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I love the mollie ollie mimmo caddy for storing my go-to art journaling supplies. Because it has handles, I carry it around with me and it’s always ready and waiting for when I have a moment to art journal! Love! #artjournal #mimmocaddy
Posted in Creative Life, Creative Retreat, littlegirldesigns.com

How I Use the Mollie Ollie Mimmo Caddy

See that girl above? That’s what I felt like when I realized all of my journals (okay, the current ones) could fit in one happy…

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February is Love Month! Get inspired by these simple tips to make the whole month about God’s love for us. Super easy, and you’ll be so encouraged as a family!
Posted in Crafts, Creative Life, Creativity Prompts and Tips, Easy Crafts to Make, Holiday, littlegirldesigns.com

February is Love Month

“Mommy, February is Love Month!” I looked at my eight year old’s sparkling eyes directed at me waiting for an equally enthusiastic reply. I couldn’t…

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This ombré Christmas tree card is so simple to make you won’t believe it! Perfect as a kid’s craft and the leftovers make great pieces for collage!
Posted in Crafts, Holiday, Letter-writing, littlegirldesigns.com, Tutorials Card-making

Simple Ombré Christmas Tree Card

These simple ombré Christmas tree cards are an ode to the paint chip cards I use to easily find at my local grocery store. During…

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I love making and buying creative toys for my kiddo. It’s so fun to see her imagination soar. In this post, I’m sharing about the super easy nativity scene we made this year plus a shop that I’ve fallen in love with for their creative toys for kids! A must for birthdays, Christmas, you name it!
Posted in Crafts, Creative Life, Easy Crafts to Make, littlegirldesigns.com

Creative Play for Your Little One: Christmas Edition

I love open-ended creative play. This year, for Christmas, instead of pulling out our plastic nativity set with the fat little people and animals, I…

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I love to make art, but I don’t always like to set it up and clean up afterwards. But that doesn’t mean my kiddo can’t create on her own! Here are some of the many ways I make art and creativity accessible for her on a daily basis.
Posted in Creative Life, Easy Crafts to Make, Homeschool, littlegirldesigns.com, Prompts and Tips

Art All The Time—Create Opportunities for Your Child to Create

We love to make art projects of all kinds around here. But I’ll be honest, sometimes I don’t want to deal with the clean up…

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Learn how to make a hand-painted quote frame for a gift this year. Plain frames can be decorated in so many ways—here are some ideas to get you started on this fun and easy craft!
Posted in Crafts, Creative Life, Creative Retreat, Easy Crafts to Make, littlegirldesigns.com, Retreat Ideas

Make a Hand-painted Quote Frame

This hand-painted quote frame was one I liked so much, I ended up making one for me too. (Don’t tell, :)) Christmas is just around…

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Learn how to awaken wonder in your child (as well as yourself) this year whether you decide to home educate your not.
Posted in Creative Life, Homeschool, littlegirldesigns.com

Awake Wonder in Your Child (And YOU!) this School Year

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. (attributed to Henry Ford) I woke early, before…

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This is such an easy and satisfying project! Perfect for beginners and for anyone who wants to paint an acrylic wave painting for a gift or home decor! They are seriously so fun to make!
Posted in Crafts, Creative Life, Creative Retreat, Easy Crafts to Make, littlegirldesigns.com

How to Paint an Ocean Waves Canvas

Oh, how I love this ocean waves canvas painting! It is simple enough for a child or novice to make and it’s also quite therapeutic.…

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Learn how to make a super simple homeschool binder for your kids this year! This binder will serve as a schedule and a record of your child's work for the entire year. Plus, it just makes everything easier each day when you homeschool!
Posted in Creative Life, Homeschool

How to Set Up a Simple Homeschool Binder

Today I’m going to show you how to set up a simple homeschool binder for your student (or students.) Whether or not you live in…

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Let's talk about creativity for your heart, real life, and soul. It doesn't have to be complicated.
Posted in Creative Life, Creative Retreat

Creativity for Your Heart, Real Life, and Soul

Well, I’m back. After taking a sabbatical for the past year, I’m back here in this space, wanting to write again. So much has happened,…

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How Creativity Helped Us Rock Our Debt Free Journey. Our jump to being debt free was a LONG road, but with persistence and a lot of creativity, we did it!
Posted in Creative Life

How Creativity Helped Us Rock Our Debt Free Journey

Getting out of debt is not easy but creativity really helped us on our debt free journey. Ours was a LONG road, but we did it, and you can too!

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This fall table runner is so pretty and simple to make! Turn on a movie, paint and stitch away, and you'll have a lovely table runner for fall.
Posted in Crafts, Holiday, littlegirldesigns.com

Painted Fall Table Runner

This fall I’ve been on the lookout for a fall table runner or tablecloth. I wanted something simple and understated that I could add decoration…

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Learn to see the world like an artist with these seven prompts. Anyone can practice mindfulness and grow in their creative life by using these tips! I definitely need to try these and explore where I live more. I know this will help me in my art journal and probably even my bullet journal!
Posted in Creative Journaling, Creative Life, Journaling Prompts, Prompts and Tips

Learn How to See Like an Artist

Here are seven ways to see like an artist and to incorporate moments of creative thinking into your life. Your creative life will expand exponentially…

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Want to get out of a creative slump? Then get curious! Curiousity is a proven method to increase your creative potential. Learn why...
Posted in Creative Journaling, Creative Life, Journaling

Three Reasons Why Curiosity is the Key to Creativity

Curiosity is the key to creativity. Learn how you can jumpstart your natural curiosity and in turn, live your most creative life. Curiosity. When I…

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Learn how to create a goal map for your creative projects! This is such a great way to keep track of where you are and what you need to do PLUS you can make your goal map reflect your own unique personality. Love this idea!
Posted in Creative Journaling, Creative Life, Creative Retreat, Journaling Prompts, Prompts and Tips, Types of Retreats

How to Make a Goal Map for Creatives

Have you ever created a goal map for your aspirations for the year? How about for the projects and ideas you’d like to accomplish in…

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Want to choose a word of the year but don't know where to start? Here are some tips plus a secret that no one is going to tell you...but I will! #wordoftheyear
Posted in Creative Journaling, Creative Life, Creative Retreat, Journaling Prompts, Prompts and Tips, Types of Retreats

How to Choose a Word of the Year

Want to learn how to choose a word of the year? Let’s make this as easy as possible! Have you seen this thing called choosing…

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So good. It's hard to step out of my comfort zone when I'm creating, even if it's kind of silly to admit. I need to remember that all of those little steps matter. And they change how I see my life in general too! #artjournaling #bravegirl
Posted in Art Journal, Creative Journaling, Creative Life, Prompts and Tips

Be Brave In Your Life, Creativity, and Art Journal!

How can you be brave in your life AND your art journal? I’m glad you asked! We are currently in the middle of an art…

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Learn how to make this pretty fall watercolor leaf card! It's sooo simple and will make your friend's day too! #snailmail #cardmaking
Posted in Creative Life, Letter writing Prompts and Tutorials, littlegirldesigns.com

How to Make a Fall Watercolor Leaf Card

Learn how to make a fall watercolor leaf card using watercolor pencils. This is a simple project to do and will brighten a friend’s day…

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Ugh, no one likes failure, but it actually can be good for you. I'm going to show you how to fail in three easy steps and then share why in the world you need more failure in your creative life.
Posted in Creative Life, Prompts and Tips

How to Fail in Three Easy Steps (And Why You Need To)

Considering failure is one of the Big Fears many of us creatives face, writing a post on how to fail might seem a bit .…

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Oh my goodness, I NEED this! I always struggle to find time for creativity and my creative projects because I want to do them all...I knit, sew, paint, draw, and journal...But this post helped me realize how I can start doing them regularly. Yes! :)
Posted in Creative Journaling, Creative Life, Journaling Prompts, Prompts and Tips

Three Ways to Make Time for Creativity

Ah, the time factor. Have you ever wanted to jump into a creative project and then talked yourself out of it because of the time…

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“But soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound “But soon there breathed a wind on me,
Nor sound nor motion made:
Its path was not upon the sea,
In ripple or in shade.

It raised my hair, it fann’d my cheek
Like a meadow-gale of spring—
It mingled strangely with my fears,
Yet it felt like a welcoming.”

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I probably read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in school…the fact that I can’t quite remember when or if proves it didn’t make an impact on me. 

But, with Malcolm Guite’s guidance in his work of a book, I now love this poem. He interweaves Coleridge’s life and faith with what became a prophetic poem for STC’s own life. I am so grateful for this book. 

I wanted to make a little painting for my dad for his birthday but having been steeped in the Mariner, I kept painting the sea. Thankfully, my dad loves the ocean. :)

This is a book I will come back to again and again—I think it will make an excellent mid-winter read. :)
I admit I sometimes schedule creative time. I don’t know why something so relaxing and fun gets pushed off to the side so very easily, but it does. So…onto the “to do” list it goes. 

Today we decided to try a project in a fairy and mermaid activity book. It is one of those books you buy with great intentions of doing all the projects and then you forget about it. But not today! We painted, waited for the paint to dry (five minutes), and then drew our details. My kiddo drew a picture 4x the size of mine and managed to make me two late Valentine’s Day hearts, a flower for Mother’s Day, and several additional art presents by the time I finished. She also gave me advice about who should get a heart wand, etc. in my picture. 

Now that I’m finished, I’m reminded once again of why I do this. Happiness abounds. 

#creativeretreat #happyjournal #happyjournalhappylife #poscapens
Just a reminder to be kind to yourself. 💕 Just a reminder to be kind to yourself. 💕
Summer means more time for art journaling. The bac Summer means more time for art journaling. The background for this girl has been waiting for years in one of my older sketchbooks. I thought it was time to finally finish it. 💗

Hope you're all able to get some creative time in this week. It does wonders for your 💗!

#mycreativeretreat #happyjournalhappylife #artjournallove
I asked my daughter how she would illustrate this I asked my daughter how she would illustrate this verse from the Psalm of Ascents. She picked up her sketchbook and whipped out the second picture within minutes. I love how she thinks—the first image shows a girl sitting inside while it rains and the second one shows her outside with sunglasses enjoying a sunny day. 

I don’t know if I’ll illustrate each one of these Psalms as I do this 21 days of prayer with @revelationwellness but it was fun to sit down and sketch a bit today. 

#happyjournalhappylife #rwwalkingprayer #psalmsofascent #sketchdaily
I love June. Walked in the forest. Found aphids f I love June.

Walked in the forest.
Found aphids for our ladybug larvae. (Priorities, people.)
Bought watercolor paper + new paints. 
Painted.
Ate dark chocolate.
Finished Tom's Midnight Garden (one of my favorite kids' books that I never read as a kid!)

And other things too.
I love June.
Two posts in a day because this quote from @sarahw Two posts in a day because this quote from @sarahwanders must be shared. Her new book comes out in a couple of weeks, and it is so breathtakingly beautiful.
One of my favorite verses. I’m thinking about ha One of my favorite verses. I’m thinking about happy journaling some of the Psalms of Ascent as I do the 21 Days of Walking by  @revelationwellness this month. Sketching and writing and doodling (which is the same as sketching, I know 😂) are how I process things so I might as well. 😊 

Hope you all have a lovely {and creative} week!

#happyjournal #happyjournalhappylife #mycreativeretreat #psalmsofascent
This book. @sarahwanders poured her heart into thi This book. @sarahwanders poured her heart into this one, and it is a treasure I will keep coming back to again and again. If you struggle with mental health challenges or wonder where God is in all the mess of our broken world...if you just need some light in your current reading that leads you to beauty and hope in a new, healing way...this book is for you. 

I’ve written this caption over a series of days, trying to find the words I want to use...especially since it is so beautifully written by Sarah. All I can say is give your soul a gift and retreat away with this book. You will not regret it. 

I received an early copy as part of her launch team for this book, but I’ll be rereading my good old-fashioned copy as soon as I get it in the mail. Can’t wait to highlight and underline all the things!

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