"Today we go to the supermarket, because we are hungry. Rosita wants avocados and some bananas. I want ice cream and chocolate."

This entry should be dated 4/6/12

A "photo" of Mickey and Rosita at the Statue of Liberty.

"Rosita buys a t-shirt for me. The t-shirt has the Dominican flag. Thank you, Rosita. I like my new t-shirt."

"I buy a t-shirt for Rosita also. It is a baseball t-shirt. Rosita likes baseball."

Rosita

"Here is Flat Rosita.
Rosita is from the Dominican Republic.
She is my new friend.
Hello, Rosita.
Welcome to my house."

It's Fake Journal Month Again - 2012

It's Fake Journal time again, and Flat Mickey is ready for another adventure, sticking a bit closer to home this time. She has a new friend who doesn't speak English, so FM will be learning Spanish. She doesn't know many words yet, and only the present tenses of verbs, so her writings may not be gramatically correct. She is still using the same Cheap Joe journal, even though it hasn't worked out the best with watercolor, since there are still a lot of pages left. FM will be posting the first page later today.

My 2011 IFJM Wrap Up

I had a ball doing my "Flat Mickey" fake journal. I made myself and my family laugh at some of her antics. I got to research and look at beautiful pictures of an area that I would love to see someday. I've still got quite a few pages left, but I'm a little tired of sketching red rocks. LOL! I may retire Flat Mickey altogether, or I may take her out for short trips in the future to fill the pages.

I have decided that I really, really dislike the small blue Cheap Joe sketchbook that I was using. It's not really watercolor friendly, even though there is a picture of a paintbrush on the cover. The color leaked through in spots. It scuffed up or tore when I used artist's masking tape to frame my "photo" sketches. The paper buckled quite a bit. Nothing could be lifted once down, and it was hard to soften an edge. I have another of these sketchbooks that I've used a few times for my "Maine sketchbook", having much the same problems with it. I think the next time I travel to Maine, I will take that one along for pen or pencil only, and start another one with watercolor paper.

I plan on keeping a fake journal again next year. Luckily I have 11 months to think of what to do next.

My Petroglyphs Updated

I updated the petroglyphs, adding the Grand Canyon, the oars from the imagined rafting trip, pottery, condor, hiking boots, hoodoos, cairns, a Roz stick figure, and a symbol for the arm injury. This completes my fake journal for now. There are pages left, so Flat Mickey may take another trip some day.