Are we settled into the school year yet?

Umm, only partially, right? Because just as we start to think FALL, the weather decides it was only joking and it wants another round of August. Good one, Fall. You’re a laugh a minute.

There’s a different feeling in fall though, isn’t there? Maybe it’s because my calendar still revolves around the school year. But I gotta believe those cooler evenings and drier air would indicate a change even before the tops of the trees started to look like sunsets.

This season at Get Messy we are focusing on seasons which is just perfect for so many reasons. One is because our family now has a high schooler, and that’s definitely a new season for us.

Another reason is that I took a job with our local school district. After staying home, working part time, or working from home, I now have a job as a Media Assistant, and they want me there EVERYDAY. I cannot do this from home, people. I cannot do this from a coffee shop. I have to be physically present from morning to afternoon EVERYDAY of the week.

(Keeping it respectable but not too serious.)

I know this is normal for the majority of adults, but this is an adjustment for me. It’s a good thing and I really enjoy the job, so it’s a good decision, but still — adjustment, which means there are some habits to reevaluate and some patterns to tweak. But the trade off of a job where my schedule mirrors the kids’ schedule and I don’t work in the summer? Yup, I can happily make those adjustments.

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For the past month or so I’ve been playing with some different approaches to my pages, using some different materials and letting gravity and evaporation do the work.

In addition I’ve joined with some art journaling friends to incorporate blackout poetry in my pages. Some of those pages incorporate use less paint and more discovery. I’ve really enjoyed it so I thought I’d share some of those with you .

So that’s what’s been going on around here.

How’s your September been?