Day 16 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was UNFILTERED Gloria Gaynor sings: Your life is a sham til you can shout out I am what I am No hiding No excuses No judgement (of self or others) Loving what’s in your closet Banging your own drum Loving your sparkles Being proud Shouting it out NO FILTER 🦋What does unfiltered bring up in you?🦋 [...]
I am participating in @kasiaavery CareDecember Art Journaling project. This is day 3 prompt: THE BLANK SPACE It’s so important to leave a blank space when you create art. It seems to fill the rest of the canvas. It’s also so important to have blank spaces in life. Time in your day and calendar to just be with yourself and what you love to do. Space for surprises, serendipity and things to enter spontaneously. Space for curiosity and wonder and amazement at what wasn’t planned. Space for just be [...]
Day 15 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was VULNERABILITY If you haven’t watched @brenebrown Ted Talk on shame and vulnerability or read any of her books, I highly recommend you Google her. For a long time, I saw vulnerability as a weakness. I grew up ‘being strong’ and that meant not showing your weaknesses and emotions and often even hiding your deep down truth. Eventually, I started showing up more authentically [...]
Day 14 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was BUILDING CASTLES IN THE AIR I’ve collaged a poem by Thomas Love Peacock on building castles in the air as well as a mix of Paris’ Dome des Invalides and Notre Dame. Dreaming up images, stories, adventures has always been a thing for me. I wrote and collages so much as a kid and teenager. I dreamed a lot too about adventures to come and where I’d want to go and what I’d wan [...]
I am participating in @kasiaavery CareDecember Art Journaling project. This is day 2 prompt: THE HARBOUR On my 2022 visionboard there is a quote that says: I write to understand life. I have written for as long as I can remember. Journals, diary, poems, newsletters, letters, stories, books, workshop content, coaching programs. I ha e often combined it with art or collage. It's an out pour of what's in me. It's an intake of the world. Writi g gives it meaning, sense and purpose. I read a lot too [...]
Day 13 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was SELF CONFIDENCE Self confidence is an interesting thing. You see, one can be be very confident outwardly (ie have no problem with speaking up, holding speeches and standing up for causes) yet still have little self confidence inwardly (trusting and loving yourself, asking for what you need, communicating your emotions). For me self confidence is all about that: the SELF. T [...]
I am participating in @kasiaavery CareDecember Art Journaling project. I’m a bit behind on the days. But I don’t care 😂 This is day 1 prompt: INTENTIONS This past year my recurring intention is for slowing things down, creating space in my days, having pockets of time with nothing planned and doing things at my own pace. I made this collage of a woman in a flower dress, reading or getting inspiration, thinking about what to write or create in her journal and not letting hectic life get the bett [...]
Day 12 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was SIMPLIFY Oh it sounds so simple. To simplify. For me it’s a daily need to remind myself of it. I am a creative person. I like A LOT of things. My brain jumps from one idea to the next. I like to combine this with that. Oh and this. Oh and that… Before I know it, a thousand tabs are open, my agenda is full and I have no time to concentrate on any of it 😂 I have simplified m [...]
Day 11 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was YOUR GREATEST GIFT IN 2022 Without our health, we have no life. I always knew that. But it wasn’t until I was confronted with some serious health issues (a little cancer journey and a recurring colitis, to mention only the two biggies) that I really felt that. As with day 10 on saying yes to the things I want in life and that my energy can handle, my health has taught me h [...]
Day 10 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was YES 2022 has been a year of saying no to a lot of things. My health and my energy didn’t allow me to do many things I did before and used to love. It has made me prioritise and look at what needed to be eliminated so that I could concentrate on what was possible. A lot of energy went into self care. And so there was little time left for other things. Because self care is a [...]