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30 Days of Lists, September ’15 (26-30)
Here we are at the end. I love the little album I’ve got now that the month is over. It’s an eclectic and bitsy little snapshot of my life right now. Now that I’ve completed it twice, I feel like a 30...
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Competition winner!
I am really, really excited to announce the winner of the Love it love it love it competition: Congratulations, Lucy! Shoot me an email, and we will sort your voucher out for you straight away. Then...
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Project Life, June 2015
It feels really good to be sharing some of my project life album again. It’s taken a bit of a back seat to things like 30 Lists, Week In The Life, mini albums and other creative experiments. The...
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Art journalling: Get Messy, season of Words
I’ve always been a documenter and a journaller in various forms. Ever since I learned to write I’ve been recording stories, and it’s become a pretty essential part of my identity. Project Life gives me...
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One little word: September
I’ve been such a SWOT with One Little Word this year. Every time a new prompt has come up I’ve pounced on it, and if I haven’t completed it immediately, I’ve certainly started planning it in my head...
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OMG I’m on the rukristin creative team!
So, here’s an exciting thing: for the next few months, I’m on rukristin‘s creative team! I am completely thrilled about this because Kristin is one of my favourite memory keeping peeps. The driving...
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Half a stick
Some days I’m just not feeling it. I don’t feel excited to be alive, grateful for my charmed existence, or anything at all good. The feelings that fill the gap are often an irreconcilable combination...
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Keeping track of memories for Project Life
I’ve been a consistent Project Lifer for a while now, and after trying out a bunch of formats and styles, I feel like I’ve found my groove. That groove involves recording monthly highlights in a 6×8...
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Strawberry coconut slice
I like to have a home-baked thing on hand to stick in Arty’s lunch box on kinder days. I don’t always have my shit together in time to make that happen but I do my best, and he likes it. The good old...
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Art journalling: Get Messy, season of Words (part 2)
Art journalling is continuing to be amazing for me. I’m going through a particularly shitty period of anxiety and depression (the discussion of which will need a whole blog post to itself), and the...
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One little word: October
October’s prompts were about giving and celebrating. Life gave me the opportunity to give love and time to a very sick friend last month, which was very sad, but it was a chance to show this precious...
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One little word: November
I may have dragged my feet on this project a couple of times this year, but I completed this guy on November the 1st, because I love a photo prompt. The last month I enjoyed as much as this one was...
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My writespiration
This year has been a big one for me in a lot of ways, but one of the biggest things it’s been about has been coming into my identity as a writer. This year I’ve started to take writing seriously and...
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Get Messy x UNHCR
A couple of weeks ago, moved by the refugee crisis in Syria, a bunch of art journallers got together to create a collaborative art journal magazine, the proceeds of which would go to the UNCHR. We...
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Project life: July 2015
Still behind. Still cool with it. Here are some highlights from our July: This brings me to the end of a 6×8 album, and as I predicted, I fit three months in there. I’m...
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A 2015 mini yearbook
I made this project as a member of rukristin’s design team, and it was originally posted here on her blog. 2015 is, shockingly, drawing to a close. No, seriously, it is. And that’s what’s inspired...
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Mini book: A day at the museum
I made this project as a member of rukristin’s design team, and it was originally posted here on her blog. One of the fun things about Arty being almost-four is the breadth of new adventures we’re...
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New labels
I am Essie. I struggle with the symptoms of depression, broad spectrum generalised anxiety, and chronic fatigue. These labels have gone a long way to explaining what it’s like to live in this...
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Cinnamon salt dough decorations
You know that lovely feeling when you have a friend who you adore, and your kids really like each other too? My friend Lucy and her son Harvey are totally in that category for us. Lucy’s a creative,...
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Art journalling: Get Messy, season of magic (part 1)
‘Tis the season for a bit of magic… As you can see, I’m still going very heavy on the collaging. I think it’s kind of becoming my thing. For now, at least!
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