For this little planner project, I made these cute cooky looking gingerbread men paperclips. I used one of the exclusive December Hip Kit Club cut files designed by Kim Watson in a very different way to make these. Since I don’t own a cutting machine, I never really get to use all of these magnificent cut files that are designed each month. But this post is all about the unconventional, so this…
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polaroids of my italian summer
Read moreIf you remember, I spent the month of June 2016 in Italy. I traveled to a bunch of cities within the month, two of which were revisits. I’ve always wanted to travel around Italy and I’m glad I was able to visit more cities this time around. My Fujifilm Mini Instax 8 camera came with me on this trip and I managed to snap a lot of polaroids. I just got around to…
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unraveling 2017
Read moreWhat matters is taking a moment to reflect on the year that’s passing and tune into the year that’s coming. Paying attention to your intentions and dreams. Your big plans and little plans. — Susannah Conway 2016 is finally drawing to a close, so that means another lovely workbook from Susannah Conway! I’ve been looking forward to this book since the ending of November because I didn’t really get a…
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winter december planner setup | hip kit club
Read moreI’m here with a winter planner setup for December using my Hip Kits! I dug into my November kits for this one and oh my am I loving all the colors and cute winter elements! I used a mixture of things from the Main Kit, Embellishment Kit and even my December Documented kit to set up my December pages. I began with covering up my December Carpe Diem divider with that…
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20 books in 2017
Read moreWith the new year coming around, I’m hoping to make some changes in my life as well as this here blog. One of those changes is to read more. I don’t know what happened, but I’ve stopped reading. I read a total of one book this year and it wasn’t even a book, but a play (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and that’s just pitiful. It used to be…
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the minimalist art journal ecourse (and a giveaway)
Read moreHello friends! I have some super exciting news to share with you today. About a month or so ago, I all-time favorite artist, crafter, ultimate productivity guru Caylee Grey invited me to contribute a lesson to her highly anticipated The Minimalist Art Journal e-course. I got so excited when I read through that email that there was no way I was going to say no! I’m totally honored to be…
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a summer project life spread using a holiday/winter themed kit | hip kit club
Read moreHello everyone! I’m back with a Project Life spread using the November Hip Kit Club Kits! In this project, I wanted to show you how you can use the holiday/winter themed November Kits to create a pocket page spread documenting an event from your everyday. In this spread, I documented two days from July 2015 with these kits and I love how they came out. I was able to use…
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on being light skinned
Read moreI must have written the title of this post a hundred times over. I don’t really know what to call this thing that I’m about to explain, but I can say that it’s the truth and it happens all of the time. I don’t like getting political on my blog, but with the current state of discourse, it’s hard to ignore certain things going around at the moment. But for…
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decorating my november monthly spread | hip kit club
Read moreHi everyone! I’m back today with a simple planner decorating project for the Hip Kit Club. I used my October kits to decorate my monthly spread for the month of November. For this spread, I tried to use as much left over paper scraps from my layouts that I had lying around. Since planner decorating is on the small scale side, all of your left over scraps can be put to good…
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on being a homebody
Read moreI like being home. It seems weird coming from me, a person who loves to travel, but when I’m here in my hometown of New York City, I just like being home, inside in my room with my dog, all of my crafty stuff and my imagination (or Netflix) to keep me company. I don’t know what it is, but I become this homebody whenever I return home. Generally, I only…
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smile + dream magic kingdom layout | hip kit club
Read moreI’m back with another layout I did for Hip Kit Club. For this layout I used a photo my brother took of my mother and I standing in front of Cinderella’s Castle at Magic Kingdom in Disney World. My challenge for this layout was to maximize pattern papers, so I tried my hardest to use as many of the pattern papers from the kit on my layout as I could.…
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fall planner setup in my mint kikki k | hip kit club
Read moreI’m back again with another project for the Hip Kit Club. With this one I setup my A5 mint Kikki K planner for fall. So, I decided to utilize my A5 Kikki K planner after a really long time of not using it and I’ve made it into my blog/social media planner, primarily to keep me organized between my personal blog and social media accounts and my new Hip Kit…