Tag: Art Journaling

Tanka Tuesday :: Fresh air

my journal page
a breath of fresh air
spring is patiently waiting 
the winter's farewell

a breath of fresh air 
a season for renewal
flowers, birds, and joy

a breath of fresh air
petals remind me of you
caressing my skin

a breath of fresh air
wakes me up in the morning
to the Earth's party

Tanka Tuesday this week is hosted by the lovely Melissa Lemay, the guidelines are:

For this week’s challenge, we will write our own rensaku:

  • I’d like us to write at least three to four haiku or tanka.
  • Each poem maintains its autonomy, in that it is not influenced by any other.
  • Each poem functions as a stanza in the greater whole. See Shiki’s rensaku verse below.
  • Together, all poems have a unifying theme, or are written with regard to an experience or event.
  • Don’t forget your kigo! Hint: we are headed into spring! Of course, you will write about whatever season you are in, in your part of the world. 

WDYS :: kindness

It’s thanksgiving day here in Canada. A day off from work, no much to do after yesterday’s dinner prep and socializing. Today is quiet, and I like this way.

Sadje offers these 2 photos as a prompt for WDYS this week:

Since it’s a time to be thankful and I’m revising my goals, I wrote a few thoughts:

one minute per day
miracle on the way
truth pillars
little here and there
sparkling one day
without messages
an eruption is the next

Happy Thanksgiving to you if case your are commemorating today!

tiny art 6

July 31st! Can you believe it’s the last day of July? Almost impossible to believe how fast this summer is going by. Today is the last day of #icad2025. Here are a few of them. The above one is maybe my fave of all of them, pure simplicity.

Another favourite card below, fall colours. The weather is already turning here, autumn is coming!

I hope you enjoyed this #icad series. If you would like to see more tiny art, check my Instagram.

Wishing a wonderful August to you!

tiny art 1

icads from a few years back

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.

1/61

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!

March is here

Looking forward for a new month full of inspiration and colours. My tiny journal is getting chubby, not much as I expected, February was a slow journaling month, hoping to catch up in March.

Today I woke up with a feeling of excitement, spring is coming but at the same time a feeling of missed opportunities: Did I learn all of the lessons from winter? Did I enjoy all its coziness? Did I dive inwards and really connected to myself? …My questions started with DID, it’s the past, now let me look ahead, to all the new possibilities of growth and blooming.

And you? How are you feeling about the change of the seasons?

Wishing you a flourishing new month, Spring or Autumn, both bring colours to the Earth.

In March winter is holding back and Spring is pulling forward.
Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.
Jean Hersey

Lovingly

These tiny cards are called inches, they are 2 x 2 inches. I love to set up a specific time to make them, not hurrying but inspired. I make them for myself, although I have sent a few of them to friends over the years.

I should have hundreds of them by now. I started working with small-size cards when I joined the #100dayproject on Instagram long ago. It’s a yearly project when we work on something creative for 100 days. I joined this project many years back, but I skipped it last year. It starts on February 22nd, and I am still deciding what I will do, it will be probably more inches, but I still have a few days to decide.

The main intention of keeping doing the same thing for 100 days is to burst the creativity making time for working lovingly on something that is important to us.

If you want to follow along with my #100dayproject check out my Instagram account. My QR code is below.

Joining Moonwashed Weekly Challenge – Lovingly

creative space

my desk

The space where I journal is always messy. I organize it once in a while, but soon it goes back to its natural state. I like this way, papers and colours spread everywhere. I enjoy looking under piles of stuff and finding some treasure buried there. Pens and pencils should be at hand as well as stickers.

This desk is in a room, in the basement, which I call my studio. Nobody goes there if not invited, my family knows that it is my space, and when I’m there, I will be writing, reading or creating something. They know I like to have ‘me time’, to be alone. As I get older, I value all the moments I have to be by myself.

As Virginia Woolf wrote “A room of One’s Own“

This week I set up the February opening pages for my journals and I prepped a few with watercolours for the weekdays. On the ones below I wrote my goals for the month. I liked how it turned out, the combination of colours and stickers.

Have a nice week ahead, and please find a pocket of ‘me time’ for yourself!

secret message

“Make something great” :: I found this card yesterday while cleaning my stationery drawer. I liked the background colour of the card, it matches my nail polish and called my attention among much other stuff inside the drawer.

We don’t need to make something ‘great’ but can make ‘great’ the tiny things that make us happy. I hadn’t journaled for a while, always letting it for later. You know how journaling is essential to me, and in spite of it, I was letting this habit slip from my hands. Writing a little bit early morning is a tiny act, but great for my mind.

I opened my journal and just glued a few images on the paper. I didn’t write, but sometimes images speak more than words.

I love to find secret messages on my way, and you? Are you paying attention to what comes toward you?