I have this note up on my wall. It's been up for over a year now. I was just testing out some green metallic paint on a yellow post-it-note and lettered "Make your art" as a message to myself. I stuck it up (not actually on the wall but to a drawer in the dresser) and it's still there, a year later.

I have celebrated another birthday. I got a glorious pink birthday cake fitting my age and maturity. So now I am 50 years old all of a sudden. As time pass I am sure I'll get used to seeing these numbers and think of them associated with me, but at the moment it's still hard to grasp that I AM THIS OLD!

Mixing up painted papers that I've recently created with old goodies collected years ago, and topping it of with a spring flower, because why not? Last batch had those cute birds, so I thought I'd bring in some more nature images this week. And I feel like it's time to speed up my collage posting a bit, to get caught up since we're now at the middle point of the year soon.

When one's dead, one's dead… This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad? — Tove Jansson I think collage is always, in some way, made out of "leftovers" and I love that. The magazines that others have discarded, the papers left from other projects, the ephemera of your days all coming together into a new whole.

We like bird collages, right? Right. So happy that you'd say that because I am making a LOT of collages and many have birds on them. This time: berry many! Berry, you ask? Berry! My glasses and a bird collage. One evening as I could not stop listening to the audio book I was reading at the time (which was the wonderful…

Dear photo diary, Today I am sharing some leftover photos that I don't think I have shared before. I hope that's okay with you. I am the queen of random after all, so that's not too unexpected, right? I am not sure when I created the "photography" category on my blog, but I'm so glad I did. I enjoy sharing some of my many, many photos here from time to time.

Today I just want to share one single spread in my so called doodle book. I'll write more about what a "Doodle book" is to me another time, but simply put, it's just a sketchbook where I don't sketch but just allow myself to doodle. Patterns, forms, flowers, birds, lettering, anything that pops into my brain really. This time it was a bunch of flamingos, an entire Flamingo family actually.

I hope you enjoy today's batch of seven freshly made collages and some thought on the steps you need to take to actually finish your artwork, or rather, what to do when you think it's done... This blog post contains collages number 50 to 56 made this year, as I continue creating in my series "365 collages in 2025". Let me just start by saying that I really appreciate you…

I am stuck with doing admin tasks, or at least that's how I feel right now. Like my entire life is just admin, admin, admin. Maybe that's why I sounded cranky in my last post, but brace yourself, haha...

This blog post is about swatching out new pens when you buy them, about using doodling as a way to slow down and maybe even meditate, and about playing with gel pens in a journal or sketchbook. This blog post contains three videos from yours truly, iHanna, so let's start with those. Gel pen doodle videos The videos are all quite short and quick to watch.

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Make space for silence. Not empty time you immediately fill with a podcast or another scroll—actual silence. Five minutes in the morning before you reach for the phone. A walk without earbuds. A meal eaten without a screen. These are acts of reclamation. You are taking back the most valuable thing you have: your undivided attention. - Michael Becka *