Pookybears,
It’s important for me as a creative to make sure I’m consuming good quality creations… not just a mindless scroll of blabbering.
Here’s my scrapbook of all the things that have fed my eyes, heart, brain & soul over the last few months. I usually collect all the things that inspire me in my art journal… consider this my digital version!
Filled with things I’ve read, things I’ve beauty, things I’ve watched…
Get yourself a big ole cup of tea… this is a long one!
Also… special request! If you like these scrapbooks & want to see more, please do email in to let me know!
15 creative sketchbook exercises
Stunning, intricate drawings of hotel rooms
Immaculate Heart Art Department rules.
Painting faces advice from Jennifer Orkin Lewis
Rebecca Green shares the process of illustrating a picture book… I fucking love her gorgeous & informative blog posts!
Tara Leaver takes An Impromptu Artist’s Date
Coastal Beach House Tour from Thistlewood Farms
I can barely COPE with the cuteness of this donkey by Stephanie K Birdsong!
The designs of Olivia Herrick
Cluttercore is my style statement.
- Comic: The true costs of breastfeeding
- Comic: Home sweet homepage
- Fast, Cheap & Out of Control: The Inside Rise of Shein
- As Good As It Gets: the touching story of being present during a loved one’s end of life.
- ADHD & Exhaustion. Oooooof. Enough said.
- Ancestors, Luck & Descendants – Derek Sivers
“The choices of your ancestors led to the circumstances of your life.”
- How Is Felix? I love when people get super fucking obsessed with capturing data about their lives. Riveting reading for me! I get a little statistics boner in my pantaloons.
- I stayed in bed for 3 days. Fuck yeah, can’t wait.
- The long & twisting path to creating a 5 figure income by Samuel Thomas Davis
- I always love Lucy Bellwood’s sharings on creativity:
“The Greeks said that to be enthusiastic was to be filled with God.”
- I fucking love this idea: having an annual holiday with a friend!
- I love old-style freeform talking shit blogging. Bring it baccccccccccccck.
- Swiss Miss’ curation is exquisite: Don’t Hesitate, No Feeling Is Final & Small Kindnesses
- Abortion is Freedom
“There is nothing more holy in the world than choosing if, when, or how you create a family, which is why abortion is one of our most sacred rights.”
Sabbaticals:
I love seeing creators take time away to re-centre and re-fuel themselves. I’ve taken quite a few myself, and they are a good prescription for preventing (or healing) burnout.
“Do not be afraid to disappear, from it, from us, for a while and see what comes to you in the silence.” – Michaela Coel
And because I seem to collect articles about fucking off social media, here’s a wee list of them:
“It sends chills down my spine to watch others build businesses on Instagram and TikTok”
“It didn’t take much self-reflection for Weiss to identify the problem: his phone. He recognized that he increasingly colonized his “quiet time” with digital distractions. As a result, his work felt “chaotic and disorganized.” Throwing more hours at the problem didn’t help: “I was working more than ever, but getting less done.”
- Laura Bray documents her life & business without social media: Leaving Social Media, How To Stay Friends Without Social Media and Marketing without social media.
- The Oatmeal’s comic on how to discover videos on social media.
- Ronny Chieng on how the financial setup of the US is bananaramas
- Love is Blind: Japan. I got obsessed with the US version a few months ago. Damn I’m loving the Japanese version!
- Heartstopper because the books and the series are all fucking exquisite. 10/10
- Dead Pixels: like an updated version of the IT Crowd, this time focussing on gamers. Makes me cackle like a chook.
Righto!
If you love these scrapbooks, please do email in and let me know! They are a bit of work to pull together, but if you love ’em, I’ll keep sharing them!
May you stay inspired & deeply nourished by what you creatively consume!
Big love,
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