I  journal and do morning stream of consciousness exercises, and
I’m again participating in Linda Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday. 
I write to a timer, 15-20 minutes, no editing except spelling, and of course I add my art!
You can do it too!
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “the last piece of mail you received.” Talk about the subject of the last piece of physical mail you received, i.e. a gas bill–talk about gas, not the bill itself. Have fun!

My older hand-made journals, above, and the new package below.

Wow.

I never get to yak on about something this exciting except with Mitchell,
and especially before I’ve even tried it out… so, wow!
Normally I’d have to wait to watercolor and in this case it’d have to be finishing
the whole journal and so this is an excellent prompt!

Yesterday despite the notices that it was going to be late the mailman brought the Hahnemühle ZigZag Watercolor Journal!  This is an accordion journal, so it folds out
and can tell a long story all at once… I’ve made them, and they are not hard to make,
costly if you want a nice-sized long one — you have to have large sheets of paper or
there is an unsightly glue seam, which being a purist, I won’t do.
I like to work with the materials I have without fussing them into shapes they don’t want to go, and so my folded journals have not been longer than 36-inches.

But the Hahnemühle is large!  It comes in several sizes, and my favorite favorite most exciting thing is it comes in a SQUARE format (be still my architectural heart!)
It has a lovely grey fabric cover and RED ELASTIC strap to keep it closed
(architectural grey and red, omi!)  And this is 140 lb paper, good watercolor paper, and made by a company that has an amazing ecological track record.

I cannot contain myself… I want to paint today!!!!!

I’ve been hold off starting a project in hopes that I could do it in this journal and
am so happy this has arrived.  Otherwise I’d have to write about the mail I got before this, which is tax crap, instead of this happy happy surprise!

For the rules, go to Linda’s blog;  feel free to join the fun!