"I have always sketched, but usually I would put off drawing in order to do the more "urgent" everyday stuff. Sometimes months would pass with no drawing. Not anymore. I started by joining in the challenges at Danny Gregory's "Everyday Matters" yahoo group. Now after about 8 months, sketching the everyday stuff is an almost daily habit. I take my Moleskine everywhere....draw in waiting rooms, in boats, on trains. I just take my little black book, a Faber-Castell PITT artist pen (S), and sometimes a waterbrush and a little set of pan watercolors. It's amazing...the freedom to mess up in my sketchbook has allowed me to try to draw all kinds of things. After all, it's never going to have to hang on a wall as a finished piece...it's just another sketch among many. I love the plainess of my Moleskine. I feel like I can take it out and sketch without drawing alot of attention. I'm filling these little books up with bits and pieces of my life. In the process, I'm seeing my life a little more clearly and appreciating it more along the way."
Joyce Cole
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I leave you with this thought via JC in Wien:
"Writing has ... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer."
Henrik Ibsen
Have a nice weekend everyone. Get out, have a life - and write about it! Be back on Monday.










"I here neyther that ne this, for when my labor doon al ys and have made al my rekenynges I goon hom to my hous anoon and, also domb as any stoon, I sitte at another book tyl fully daswed ys myn look. Certes, I oghte to get outte more."
blog suitable for those readers who find her ladyship's own prose style to be somewhat too modern and avant garde for their linguistic tastes: Geoffrey Chaucer has joined the blogosphere!



Hwangyong-hamnida!
"Within seconds of laying my hands on my first Moleskine, I knew I had
found the notebook for which I'd been searching. While I'm not sure I
share quite the same level of quasi-religious fanaticism for these
little bundles of paper that some other bloggers have expressed, the
fact that I've gone to the trouble of starting this blog should suggest
that I was not disappointed, either. With their handsome oilskin covers
and sleek lines, Moleskine notebooks are the ultimate notebook for the
serious journaler. Their precisely stitched bindings lay almost
perfectly flat when open to just about any page, and the built-in
closure strap keeps the notebook tidy in a pocket, protecting the pages
from damage while not in use. And while it's not exactly an essential
feature for my own use, the little integrated bookmark is a nice touch,
too.



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