by heart! :3
 
I can't believe it's all going to be over soon! I never do the things on my lists and over the last almost-month I actually did some! I nearly finished the bag I had listed on the Summer Projects prompt. And my manga is well on its way to completion!

It's been really fun getting up and finding a daily prompt and being part of a group that enjoys journaling as much as I do.

I can't wait 'til next year!

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The 30-Day Journal Challenge: Day 18, 19 and 20

Journal Prompt 18:  Today is all about altering a repeat image :)  Copy an image, or images, multiple times using a copy machine, or scanner and print the images in black and white.  Use different writing tools to alter your images in many different styles.  (If you don't have access to a copier of any kind, alter images from a magazine or old pictures, do it your way and it will be awesome).

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There seems to be an ongoing ice cream theme sneaking into my pages. Hmmm...

Journal Prompt 19;  Should you be doing something different with your life right now?  why or why not?

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I actually had way different plans for this page, but once I colored her and the flowers, I realized that I liked how having her surrounded by a blank background seemed to reflect the words better than what I had originally planned. Interestingly enough, I have often discribed this feeling in my Journals as being like a blank page waiting to be filled.

Journal Prompt 20:  Today your journal will be hijacked!!  Today you will give up control of your journal and let someone else create a page for you!!
 
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My Journal was hijacked by my mom!

I love how she did these pages... The bottle with the beads inside, the tiny buttons, the seed packets... And the locket even opens! It's such a fun spread!

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The 30-Day Journal Challenge: Day Eleven, 14, 15 and 16

Hullo, guys!

I haven't dropped out of the 30-Day Journal Challenge, I've just been super busy and not had time to post my pages. So here we go!

Journal Prompt 11:  How do you love?  Through dating, and marriage, I had always heard talk about the five love languages.  I never thought much about it because I was pretty sure I knew exactly how I loved :)  Once I read the book, it made so much sense to me!!!  What is your love language, how do you love?

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I actually have read The Five Love Languages, I think it's great for helping one understand others, regardless of if the relationship is romantic or not. My Love Language is Giving of Gifts. That being said, before I read the book I knew that made me feel loved but I felt bad about it, I thought that made me seem like a materialistic buy-me-love person. But I also knew I wasn't like that. It's all in the delivery... I love surprises... Someone took time out of their day and thought of me. Or saw something and thought "She would like that." I was thought of. Everything I own that was gifted to me is treasured, and I remember the story behind each one. I hold them and smile and feel loved all over again.

In this page the gift is an ice cream treat <3

Journal Prompt 14:  What roles do you play?  Easy Peasy prompt today :)

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No, I didn't skip 12 and 13, they just weren't finished yet because I was still gathering the pieces to fill the page ;3

I have many roles, but in this page I decided to document just one... Dreamer.

Day 15 Journal Prompt:  This summer, I will not be defined by....

Journal Prompt 16:  Imagine.  I am a total dreamer when it comes to life. I am constantly asking myself questions like what if the sky was pink and the grass was blue, all of those silly kinds of things.  Anyway, today is the day to use your imagination and imagine a world full of things you would like to see!
 
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I will not be defined by those whose voices are louder than mine.

I have noticed in life that it's the ones with the loudest voices, the ones on TV and those with the greater authority, are the ones that seem to define how everyone sees certain people. People automatically judge me based on their experience with someone else and they don't take the time to get to know me and see that I may not be that way.

Right below it I imagine a world of ice cream and sugar drops and cotton candy clouds! Yum!

I had nothing to say for the Father's Day prompt.

I still have more but I didn't want to make my post too big... I'll post the rest later this week when I have more to share :3

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Enchanted Skies Bag (Part One)

(My next post will be a 30-Day Journal Challenge update! I've not dropped out :3)

When things are hard, I bury myself in my world. I draw, I write... I create. Often my creativity goes out the window, but when those moments come when creativity needs to be let out, I like to be ready! Thus, I tote around a purse that's fairly... unpurse-ish and more accomadating for what I carry around.

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Don't get me wrong, I did like this bag (I bought it, after all!) but one day I decided it just didn't reflect the fun little world created within it. So when I went hunting for a zipper for it...

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... I went with Cranberry, since it was on sale, which meant I needed the fabric to match it so that it would close properly when zipped. And yay, my bag had a zipper! But I wasn't done, nope...

I decided to do more to it and now it looks like this!

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Because I carry it around as I work on it, people have stopped to ask where I got it and I've gotten so many compliments... And it's not even done yet! (Shy me is soooo shy, but I try to be friendly so that they know I appreciate that they like my work ^____^)

This is it so far, I'll do a follow-up post once I add the other fabrics (FIREWORKS!!) and extras :3

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The 30-Day Journal Challenge: Day Ten

Journal Prompt 10: Another List ( I looooove lists).  Today we will make a list of all of the projects we would like to accomplish this summer.  With the weather nice, and the extra sunshine, it seems like such  perfect time to start checking those things off of our lists right?
 
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I decided to keep this page simple. The words are a bit fuzzy in the photo, so here it is:

• Finish drawing my manga: I've been drawing one up for awhile... Time to finish!
• Set up my Wingly Adoption Shop: I had the idea for this for a looooong time. I have the stuff to make 'em, now it's time to do it and find them homes! And this one goes with the first one... The manga I'm working on is the story behind the Winglies.
• Make a bag to hold my Poke-mon stuff: A friend of mine got me into playing Poke'mon. Shuffling everything from one room to another is... interesting. There's your decks, your counters and coin, the maps, the rulebooks and of course, your li'l Poke'mon sidekick (mine's Tepig!) SO I am going to convert one of my old bags into a Poke'mon Stuff Holder.
 
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The 30-Day Journal Challenge: Day Eight and Nine

Journal Prompt 8: On this day in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright was born. Wright was a well-respected architect. He designed a number of famous homes. If you were able to design the house of your dreams, what would it look like?

Journal Prompt 9: If you could scream something at the top of your lungs right now, what would it be?
 
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This one was really a challenge for me! I don't draw homes all that often and I'm really bad about keeping my lines straight and even (the front patio, for example...) I used some references and had several variations before I decided to use this one.

Here we have a li'l Mushroom home. I thought the idea was cute ever since I first saw the Smurfs cartoon when I was little.

The 9th prompt flowed out, I wanted to give the impression of the mirror in the compact reflecting the words unspoken. Like those scenes in comic books or movies where the lead character is watching themselves in the mirror and the mirror is showing their superhero form.
 
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The 30-Day Journal Challenge: Prompt Six and Seven

Journal Prompt 6: What does summer feel like?  What does summer look like?  What does summer smell like?  What does summer sound like? And what does summer taste like?  Use all of your senses to describe this wonderful season.  Have fun!

Journal Prompt 7: What is happiness?  What defines your happiness?  What makes you happy?
 
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I'm so happy with how this spread turned out! Both prompts really flowed once I started drawing and it gave me a chance to try drawing with my Journal pages at a different angle. My character at the bottom was supposed to look sunburned in my typical summer outfit but it would seem my camera didn't feel like showing all the different shades of pink, lavender and grey. Ah well.

Sadly I do feel that I didn't really use the 6th prompt as was intended, where I am summer is something we look forward to being over. Everything that sprouted in spring is now dead or dying and the earth is dry and cracked. But I admit that I do enjoy the cold treats being in season, which is the perfect way to cool off after working outside all day... My favorite ice cream is Rainbow Sherbert! Yum!

Next time you'll get to see my li'l Mushroom house! :3

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The 30-Day Journal Challenge: Day Three, Four and Five

Journal Prompt 3: Use your name as an Acrostic to tell us all a little bit about yourself. Get creative with this one.

Journal Prompt 4: Go outside, set up a little journaling area, and see where your mind takes you. Journal it.

Journal Prompt 5: What do you believe in?  A simple prompt that shares so much.
 
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When I first started this page I was going to have an entire two-page spread to the third prompt. But then I decided I liked the idea of it being a little rainbow at the top of the page. It's hard to see what I wrote over the colors, so here it is:

Randomly
Hopeful
And
Extremely
Interested in
Imagining

The third and fourth prompt I ended up doing at the same time. Originally the I BELIEVE IN GOD page was intended to be sky blue with a pink pattern behind it but then I decided I wanted to see what green would look like as a background color. The End of the Beginning by David Phelps pretty much sums up the fifth prompt :3

And since it's hard to see in the photo...

"He was born of a virgin one holy night in the little town of Bethlehem. Angels gathered 'round him underneath the stars singing praises to the great I AM.
He walked on the water, healed the lame, and made the blind to see.
And for the first time here on earth, did you know that God could be a friend?
And though He never, ever did a single thing wrong, He was the one the crowd chose.
And then He walked down the road and died on the cross
but three days later...
HE ROSE

I'm thrilled that I've managed to keep up for five whole days. It has been so fun and so inspiring to see what others are doing with the same prompts each day!

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The 30-Day Journal Challenge: Day Two

Journal Prompt 2:  This is something that I do in all of my journals.  I love making tangible goals and I love writing out lists so this is always a perfect page for me.  Use this page to create 3-5 tangible goals for this journal challenge.

When I first started coloring this page, I started to think that maybe I had used too much rainbow. But it was fun figuring out what shades to use and I like coloring in general. So far it's been two days and I am completely enjoying this challenge... I hope I can keep up!

My cell phone camera doesn't take that good of a picture, the pink is actually not that shockingly bright.

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The 30-Day Journal Challenge: Day One

Journal Prompt 1:  Create an introduction page.  This can be an introduction of yourself or of your journal.  This is kind of like the title page for your journal.

I think I may have gone a little overboard, but I was so excited that I couldn't help myself! On the first page I drew Miss Janel announcing the 30 Day Journal Challenge. I referenced the logo in the speech balloon from her blog. And on the corresponding page is me. Me, and the way I see myself as a character.

Yes, those are rainbow tails.

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I'm so very excited to be doing this with you all! :D

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