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Over the moon excited

Miranda2022-12-31T12:20:04+02:00December 6th, 2022|

Day 6 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was OVER THE MOON EXCITED The moon has popped up quite a bit this year. In sleepless nights at full moon. In craving water like the moon moves oceans. In poetry written for a writing retreat. In symbols, friends' conversations and songs. I can't say I'm over the moon excited by the impactful planetary movement this year...😂 but it has led me to pay more attention to the bigger [...]

Nature

Miranda2022-12-31T12:17:22+02:00December 5th, 2022|

Day 5 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was NATURE Nature doesn't hurry and yet everything is accomplished - Lao Tze Since I was a kid, nature has been my playground. Lately it has also become my refueling station. I go on walks to 🌟Breathe 🌟Clear my head 🌟Get inspiration 🌟Be amazed 🌟Get grounded 🌟Listen 🌟Realize all is well in the world 🌟Get perspective 🌟See how small I am in the big scheme of things It's refreshing [...]

What has 2022 taught you?

Miranda2022-12-31T12:17:55+02:00December 4th, 2022|

Day 4 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was WHAT HAS 2022 THAUGHT YOU? I was going to write this one big lesson about health being everything. But then there were so many little things that popped up. Lessons, aha moments and revelations. So I took my 2022 art therapy journal and leafing through it wrote down all the things that blossomed from these exercises. Wow. So much learning. So much healing. Both bodily and s [...]

Connection

Miranda2022-12-31T12:11:37+02:00December 3rd, 2022|

Day 3 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was CONNECTION I have been on a journey of inward connection for about a year now. My body has been communicating with me loudly and so I was 'forced' to listen. I crave baths, walks in the woods, creative me-time where I just make things with my hands, massages, time to read a good book and relax on my couch. My inner child, that girl with the flower dress is popping up asking [...]

View outside your window

Miranda2022-12-31T12:09:27+02:00December 2nd, 2022|

Day 2 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was VIEW OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW It's Friday and I have the day off. I love Fridays off. And looking out my window it feels like it's going to now today. I love nature and often bring in flowers, plants and sticks. I used a dried one to add to today's collage. I'm lucky to live in a village in the countryside so that I can just step outside and be in the woods or surrounded by soot [...]

Enthusiasm

Miranda2022-12-31T12:07:05+02:00December 1st, 2022|

Today is the first day of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was ENTHUSIASM It immediately made me think of myself as a little girl. A time without worries, where cutting, pasting and creating was a daily activity, just for fun, no pressure, not even an expected outcome. I loved paper back then and still do. I loved creating back then and still do. I had so much ENTHUSIASM back then. And so much less nowadays. I want to [...]

Do you journal?

Miranda2022-06-30T10:32:09+02:00July 6th, 2022|

Journaling. I used to write a diary as a girl. In my teenage years I wrote and wrote and wrote: journal, stories, poems, a book even. In my twenties I still wrote but added collaging to it. In my thirties and forties I wrote less. I started painting more. A decade further I feel the need to write more again. But also dribble with paint and collage. So art journaling is ideal. 🦋 Do you journal? 🦋 These journals have my artwork on them and are available in my Redbubble or Society6 shops. [...]