One thing I wanted to dedicate myself to this year was a new way to document my everyday for a whole year. I always did Project Life, but last year it sort of fell short and I wasn’t inspired anymore with the system. It wasn’t…
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get messy: season of happy week four
It’s time for Get Messy! This week I based my two spreads that I somehow–quite magically in fact–managed to create on just one of the prompts. The one based on Baz Luhrmann’s “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen).” I played around with two lyrics from the…
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get messy: season of happy week three
It’s Get Messy Friday! Yay! I was pretty busy this week with work and my friend coming to visit from Chicago mid-week, but I surprisingly managed to produce two spreads. I wasn’t even sure I’d get one done. So yay again! This week’s spreads were created…
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get messy: season of happy week two
I honestly didn’t keep to my intention this week to journal a bit each day. Between doctor stuff and going back to work, it kind of got lost. But I was able to work and complete two spreads from this week’s prompts. I didn’t really…
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get messy: season of happy week one
Get Messy is back and I am so happy to be back home to participate in Get Messy 3.0! The first season just started on February 1st, and it’s the Season of Happy! While I’m nowhere near to being happy myself, this first weeks’ prompts…
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my 2016 heidi swapp memory planner
Since I decided not to continue with Project Life for this year, I finally had the chance to play with Heidi Swapp’s Memory Planner. I wanted to try her planner last year when she came out with her new system, but I had already decided…
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creative intentions for 2016
As 2015 is ending and a new year is approaching, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately of what creative projects I’m going to do in 2016. With the absence of Project Life for 2016, I have a lot more freedom to do more documenting in…
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get messy: season of words week three
The start of my Southeast Asia 2015 trip is fast approaching and as I play the waiting game, I find myself being busier than expected. I have a lot of things that I should and/or have to complete before I leave and well, that doesn’t…
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get messy: season of words week two
Here are my second week art journal spreads for Get Messy Season of Words. I feel like my pages this week are pretty sparse, but that’s only because I was sick for most of the week and really didn’t have the energy to do anything.…
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get messy: season of words week one
It’s Get Messy Thursday! This is the day of the week where all the Get Messians share bits of their journals from the current season. These are just the pages that I’ve done so far in my Season of Words art journal. Most of the…
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the art of journaling: create your own adventure
I’m back with another art journal spread for my The Art of Journaling series here on the blog. With this one I took a more minimalist approach and tried to mimic that style where you use the white space but add hints of color here…
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get messy: season of words altered book art journal
So, I recently joined Get Messy, an art journaling challenge that’s also a community of amazing art journalers. I stumbled across it a couple of times in the past, but didn’t really look into it until this past week when I kept seeing it everywhere while searching…