Since we are still a small group and some of our journal pages are quite personal, we like our members to be active. After all, it's active members that make a group so wonderful. If you plan on lurking then this is not the group for you. Please plan on introducing yourself and filling in the members database within 2 days of joining.

This group will focus on various aspects of Art Journaling. There will be journal templates, challenges, techniques, journal prompts, and LOTS of chatting. The journal challenges will be fun, silly, serious, sad, challenging, and at times personal.

Some of our challenges will not be happy. They might be downright depressing. They might be about death, depression or childhood issues. You do NOT have to do any of these more serious challenges. And please, if you do one of those pages, don't feel that you have to share it. That page is just for you.

Visual journals can be about so much more then just art and that is what we are reaching for. Our journals will be our friends and our counselors. We will laugh with them, shed some tears on them and at times be angry with them.

While it is permissible to use any type of language you choose in your journal pages, we don't allow foul language in the group emails.

This group is not just about art. It's about LIVING through pictures and words. It's a safe place where we can talk about anything. We can blossom in so many ways in this atmosphere. We share our lives, jokes, links, and anything else we think the group members will enjoy. Having art in our lives is a wonderful thing but our lives are so much more then art. That's why we don't limit ourselves to the subject of art. We are a well rounded, group of complex individuals and we love it this way.

Art by Debbie