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Spontaneous Writing Booths Do not feel left out when you school, Zen Centre,church has a carnival, bazaar, rummage sale. Simply set up a spontaneous writing booth. All you need is a pile of blank paper, some fast writing pens, a table, a chair, and a sign saying “Writing on Demand”. They choose the topic and you [...]

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Call me

 
 
My new calling card (I make my own).
Well, one of them. I make them all. So they’re all different. Only the Blue part is the calling card. The brown is just the page I photographed it on. Its double sided- a blue and a happy lime-ish green.
 
Info is at the back:
 

 
LOVE IS HANDMADE
 
Mahima Shrestha
 
www.meetmahima.wordpress.com
mahimashrestha@gmail.com
 
G.P.O. Box [...]

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Some of the people I know

To see more people I know, see my Willie Baronet Journal Set on Flickr.

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Yesterday I went to the house where I grew up… where we all grew up: my father, his siblings, the three of us. The women grew up there too, in a sense. They married men they loved and came new and unsure and grew into strong, loving, whole women here. I took my journal and [...]

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You haven’t seen my journals in a long time (by my standards of creative productivity these days!). in that time, I have bound 4 new journals. Finished 2 full ones. And have begun another.

The small journal in the process of being hand bound- four signatures, all pre painted. I don’t use pre painted pages in [...]

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Today has been painful. And sad. I wrote with tears dripping on either side on the page, and on my bare hands, and all over my track pants. I have written in anger and in emotion. Today has bled, the blood of old, still raw inside wounds. These will bleed slowly for weeks now until [...]

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Thank you, Maddie and Kara for passing me he Blogger Reflection Award to me. I’m thrilled and humbled.
“This award should make an individual reflect upon 5 bloggers who have been an encouragement, a source of love, impacted you in some way and who have provided a Godly example. In other words, five dear bloggers, whom, when [...]

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Our task is to say a holy yes to the real things of our life as they exist.
Natalie Goldberg
This has become me favourite page in this art journal. Maybe its the colours. The polks. Her expression. Her smile. The associations I have with the words I’ve written. I’m not sure. But I absolutely *heart* it [...]

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Writing and art journaling has certainly been the highlight of the last two days. Lots of Zettiology style pages. That and family. So its been a good few days, generally. 

I find that some of my most evocative writing comes from the failure of an attempt. When I couldn’t stitch beautifully I wrote about adventure; when I [...]

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Too much has happened in the last day!

My blog is LOVE IS HANDMADE from today, oficially. 
I BOUND MY FIRST ART JOURNAL!!
It was a culmination of several things. I’ve been wanting to work in a larger format. I’ve been wanting an art journal that opens out flat and isn’t spiral bound. I’ve been wanting to bind [...]

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