What is the most creative recipe you’ve ever made? Or your most vivid memory of the kitchen of your childhood? Or what does your current kitchen look like? Or your dream kitchen? Photograph it, sketch it, paint it, collage it… journal it.

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Grab your journal and unleash that inner artist. Work fast and free, don’t stop to judge or second guess yourself. Just create! And if you’d like to share with us, post on your blog, then leave your link* in the comments section of this post so we can go check it out.

* To ensure it is easy for us to find your artwork, please provide a link to a static page that will always show your submission, and not your website’s main page.

It’s about time for a journal prompt again, don’t you think? Let’s get busy in our art journals and merge the worlds of calendars and art. Either calendar-ize your art journal — or — art up your calendar. You can choose to do this for a week, a month, even a year if you’re really motivated.

1. daily journaling in one square inch, 2. weekly moleskine calendar 5, 3. Calendar Girls 7, 4. december calender, 5. fatbook11.jpg, 6. Altered Calendar - Green

P.S. Check out the links above, as well as The Calendar as Art group on Flickr for tons more inspiration. We’ll have a show and tell next week/next month.

Here is a great journal prompt from Real Simple — Finding Your Comfort Zone, an insightful worksheet that encourages you to “create a list of experiences you’ve considered but never tried — and actually try them.”

Top Three Things

This week’s journal prompt:

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Grab your journal and unleash that inner artist. Work fast and free, don’t stop to judge or second guess yourself. Just create! And if you’d like to share with us, post on your blog, then leave your link* in the comments section of this post so we can go check it out.

* To ensure it is easy for us to find your artwork, please provide a link to a static page that will always show your submission, and not your website’s main page.

Out of control…

So… Out of control… what do you immediately think of when you hear that? Your hair? A two-year-old throwing a tantrum? Britney Spears? Your life? Grab your journal and muse a bit through art and words or however you choose about your own — or others’ — out of control chaos.

Oh, Suzi Blue, we so ♥ you. This week our beloved art journal chica is cheering you on once again and singing the praises of playing with paper dolls and listening to your muse. Right on, I am all about amusing the muse.

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Grab your journal and unleash that inner artist. Work fast and free, don’t stop to judge or second guess yourself. Just create! And if you’d like to share with us, post on your blog, then leave your link* in the comments section of this post so we can go check it out.

* To ensure it is easy for us to find your artwork, please provide a link to a static page that will always show your submission, and not your website’s main page.