I am writing while we are having a late February snowstorm. We are supposed to get a few inches and it’s supposed to snow all day today and tomorrow. March is definitely coming in like a lion!
This month was full of creativity for me. I worked on many magazine collage dolls, and even did a series about how to get started trying magazine collage people yourself! That was so much fun! February is my birthday month, so I took the week off for my birthday and just created as much as I could and wanted to. I am finding that creating is my escape from those moments in time where I am feeling dysregulated and need to just come back to where my feet are. I get consumed by colors, images, glue and paper and I can become mindful and present to what I am doing in that one moment in time. I am not thinking about what someone might think of me after that meeting at work, or where tomorrow’s calendar may lead me. I am just in that moment, in my art room, enjoying the beauty before me.

I also discovered Glue Books this month and have just been obsessed with gluing in my random glue book that I made out of a composition book. It is the most low stakes craft I think I have ever done. The materials are cheap, the process is super chill and easy and the results are fun layouts that are unexpected, funny, pretty, and any combination of those all at once.
I have been thinking about why I am so drawn to glue books and the act of gluebooking (I”m making this a verb although every autocorrect wants it to be a misspelling 😂 ). I think a lot of it has to do with there is no huge mess. I am not getting water and paints everywhere. I am not spraying inks all over my desk and having to contend with plopping my hand in a puddle of barely dried pigment. I don’t have to wash brushes and water jars and clean my desk with cleaner every time I finish. I just cut up magazines and glue them down and try to keep my little cut pieces to a minimum on the floor. But even if the floor gets covered in slivers of paper a vacuum will clean it up pretty fast. Again, the barrier to entry and the overall stakes are very low. Not to mention any of the images I find in magazines that won’t work for my collage dolls, I can put in a gluebook and I get save those pretty pictures to look at in the years to come. My dram is to have a whole collection of glue books that I can display on a shelf and take out to look at every few years, to remind me of my creative journey and where I was compared to where I currently am.
After all, this whole journey is just for me. I am so happy that I can share it with others so that they may find their own journey, but in the end, this is for me and me alone and that is the purpose.

On to March! Let’s see what shenanigans I can get up to this month!