It's been awhile since I've posted anything from the art "journal" I started this winter while I was in Vancouver.  Here's a double page spread that I made when I got back to my home studio a few months ago

There's a lot of collaged textured papers on these two pages:
*paper towels coated with metallic paints and acrylic medium that were rolled up with aluminum foil and left to dry, then flattened out  (I think that's how I made them but they're from my stash...so not sure anymore);
*foreign writings with interesting characters such as Arabic and Chinese found in free newspapers;
*ripped-up pages from old personal journals (who would want to read that stuff?!);
*clippings from an astrology calendar.

The legible text on this page says, "A Lifelong Journey" which fits neatly with the title of the facing page...

The Wheel 

(which began its life as a large ad for a man's watch on this magazine page).

Both pages were subsequently attacked with acrylic paint, Caran D'Ache crayons, a bit of stamping and embossing and printing with paint on bubble wrap .  Heavy coatings of matte acrylic medium allow me to get rough with the work, rubbing it off with a damp cloth when really dissatisfied, incising the wet paint with a wooden skewer to make my own "hieroglyphs."  

Things happen in this book when I least expect them to.

A little like that famous John Lennon quote,

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

I hope good things are happening with and for you, planned or not!