It’s difficult to believe I’m keeping up with the art cards challenges! Week two is completed.
A messy card to match my messy desk.
Mixing up colours and stickers.
I’m not following the prompts, but I added a twig to this card, since the prompt of that day was a twig.
Hope you are enjoying the cards. Any favourite from these ones?
i used to go out
always
carrying my faithful companions
a journal, a camera and freedom
registering moments
as if they would disappeared
at any second
thoughts, images and details
now
the journals are piled up
in a corner of my closet
the photos are resting in a shoe box
and the memories are fading
i am alone
Joinins Sadje’s WDYS
Hello, I’ve just heard that yesterday was Best Friends Day! I’m so grateful for all my online friends, here and on IG. Some of them for more than 10 years. Today’s card (above) is about connection, yes, I believe in it!
Yesterday was a peaceful day, so my card was all about relaxing.
My previous cards are below. Hope you enjoy them!
My icads are all about my feelings at the moment. The 2/61 is about dreams and freedom, and the 3/61, as you can see, is perfectionism, or better, letting go of it.
“Let go of perfection—it’s overrated. Your art, with all its quirks and imperfections, is perfect because it’s a reflection of you—unique, powerful, and real.” Arastasia
I got the inspiration for the 4/61 card below from my garden. I saw butterflies and birds everywhere this morning while drinking my coffee outdoors. The weather was pleasant and perfect to admire the playfulness of the little creatures among the plants.
I hope I have inspired you today!
June is here with warmer weather, flowers, sunshine, flip-flops, outdoor eating… Oh, my, so much goodness in this month!
June is also a time for the I-CAD (Index Card) challenge from Daisy Yellow, where we use an index card to create something during June and July, totalling 61 cards. I had joined this challenge for many years, but I let it go. This year I’m inspired to do it again. It’s so rewarding to see the card pile at the end of the challenge, and I really need to get my creativity mojo back.
My first one for this year. I put it together in less than 5 minutes. I prepped the background yesterday using a tea bag, and this morning I added the stickers. I like the result!
Happy new month to you!
I’m always searching for light, both in the true sense of brightness and the lightness in my thoughts, my being.
Spring is coming, at least trying, the fight with winter seems never-ending. Slowly it gets there, the signs are everywhere; from the grocery store, loaded with tulips and fresh produce, to my garden where the signs are still subtle but promising.
The Earth is smiling and starting to dress up in all colours.
However, darkness lurks in the corner, waiting for an opportunity to take us down. Be wise and keep a source of light at all times.
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I haven’t posted here for so long, always leaving it for next week and next week, and now it has been months since I last showed up in this space.
Spring has arrived, but not completely; it is still fighting the winter. We had some snowflakes this weekend.
Catching up on a few things I have done recently:
Long walks outdoors. The river was frozen for so long, and I love to hear the song of the water underneath the ice.
Tulips. I can’t resist and end up buying lots of them. I’m practicing my photography skills using them as a model.
Reading and writing, as always!
Baking delicious and healthy meals. And of course, drinking lots of coffee and tea.
Plants are never enough! On the left my new indoor baby, turtle string, the tiny leaves are so cute. And on the right, tulips are starting to pop up in my garden.
Hope you had a wonderful winter and are enjoying the new season.
Enter at your own risk
You can find pleasure
You can find sorrow
It depends on your mindset
Enter at your own risk
The forest freshness
Can bring relief
But can also aggravate your feelings
Enter at your own risk
Each step counts
To be happy again or
To sustain the distress
Enter at your own risk
It’s up to you!
in your hands, please hold it tight
believe your mind will take flight
the love exhales discover
allows your senses to hover
Could you guess the subject in this poem?
winter darkness
gifts us with short days and long nights
winter darkness
an explosion of vast kindness
luminous as the northern lights
brings us joy and lights up our sights
winter darkness
Joining W3 – Rondelet poem
Tea & Paper 