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One little word: December 2015
I’m feeling an immense sense of satisfaction with myself for having undertaken and stuck to this year long-project. There have been times when it’s not felt all that fun, but I’ve had an underlying...
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Art journalling: radness, plans, and a creative team
I keep saying that one of the best decisions I made in 2015 was to join Get Messy and start art journalling. And the reason I keep saying it is because it’s true. Art journalling has been such a...
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Project life: August 2015
It’s December, and I’ve set myself the goal of completing my 2015 Project Life album by the end of this year. That means I’ve got a few solid days of printing, cutting, pasting and organising ahead in...
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Project life: September 2015
We had a couple of really exciting adventures in September, so this month was fun to scrap. Being as behind as I am has meant that I’ve mislaid a few pieces of ephemera (mostly ticket stubs and...
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Art journalling: Get Messy, season of magic (part 2)
As I mentioned in my most recent art journalling post, I’ve made a commitment to myself to make at least two art journal pages a week in 2016. I decided that there’s no time like the present to get...
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Project Life: October 2015
Pushing through my memory keeping like this has given me a different perspective on what I choose to record. It’s like I’m pulling the focus way out, and looking at the thing in terms of the bigger...
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Making goals for 2016
I’ve been thinking a lot about goals lately. It’s partly because it’s that time of year, partly because of everything I learned in Caylee’s rad ‘Level Up’ course, and partly because my life is changing...
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Project Life: November 2016
I got a little stuck with this month because my page protectors and album did not fit each other. I had a 4 ring binder and 6 ring protectors, and their refusal to work together was all very...
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Project Life: December 2015
It’s done! It’s really done. I decided I wanted to complete my Project Life albums by the end of the year and I did it! This might seem like a very small thing to get excited about, and I suppose in...
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One Little Word: January 2016
I started last year feeling vulnerable and fragile. I’d been wrung out and drained by some awful experiences, and I needed a word that would nurture me through the rebuilding process. ‘Try’ was...
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Rainbow valentines
Valentines Day is one of my favourite celebrations of the year. It’s not about any kind of religious observance, or complicated historical event. It’s just for celebrating love. And we all love love,...
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Valentine tag book
It turns out I couldn’t fit everything I wanted to say to SJ in a card this year. I decided instead to make a tag book, telling her just some of the many reasons I love her. Here’s a wee video...
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Pocket pages: February 2016
Valentines day! Ballet lessons! Flowers! Food! All kinds of lovely things (and a few sad things too). Are you ready for a look at my pocket pages for February? Let’s go! I’m trying to keep track of...
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One Little Word: February 2016
This month was about doing one thing every day and keeping a track of the habit. I had a bit of a giggle when I saw the prompt, because I’d been doing that very thing with my Morning Pages in January....
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Pocket pages: Manners maketh the man
Here is a thing that has been very hard to keep under my hat: I have been invited onto the Paislee Press 2016 design team! What?! I mean, WHAT?! Liz‘s amazing designs are so very much my bag. The bold...
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Tutorial: Little love diptych
We’re hearing a lot of talk in Australia about marriage equality. It’s been a long time coming, and I fear it may yet be a long time off. I’ve written about it before (at different times and for...
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Mini book: Keep on Making Stuff
I don’t know about you, but I often find it very hard to quiet the voices in my head that tell me not to create. You know, the mean ones that tell me that I’m not good at it, or that it’s a waste of...
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Art journalling: Get Messy Season of Happy
We’re drawing to the end of a season over at Get Messy. It’s been my first on the creative team, and such an immensely fun challenge. The prompts had us thinking about what makes us happy, how we...
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Pocket pages: Hey there, handsome
Every time Arty gets a hair cut he seems to look a whole year more grown up, and the transformation kind of boggles my mind. We take him to this incredibly OTT hipster barber shop near our house, and...
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Washi easter egg cards
I don’t know what it is about making it egg-shaped that transforms chocolate into an even more irresistible delight, but it’s an undeniable fact that I’ve proven with extensive personal research over...
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