Day 3 was another great day! I loved Emily's lesson and can't wait to put it into action. I think just her energy and peppy attitude really spoke to me. Loved it! Thank you, Emily!

Hello, I'm Neith from Massachusetts. Lately I mostly craft with yarn between knitting, crochet, and weaving and attempts at sewing. I used to prolifically paper craft, scrapbooking, card making, book binding, stamping, ink play, etc, but never got it set back up when we moved to a smaller house over 10 years ago with 3 pre-teens/teens. I just reclaimed a room for fiber crafting but the papercrafts are still mostly in storage outside of a small box of stamps and a little more. I started a bullet journal last summer in a mini binder with sections for planned gifts, gifts to myself, project notes, exercises for crafters and physical therapy linked ones (it was very ill conceived to ask my husband to gently rub my sore back, he tried some back massage move that he didn't know how to do and I had to get physical therapy and weeks and weeks where my left arm wasn't usable, then I hurt my knee while trying to compensate for the pain... so we did knee work plus arm, neck, shoulder work and I saved a lot of notes in that bullet journal!) and I would decorate it with new themes and colors every week, tracking craft work, exercising (physical therapy and apple fitness plus ring fit and outdoor walks), worked to rotate what types of projects I did and what types of exercise both weekly and monthly in summary pages and charts. But, then came the Christmas gift crunch, as well as joining a big huge make-a-long on Ravelry and challenging myself to create items in each category and get back to making items for myself and for charity... I finished all my gifts and all of my personal challenges, but let the journalling get super streamlined without artwork or color and less of my exercising. Now I'm ready to jump back in and take advantage of this week's presentations to help me with more ideas for it, ideas for gifting journalling kits and prompts to loved ones, and more! I loved Debasree Dey's Collage & Paint workshop with a mini book. I miss my bookmaking and this one was so simple, but it also brought in junk journalling/mixed media techniques and included writing out your personal intentions first as background to paint/collage over and as journalling for the final pages. I've not hidden my old journaling under the artwork/collagework before... I've tucked it into pockets or used morse code to write out the titles, etc, but this was a really neat idea for me that I'll run with! I also grabbed her freebie with access to a nice library of printables and prompts!

Hi my friends, today my project is available for you to play with! I'm teaching you a fun mixed media deck to hold your word of the year (or any inspirational words you need in your life!). My freebie extends the lesson by helping you choose your word if you haven't already. Have fun and let me know if you have any questions. Happy playing and creating! 🥰

Day 1 - I had fun doodling with Leah Davidson <3 I might also start a notebook like Kristin Tweedale's! That looks fun. Day 2 - Leah Lynch gave me some ideas for how to plan and get stuff done! I thought I was good at planning, but she is pro! Also, Consie Sindet's beautiful deck of cards inspired me to write a wishlist of art supplies. I need stencils etc. I think I have an inner mixed media artist waiting to come out. LOL Looking forward to tomorrow...

I’ve been making tote bags with matching books for some of my family members. They use the totes for picking up groceries at farmers markets, etc. The journals are for making shopping lists, writing down recipes, etc.