I have some December Daily Ideas & Inspiration for you today. It is easy to be inspired in December. It’s the ultimate count down to the Holidays (for some) and a New Year (for most of us). It’s a time of expectations, making plans, decorating everything (including ourselves and our journals) and making, baking and […]
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Year: 2010
Planning for Next Year
Nothing gets a writer more off center than not writing. Julia Cameron My inspiration board right now. I have participated in the lovely project Art Every Day Month during November, and some of the collages from my stack of 30 is up on my inspiration board, as you can see. In the beginning of the […]
Swedish Saffron Buns a.k.a. Lussebullar
Every year about this time we make a batch of yummy saffron buns. It is one of my favorite traditions even though I otherwise avoid the kitchen. This year I have decided to share the recipe here on my blog. It is because of Pam’s International Winter Holiday Cookie Recipe Swap (love the festive name!), […]
Favorite Recipe Cards – free to print and share
* Empty recipe cards (pdf) – print it and fill in your own favorites The recipe for Swedish saffron buns I bake these every December before Christmas. Swedish they are called lussebulle and while I did my own recipe card I created a free PDF for you all to download. Above is a PDF with […]
I created 30 collages
Collage number 30. I’m calling it Magpie love. The thirty days of November’s Art Every Day Month is finished and I have made 30 collages that I am very much in love with. When I started I had big plans of really sitting once every day to make a collage, but it has not happened […]
I Am Magic (inspired by 21 secrets)
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As I’ve mentioned before part of teaching a class with others is that you get to take the other’s classes too, and be inspired by what they’ve created. For free! In 21 Secrets I started this […]
Chinese Papercutting
Another idea, inspired by a 21 Secrets Class. Number 19 on my list of creative experiments to try is Chinese paper cutting, maybe because I already had a plan on how to learn that… Chinese paper cutting is one of the classes at 21 Secrets (last day to sign up tomorrow)! Now at least one […]
Fearless Painting
Another idea, inspired by a 21 Secrets Class. Connie calls her class in the first edition of 21 Secrets 2010 where I too taught; Get It Out – Get It Down, and in it the students are allowed to explore an intuitive way of painting, you know, painting without a plan or too much thinking. […]
Its been snowing here
Collage 24: On a darkish day. During the week it has been chilly mornings but rainy days under a grayish sky – creating slush on the ground that makes my mood sink. On such days I always wish I could be a bear that would now be sleeping in winter lair, but no such luck, […]
Art is my healthiest habit
“Trust this” art collage by iHanna. Day 23 of Art Every Day month November 2010. Todays card with layers of this and that, mostly beige tissue paper, lots of tissue paper. Even painted tissue paper from before. I always use a glue stick, except when I glue thin papers like these, then I use matte […]
Tune into abundance
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. /Wayne Dyer There is an abundance of inspiration and creativity in the wold. It makes me happy. Today I just wanted to put something up on my blog before I went to sleep, and I’m to tired to blog any of the abundance […]
A 5 year old inspired by my online class
Sharing 21 secret inspiration again. There is still a lot of creative energy going on in the art journal class 21 Secrets where I am one of the teachers. Registration closes December 1st and at February 1st next year the workshop will close in this form for good. You have plenty of time to join […]