"Joy on the Loose!"

I'm adopted this joy on the loose phrase from Dotty straight from on her latest blog post. I couldn't love the vibe of it more. 

Dotty unleashed her joy in an art challenge called Random Acts of Art! Her mission was to create small works of art to leave in public spaces and places for others to find and...maybe even take home.

This was her first little piece. How fun is this. I love this challenge!

Latching onto this fabulous phrase...along with my visit with Ida yesterday...has helped my creative joy start to get a little loosened up. 

I spent this morning outside doing a few more put the  gardens to bed chores. It was a day after a full inch + of rain...so it felt good to be out celebrating the dampness. Then I headed to the studio.

After just enough surface clean-up yesterday...there was enough space to tend to some unfinished business. I had just a handful of pages to finish in Tracie's altered journal....and it was the perfect project for me.

I used some of my baby powder prints for the last pages...and smiled when I remembered that this was the post I made up a word inspired by a comment from Dotty. Refojo: refocusing my joy!

That's seems to be just what Dotty is helping me do again today!

I think the powder pages layer up nicely and will give Tracie some starting places for more art and collage.

I still am going to make a junk journal for Tracie with some papers she sent me...but I think I'm going to get this journal in the mail. The junk journal will have a whole different feel...and include some her grandson's art.

My hope was to give these to her in person back in September...but unfortunately she and Loon had to postpone their trip to Portland.

So a little joyful puttering is coming your way Tracie! It's joy on the loose.

This view makes me so happy! I have another journal to alter waiting in the wings....I'm going to do the same thing for Roseanne with her own papers! It's kind of becoming a thing that I do.