Snowflake #9: New Things

Challenge #9

Rec Us Your Newest Thing.

I suppose my newest thing is the 365 Questions for 2024. I have been adding to it, and now it's up to May.

I am also trying to develop a regular yoga practice. Right now, every other day I am doing Yoga with Adriene 30 Days of Yoga 2024 - Flow. Adriene is the right balance of New Age, woo-woo, touchy-feely and also not taking it too seriously.

I also checked out several books at the library [Everybody Yoga, Curvy Yoga, Yoga After 50 for Dummies, and a Yoga primer]. Mainly I want examples of yoga being done by obese practitioners and modifications for people who aren't very flexible (not that the over 50 are necessarily inflexible).

My YMCA has weekly yoga classes and two of them are offered virtually as well as in the center. There is NO WAY I will ever go to an in-person yoga class, so this might be a good thing to explore.

Collage Journaling: Snow, Snow

We are getting 4 to 6 MORE inches of snow. This is the most snow we've gotten in years. I forced myself to go out in it.



And so I did a collage.

Snowflake #10: 5 Things

Challenge #10

Five Things! The five things are totally up to you.

I took this opportunity to go back over my collage journal pages of 2023 and picked my favorites.

1.

I did this for June Pride. I woke up in the morning with the idea, and it looked just as nice as I envisioned.

2.

My general preference is for a very busy page, completely covered in many layers like this one.

3.

I did this one for Easter. I really love the base layer, the string grid.

4.

Another Easter one that I think turned out really well. I love the purple, and the juxtaposition of modern and vintage elements.

5.

This is in my smaller art-specific journal and I was introduced to a new-to-me female painter, Artemisia Gentileschi.