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things i’m loving ✩ 28 | december 2021

December 20, 2021

This December has been a very weird one. Honestly, looking back, this entire year was weird. I was talking to one of my best friends recently and we both agreed that 2021 was A LOT harder than 2020 to deal with. I know a lot of people who found 2020 to be very hard, but for us, this year was the difficult one. So truthfully, I’m glad it’s almost over. I’m trying to be optimistic about next year. I know we’re living in the “new normal” now and that’s not going away any time soon, but I guess just finding a better flow to this new life and maybe re-accomplishing a few goals again will get me to a better place, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Right now I just feel really drained. So I’m hoping for a better tomorrow.

Anyway, here are a few things I’ve been enjoying this month.

WATCHING

Hawkeye on Disney+…and quite possibly every Spiderman movie ever except the new one cause I’m not sure if I want to brave the theaters or wait for it to land on streaming. IDK. I’ll see how the holidays go in terms of C-spread in the city and make a decision then. Honestly, I might wait until the new year then catch a matinee on a weekday somewhere. But I’ve been really enjoying Hawkeye! Waiting for the very last episode to hit on the 22 and excited to see how it ends!

Creating

in my December Daily journal. I’ve been very low-key about my December journal for various reasons, the main one being I just don’t have the energy and mental capacity to actually do December Daily right. So I’ve been keeping a small A6 journal that I play in every so often when I feel the urge to paint, stick, and write. And it’s been good. I’ve been posting my pages on Instagram as I get around to photographing them. So if you’re curious as to how that’s been going, give me a follow there.

CURATING

an artsy personal Instagram feed. I had a very intense urge to begin again—basically start completely over my life, my art, the way in which I create and share my life. I seriously thought about pulling a Suse and deleting everything and starting again. But I know how that feels to be on the other side of things and I have way too much content that I know people love and enjoy to completely wipe it all away. So to satisfy my urge to show up more authentically, I restarted my a gentle unfurling IG account. This is going to be a creative—curated—space where I can primarily showcase my writing in the captions. I’m treating it as a little microblog into my life.

I’m always writing myself these little notes in my phone’s Notes app and a lot of it is deeply personal and insightful and I think shows more of my personality better than aerialovely does. I know a lot of people just follow me for crafty content and I honestly didn’t want to bog my feed down with these posts, so I’ve created a space for myself to share them. It’s also a place where I’m following all of my “in real life” friends and family. Following a lo to crafty accounts that actively post daily often overshadows my friends’ accounts, so I literally never see their posts. Having a separate account just to follow them has been nice. Most don’t post often, but when they do, it makes me happy to actually see their posts! So follow me over there too if you’re curious what I’m up to. xx

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I made a new snippet journal. This one is 6x6 and I'm going to use it as an art journal. I really really want to get back into art journaling. Like, it has been calling me for most of this year and I just haven't gotten back into the flow of it. I've been enjoying my time (writing) journaling, but there's this nagging feeling deep inside of me that wants to get messy but for some reason refuses to begin. So I think I'm just going to make myself begin. Just start and see what happens. I'm gonna make a lot of shitty art but if that's the means to begin then so be it

 Let's go make some shitty art. 

I hope I can begin this weekend. Process video of me creating this journal is up on my Youtube channel, if you're interested.

Happy Friday lovelies! xx
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Still working through @lizelayne’s Water Your Soul course in my WYS journal. This little binder is getting so chunky! I still have lots to work through and am just merrily bouncing back and forth between lessons, anchoring myself in whatever practice my heart needs right now.
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Today’s Flip-Through Friday is my Summer Stories 2023 journal.

This is sort of a hodge-podge journal of all sorts of bits—memories, junk, photos, art journal spreads, and lots of journaling. I've kept it all summer and it's now filled and completed and ready to share.

Here's just a quick flip-through. I've got a full chatty flip up on my Youtube channel if that's more your speed.

Happy Friday loves! xx
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I finally finished filling up my 2023 Summer Stories journal. I had originally intended to only keep this one from June to July, but I didn't journal as much as I thought I would in here this summer, so it has lasted me through to the first few days of September. I'm not mad about it. I prefer a filled journal to a half-filled one. I personally hate leaving too many pages blank at the end. I'm hoping to have a flip-through up on my Youtube channel tomorrow. Just have to film it! 😆
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Just wanted to share a little look at my Water Your Soul journal that I've been keeping this year for @lizelayne's class. I'm finding that I tend to dip into the course whenever I have the time and it's never consistent. But I am so surprised at how much I've actually managed to fill in this journal!

It is mostly a mixture of the class printables and my answers to the questions, magazine clippings, quotes, and lots and LOTS of journaling, but it's been a lovely place to return to over and over again.

I was able to explore more of the lessons this past weekend when I had some time thanks to the holiday. But I think that the joy of this particular journal—and course really—is that I can return to any part of it at any time and pick up where I left off. I can work out of order and move stuff around—love the binder for this! I get it, Liz! I love how this journal is growing as I move and grow through all of the And Spaces we've been exploring—and even some other And Spaces that showed up for me too!

I can't wait to see how this journal ends up looking by the end of the year. xx
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I had one of those days today where I was so exhausted from the week but at the same time wanted to go out and do something. Ever feel that way while also knowing that you just need to rest?

I really wanted to sit in Central Park and catch up on all of my journals but I just couldn’t motivate myself to actually walk to the park. So I took myself (and the dog) down to our building’s courtyard and set up shop on the tiled patio. While there was no grass, it was very quiet out there and I was able to catch up on some journaling and continue in my Water Your Soul binder from where I left off months ago.

Past me had printed all the lovely printables @lizelayne had for every lesson that I had yet to complete, so I spent some time getting all of them into my journal. This quote in particular stood out to me today. This is me. I've dealt with perfectionism all my life and for the last 10 years, I've slowly been coming into my own person separate from the need to "be perfect."

There is no such thing as perfection. The reality that we're all so beautifully imperfect is the real truth we should all strive for.

Anyway, I hope you've all had and are having a wonderful Sunday. xx
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