I'm starting a series of posts for the next few Saturdays called "Art Journal Essentials." Each post will have a series of themed items I think are necessary for art journaling. I'm starting this tomorrow (saturday) and will run it until I'm done.

I'm having one of those mornings where I think I shoudl have a whole lot more to say about stuff but I don't. Yesterday was hot and humid and I spent the day at the Peabody Essex Museum with Christie looking at art and crafts from around the world. We ate good food at one of our favorite places. I bought boots with arch support so that when I go walking my feet won't feel like someone smashed them with a hammer also so that if I go into some lesser explored places and step on glass it won't slice through the sole of my shoes.

I planted a white currant bush my father gave me. It looks good. My yard is a field of dandelions. To make my neighbors happy I'm going to spray but I'mnot happy about it. I wisht he grubs would eat dandelions instead of the grass but they only seem to like the grass that grows in the yard. Go figure. Everyone else around here chemlawns and thus our yard is a haven for bugs. If everyone quit chemlawning it would help. Or at least cut back on how often they chemlawn…

Have I mentioned I'm not quite ready to go back to work after my four day weekend? Yeah.

Someone just posted the video below to their FB profile. I watched it as I’ve been watching all the developments of the new moleskine items. A line of pens and pencils was, to me, a natural development and compliment to their line of notebooks. It made sense to me that they would offer something for you to use to write in your notebook. At first I thought that a series of bags didn’t make sense, but let’s face it, how many of us carry our tiny little notebooks in our back pants pocket?

I went so far as to design and make my own bag out of recycled tyvek mailers. (Which is still going strong after almost 6 months of continuous use!) So perhaps making notebooks leads to making bags? I’ve had this feeling while I’ve been watching the launch of the new moleskine products that they’ve “jumped the shark.” I really like the moleskine and the ideas of the moleskine- stiff black cover, elastic closure, sturdy stitching etc… But to me I really wish they’d focus on some quality control of their paper. Sometimes I get a notebook that handles my fountain pens wonderfully and other times I get one that cannot handle the ink without feathering and bleeding all over the place. Occasionally the spine falls apart or something happens that is not satisfactory. Get product #1 right before moving onto product #2.

I should probably try out the moleskine watercolor notebook and see if I like it.

Anyway, here is the moleskine video:

Yesterday was my partner's graduation from Suffolk Law. This was one of the better graduations I've been to, as the speakers were pretty darn good, they shoudl be considering that one is an anchor for CourtTV. I sat among people I didn't know and sketched people from the crowd.

Three years is a long time. I'm glad it's almost over.

I drew these this past week, so instead of "Sunday Pictures" I should have called this "weekly Round up" but I thought that was kinda lame. I like Sunday pictures instead.

I'm sitting through a graduation. I'm very happy that my lovely partner is graduating but I'm really wishing I didn't have to sit through graduation. (yawn) Perhaps that's why I've drawn the screaming faces?