Note(s) to self

Our Meals on Wheels clients will soon receive their Thanksgiving cards--gasp! Given my continued "micro-bursts" of creativity and joy, I designed these six models for the 60 cards I wanted to contribute. Ever since Project Pack 15 and its focus on letters, I've enjoyed using more text in my art. 

With InkTober behind us, I was thinking about a new project and remembered that I had another mini-journal to work in. I had made the background for the cover, and pulled out my Moonlight pens. (Uh-oh. She's pulling out colored pens again!) I had recently seen the newly published step-outs for Vipson, and had a fun 30 minutes of tangling. After a break, I came back and pulled out my colored pencils and maybe some other pens to finish up. When I opened the journal to inaugurate it, I saw I had already used about half of it for notes on Mindful Art Studio's Slow Drawing and Painting class! No mistakes, only surprises!!!

I took advantage of my "misstart" to review LunarFlux, from the first day of InkTober. I had misunderstood the step-out, and wanted to get this lovely tangle under my belt.

As I drew this soothing LunarFlux tile, a favorite quote from Kurt Vonnegut came to mind:

"When things are going sweetly and peacefully, please pause a moment, and then say out loud, 'If this isn't nice, what is?'"

This morning's meditation focused on gratitude for the mundane, and this phrase rang out:

Savor the preciousness of life.