The other day I went to Target for the first time in a while, and though I was rather determined to stick to my list, I could not resist all the cute Valentine’s stuff in the dollar spot. I spent $7 on some plain red cards, paper stickers, felt stickers, puffy stickers, glittery heart shapes, […]
A Self- Care Challenge
The act of creating just for yourself is a way to taking care of yourself, but I hope that in time it will expand into other areas of self-care, for you and for me. In my world, where taking care of myself is not really a normal thing, self-care can be as simple as making […]
On Reading “A Room of One’s Own”
The prompt this week for that weekly art journal page challenge I’m doing was “somewhere,” and as I was reading it the first thing that popped into my read was “A Room of One’s Own.” My page turned out to be one of those “better in my head” moments, but it did cause me to […]
Don’t Let Perfection Get in the Way of Creating
I am quite the perfectionist in most aspects of my life. I fail at being perfect regularly enough to know that is the natural state of things, but I still understand the feeling that it’s better not to do something than to do it poorly. I know the pain of things not turning out in […]
A Book to Get Beyond the Blank Page
One thing that I think can stop people from trying out art journaling is fear of the blank page. It can be hard to come up with ideas or know what to journal about when you’re just getting started, and making that first mark on a page can seem really final. That’s why the other […]
Where Should You Be Online? {Craft Your Blog}
Last week I said I was going to write something about promoting your blog, and the more I thought about it the more I realized it really needs to be a series of posts. And maybe I don’t know how to write them just yet. This is one of those “write what you want to […]
A “Leather” and “Crystal” Wrap Bracelet {Iron Craft Challenge}
This year is just not going the way I’d hoped. Circumstances beyond my control have meant that I’d had just one full, normal day of work all year, which means both the working and the crafting parts of my job have gotten a little off kilter. And so it was with this week’s Iron Craft […]