I started this journal several years ago and have kept mostly calligraphic sorts of things inside. I really like the double sided front cover while the pages attach from either side too.

I love starting a new journal, it's such a fresh feeling filled with creative possibility. They always need a nice cover first. Making the cover is a ritual I love. It gets my head in a good place, a contemplative space. I become ready to reveal something to myself from a more organic part of myself that only comes through making imagery.

For this cover I bored holes in the front and attached brass beads with black waxed linen thread, it was bear. I ran tiny black beads on a wire down the front and attached an antique tiny bell which attached to the grommet and tag with the passion flower photograph. It was all an experiment, but I really like how it turned out. I think I like the gold paint over the black cover the best. I love when things look ethereal.

It's been pretty ethereal outside too all day, grey ghostly clouds and misty, ah I love a good moody day : )

Happy Monday.