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Altered book, art, art journal, Art Journal Every Day, collage, gratitude, migraine, Occipital Neurologia, Pain, unconference
Dam Camp was so much dam fun! It was an unconference and I taught art journaling and mandala drawing and took classes in understanding landscape art in its historical context, Raspberry Pi, and Bullet Journaling. What a fun impromptu learning environment. An unconference is when a bunch of people get together and spend about half an hour throwing out ideas of something they would like to share and you throw those into a grid to schedule everything and you go with what you’ve got. Ta-Da!
It was at the art center so I knew where all the stuff was and I was ready to start a new book so here is a part of it! I started doing some bullet journaling stuff in it, but that isn’t much to look at just yet. It was great to set aside a morning to get back into art and something other than packing, moving, and doctors.
The Very Good News: Part of my migraine pain is from occipital neurologia. I have had a series of diagnostic nerve blocks and they have helped tremendously!!! I’m scheduled to have a more permanent procedure early in May. I have gotten down to a 0 on the pain scale for my migraines! It hasn’t lasted for a day, yet, but I’m really optimistic about the procedure. I have more hope than I have had in years.
Some more good news: we have accepted an offer on our house and our offer has been accepted on a house in New Jersey. It sounds a lot more simple and straight forward than it has been and I’m hoping it will be smooth sailing to complete the process. I’m hoping this will give me a little time between packing bouts to do some more art journaling. I have also started a really spectacular mandala but my eyes are acting up again so its on hold. I hope you have a beautiful day!
Loving your gratitude and positivity. I know how hard that can be with migraines but I find I cope better when I’m grateful. Wishing you all the best x
I’m grateful for your kind words. Gratitude makes everything better to me.
I keep meaning to start a ‘gratitude journal’, it always helps to stay healthy emotionally and mentally to remember all the good things you are usually happy about and thankful for…
When I start getting too cranky I usually recognize that I haven’t been practicing gratitude enough!