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 2022. 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!

Sprring by Stephanie K. Birdsong

This is the calendar/These are the dates by Abigail Halpin

How playgrounds work by Grace Farris

Colorful home office reveal by Charlotte Smith

A Squirrel painting party by Mary Ann Moss

Grief is like butter by Ruth Chan

The annual self portrait by Rebecca Green

Before and after: the paint storage cabinet by Geneva Vanderzeil

Pregnancy pillow by Grace Farris

Navigations by Abigail Halpin

by Gemma Correll

Flow chart by Grant Snider

She’s a bit much

Reasons I would survive a horror movie by Gemma Correll

Optimization by Grant Snider

I love their maximalist style SO much!

Koosje Koene’s Paris sketchbook is just gorgeous!

• Experience: I collect other people’s old shopping lists
• How to be an ethical reader: The economics of books and libraries
• 15 ways to nurture a relationship after someone has died
• After the apocalypse, make stuff
• News and notes
• Self Care Bullet Journal by The Organized Mom
• We marched together but we were marching for her
• Bicycles and re-enchantment
• [RIDGELINE] Walking the Cotswolds, walking Japan
• Captain Moss has pushed off
• Inspiration is perishable
• After these messages…
• Reaper’s harvest
• Why you need to know how to build furniture
• July and/or August
• Body doubling: a productivity tool for getting things done
• Mid-year reflection in process
• New study confirms the value of solitude
• Dear reader,
• Summer 2022 :: Saltburn solo trip
• The history of blogging and how it’s changed
• Honestly, I’m just excited for the weirdos who will one day discover our house during the strangest estate sale ever
• The clothes I wear for comfort & confidence
• Common misconceptions about publishing
• Thank you for my sketchbook
• Eclectic explosion: House tour in Holland
• Sharing Inspiration: Join Me for a Tour of Reader Sketchbooks
• The Body on a Long Walk
• Performance Crapdate: August! September!! October!!! Oh My!!!!
• Unlikely Simultaneous Historical Events
• What can you do? A twitter thread
• Getaway
• Still completely obsessed with Susan Branch. Here’s one of her adventures: Darling girlfriends on the Queen Mary 2

And because I seem to collect articles about fucking off social media, here’s a wee list of them:

• Taking a break from social media makes you happy and less anxious (WELL NOW WHO WOULDA THUNK IT)
• I tried it: A 30 day phone break up
• The social media suck and cutting back
• The algorithm giveth and taketh away
• On being off social media
• The doctors ordered three days of ‘cognitive rest’. Cognitive what?

And last of all…

A Poem for Someone Who is Juggling Her Life

Righto!

May you stay inspired & deeply nourished by what you creatively consume!

Love always,