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And so the story goes, to where? No one knows. But it involves a Volkswagen T2 Crossover Bay Bus called Billie Bud (known to most people as ‘WOW, a camper van’); a Pentax LX SLR camera loaded with black and white film; cooking vegetarian food on a basic set up of Cobb cooker, a couple of gas rings and an open fire; reading books; listening to music and the ruminations from a retired Staff Nurse. Well......got to fill the hours outside of being a pensioner somehow.
#complementary therapy, #fountain pens, inks and paper, #Health Matters, #meanderings, #Retirement Projects, Journal and notebook covers

Mindfulness can be simply placing your faith in the pen, paper, journals, doodling …and a bit of stick on vintage looking bits and bobs. .

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The new Mindful Sessions Recording journals. Collage of various bits and bobs.

Recently, it has been nice making journal covers from various material formats. Old leather bag cut up got five covers. A couple of diary covers were useful once all the pages had been removed. An. old Nepal handmade paper jotter (the paper was not fountain pen friendly at all) was nice to string up traveller notebook style once, as said before, all the pages were removed. It is now made into a small Kraft covers notebooks housing and my song lyrics and chords will be going onto the pages.

All in all, it is nice just pottering about with stickers, typewriter, pen and ink, different little notebooks, a bunch of vintage stickers to make collage covers for the notebooks/journals……and generally create a Mindful Focused vibe.

With the two journals, within a lovely old roughed up bit of leather cover to house them, it can now be dedicated to recording the proper Mindful Meditation, Chakra, Reflection and Mantra mumbling sessions.

Even though the journals are both fountain pen friendly, I have made the choice of adopting simplicity. So bought some Blackwing pencils to write sessions with. The Natural (extra firm graphite) and the 602 (firm graphite). These pencils are also to be used with some exploration into watercolour painting. As an absolutely awful artist……it should be fun to see how I can dodge the dedication to seeking acceptable art form and create a Summers’ alternative weirdness.

Here’s a bunch of photographs so as to make sense to the words above.

If you tap on the smaller ones….they jump up to Billy Big Screen and say hello.

Cheers everyone.