The Purple Journal

Its 4.40 and almost home time ...it looks like a major storm is brewing, so I will probably be stuck in traffic on the way home..ore rain...YAY! It feels like it has been raining non-stop here since Christmas! It can possibly be that long, but thats how it feels...There is a definite nip in the ais and winter is on its miserly way! I will be away from my office for the next week and hope I can nip in to check emails etc, so I may not update, but Rhonna's challenge has started and it is so cool! I am doing a weight related one this time - I need to lose some weigth but I need to quantify it for myself a bit more - so I am thinking about this one...I will post as soon as I am back in office next week on my progress. I really love these challenges - the inspiration from Rhonna and the other participants, the feeling of belonging to a group of like minded people wanting to change the way they do something - amazing - so I look forward to it... Happy Monday!

Feel ambivalent in so many ways:

• Annoyed that the renovations are STILL not complete, yet happy that some rpgress has been made and we ARE getting there!
• Happy that we have done most of what we wanted to do in the house (an entire new kitchen and bathroom, new kitchen appliances, a shed in the back yard, sanding and sealing the wooden floors throughout the house) - not so happy for the things that had to be left out (built in wardrobes in the bedrooms, paving for the driveway, levelling the backyard)
• Happy that I have registered for my last 2 courses for my Industrial Psychology Honours degree, dreading the WORK it entails
• Happy that I will finally have someone ot report in to (my reporting line has changed at work), but feeling unsettled about getting into an new team, how I will fit in, what will change in terms of my work and what I do
• Happy that we are getting much needed rain, SICK to DEATH of RAIN!!
• Thats me today and some great news is that the fabulous Miss Rhonna is started the {21} Challenge over at her blog! Check it out - I have sigbned up for it again becauseI SO enjoyed the last one - I just have to decide on the habit I want to work on to make or break...any suggestions???

Worrying about this girl. She has been coughing for about a week. The doctore says its a slight chest infection...she is on the medn though - I am hoping she will be well enough for school next week.

Have been working hard to submit assignments this week...hopefully it will be done by the ned of today.

My home is still a shambles from all the renovating, but it will hopefully be all over soon. I will post pics soon.

I am SO happy its the weekend! I am in for a LONG weekend - I am on leave on Monday and Tuesday is a holiday! 4 LONG days off! Hopefully I can get some scrapping in! =0)

Happy Friday!

Finally! Day 21 is here and WE have created the habits we set out to accomplish 21 days ago. Mine was to create something everyday and I have done that! I love creating and this process has encouraged that to become a habit and not something that is hit and miss...staying consistent.

I have enjoyed the process so much and all the wonderful ladies who have been on this journey with me. Thanks to all of you who have encouraged me and inspied me with you wonderful work. A BIG thank you to Rhonna who gave us daily inspiration with her quotes and encourage ment and WONDERFUL works of art (go over to her site and check our her wonderful work!). I have really enjoyed this and would love to do it again with another habit...soon!

Happy FRIDAY!!!! Yay the weekend is HERE!

The scans are not the best and have taken all the colour out of these for some reason - you can get the general idea though!

This journey has been amazing so far...thanks to all of you who have left such encouraging and generous comments on my journal... I love all your work too and try to visit as often as I can...you ladies are amazing! Day 16 uses my favourite colour combination - blue and brown...

Also, I PASSED!! I PASSED!!! ALL 3 honours subjects that I wrote In January! I am beyond excited about that... Happy Wednesday!

I chose my own quote for today's art journal entry...in other news:

• We have our bathroom back! We were without a bathroom or runing water for about 3 days last week. We had to use the outside tap for cleaning and went to Jerome's brother for bathing! Not nice!

I went for my first 2 driving lessons on the weekend! I was not as bad a s I thought I would be! Tonight I go driving with my husband...wish me luck!

• I hade my Performance review this morning - it went well - I should get my full bonus and a decent increase!

I am enjoying this cahhlenge SO MUCH!!! I am really loving all the quotes given as inspiration everyday and the women taking part are so talented. Rhonna of course is SO talented and insopiring! I have so far stuck to the habit I am creating which is to create something everyday and am enjoying that too...even if it is only an entry to my traditional challenge journal, or a latyout, or writing something...I am really enjoying all of it....

Happy Friday!

The scans are not the best ...I am doing a very handdrawn and painted feel to the traditional journal I am doing....I have enjoyed doing these and even though they are not the best looking, I love them. I have battled my inner critic (I cant remember which challenge participant that i visited this morning told their critic to get lost - I had a good laugh at that and thought I would tell mine the same!) to post these and have decided to just do it... especially after seeing all the beautiful entries...I must pos mine first in the future then visit the others! It is very intimidating the tallented people that are taking part in this challenge so here goes before I talk myself out of doing this!