finally

sorry for the long delay on updating this thing... i've gotten so far off my goal of wanting to post daily... perhaps this post will inspire me to continue

i'm a part of this collaborative artist thing - there are nine of us in a tri-state area who are passing around artist books to each other once a month... each of us created a book with a specific theme and it will be passed through nine people's hands and blessed with nine people's creative interpretation of the theme and in nine month's time (hopefully) I will have a complete book of art on my topic. my book's theme is "grace"... an idea that i have been mulling over and contemplating on for the past two years. i'm very excited to see what people come up with, how they view grace and how they express that artistically.

today, i'm finally sitting down to finish the page in the first book i've received. the book's theme is "on the verge of becoming me". it has taken me a while to come up with ideas of what to do... i've been thinking about myself and who it is i am and what has brought me to this point... two specific things stuck out to me as i meditated on it: me as a little girl - carefree and smiling... not afraid to do or be anything, not afraid to be cute; and lilies - a flower that has become very symbolic in my life... it stems from a verse that has defined my sense of self from Song of Songs 2:2 - "like a lily among thorns, so is my darling among the maidens"... just this idea that God has created me as something so unique and beautiful that i stand out stunningly like a beautiful lily among dead thorns. i'm having so much fun taking those two ideas and interpreting them onto paper - using different mediums: oil pastels, paint, photos, ribbons, glass... it's so much fun!

as i finish a project, i will post pictures of what was created so you can join me in this process... and maybe it will even inspire you to try something - if not join a group like this, then to explore a new way of journaling.

ciao for now