Today I want to tell you about the “10 minute collage”.
I was surfing lots of visual journaling blogs yesterday and first I must say I was surprised how many are really about the bloggers personal life with a little journaling here and there. I was looking for blogs just about journaling and didnt find many of them.
However, on at least three of them I found mentions of the “10 Minute Collage”. Basically what you do is sit down with your Journal and a couple of magazines. I love the “Oprah” magazine for this. You just flick through the pages quite fast and if anything stops you, you rip it out. After you have thress or four images you tear around them and glue them into your page in a way that you like the look of.
Next you hunt for words or a sentence that you like and tear that out and glue it into your page. The aim of this collage is not to over think it, or even think it!:-) Its all done intuitively!! While you are creating you are actually in what I call “the zone”. Its a great place to be…………I think your brain in actually in alpha and its very peaceful and relaxing.
If you can commit to doing a “10 minute collage” each day, its a great way to look back after a month or so to get a picture of your life and your thoughts.
I would suggest that if you hate the blank white page in your journals, spend a day painting the backgrounds before you start doing your daily collages, or you could go back over the pages and fill in all the blank spots with doodles and colour and more journaling later.
Ok I have just stopped and done a “10 Minute Collage” to show you and the batteries in my camera are flat. I have them on charge and will come back later today and add the photo.
In the meantime I would love you to add a comment or teo and if you create a 10 Minute collage please send them to me via email at di@dyzree.com and I will show them on this blog. Would love to have you here:-)
Di