Planner for Chiro-Sis

"Puffins!"  my sister exclaimed. When she saw this bird watching notebook, I knew I would be making it her new planner! Loyal readers of this blog may remember the planner I made out of a potato chip bag for her for 2017. This was a bit easier!

Here's the front cover:

I put a blank label thingie over the title, so she can write whatever she wants.

Spine:

You'll notice I do the Travelers Notebook elastics.

Inside:

Loyal readers of this blog will remember the post I did on the Waterlogue app that transforms photographs into watercolour pictures. Now you can see all the finished puffin pictures incorporated.

First insert is an 8" X 11.5" picture with Tyvek backing, painted brown:

A coupla quotes from Joe Dispenza and Bruce Lipton:

Weekly spread on 2 pages:

Puffin pix from Pixabay:

I put a surprise Rowan pocket in her notebook:

I made a Gratitude journal for her with another photo from Pixabay, Waterlogued:

Mum loved penguins, so I thought she'd appreciate this wintery picture in lieu of  the usual Xmas graphics.
Scroll down to the end of this post for a free graphic to make your own December Daily Gratitude Journal.

One of my (many) favourite quotes from John Morgan:

"GRATITUDE IS A DECISION OF THE HEAD AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART."
This came to me in a meditation . . . on gratitude.  :-)

Monthly calendar from the Dollar Tree:

Another Waterlogued Pixabay puffin, turned into a pocket:

Back pocket, which I reinforced with Tyvek:

Back of book:

Here's the card I included:

Tea (of course)!

Here's a video flip-thru:

Here's the December Daily Gratitude graphic:

Just right-click to save.  :-)

Waterlogue

My sister saw a bird watching book that I got with puffins on the cover and she squealed. "Ooooh!  Puffins!"  So I decided I would make her a new planner with it. Everyone in my family has coasters featuring the artwork of Emma Ball, that have been gifted after trips to Orkney. I wanted to use her artwork in Ruth's planner, but I didn't feel right about about using it, even for personal use. But I wanted watercolour puffins.

So I went on Pixabay for free graphics, and found one non-photographic graphic, but the rest were all photographs. And then I started thinking that there had to be an app for turning photos into a watercolour painting. So I looked on the google, and found Waterlogue.

It's FANTASTIC!

Pros:

• Only $4.99
• Easy to use; point and click
• Has different variations and choices

Cons:

• No choice in where to save; it just saves automatically to your Photos folder. However, you can copy and save to a different folder, so that's what I do. It took me a while to figure that out, tho. So, you're welcome.  
• Not the best with people, unless it's a close-up. 

Here are a few I've done. First up!  Puffins!

 

This was the illustration on Pixabay:

But then I thought I'd see what would happen if I Waterlogued it:

COOL!

Bird illustration:

Aaaaand Waterlogued:

Of course I had to play with some dogs!  

Here's Bingo:

Bingo doing Sphinx Pose.

Baby & Bingo:

Here are a couple different treatments for the same photo:

Buddy on my lap:

Baby on my lap:

Baby & Buddy:

Buddy:

Bingo and Reggie, pre-beagles; taken with iPad:

Hannah Banana:

This one is stunning!   Lulu:

Here's Tabby Bobcat:

There are several choices within the program with names like "Natural," "Bold," and "Illustration." 

Here's Reggie with 3 different options:

Bold.

Natural.

Illustration. It adds lines. 

Here's a random cow I took a pic of back in my River House days:

And some Nature pix of my old road:

And some city pix:

This is the altar at my church:

Here's a photo I took when I first started going to St. Luke's. This couple walked in and went to a front pew and knelt down together. I just thought it was so sweet and happened to have my camera, so I snapped a quick pic. 

As it turns out, I became friends with them. This is Mary and Larry; Mary is in the Knitting Guild and a dear friend. Larry was a state trooper for many years and, sadly,  just recently passed away.

Here are 3 treatments of the same photo. I've forgotten the names, but here you go!

These are from the Juniper tree and Autumn pix I just posted:

Tulip polar tree with 2 different variations:

"Vibrant."

"Natural."

People

The program does better with close-ups. Here's my nephew:

Vibrant.

"Natural."

"Luminous."  (I  think)!

Here's where it doesn't do such a great job. Here's Mum watching an episode of Hoarders:

Here's how it turns out:

This is the "Illustrator" variation:

Color Bloom:

After all this, I decided to take a photo thru all the variations!  So here you go:

Original:

(Apologies for smaller size, this is as large I can get it).

Here they are without labels. Feel free to use for personal or commercial:

And I'll leave you with a sunset, Cape Charles beach pic: