#16 Scrapbook

I’ll be honest right out the gate: technically this isn’t fully accomplished yet and there is a very just reason!

My brother actually has all the old photos and I’m near a desperate state to steal his hard drive and go through a decade worth of photos. I haven’t entirely reached that point yet, but I would really love to finish the scrapbook I am working on.

I have put together a scrapbook of my brother’s and I Comic Con adventures and for some odd reason I have 0 photos and he has them all. What I do have however is loads of artwork and the professional photo ops, as well as all the random cards and stickers from booths over the years. For the most part I kept everything we ever got from any con in my bottom dresser drawer and now all that hoarding has paid off!

It has given me plenty to begin this scrapbook, enough that I feel confident in sharing some of it! So here it is y’all my first ever scrapbook.

I know it still needs lots of work and lots more photos and probably some stories. The thing is I haven’t accomplished a goal for my list in a while and I really have been trying to cross this one off and right now I am settling for close enough because I would feel better seeing progress.

Though not entirely right, I do feel I have made the effort to check it off and since this is my list and my rules I can do what I want. That settles that then.

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#14 Finish a full art journal

Y’all it has been a hot minute since I’ve made a post. This year has already been so chaotic with work and now with covid19 I have absolutely no idea what’s going on anymore. But what I do know my challenges and goals are super important to me, so I want to take some time and refocus and try to get some things accomplished. 2020 has been a year of work and stress so far and I feel like I haven’t moved forward and right now I need this list to motivate me to go forward and to do things.

Now onto the actual post!

I don’t wanna bombard you with the full thing, but here are some of my favorite things I’ve done in my Journal.

First Here is my Art Journal:

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Cue collage!

A lot of this isn’t my original work or anything, it’s stuff I’ve followed along off tutorials, or stuff I saw on pinterest and tried my best to copy. I am not good with calling images to my mind, so I always need a reference to do any sort of art, but this wasn’t for me to show off my art. This art journal became a place to distract me from stress or boredom and it was just something fun to play around with. There was no pressure for it to be good and it’s not like when I was in grade school where it would be graded on based on assignments. It was just whatever I felt like doing and that was so freeing.

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#15 Paint a Picture

20180927_121551 — Sammi’s on the Left. Lauren’s on the Right

As I mentioned in my previous post I accomplished this goal while finishing up that goal. I did a Sip and Paint for this goal which is exactly what I wanted to do to complete this goal!

This will not be my last time going to a Sip and Paint and it will not be my only visit to where I went. Sammi and I had an absolute blast and I don’t even drink. Everyone there had a great time and it’s such an enjoyably simple experience that I think everyone should do more often (I am talking only about the painting, but I guess drinking wine more often could apply to some people). As a bonus my painting actually turned out decent (which is always a shock for me whenever paints involved) and Sammi’s looks awesome (ever the perfectionist)!

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