I recently got back into art journaling. With my recent planner obsession and trying to keep up with my Project Life 2015 album, I hadn’t art journaled in a very long time. I’ve done a few minibooks this year that are almost like art journals, but I missed the image transfers, playing with gesso and paint and just journaling. I was inspired recently by Gretchen Hope, owner of Cake Paperie,…
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the planner society kit review
Read moreThere are monthly kit subscriptions for just about anything these days. They’re just great ways to get an assortment of products for whatever hobby you’re into, delivered straight to your door. For awhile, I was very hesitant in starting a subscription to anything. There are a lot of scrapbook subscriptions that I toyed with the idea of subscribing to once, specifically Studio Calico’s Project Life subscription box. And while I…
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project life march – may 2015
Read moreI am slowly catching up on my 2015 Project Life album! While it’s really exciting that I’m catching up to the present, I’m also a bit disappointed that I just didn’t–or couldn’t–keep up-to-date with it like I had hoped. One of my intentions for this year was to keep my album updated daily, but I have failed at doing that. It’s interesting, the whole idea of Project Life is to…
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some thoughts on my new york city
Read moreOkay, before I start venting about my home city of New York, I just want to say that I do love my city. It’s a great city and I can sort of see the hype everyone has around it (well, no I really don’t see it in the same way as an outsider may see it, but I get it). It’s big and new and so busy, there’s just a…
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25 books in 2015 update
Read moreIf you remember, at the start of the year I set an intention to read at least 25 books in 2015. Well, I’ve been trying my hardest to accomplish this. Last year, I didn’t really read as many books as I had hoped (though I did read more than I thought I did), so for this year, one of my goals is to “read read read.” I’ve been so busy…
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geoscrapping: documenting your travels on the go online class
Read moreSince the start of May, I’ve been working hard on my first ever online class. I’ve been wanting to make an online class for a while and had started working on an art journaling class that wasn’t really coming together the way I had wanted it to. I wasn’t really into it after awhile, so I abandoned it for something else. I had a planner-related class in mind and had…
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project life january + february 2015
Read moreAt the ending of last year, I had many intentions for my Project Life 2015 album. The major intention was to keep it going daily and keep up-to-date with it, so that I wasn’t trying to catch up with it weeks or even months later. Oh how I am failing. I haven’t touched my Project Life album since National Scrapbooking Day on May 2, when I decided to start it!…
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on friends and growing up
Read moreShe was beautiful in white, walking out to an instrumental version of Bruno Mars’ Just The Way You Are, which was so distinctly her that it made you smile amongst all the tears. She laughed through the whole ceremony, but you had to expect that because that’s how she deals with nervousness. Afterwards, my friend found the whole thing odd, and not because our high school friend had just gotten married, but…
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my filofax butterfly personal blog planner
Read moreLast week I got to play with a new planner I ordered and had been waiting to come in for two weeks. It’s the Filofax Butterfly Personal Organizer and I ordered it from Amazon UK because it wasn’t available on the Filofax US site and it was much cheaper to order from Amazon UK than Filofax UK. Positive first impressions. The planner is very pretty. Soft pastels with a snap…
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celebrate today minibook
Read moreI absolutely love a great minibook! Every year, Studio Calico offers a Minibook Library that’s filled with four minibook workshops held throughout the year. Last year I just bought Maggie Holmes’ workshop because it was the only one that interested me, but this year there are four amazing workshops for four of my favorite scrapbookers! So I bought the Library and have been trying my hand at the two workshops…
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my greek myth trip 2014
Read moreLike with my 2012 Eurotrip, I took a bit of video–like a series of short panoramic videos–while on holiday in Greece last September. So, instead of leaving them to sit on my computer desktop, I’ve compiled them into a short 3 minute Greek Myth trip 2014 video. Enjoy!
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how i use my personal planner
Read moreI am absolutely obsessed with planners at the moment. Having a planner is not a new thing in my life; I used to use spiral-bound Paperchase planner all through college. Borders used to sell them and every year I’d buy a new one. It really never hit me to buy myself a leather-ringed binder planner before until I discovered the beauty of a Kikki K last year. Now I’m obsessed. Granted,…