# 1,000!

Dear Diary,

Today is my 1,000th post!  It seems a bit incomprehensible that I have posted an entry for 1000 continuous days but there it is.  Still, there are so many others who have been doing this much longer than I and I am in awe of their fortitude.  I hope I can continue to soldier on as well.

Perhaps I should have chosen a more significant image for today but this is what's occupying me at the moment so this is it.  I have been a collector of quotes nearly all my adult life.  I have, for some time, wanted to start a Commonplace Book, last week I did; this is one page of it.  But, being the art teacher I am, I couldn't just write them down neatly in a little notebook, as my grandmother did.  I am having a great deal of fun doodling and coloring them as well.  I must admit, it is the most relaxing of pastimes.  Emerson hops up on the table and sits with me as I do it, offering a helpful paw from time to time.  He seems to like the coloring bit!

I have always loved coloring and I know that now they have adult coloring books but this will do for me.  I am doing them on 8.5X11 white cover stock and I will use my comb binder to put them in book form when I have enough pages.  I just use fine line markers and colored pencils so no fancy materials or excessive time involved.  I use to have my students do art journaling but that is a lot of effort and I wanted this to be just easy fun and it certainly is.  No special skills or material required...just write and color!

If you want to read more about commonplace books, you can see some resources on my Pinterest page....