I’m trying to put things in perspective today. First of all, I’m happy that I’m keeping up with the Life Book 2018 lessons thus far (just waiting for some hard pastels to finish the current lesson), but discouraged that I was only able to complete a fraction of 2017 and 2016 lessons – less than half of them.

For that reason, I hadn’t bound those years. I had this compulsive idea I wanted to bind them in order of the lessons – and of course since some were missing I felt paralyzed.

 

So I pulled out all my Life Books since I joined in 2013. Not too shabby! I completed ALL lessons in 2013 and 2014, and about ¾ of those in 2015. This week I bound 2016 and 2017, even though they’re not complete and not “in order.” I will add to them as I finish the back-log of lessons.
 

I’ve also decided to back my 2018 pages as I finish them. It’s really time-consuming to do it at the end of the year, especially when I'm so excited to get started with the new year's lessons. I’ve always chosen to ring-bind my books, because I like the option of removing pages if needed (to scan, display, or whatever).
 

Seeing this body of work reinforces to me that ANYTHING I produce is so much better than not being creative at all.  

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My Life Book 2015

I've let go of the reality that I'm not going to finish all of the lessons offered in 2015, so made a video of my book this morning - as-is. I still have so many 2016 lessons to left to do, but I signed up for Life Book 2017 anyway. I'm going to try to chip away at the 2016 lessons as I go, so I'm a long ways from making last year's video flip-through.

 

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Life Book 2015 December Lessons

I'm so far behind. There are still many very cool lessons waiting for my attention.

http://effybird.com/


http://www.jeanneoliverdesigns.com/






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Life Book 2015 November Lessons

http://www.violette.ca/


http://creativejuicesarts.com/
Not done yet, but we had a 30 minute time limit. I need to do more "mark making" and add some sort of focal object.

 

  

http://www.donnadowney.com/

http://lynzeelynx.com/

 

http://danielledonaldson.com/

 

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Life Book 2015 October Lessons

http://kristinvanvalkenburgh.com/

http://alisaburke.blogspot.co.uk/
Alisa's lesson was about making marks with everyday things. I took it a step farther by creating a mixed media background first, then used many different markers, crayons, etc.

http://www.pbsartstudio.com/


http://jennyleewentworth.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.matirose.com/

 

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Life Book 2015 September Lessons

http://www.creativedreamincubator.com/


http://jillberrydesign.com/


http://www.robenmarie.com/alittleaboutme

http://creativejuicesarts.com/

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Life Book 2015 August Lessons

http://joannezsharpe.blogspot.co.uk/


http://www.alenahennessy.com/

Meditrina, Roman goddess of wine, health & longevity


http://andrea-gomoll.de/


http://www.donnadowney.com/

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Life Book 2015 July Lessons

http://danielledonaldson.com/


http://braveintuitiveyou.com/
Way out of my comfort zone:

Photographed while in progress: above left (with glare of light),

above right (without glare)

 

Finished:

http://rachaelrice.com/

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Life Book 2015 June Lessons

http://willowing.ning.com/


http://www.juliettecrane.com/

http://lynzeelynx.com/


http://andrea-gomoll.de/

http://www.jessicaswift.com/

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Life Book 2015 May Lessons

http://www.jessicaswift.com/

  

http://blog.crescendoh.com/crescendoh/
I used acrylic paint, acrylic ink, stabile pencil, china marker, Tombow

 

  

http://lynnwhipple.com/

I'll be scanning my page soon, but wanted to share what Ivan (age 6+) did the other day... his is the one on the right. He did a fantastic job!

 

A couple finishing touches, then scanned:

http://www.jeanneoliverdesigns.com/

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