Another one finished!
Like the Red journal, I started this nearly 3 years ago. It started its life as a blank, white-paged book but now…
Front cover:
“I wanna know where does love go to die…”
– P!nk
“You have to leak sometimes or you will explode.”
– Anjo. (my best friend)
This spread commemorates the day I took Nephew the 2nd to the annual Pirate Festival in Vallejo on Father’s day weekend.
Look like a mermaid, swear like a sailor.
“It’s such a waste to grow up lonely”
– John Mayer
When the game is over, the king and the pawn go in the same box
Some things I find on Pinterest but I don’t know who created it. I don’t know who wrote/said this.
“I am not afraid, I was born to do this.”
– Joan of Arc
“Whoever said that love was sweet drank a little too much whiskey baby.”
– P!nk
“Scar tissue that I wish you saw.”
– Red Hot Chili Peppers
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
– Maya Angelou
I’ve posted this before, but when one gets the opportunity to quote Wayne Campbell…
“In another life, darling, I’d do anything to be with you.”
– James Blunt
I’d heard about using other fibers in one’s art. This is my attempt at incorporating a used dryer sheet. Meh.
Don’t worry if you make waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time.
– Pinterest
“You’re not crazy for leaving, just crazy for staying so long.”
– Daughtry
“I gave you all my energy and I took away your pain
‘Cause human beings are destined to radiate or drain
What line do we stand upon, ’cause from here it looks the same
And only scars remain”
-Ed Sheeran
You tried to drown my heart even after you had seen me swim.
Let your freak flag fly
“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”
-Charles Baudelaire
“I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story. I will.”
– Amy Schumer
I’ve been hurt so bad and I still love so hard. I admire my heart for that.
– Pinterest
“Some women fear the fire. Some women simply become it.”
– R. H. Sin
I’m going to start using my EXTENSIVE collection of magazine clippings in my art more…
“If a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go ahead and be one.”
– Calamity Jane
I have traveled through madness to find me.
Word.
Truth:
From an earlier story…
“I’m tired of being alone…so hurry up and get here.”
– John Mayer
“Happiness ain’t prison but there’s freedom in a broken heart.”
– Miranda Lambert
“I’ll learn masonry, carve stone,
plant a garden of my own
and make bliss among these ruins.”
– Effy Wild
You remember that:
“My perfect rock bottom, my beautiful trauma.”
– P!nk
“And now you only wanna make it out alive.”
-Rob Thomas
Coloring sheets go in here when they end up being supercool:
“If you believe in nothing else
Just keep believing in yourself
There will be times of trouble
It’s gonna hurt like hell
This much I know all ends well
It all ends well”
– Alter Bridge
“I’m broken in the prime of my life
So embrace it and leave me to stray.”
– Imagine Dragons
Pinterest:
Smokey was my “divorce kitten”…ya know…like, “Your parents are divorcing. Here’s a kitten.”
Horatio has already been introduced…
Back cover:
Right! So there are 4 more large books I’m working on…
I’ve set up my Journal 52 (prompts from 2017, but now MY 2019), so now I have to catch up for the first 7 weeks of the year…
I wonder what else I will do next?
Horatio and Emily 