Another moleskine journal--this one for the boys! The same as the Edith and Her Thoughts journal--it's a 60-page blank moleskine journal with the signature pocket inside the back cover, and a homemade ivory and black ribbon bookmark with vintage menswear buttons (and a little red one). Would go nicely with the Gentleman's Notecard Set, if you ask me :)
These journals are 8.5" x 5" and are perfect as a lightweight on-the-go option for those artist or writer (or list-maker) guys (or gals). Plus the bookmark stays useful long after the journal has been filled...
Why are buttons so precious to me??
I'm having to take these pictures at night and learning that the lighting part is tricky...
It's so incredible, though, to think of all I've learned as I come up on the 2-year anniversary of this little blog and etsy shop. I knew absolutely nothing about computers, image sizing, or pdf files, or uploading pictures to the computer, or photography in general, or lighting for a photo (outside light, you say?), or how to make stickers at home, or sewing from a pattern, or altering and making my own patterns!, or sewing a quilt, or printing out your own artwork at home, or how a printer works, or photoshop, or baking cakes, or making frosting, or making up a recipe. And everything I learned, I learned by sitting here and looking up tutorials on-line, reading Photoshop for Dummies, reading sewing books and manuals, outrageous amounts of trials and errors (oh, the printer ink I've wasted), buying books on-line, checking them out of the library, and generally figuring out ways to do what I wanted to do. It's incredibly gratifying to know that I can find a way to learn something if I want to learn it. That falls under the "They Can't Take That Away" category. Because what that meant for me in particular, was that I could change my life if I wanted to. I am not going to complain about the actors' life, especially since I've been fortunate in many ways in that regard, but I will say that it can be challenging emotionally, and what began with a love of the group creative process of making theater has morphed into more of a business-y type thing, which is different. And to go from doing Checkhov and Shakespeare and experimental theater in school with no expectation of a paycheck or reviews but just learning--to hoping (really hoping) for a guest spot on a TV show is also...different. So I guess I'm saying I needed this. I needed to be able to connect creatively with all of you, I needed a motivator to keep doing things I loved to do and put it out there and try not to care if people liked it or not. This has been a profoundly cathartic experience all-around for me and has really shored me up as a person in ways I never expected. I'm terribly grateful to those of you who keep coming back, and commenting, and inspiring me to new heights and so generously providing oodles of entertaining, thoughtful, inspiring reading on your own blogs (those of you that have them). Thank you.
This feels like it should end with a big "Thank You Giveaway" of some sort but I don't have anything planned!! I didn't even mean to go off like that--but out it poured :) I'll have to do something like that to celebrate, though...coming soon! In the meantime I offer you my humblest gratitude and if you were here in my room right now just know I would totally hug you so hard...
Now I'm off to audition for a guest spot on Ugly Betty (and I'm not even kidding)! Wish me luck!



