365 Collages | Week 50 | Explained with other words

Posted on 2018-12-30 by iHanna

Without great solitude no serious work is possible. Pablo Picasso

I took some time for solitude and creating in the studio this week, and finished the last pile of collages. Yesterday I posted week 49, and today I’m here with week 50, which makes this collages 344 to 350 of 365 Collages in 2018. Yay! Celebration is near, but of course around here, we celebrate all blog posts and creative expressions, right?!

Life Map - Collage no 344 by iHanna
Life Map – Collage no 344 by iHanna.

I will let these collages speak for themselves, but before that, if you do plan to do a 365 project next year, I have some recommended reading for you. For example, read How to Plan for a 365 Project of your own from 2013, where I outline what you should think about when deciding what kind of project you want to do. From there you’ll find posts I’ve written about how to stay organized and other useful information.

Let me know below what you’re planning for 2019!
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365 Collages | Week 49 | Going in both Directions

Posted on 2018-12-29 by iHanna

I got busy with my Christmas journal, but I haven’t forgotten this years big project: the 365 Somethings in 2018. I’m making collages, as you might know by now, and here are seven more, freshly made and scanned today.

Miss Kitten is doted on - Collage no 337 by iHanna
Miss Kitten is doted on – Collage no 337 by iHanna.
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December Daily Flip-through | Traveler’s Notebook style

Posted on 2018-12-27 by iHanna

Dear all,
I hope that those who celebrate had a nice Christmas holiday? And that everyone else survived the madness. I feel a bit silly coming in with this post today, after Christmas. It was meant to go out on the 22nd, as it contains my Christmas journal video number three, and it was filmed in the beginning of the month. But the week before Christmas Eve is really short, you know? I just didn’t find the time to post it, so I’m doing it now. Better late than never, right?

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Collecting Snow Globes

Posted on 2018-12-20 by iHanna

I have a very small collection of Snow globes in my Christmas box, that we take down each year in December (although not last year because the living room was a mess after moving here.

My small collection of Snow Globes (photo copyright Hanna Andersson, Studio iHanna)

I think that Snow globes are such a darling cute thing, and I’ve always liked them. I don’t think I had any as a kid, but one of the first years I lived away from home, I bought myself a big snow globe with an angel in. It might have been my first Christmas decoration as an adult…
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Christmas Journaling in a Traveler’s Notebook

Posted on 2018-12-17 by iHanna

I’m filling my December Daily / Christmas journal with stickers, photos and journaling. Here’s an update on what’s on the first couple of pages in my current one.

Christmas Journaling in a Traveler's Notebook with iHanna

I don’t know what it is about a traveler’s notebook that makes me so very happy, but I’m guessing it has something to do with it’s compactness. And the size, the feeling of a small notebook in my hand, with room enough to cut and paste, journal and enjoy myself while documenting the season we’re in. I like that it has small enough pages that you don’t need to plan anything out, you can just fill a spread with one big picture if you want to. Or leave it a lone, since this journal is a junk journal and most pages has a little something on them to start with.

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Getting Started with Christmas Journaling

Posted on 2018-12-11 by iHanna

I journal all year, all the time. I fill up notebooks with text, images and what-not like a it’s my only task in life. But in December, I do Christmas Journaling, or what might be called December Daily journaling. A little switch turns on in my head and I’m all into glitter washi tape, snowflake stickers and pink Christmas tree images…

Wanna join me?

Yes, it's what I do in December: December Daily or Christmas Journaling in a travelers notebook junk journal made by me, iHanna #journaling

Do you remember the craze from last year? I filled this chunky Traveler’s Notebook to the rim! It is made out of an eclectic mix of papers, with everything from wrapping paper to ordinary printer paper.

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365 Collages | Week 48 | The glory of being alone

Posted on 2018-12-08 by iHanna

Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Johannes Tillich

Going to Portland Someday - Collage no 329 by iHanna
Going to Portland Someday, a collage by iHanna.

I have not fallen of the face of the earth. I’m still alive and well, kind of. Even when I’m not blogging or keeping up with anything, just know I’m trying to get back on the bandwagon, or is it horse?

I have fallen a bit behind on the collages, but not too much. And today I’ve scanned seven new collages for the 365 project I’m doing this year, and I’m here to share them with you.

I hope you will like these collages. The end is near…

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Traveler’s Notebook Video | Randomosity vol 2

Posted on 2018-11-25 by iHanna

I have finished another flip-through video, and it is ready to inspire you today! Grab a cuppa and take a look.

Travelers Notebook

I’m using a regular sized Traveler’s Notebook for journaling and Memory Keeping, and I have been using this kind of notebook for about three years. This is volume two, that I finished a long time ago but have not, until now, taken the time to blog about it. I just edited the flip-through video, so I thought I’d share it with you guys.

On this particular notebook the spine is sewn on the sewing machine by my skilled mom (I couldn’t do it on my sewing machine that’s for sure). The cover is a very pretty yellow scrapbook paper with a butterfly pattern, and the inside pages are miss-prints discarded from another of my creative project, that of making my own planner inserts, another thing I love making.

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365 Collages | Week 47 | Stupendous Fiction

Posted on 2018-11-21 by iHanna

I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.
Jaquelin T. Robertson

Not Your Ordinary Quilt - Collage no 322 by iHanna
Not Your Ordinary Quilt, Collage no 322 by iHanna.

I love my world of fiction, created in these collages. I feel a little like it’s a vintage photo album, at times. Like I want to step into the collages and live in these environments, created by serendipitous moments in my studio…

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Always try New Things

Posted on 2018-11-19 by iHanna

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?
Michelle Obama

This weekend I took a workshop that was arranged by my local embroidery group. The teacher was called Lotta Frost, and she has made some beautiful things in paper with stitching. We learned some new-to-us ways to stitch on paper, which was fun. You might have seen some of it in my stories on instagram if you follow me there.

Stitch with love Workshop

Learning new things is always invigorating to me, especially when you get to dive into topics you are already passionate about. And I love embroidery! Sewing on paper is something I have tried before a couple of times, but not like this. I look forward to explore it more, sewing on sturdier paper, which you do by poking the wholes before you start sewing, kind of making a path forward before you start walking on it.

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