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Tutorials and arty crafty projects.

Art Journal Pages

September 4, 2014 Jen EdenLeave a comment

Better late than never, I finally got around to finishing the pages for our wedding and honeymoon. Yay! For the wedding spread I printed off a bunch of our wedding pictures as tiny thumbnail images and created a little timeline of our day out of them. I left a few spaces in between some of [...]

Posted in Crafty, PersonalTagged art journal, honeymoon, life, love, marriage, memories, pictures, scrapbook, wedding

Watch with Glittering Eyes

May 6, 2014May 6, 2014 Jen EdenLeave a comment

As promised my latest art journal spread. One of my favourite quotes and pretty colours - this is a happy page! Anyone else an arty journaler? If you share your stuff online leave a link in the comments. Hope you all enjoyed the bank holiday weekend! 🙂

Posted in Crafty, PersonalTagged art journal, colour, lettering, life, quote, typography

For the Love of Post!

April 16, 2014April 16, 2014 Jen EdenLeave a comment

Hands up who loves snail mail... ME!! I LOVE SNAIL MAIL!! It's so exciting to get post through your letter box. Not junk mail, REAL post. A letter from a friend, that package of washi tape you ordered from Etsy, a mysterious package from an unknown sender... So I've decided to share a bit of [...]

Posted in Crafty, Personal, Random ShareTagged friends, letters, love, post, snail mail, surprise, washi tape

My Life in Notebooks

April 9, 2014April 9, 2014 Jen Eden1 Comment

I have already shared with you lovely people my love of books, so today I thought I would share my love of notebooks! This is my current pile of notebooks. Most of them are about half full and there are a couple of lovely blank ones just waiting to be filled with beautiful randomness. These [...]

Posted in Crafty, PersonalTagged journalling, life, notebooks, planning, stationary

Personal Project: Art Journal

February 23, 2014 Jen Eden4 Comments

There has always been something that compels me to reflect on my life, my thoughts, my fears, my blessings. I don't know how much truth there is in the old saying "The unexamined life is not worth living", sometimes I think I spend too much time thinking about life rather than getting on with it. [...]

Posted in Crafty, Inspiration, PersonalTagged art journal, crafty, journalling, life, personal, quotes

A Little Bit Of Lovely: Flow Magazine

February 19, 2014February 18, 2014 Jen Eden4 Comments

A couple of months ago whilst browsing round Magma in Manchester (FYI, fabulous shop which you should visit) I came across a very pretty looking magazine which proclaimed to be "for paper lovers". Well that is definitely me. I picked up the magazine and flicked through it (soooo pretty!)...and put it back on the shelf (sensible head [...]

Posted in Crafty, Inspiration, Random Share, RecommendedTagged art, crafting, creative, design, Flow Magazine, inspiration, paper love

Share the Love: Valentine’s Craft Round Up

February 12, 2014February 13, 2014 Jen Eden2 Comments

I don't know about you but I like a little bit of craftiness every now and again. I especially love it when I get to give someone the end result, whether it be a quick origami gift tag, or a project that has had hours/days/weeks of love poured into it. There's something special about being [...]

Posted in Crafty, Random ShareTagged craft, ideas, love, romance, valentines

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Hello, friends. I don’t know about you but I’m feeling sort of...stretched, right now. A little wrung out by life. There are brilliant books I’ve read that are waiting for reviews but I’m struggling to articulate much about them. There are ideas I want to put down in the pages of my notebook but when I put pen to paper it seems to stick there and my hand won’t move across the page as it should. I need to move my body but it feels weighed down with pain and lethargy which make curling up under a blanket much more appealing.
Just a gentle Sunday reminder to practice self care before, during, and after any experience that challenges your well-being. Your boundaries matter. 🙏💛
Spent lots of time outside this morning enjoying the sunshine on a lovely long walk with the pup and then clearing the flowerbeds in our garden and doing some planting. Spending time in nature is beautifully soothing and always helps blow the cobwebs away. Now I’m nicely tired, and some of the week’s tension has seeped out of my body, I’m hunkering down with a good book.
After discovering @farida.d.author’s account earlier this week I just couldn’t resist treating myself to a copy of one of her books. After a brief flick through I can tell this is going to be one I savour in mouthfuls of “YES”. As I’ve grown up through my twenties and into my thirties, I’ve grown a steady and deep appreciation of writing that captures all the joy and frustration and magic and rage of the different experiences of womanhood in this world. Finding those words that have created a way to whisper and shout out of pages, even as we’re (still) expected to be quiet is thrilling and empowering. I have just finished reading The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo and it too brought me that ethereal sense of recognition. Despite not having lived the same experiences, the power of those words resonated somewhere in my gut. I laughed and loved and wept and raged and burned with Xiomara. The power of the written word is truly incredible and I am so grateful for everything it has opened to me.
I’m definitely late to the party on this one - working through a ridiculously long and awesome list of recommendations and discovered reads as I continue to try and diversify my reading habits - but I’ve just started reading Pet and I am LOVING it. The writing is deft and vivid, the concept hugely original and the way Emezi has woven different intersections of identity into the characters just feels so natural. I love discovering speculative fiction that feels entirely fresh and I have high hopes for this one based on the first four chapters.

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