My Aim is True

This week I've been thinking about my word for the year, achieve. First off, I am so touched by all of the comments that were left last week when I posted my word. I never in my wildest dreams would have thought that when I started this online journal three years ago that anybody would be interested in reading it, or even yet, keep coming back for more. Moving around as we have, it's been difficult for me to meet people and make friends, but through blogging I get to spend time with like-minded people that inspire and encourage me...so, thank you!

Now, while picking achieve as my word does pertain to actually getting stuff done, the real crux of choosing this word was so that at then end of the year I didn't feel like I had let it slip by. Our time is finite, and I do need to take a more active role in my life. (Yesterday's shooting in AZ really sorta drives this point home for me.)

Part of Ali Edwards online workshop for One Little Word is to create an album/journal to help keep your word cultivated throughout the year with her monthly prompts. I've been wanting to create an art journal for a while, and I thought this was as good an opportunity as any...I'd actually have something to journal.

Some of the prompts this month were to claim your word by defining it, expressing why this word was chosen, coming up with similar words, list some things that we "invite" to occur as a result of choosing this word, and a quote or two using the word.

And now I know why I never really got into art journaling...it was hard for me to just let go and put stuff on the page. I spent most of the week on these three pages. I needed them to look "pretty", like the cool journals kept by Michelle Ward, Tracy and Teesha Moore, and many others. I know this is contradictory to what people say about creating art journals—how it's about the process, and not what it looks like. I just have difficulty doing it that way. I would love to throw caution to the wind and make a mess. I even tried splattered paint on my quote page, but hated that I couldn't control where they landed. ;-) But I look forward to see where the process takes me and what I achieve.