Church and The Bluebird Cafe

Steve and I were in Ukiah, California this morning where he was officiating at a church that is about 75 miles from our home.

Returning, we stopped for Sunday brunch at the Bluebird Cafe, a local haunt in Hopland which was featured HERE just a few days ago.

I wish I could take credit for the lovely pen and ink drawing on the upper right corner of this larger composition, but it was on the cover of the bulletin and I pasted my interior sketch next to it. You can't see the paste lines so it looks like I did it all, but anyone who has been following my postings knows I can't draw architecture (yet) so I couldn't even lie and get away with it!

It's almost here: 2010!

For reasons I don't even know, I set my sights on owning a real Moleskine 2010 daily planner this year.

When it arrived, again for reasons I don't even know, I made a decision to "decorate" every spread. Not necessarily every page, but at least every spread.

"Decorating" could be any sketch in any medium that worked well on the thin paper, collage elements, zentangling or other forms of patterned drawing or just about anything else. The only limitations were that I would need to preserve some space for scheduled client sessions and activities and the pages would still have to fit and turn easily because it was, after all, my official planner for the year.

I'm loving this venture! I've lost all sense of professional decorum as the pages fill up with FedEx stickers found on my door, expanded rubber stamp art, newspaper clippings and individual words that could mean anything (like the WHY I snipped from a larger text) and, of course, drawings of my three dogs.