September was one of those months where I wrote 45 posts in my head… but apparently that’s where 41 of them stayed. In my head. Here’s to a fresh month, a fresh start, and a fresh opportunity to have the best of intentions, only to get…
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Today: Get Messy Thursdays | Words, Week 1
After a brief hiatus between seasons, it’s time for another round of Get Messy Thursdays. It’s never too late to join the group, so if you’re interested in learning more (doooo itttttttt), please check it out. I’ve spent much of the break playing with shells,…
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Today: Get Messy Thursdays | Serenity, Weeks 4 + 5
I did a little bit of painting last week, but very little art journaling, so I decided to throw together a combination post for Weeks 4 + 5 of the Get Messy Art Journal challenge, Season of Serenity. Several of these pages feature poems…
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Today: Get Messy Thursdays | Serenity, Week 3
So I got a tiny bit brave today and made my first Periscope broadcast, doing a little flip-through of my sketchbooks and art journals. You can watch it here… until it expires and vanishes… or whatever happens to Periscopes? Clearly I have a lot to learn…
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Today: Get Messy Thursdays | Serenity, Week 2
This season, the Get Messy group (join the challenge here!) is focusing on serenity. I couldn’t help but laugh as I sat down tonight (eleventh hour, for life) to start another round of pages for this week’s Get Messy Thursdays post. This week has me craving…
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Today: Get Messy Thursdays | Serenity, Week 1
I’m so happy the latest season of the Get Messy Art Journal challenge has begun (I’m also so excited about this season’s theme: Serenity!). I seem to lose momentum between seasons and realize how much I benefit from the community, structure and accountability of this…
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Today: Get Messy Thursdays | Adventure, Week 5
This week I got got down to (messy) business a bit earlier than usual. Most weeks, I spread out my art journaling over the better part of the week and wrap things up just in time for my Get Messy Thursdays post to go up.…
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Today: Get Messy Thursdays | Adventure, Week 4
On Wednesdays, we wear pink. And on Thursdays, we get messy. I tried to tackle, in some form or fashion, each of this week’s prompts from the Get Messy Art Journal program (it’s never too late to join!) while limiting the supplies I used– a…
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Today: Get Messy Thursdays | Adventure, Week 3
So, I decided to crack open a new sketchbook this week. I was running out of pages in my old one, and everything that I loved about it (namely, the scraps and things spilling over the pages and spiral binding) was sort of driving me…