travel logs (redefined)

We make adventures with our kids in our motorhome. Yes, we are RVers! I love being confined to an enclosed area with all of us, it's a great instigator of quality time. I started a written journal to document our trips together. Well, I eventually chucked the boring black pen for colored pencils and before long craved to embellish the pages with stuff...anything to add texture. Then the lightbulb flickered...I bought large tags and started to created individual travel books. Now I grab inks, fibers, doo-dads and any other goodies relevant to the trip and take it in the motorhome to journal while on the road. I also include trip-specific things like postcards (cut to the size of the tag), maps, business cards, cut-outs from brochures and anything else I can get into the little journal. I use wallet size photos and doodle my heart out...the art possibities are limitless! The collection of travel photo journals are growing and displayed in a basket in my living room.

I made the cover of the French Camp tag book free-hand since this is where I am finding my own unique style. I doodled and used colored pencils, ink, stamps, embroidery thread and covered it with a glaze for thickness and protection.

may you have fun travels through '08

~ artist jen