The winner of the giveaway is Cathy Graves. Thanks everyone for leaving your comments!!
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Jill K. Berry’s wonderful book was released a few weeks ago, and I am the second in line for her blog hop book giveaway! Here it is:
Art tips galore, this beautiful (and beautifully written) book is just jam-packed with smart and creative ways to “map” our personal journeys. She writes in her intro:
You can make a map of nearly any journey, place, day or experience, however menial it might seem. Maps can be intimate and personal, or grand and inclusive. They can be a ritual way to journal your day, or a permanent and elaborate illustration of your life’s journey.
A map is simply a visual record of meanderings, both mental and physical. Here are some ideas for things you could consider mapping.
a day with your child
a dog’s life
a fishing river
a garden
a grocery store
a memory
an island you would like to own
a point of view
DOESN’T THIS SOUND FUN??!! This book makes me want to make a map every day….
I even contributed a map to the book:
If you would like a chance to win Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media Mapmaking, please leave a comment here with a map prompt idea, in other words, answer this question: What would be a fun thing to “map”?
I’ll pick the winner randomly December 10th. Thanks!
(Note: The publisher can only ship within the U.S. this time. So sorry, international readers!)
(P.S. If you just can’t wait to see if you win, go HERE for info on how to order a signed copy of Jill’s book!)
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And for more chances to win, visit these blogs!
Friday, Nov 25 Aimee Myers Dolich http://artsyville.blogspot.com/
Monday, Nov 28 Carla Sonheim https://carlasonheim.wordpress.com/
Tuesday, Nov 29 Diana Trout http://www.dianatrout.typepad.com/
Wednesday, Nov 30 Gloria Hansen http://www.gloriahansen.com/weblog/
Thursday, Dec 1 Gwen Diehn http://real-life-journals.blogspot.com/
Friday, Dec 2 Jane LaFazio http://JaneVille.blogspot.com
Monday, Dec 5 Judy Wise http://www.judywise.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, Dec 6 Lisa Engelbrecht http://lisaletters.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, Dec 7 Lyric Kinard http://lyrickinard.blogspot.com/
Thursday, Dec 8 Orly Avineri http://oneartistjournal.wordpress.com/
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Map all the scents/aromas you smell in one day.
I think a fun thing to map is dreams. Map out where you want to go and watch it happen. Then save the map for art work.
The number of times I go to my computer each day to check FB posts! Eek!!!
I’d love a chance to win!
A Dream!
It would be interesting for me to make a year reflection of what I learned at water aerobics three days a week from my friends.
I want to map my heart. It has some cracks in it and some mended places, because it has been broken more than once. There are some compartments in it that I’d like to explore to see what’s hiding in them; some of them have not been opened for quite some time. Sometimes it seems fragile and sometimes it seems strong, and that contradiction would require some intense mapping, I think. In fact, I believe I will need to make several maps — perhaps from different views, like outer space, from inside it, from the top, and so on. I eat heart healthy cereal and making some heart maps from the heart seems like a good thing, too.
Donna
The PROUD day my husband’s film will be shown in France!
What would be a fun thing to map???
My journeys is to find me. And that has not been an easy road. I have been counseled by a psychologist, almost admitted to the ward at one time, I have seen a social worker, and then finally a psychiatrist, and then a counselor who was the one that wove the ends together to find me. I like me now.
A fun thing to map might be the cat. They do have nine lives so there would be plenty of territory to cover, lol.
I was thinking of mapping my projects for my little acre
I think it would be interesting and fun to map my days on the way to restarting my business as a chocolatier! Thanks for the chance to win Jill Berry’s book.
I think it would be a blast to map out a day in the life of my 2 year old son!
After we moved into our house, I realized that the desert streets don’t have storm sewers. Coming from the East Coast, I found that impossible to believe–what happens to the water when it rains? So, first real rainstorm, I followed the flow of water and discovered how amazingly complex the system is for draining water. I followed the rushing water through gutters running along city streets for three miles until it poured into a short storm sewer, trash filter, and into a creek. I *had* to map that.
Maps are fascinating they tell stories, I think , I would like to do the map of my wrinkles on my face and through them tell my story.
To express my search for excellent espresso, I’d map how far I’ve gone and would go for a good cappuccino! I’m discovering new neighborhoods and new friends.new coffeehouses, and new expressions of cuppa joe.
I think it would be fun to map the entire Christmas day, from the wee hours of the morning, to late at night when I finally give up and go to bed.
feathers . . . . so many different kinds, some pointy, some squared, some colorful, some plain
i think it would be fun to map an autumn day. picking up acorns and leaves and taking in all that beautiufl color, that only an autumn day can contribute! also a day in my garden from start to finish. this makes me think of lots of things! i would love to win this book! thank you for the chance!
I would map a picnic with my granddaughter.
I would map a day in the life of my grandson, but I can’t keep up with him that long!
It would be awesome to do a map of artistic growth from childhood to adulthood.
‘My Artistic Journey” is one of the projects in the book!
loved your map of 2010~ This looks like it would be fun!
a map of a day with my horse
A map of all my different teas and their growing areas would be fun.
Some days are filled with joy, others sad, some neutral some very colorful, some are black, others are … well, every day is so different and would be great for a map.
I’d love to map my road to art. Road of art? In art? One of those. 😉 Thanks for the offer, Carla. hope the book is going well – or better yet, gone! – Serena
What a great source of inspiration! I think it would be fun to start with a map of my goals for 2012. 🙂
Map your first trip to a new country.
Love your map! I would map all the places we have lived and all the gardens I have started! with side trips to places we went when we lived in that house!
I would like to map my daily walk to work and back and offer alternate routes, I would want to include the sights sounds and aromas.
Oh, so many possibilities!! I’d love to map:
my flow of energy – how it reacts to other stimuli
my progression as an artist -id those “ah-ha” moments and chart out future waters to discover
one of my classes – not just in the kids/physical objects, but the fields of creativity and idea sharing
my head – what truly passes through it on a random day?
(then compare my kitty’s head!!)
ahh, the possibilities!!
I love maps of all kinds but this, THIS is wonderful! My first thought was to map the significant moments in my children’s lives….yes…that would be my first journey into map making. 🙂 Thank you for this offer and opportunity! PS…I do love YOUR map!
Maybe it’s because she’s sitting here staring at me, but my first thought was to map my cat’s day… she’s an indoor cat, so it would have many loops back to the same places… and then also what she could be thinking about at each one (MICE COME OUT HERE! THIS IS WHERE WATER DRIPS FROM!) and what she is dreaming about in her zillion naps…
I’d be thrilled to get that book. I love maps and one of my favorite map-making activities was to draw floor plans in every hourse/apartment I’ve lived in since birth. It really opens up the memory bank!
I would make a map of my desk in my art studio!
I recently moved from Oregon to North Carolina and think that journey is definitely map worthy. Thanks for the opportunity to win and all of your inspiration.
I would like to map my journey as an artist (i.e. how it took years to refer to myself as an artist!). What a fun book, thank you for the opportunity to win.
I am a drummer, and I think it would be fun to map all the middle eastern drum patterns I’ve learned.
Thank you for this opportunity!
I would love to win the book. I think a map of life goals or direction might be fun?
This book sounds fun indeed. I would like to map my fashion styles over the years. Think – the 60’s!
Having just returned from Thanksgiving with family, I would suggest mapping a family gathering!
I’m not always “fun.” The first idea that popped into my head as something to map was a map of my fears. I thought it might be interesting to do, and a way to help conquer them. Now, to find a big-enough piece of paper for THAT…..
I’d map one of our hikes with my hiking group! Where we went, what we saw (nature, animals, scenery), who was there, etc.
A mind map…you could map a brilliant idea you had.
map your collection of travel books, or must-see’s on your list of places to go that you haven’t
My paintbrush! Through the eyes of my heart.
It would be fun to map a puppy in it’s new home. I just got a puppy and it amazes me the things he can find to get into and what he does…so much entertainment (and screaming!!!).
My elderly parents faces and all they have experienced.
Curly’s tails, I mean tales! Curly found me when some mean-heart dumped him at 6 weeks on the highway. The little guy kayaks, 4-wheels and is my constant, companion in my daily work travels and at home. He already has a photo album w/captions in a photo album on my FB. Thanks for the idea!
A map of special day with family.
I would love to map my own brain hehe
I’d like to map the left side of my brain and then the right side of my brain! I’d also like to map my kids’ brains. And map a soccer game. What a great prompt!
Would love to see the book.
Rinda
I so love Jill’s maps and art! Thank you for the opportunity to win her book!
I would make maps of the places in New Mexico that I visited last year using my own petroglyphs.
Thanksgiving Dinner! A map of your plate, a map of where all your food comes from, a map of the table… I think I will have to do this!
I was so excited about this book that I painted a map of two hearts with all roads leading to each other. ☆¨(✿◠‿◠)❀♫❤ ☼ ☯~Hobby
Hmmmm…. mapping my artistic journey might be of topographical interest… and this book would absolutely be a bonus! I’ve had it waiting on my Amazon wish list for months! One way or the other, I WILL own this wonderful looking book! Thanks for a chance to win it. ~ Mo
I’d like to make the journey my husband and I are on as we attempt to have a second child.
Map your backyard!
Mapping a day with a loved one. For me it would be the recent painting & dancing with my 2 year old granddaughter.
Mapping out my old, home town and all the places which mean so much to me would be my pick! Thanks… Trish
I’d like to map my trip to Walmart…from finding a parking spot to wandering all over the store in search of the things on my list. Also documenting what I added to the cart that wasn’t on my list and why I put it in the cart.
My upcoming trip to Georgetown, DC, with my soon to be 14 years old granddaughter. Thanks for the giveaway!
I can think of two things to map – since I am new to painting and drawing I would like to make a map of my journey to discovering my artistic self. I am also intrigued by mapping a dog’s day or life as mentioned in your post. That would be fun too! What a great book!
A fun thing would be to map out my route to school and all the fun things I see along the way. I would love a chance to win the book! Marcia Beckett
I would map my grandchildren – I have 26, wahoo!
A walk with my dogs@
I would love to map hopes and dreams and see how to get the end result.
I would love to map the journey of a leaf as it flies in the wind.
Mapping all my negative thoughts and admonishments and try to see what triggers them. And map a way to a more positive place.
I think it would be fun to do a visual map of day-to-day activities. First cuppa coffee; etc.
I’d like to map my life with my two cats over the last seven years.
I would like to map a cross country ski trip through a fresh snow covered mountain.
Ski slopes!
I think it would be fun to map from where the origin of all these blog comments come. It would be neat to see who lives the furthest away and who lives the closest. It would also be fun to see what location generates the most comment hits. It would also be fun to do the same for where this great book lands, too!!
Map all the Halloween costumes you’ve ever worn!
i think it would be fun to map a cat;s day ( an outdoor cat), I am sure they get ino some fun things, (and i dont even own a cat)
where all my friends live or all my travels
What a fun blog hop! I think I’ll try a map in my journal today and use one of your silly drawings techniques. Thanks for the opportunity to win! I love the illustration of your hand with animals!
I think I’d like to map my linen closet. Then I might actually be able to find the lovely vintage napkins I wanted to use at Thanksgiving!
I love the idea of mapping our lives. I am an animal lover and I can see how this could be sooooo much fun.
I have purchased other journaling books, they have helped to release the creativity I know is locked inside of me!
I love your drawing techniques! thanks for all the encouragement!!!
Mine and my hubby’s Love Story, that’s what I will map 🙂
I’d like to map life-changing events in my life–the journey seems to difficult but reflecting on it as a whole seems pretty awesome!
I would love to map my favorite places in London. Each time I have gone there I had certain places I had to see again! Now I that I can’t afford that trip, I could re-live it!
Clouds.
This sounds like fun! How about a map of first dates?
I’m going practical….I’d map my purse.
It would be fun to map… fish scales.
I have been waiting for this book to come out and it looks delicious! I’d love to win a copy of it!! Thank you.
I think it would be fun to map all the homes you have ever had…as a child – away at college – married life – divorced life – with kids – without kids.
Thanks for the chance to win Jill Berry’s book.
Blessings, 😀
I would map all of my childhood plans for what I wanted to be when I grew up. Archaeologist, minister, journalist, architect, teacher, missionary…there’s a lot of territory to cover!
Map a week in the lives of my various family members in their scattered cities…separate paths that sometimes intersect…maybe make it a 3-D map!
I would love to map my husband’s ideas and accomplishments. Somehow he can get from building a bbq in a local park, to starting a community workshop, to an idea for a zombie art installation.
The journey of a monarch caterpillar to butterfly and it’s migration route to the mountains of Mexico or California.
Mmm good question! I think pregnancy or maternity would be a nice thing to map! I can already imagine the complicated roads leading to a newborn or a grown child ;).
Love your map contribution to Personal Geographies.
I think it would be fun to map my goals! 🙂
All the best,
Mary
Mixed-Media Map Art
I think it would be fun to map the place you’d most like to live (either a real location or the location of your dreams).
MMMmm, I think it would be fun to map the ripple effect of kindness. 🙂
I think mapping your favorite crayon colors would be fun.
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It would be great fun to map my backyard focusing on the bird feeder 😀
Map? One of my adventure races…bikes, canoes, mud, maps, fun.
It would be fun to map a day in the life of my teenager
I would like to map a tree – they have so many untold stories.
The first day of Kindergarten (a memory or the anticipation of)
I would like to map a trip around my town. I think it would be a cool thing for my girls to have when they get older.
I would love to make a map of my spiritual path–in and out, up and down, in darkness and in light, absent and present. In fact, just writing that down really HAS prompted me to make this a real project. Thanks, Carla!
I just spent my summer installing a garden at our beach house – it’s an ongoing project, but a map of the garden would be a great follow up!
I’d love to win Personal Geographies — thanks for the opportunity.
I think a fun thing to map would b all the places I’ve lived.
a map of my studio, it might help me get organised lol!!!
I would love to map my trip to work with all the daydreams I have on the way about not going to work
I would like to map my random thoughts and see if they connect in some organized fashion.
Mary
I would map a fun day out (or in) with my kids!
How about mapping the discovery of your personal style. That would be a mighty fun one, especially for the fashionistas.
Mapping all the wonderful friends I met online..
Thanks for the opportunity..
The best day of my life. Or maybe my train trip to Yellowstone. Thanks for the chance to win!
I wasn’t able to read my blogs yesterday so I’ve been catching up today. I just left a message on Diana Trout’s blog telling her I’d map the day of my two dogs Sally and Daisy. As soon as I finished there, I came to your blog in my Reader, and lo and behold, you suggested mapping a dog’s life! Woo-hoo! You know what they say about great minds… In any event, that’s what I’d map but I’d like to read the book first.
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I think it would be fun to map a favorite day of travel.
thanks for the opportunity to win!
I would like to map a day at the fair (maybe in the shape of a giant ferris wheel.)
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I would like to map a leaf blowing on a very windy day.
I should make a map of my desk so i know where everything is!!! Although I live in the Philippines, I do have a US address! Pls include me in this exciting giveaway! Patsy from HeARTworks
I have a specific map in mind to create that stems from childhood. My grandparents had a lovely rolltop secretary and I spend hours writing at the desk when I stayed with them. I was sure there was a secret compartment in the desk that contained a map of buried treasure. My grandmother promised the desk to me and my plan was to take all the drawers out when it was mine and find that map. Sadly the desk went elsewhere before I could find the map. But recently I found an antique desk very similar (without the secretary part) and the first thing I did was take out all the drawers … just in case. It turns out two of the drawers were reversed and under one was a $1 bill. I put the drawers back in their right places and replaced the dollar. One day I am going to draw that map leading to buried treasure and place it under the other small drawer for someone to find years in the future. I’ve told a few people about putting the dollar back, but the map will be a secret!
Something I like to use for journaling might make an interesting map idea: Today was…
I can see this being an interesting re-cap of the day (or the week if you choose to map the week) and possibly an interesting cure for insomnia.
I would map the perfect imaginary walk.
I love maps and it would be a cool way to include in journaling. I would love to win it! thanks for the giveway!
I think mapping all of my cats’ adventures in a day on a single map would be fun.
I think the fun thing to map would be the birds in my backyard seed feeders. They are so active going from one feeder to another. Sometimes they just sit and watch before they fly to a feeder. Others just feed on one feeder then leave for a while. I have about 12 feeders and it is a busy time of year for them.
I think this map would have to be done on transparencies, with each bird depicted on one page and overlayed on the others to show the ‘traffic’ pattern!
I think it would be fun to map all the places I have been on vacation. Lots of good memories! Thanks for the chance to win Jill’s new book. It looks wonderful!
My map(s) would be of the paths not chosen, the ‘what ifs’ of the turning points in my life. Lots of room for the imagination in that map!
The times of the day that I go do a Starbucks run, it would tell the story of my emotional state—could be scary in a good way
As a teacher to native american children I would love to map the destinations of a day in a students life. They always seem to end up
in the most unique places.
heart maps
The things you do and journeys you make to complete lists you make – whether daily practical lists, goals or emotional journeys. I certainly would find that challenging!
With all the ideas I’ve read about and thought about, one map I’d like to create is a map of my cross country adventure from Virginia to California two summers ago. Music, food, family, adventure and flying home at midnight,seeing the lights along the coastline from the sky.
A map of my dreams, made on a tracing of my hand, because that’s how they’ll come about, from the work of my hands.
I need a map of my studio so I remember where I’ve stashed “stuff”
Map where the books I read take place.
map your life from infant to your first memory of being in this world.
I’ve been feeling very retrospective lately. I would probably map the different stages of my life.
First of all I LOVE your mapped hand! My prompt (will be) mapping the most significant moments that have deeply touched my heart.Thank you fo rthe chance to win a copy of Jill’s book.
I would love to win this book but if I don’t, I’ll get it myself!! I am going on vacation in maine next September and I’d love to map that trip–it’s going to be very special–I’ll be reuniting with friends I used to vacation with every year until about 10 years ago. YEAH me!!!
I’ve had so many past lives in this one life span, I’d map all the people I’ve been in the past 65 years.
I think it would be fun to map a psychological transformation. I am a mom to a 12 year old son. Mapping my inner terrain of letting go as he moves into becoming a young man and how radically my role as mother is changing as he transforms and enters adolescence — this would be a great honoring of that process for me.
Visual map of what I do all day; I think that’s what most of my drawings are anyway…
I’d map playing with the neighbor kids in the rain on a summer’s afternoon, when I was four.
Because it’s on my mind today, I’d like a map of the evolving music in my life…and how what I knew of early on (my grandfather’s World War I songs) remain with me. It is all still here.
A map of a day in the life of my tea cup. 🙂
Maps: it would be fun (or would it be scary?) to map the imagined lobes of a loved one’s brain. I would start with my husband or teenage daughter.
My other idea is to map a day of my work as an investigator: jail visit here, subpoena drop there…in the shape of a magnifying glass, the investigator’s stereotypical icon. What is our real icon? Maybe a business card. How about a map created of business cards from the day’s stops, maybe in the style of a Chutes and Ladders board….Hmmm….I need this book.
My husband walks from the train to his office every day – frequently trying out new routes. He tells me about the people he sees and how they behave. We speculate on the commuter walk ettiquette. I’d love to map the commuters.
i would like to map out all the places in town my dog and i like to go for fun… favorite fire hydrants, bushes, light posts, itc
i would like to make a map of the journey of making the decision to get married
I would map my journey from one life (my ‘old’ one) to another (what I do now). It would cover some harsh and dangerous terrain and would often lead off in wrong directions. But there would be color and texture and beauty everywhere.
Especially during this month’s busy days, it would be fun to map my way through the holidays.
Maps are just great and the ideas from just reading all of the comments are making me itch to get busy and do one-owning the book would make it more fun!!
I would like to map my creativity! Looks like a great book.
This book sounds so interesting. I love maps and journeys.
It would be fun to map one of the crazy dreams I’ve had lately. Challenging but fun!
a fun thing to map? A day of teaching art, and the things I learn from the kids.
Map prompt – my journey.
A map of my face — what it shows, what’s hidden, what’s covered up, all the faults and lines and changes to topography.
A good map to make? A retrospective look at my spiritual journey to date.
Mapping the gazillion things my dog sniffs on just one short walk would be a wonderful project. In fact, I think I’ll just go ahead and do it. Thanks for the idea!
If I should be fortunate enough to win this book, I have an U.S. address. My sister lives in NY and can bring it to me when she comes home to Vancouver, at Christmas time. So don’t throw out my name just because my email address has .ca at the end of it. :o)
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What would be a fun thing to “map”?
I think it would be interesting to map a internet ‘browsing’ session. It’s always a mystery what pages I’ve turned up by the time I finish ‘just looking up a phone number.’
I will create a map of my own occupation site, Occupy My Life!
A map of the remodel of our old house (1850) and things we found along the way