Nature journals are one of my favorite types of journals to make. As an amateur photographer and nature lover, I love to capture the things that I see through the lens of my camera and use those photos in my journals. I also like to incorporate real bits of nature onto the pages of my […]
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Every year for about the last 10 years or so, instead of making new year’s resolutions, I choose a word that will become my guide for the coming year. I use this word as a way to stay focused and move my life in the direction that I want it to go. When I feel
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What are your favorite memories of last year? Or the year before? Most of us tend to keep our memories inside our head or inside our heart, and over time they tend to fade away until something stirs the memory back to the surface. The Book of Days is my latest online class where I
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In this year’s series of online journaling classes, I’m including with each session a workshop on natural dyeing which is a simple and easy method of making hand-dyed fabrics and fibers that we can use in our stitched journals. In the last workshop, I included the process for natural dyeing with fruit teabags which was
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There’s no getting around the fact that gift-giving season is almost upon us! I don’t know about you, but since I spend so much of my time sewing, dyeing and working with surface design, I always love getting gifts that are creative and sewing or surface-design related. And I particularly love it if they’re also
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This month begins another fun year of Creative Art’n’Soul Journaling video workshops. During this series of workshops we’ll attempt to unravel the mystery of our personal stories and translate them onto the pages of our stitched mixed media journals. This is one of my favorite methods of journal-making. Part story book, part art journal, the
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