Today two quick things I really enjoy: Looking up a new to me word and some very late happy mail in the inbox! All this because a very bulky and quite interesting looking envelope arrived… By the way, do you know what the word “lagniappe” means? I sure did’t know until just now, when I […]
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Category: Other’s Creativity
I am inspired by creativity when ever I see it, in strangers, friends and family members. I love meeting artists, writers, and creative people.
Handmade Postcards for iHanna’s Swap | Even More I
Five inspirational videos on how to slow stitch, collage, paint and create DIY Postcards from several awesome YouTube creators – get inspired for iHanna’s international DIY Postcard Swap!
New book coming soon: Share your Joy
In today’s happiness announcement section: I am finally allowed to reveal the great news that I am part of yet another beautiful art book! Yay! I am a very small part of someone else’s art book and I feel really proud and happy that I got to be in this particular book, because it is […]
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 […]
Random Paper Postcards by Cath
Catherine in Portugal, who was in the DIY Postcard Swap last year, created a series of videos showing her entire process for making beginner-friendly DIY Postcards! She is using recycled materials (my favorite) and things she found at home, to make her postcards. I hope you’ll find that her try anything approach to the process […]
Spring Challenge: Fill a Tiny Journal with Hanna a...
Do you like art journaling and tiny journals? Then I’ve got an invitation for you to play along with! We’ve put together a list of journaling prompts with which we will work to fill a tiny journal, and each Friday for the next nine weeks we will be sharing a finished spread (or page) on […]
Happy Mail from La Wendeltreppe
I love happy mail with cute postal stamps that I haven’t seen before, like these from Germany. So very cute, right? I adore the one with The Gruffalo, because I remember vividly how I read the first book to my brother when he was a kid (written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by wonderful Axel […]
Postcards from the world
Handmade postcards are like little cute birds that fly into your home and sing to you. iHanna Postcards that I have received from the lovely participants of my postcard swap – from the spring, continued from here, here and here. I hope you like em’ and feel inspired to make your own handmade mail art! […]
DIY Postcard Abundance
Continuing from my blog post One hundred DIY Postcards bound for Sweden, the spring swap started our Anniversary year and in it I got so many beautiful DIY Postcards from participants that wanted to celebrate the fact that I have been hosting the DIY postcard swap (that you can still join today) for over 10 […]
One hundred DIY Postcards bound for Sweden
I got over one hundred postcards in the 10th Anniversary of the DIY Postcard Swap this spring (and now the fall swap is open if you want to join in – and we’re still celebrating the anniversary year of course!). I think that is preeetty good for being a pandemic year, right? Some of the […]
Sarah’s Juicy Postcard Process
A mixed media process video and some fun mail art inspiration today, I hope you like it. I was thrilled when I saw that one of my long-time participants in the DIY Postcard Swap, Sarah, made a video on how she created her postcards for the last swap! I’ve made several videos myself of my […]
In Pandemic Times: Living in a Creative little Bub...
None of us know what will happen. Don’t spend time worrying about it. Make the most beautiful thing you can. Try to do that every day. That’s it. Laurie Anderson When I sit down to write this blog post the last sun of the day is looking in through my dirty windows, making my little corner […]