This new decade started out on Jan. 2 with a journal making class in Fullerton, CA. My sister treated me to the class for my birthday. It was a sunny day at a perfect venue. The instructor set up her backyard as a classroom. We were made covers with color copies pasted to wood, sanded it down, and added a few layers of varnish. We folded watercolor paper into signatures and weaved the pages together with the cover. That night, I began painting in it. Here are some pages: