I'm Open...
One of the best things about art journaling is its ability to distract me from feeling down — and while I'm distracted, rearrange my head, to where I emerge into a less-crummy frame of mind.
I don't expect the page to be any one particular thing when I come at it that way. I'm just trying to make myself feel better. So I choose the most self-indulgently pleasing page ingredients I can see on my shelf, no matter whether they seem to work together or not.
And yet, somehow they always seem to blend into something unexpectedly fun. And not only does the process of creating feel great, but what I'm left with is a vaccination against the blues.