Amigurumi
This weekend was three days with Sweden’s National Day 6th of June. We went to the mountain cabin and I took some pictures of birchwood and fire. Indoors I showed Maria how to crocheted! It was fun,...
View ArticleCollage Class with Teesha Moore
Teesha Moore is a well known Art Journal Guru in the internet world. Her collages are colorful, bright and personal. She recently made a whole series of videos showing her journaling style, and...
View ArticleI Am Magic (inspired by 21 secrets)
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. /Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As I’ve mentioned before part of teaching a class with others is that you get to take the...
View ArticlePhotography Question: What matters most?
I take a lot of photos all the time, it is all apart of my project to document life. A Document Life Project that has been going on since I first got my wee hands on a camera when I was a child. Right...
View ArticleLisa in Amsterdam
Are you in or close to Amsterdam? My blog friend Lisa Sonora Beam will be there soon having an art retreat that sounds fab! What Lisa creates and does is just up my alley. I wish I could go, but right...
View ArticleOnline Learning
Learning new things Lately I’ve been thinking about how I am inspired and how I learn new things. I think written classes can be fun, but I am most inspired with IRL teaching or videos online. I love...
View ArticleMy lovely hand dyed fabric pile
My lovely pile of hand dyed fabrics! This year I’ve experimented with the idea of “making the material my own” more than ever before. I love the idea of dying and not just using store bought and ready...
View ArticleCollage: Just be brave
Original Art Collage: “Man or mouse” (or just be brave). 20 x 20 centimeters (7.8 x 7.8 inches). Sold. When I look at this collage, one that I did in November, I notice how much I love it. Also, I...
View ArticleCollage studies in a series
One of the ideas in Jane Davies great book Collage journeys is to do all her exercises as a series of collages. She suggests that you assemble a group of materials that you find interesting or...
View ArticleThe Quick Way to Learn How to Draw a Face
We are all drawn to faces, and we draw faces all the time in our art. You want to draw a pretty face, right? Me too. But it’s not as easy as you think, right? Wonky eyes, doll like mouth and no...
View ArticleCelebrating Lifelong Learning
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi Celebrating Lifelong Learning. A page in my spiral bound Art Journal from 2005! I think life is a long learning...
View ArticleWiden your horizon with new words
I love new words because often they reveal something that you are not aware of. The knowledge of a new word will widen you horizon and give you a better understanding of the world. Maybe you’ll notice...
View ArticleGiveaway | Planning to learn in Online Workshop
I am one of the art journaling teachers at the 21 Secrets Workshop Fall 2015 as you all know, and I’ve been given two workshops to give away. You can enter the giveaway below and you get points for...
View ArticleOpening Up to Inspiration
I don’t like to pack, because it makes me antsy. I start thinking about all the things I haven’t finished yet, and that I now will have to prospone. No matter how many fun and exciting reasons I had...
View Article365 Collages | Week 9 | Lifelong Learning
Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you’ll ever have is your mind and what you put into it. Brian Tracy Marching to my own Drum, a collage by iHanna. Still influenced by...
View ArticleStarry Nights and Wintery Scenes
For a while now I’ve been paying member of the workshop community called Skillshare. It’s a great resource for creatives, where you once you pay the fee, have instant access to all of their thousands...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter
Black lives matter is a movement, a truth and a statement I will always sign. In fact, it is baffling to me that not everyone can or will or want to do that. That not everyone is raised to understand...
View ArticleCreate along with me: Doodle Cute Monsters
Get ready, grab your pencils, and let’s doodle some (not scary at all) monsters! They’re going to be very kawaii (cute in Japanese), and not scary at all, I promise. It’s our first lesson in the new...
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