Dear Feet, You’ve taken me to so many amazing places, walked me through time and history, kept me grounded in my world and supported my weight through so many adventures. We’ve touched the earth in so many different places. We experienced so many new lands and cultures and habitats. We adapted. We took barefooted strolls along the beaches of the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean, and the Pacific and Thailand. We…
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april love 2016: dear home
Read moreDear Home, They say that home is where your heart is and I’m starting to think that they’re right. Home to me is wherever I feel most content, most comfortable and the most myself. It is where my mind and my heart can run free and be whomever they want to be. Home is my shelter. It is where I’m with my family, the only people in the entire world…
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april love 2016: dear love
Read moreDear Love, I’ve always questioned you. And I suppose that I still do. I will never truly understand the entire scope of your reach until I deeply witness it first hand. I don’t think I’ve ever been “in love.” I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I still have time, but I think it’s unfortunate. I’ve been “in like” with a person but I never trust them enough to fall…
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the art of journaling + get messy season of love: she’s so lovely
Read more“She’s So High” by Tal Bachman
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the art of journaling + get messy season of love: ee cummings poem
Read morei like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones,and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly…
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the art of journaling + get messy season of love: love is confusing
Read moreI’m back with another art of journaling spread, featuring Get Messy Season of Love. This is probably my favorite spread yet! I was sort of inspired by a tutorial from Season of Happy and had that in mind when I was doing this page. One of the Season of Love prompts said to think about and journal some of the bad, less romantic aspects of love or being in love…
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the art of journaling + get messy season of love: what is love?
Read moreSo, with Get Messy: Season of Happy being over and the fact that I wasn’t really creating much in any of my art journals recently–towards the end there I because dissatisfied with my Happy book I made–I decided to go back to journaling in my “art of journaling” notebook. I’m just going to call it that, because that’s what I titled the series of spreads I did in it last…
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get messy: season of happy week four
Read moreIt’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 song that stood out to me. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. This was the first lyric that…
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get messy: season of happy week three
Read moreIt’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 using bits and pieces from my Get Messy swap pack that I received last week from my fellow Get Messian, Zinia of Abstract Inspiration. I’m…
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get messy: season of happy week two
Read moreI 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 feel any of the prompts like I did last week. I read them over a few times, but nothing really stood out to me except one…
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get messy: season of happy week one
Read moreGet 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 have been such great therapy for me. Short backstory: in the third month of my 3-month backpacking trip to Southeast Asia, I got bit by…
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creative intentions for 2016
Read moreAs 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 whatever format I want. I most particularly enjoy minibooks, so I was thinking of making 2016 the year of minibooks. What I came up with…