When I started blogging I wrote quite a lot about knitting – and then thrifting, as I was discovering its many benefits as an adult at that time. Thrifting – as it’s called in the US when you get excited over stuff that used to belong to someone else… Thrifting – it’s the art of […]
Ode to the hands
Thumbs up, it is all in our hands to make the world a more beautiful place. So let’s keep at it. iHanna Do you remember me sharing the start of the En masse Glue book project? Well, I filmed a couple of the spreads that I created in it, and the first one has the […]
Creating textile book pages
Update on the iHanna Journal of Stitchery that I started in January. Each month we’ve been given two themes to play with, one for the background and one for the actual image of the page. In today’s blog post I will share video footage of me thinking about and creating the first 4 + 1 […]
Let’s be creative
Let’s do something creative together! Get out a glue stick, some magazine images and your favorite notebook and let’s create a spread filled with colorful imagery and patterns, some stickers and washi tape details and maybe we’ll add a nice message or quote. Yes?
Finishing the Postcard – what’s on the back?
I love the backsides of postcards almost as much as the art on the front! iHanna Dear Mail Art Artists & DIY Postcard Fans, do you put in as much love and attention to the backside of the postcards you send as you do the front? I am guessing no, you might not. Painting and […]
iHanna’s DIY Postcard Swap spring 2022
I sent out my Newsletter to all subscribers last week, to announce that the DIY Postcard Swap spring 2022 is open! Then I got problems with my back (again) and couldn’t really sit and do anything by the computer so the blog post got delayed, sorry about that. But better later than never (my life […]
How to start an En Masse Glue Book
I have found a super fun glue book project that is just too good to keep to myself! I am sharing my inspirations today – and a video tutorial so that you can get started too! En masse is French and means “in a group; all together” or “in a body : as a whole”; here a […]
YouTube Obsession: Greenery & Houseplant Jungles
As a creative person my obsessions are many and varied. Because of the internet I often fall down the rabbit hole of “research” when ever I fall into a new-ish obsession, like being interested in keeping greenery, houseplants and flower pots at home… I put the word research in quotation marks because looking at pictures […]
How to start a Fauxbonichi Journal
I first heard of this type of journaling a few years ago and was intrigued, but not at all tempted to create one. Until I was a few months back, and then I couldn’t wait another day to get started on my own version of a DIY daily journal! So I did, and it was […]
Finished Rainbow Glue Book + free project label
A bit over a year ago I shared a video and a blog post on How to start a Rainbow Glue Book mostly because I was so inspired by this idea of creating monochromatic kind of magazine collages in a composition notebook myself. While filling this book I’ve had a great time for sure, filmed […]
Pink in my Rainbow Glue book
You could be my flamingo. ‘Cause pink is the new kinda lingo. Aerosmith (Pink) Pink is the last color that I’ve filmed in the Rainbow Glue Book, so today’s video is the last in the series. Next up is the final flip-through which I’m excited about. Watch as I finish another glue book page and […]
Orange & Turquoise | Rainbow Glue book time
Orange is the happiest color. Frank Sinatra One of the many things I’ve enjoyed when working in the Rainbow Glue book is that it has given me the opportunity to [really] look at each color in the rainbow, one by one, and enjoy them individually. Each one speaks to me and has different meaning, but […]