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***CLOSED*** winner announced : Challenge: Back In the Saddle

thanks for the challenge, it was interesting to journal about this...translation in my gallery:

 
My journaling:
After five summer’s of travel softball- we’re done. Having our weekends at the lake back seems so therapeutic during this time of so much change! I have forgotten how restorative the sounds of the water and the warmth of the sun are to my soul. I know I’ll miss so many things about summer softball, but our future weekends here at the lake make me excited, not sad!
Repeated element: Butterfly, flowers
Messy element: Stitching & paint bubbles

 

Repeated element of tag and flower, messy element paint, 3 lines of journaling.
This is about having to bid adieu to another child, leaving for overseas and how hard it is.
 
Hi Everyone...

This layout is very deeply personal to me and was very difficult to create emotionally...I did not think I would ever create another grief layout...but this is how my creativity works...I survey the pieces I am gonna work with and form a theme or idea from that...and I do not judge my creativity either or condemn it...I use it gently as my muse for creativity,so I do not fight it either...I guess this is what I was suppose to create in this moment...

***VERY SENSITIVE ART JOURNALING ABOUT GRIEF***

*This collection brought me back to a lot of special moments and memories about me & Ray...We loved summers spent together and watching the sunsets was our favorite thing to do...I haven't been able to look at or see a sunset since he died...Too hard and too emotional for me...but to be fair,I have been too sick and too busy to travel somewhere where I can even see an actual sunset...Can't see this where I live in the city and since I do not have access to a vehicle anymore...It is even more difficult to do...but the idea and all the times we spent traveling together each summer to visit family,friends and celebrate weddings,dances,parties,fireworks and reunions...are somehow now front and center in my mind after viewing the word art,papers and journaling cards from this collection and much tears were shed in the creation of this layout...but eventhough it was difficult emotionally to create,I feel that things happen for a reason even when I don't always understand why sometimes...so I choose to just go with it...and see where it takes me...and as I am not one to shy away from my feeling anyway...I guess I needed to say something to myself in this creative moment deep down...so I really felt,in the end,this was meant to be...I guess that's what resiliency means,moving forward despite the difficulty and not giving up on yourself in those toughest,darkest moments...

*My : In The Still Of Night : Layout :
Credits in my gallery*

 
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My journaling is purposefully somewhat difficult to read. The story is about another day with my differently abled daughter. Scrapping about my day helped calm me after hours of stressful activity.
 


The title means "New start", the page is about my my journey with a coaching program. And I just hit a point, where I felt like I need some kind of a new start. Like I had strayed a little from the path. So the journaling is about the current difficulties and how I am picking myself up to go on.
I don't want to share the complete journaling, but here is a translation of the first sentences:
A new start at the academy? Although I never stopped. And I'm not starting completely from scratch either. At the same time, in a way it feels like that. In some respects, there hasn't been any real change yet.

* * At least one “messy” element. > A lot of messy elements here.
* * * At least one repeated element or design motif. > There are three wordarts as well as three pencils.
Use a quote or word art related to strength, growth, or determination. > "Your attitude determines your direction"
 
Phew this one was a big one lol! Great challenge and it got me to nail the story down! I did paint for the messy (and it has been a messy road), I used the rooster 3 times since we kept going back and getting chickens. And I am pretty sure the journaling is over 3 sentences lol! I used the sentiment 'Keep Following the Carrot' for the proverbial and literal haha! Thanks for hosting!

 
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