REVolution

52 promises to me #13 TAKE TIME

the 52 promises to me for week 13 is here! TAKE TIME. o boy, that's a biggie for me. because i'm impatient like ALWAYS i feel like i need to learn this lesson. take my time. journaling is in Dutch, but scroll down for the English version.

journaling:

TAKE TIME. you are allowed to take your time. this is such a common thread in my life. i can be very impatient and restless. i'm always thinking it had to be done yesterday. but also taking time for me, and giving myself time are hard. although i'm doing better than before, i still have to be reminded of this regularly. YES i am allowed to do the things in my own speed. no i don't need to get my creative business to the next level in the next year. NO i don't have to do anything. i am allowed to spend my days exactly the way i want and need to. i can take my time to learn new skills, to discover and to take time to make decisions. in that i can be very quick and impatient and feel regret afterwards. as if there's always somebody behind me pushing me. which is not the case at all, but it feels like that. rushed. so now i promise myself "take your freaking time girl". stop rushing, start enjoying the process <3.  

 

supplies i've used to make this art journal page:
of course my own art journal :)
jane davenport watercolors
winsor & newton watercolors
white signo uni-ball pen
black micron pen 1.0

happy creating everybody!
love

52promises to me #12 READ

a new promise a two weeks late :O. but i'm here again, back on track! journaling for this page is in Dutch, i'll translate it for you, scroll down a bit.

READ. oh, in 'the old day's i almost ate those books. and when Sanne was a newborn i would love to read when she was napping on my chest. i could barely hold my arms up, but that was the only time to read. at night i simply was toooo tired, my eyes closed by the thought of reading alone. when we went to the beach, i would bring my book with me. sometimes enthousiastically 2! but of course i didn't even read 1 line because i was watching Sanne as a hawk. so i mostly just browsed some magazines. and when Ruben joined our family party it was all done with reading all together :O. he was such a busy bee and everywhere so i needed to keep my eyes on those 2 at all times. but since recently and mostly a few years ago when they both had their swimming exams, i can read (and relax) more! on holidays, lying in a relaxing chair near the pool where they play. 

and nowadays at night, and during the day, i pick up a book more and more. i want to be LESS on social media (looking at what other people are doing with their lives :), and MORE doing my own things, enjoying my own life. i buy a lot of books and love to have a stack! so i'm not gonna make a promise to read X-amount of books this year. that only gives me stress. i just want to be less online, and more reading!

 

supplies i've used to make this art journal page:
of course my own art journal :)
jane davenport watercolors
winsor & newton watercolors
white molotow acrylic marker
black micron pen 1.0
white ecoline ink

happy creating everybody!
love

#52promisestome #11 ADVENTURE

the new promise for this week is ADVENTURE. what a beautiful word to make a promise on! my artjournaling is in Dutch, please read on below.

ADVENTURE. more. when it comes to adventure i'm really a chicken. i mostly want to stay with Arjan and the kids. going out of a day with a friend is perfectly fine, but away for a whole weekend? i get a tummy ache only thinking about it. kinda strange actually. Sanne and Ruben are almost 15 and 11. they can manage themselves perfectly. but it is just a feeling. "all sheep on dry land", and my favorite people all together gives me a sigh of relief. luckely that feeling get's less strong and i can really look forward to going out and about, for me!

start to make nice city trips, good food, with my bestie of course! in may i'm going away for 5 (!) days to Madrid! the Desire Map training of Nicole, my wonderful business coach. but i truly think it is a fabulous promise to make: going on a adventure at least twice a year! to a city, or to another country even. seeing things, learning things. get inspired. by car, bus, train or airplane. if i go, than might as well do it right!

 

supplies i've used to make this art journal page:
of course my own art journal :)
winsor & newton watercolors
jane davenport watercolors
white molotow acrylic marker

happy creating everybody!
love

i bet you were waiting for this!

wiehooooooo BRAND new online Art Journal class ready for you to dive in!! if you are looking for a 10% discount, hurry up and sign up for my newsletter HERE. i'll send out the newsletter tonight, so you might be in time :)

in this class i'm gonna teach 3 totally different art journal pages, but all with the theme "i am enough". to read more about it, visit my shop HERE, or my Etsyshop HERE.

will you join me, having fun creating together?!

#52promisestome #10 CELEBRATE. the little things.

another week, another promise! CELEBRATE. just celebrate the little things. why dont' we huh? why are we so stucked on the everyday life, that we can't even enjoy the birds chirping now spring is in the air. see flowers trying to come out of the ground. listen to beautiful music. being able to read! there are so many 'little things' that make life beautiful. i really have to tell myself to look around me and see what magic we live in.

(last few days we had ice on the water next to our garden, so we were iceskating in our own backyard! how freaking cool was that? talk about making memories!

journaling of my page is in Dutch and scroll down for the english version:

what i wrote down for this week:

CELEBRATE. the little things. such a beautiful promise to myself. CELEBRATE the F*CK out of life! look how many beautiful things there are to celebrate. and strangely enough, i can get carried away with reaching goals, to pursue converting, getting more followers on social media, having more orders... but stop and think how beautiful it is to live in this beautiful home, to wake up while the birds are chirping in the trees next to our bedroom? that Sanne has the time of her life because all the swans, ducks, coots and any other animal come cruising by and she can feed them, almost out of her hand! that Ruben (and Sanne!) can build their own treehouse in the biggest tree in our garden, a weeping willow. that we can live our lives the way we do now, and barely have to worry. that i can enjoy my kids intensely when i hear and see them play together and complete story lines pass by :). i truly promise myself to stop and watch & listen and realize that there is so much to celebrate in life right NOW. 

supplies i've used to make this art journal page:
of course my own art journal :)
neocolor II crayons
gelato's
white molotow acrylic marker
black poscapen PC 1.m, 0.7 mm

happy creating everybody!
love

 

#52promisestome #9 MOVE

this week promise is 'MOVE' and you can interpret that as you wish. you can read my page if you scroll a bit down.

and nope, if i make a mistake in writing, i don't freak out! i just cross it, or write over it. done is better than perfect people. don't overthing, it's just an art journal :)

journaling is in Dutch:

MOVE. as in make a move. the last couple of months i feel like i'm moving in circles. i want this, but do something different. and i just keep marching in my circle. because, i was there already. why am i punishing myself? why do i HAVE TO do all these things? i've read somewhere "and who said so?!". exactly! who said so! so actually i have to promise myself it's okay to MOVE. just move towards where i want to be. but where do i want to be?! that's a whole new level... but what's important for me for now: i have to realise when i'm somewhere (physically or in my mind) and i don't like it, i have always permission to MOVE. just decide "this isn't it" and move on. and ofcourse i mean in my creative business! because Artifex is totally on track and in our family we have it pretty much figured out and have a warm & loving family of our own. so, for my creative bizz i'm allowed to think "if you don't like where you are going, MOVE, you are not a tree!".

supplies i've used to make this art journal page:
of course my own art journal :)
gelato's
Jane Davenport watercolors
white liquitex paint
stamps
stazzon ink
scrap piece of fabric (dotted heart)
felt (white hearts)

happy creating lovelies!

{creative} plan with me, memory keeping #2 {free video}

a new "creative plan / memory keep with me" video is now online!! 

this week in my creative planner: Ruben glued down to his ipad & iphone :), Sanne's zoo because she's feeding ALLLLL the animals that swim by, walk by or set up base in our garden :), a lovely meeting with my creative bestie Martine. We had so much fun in Amsterdam. Shopping, strolling, eating and buying stuff we really didn't need haha. Sanne made "wentelteefjes" in the weekend (translate for yourself ;)), and Arjan and I went to the apple store because i had my 'old' iphone for over 3 years, and i felt like i was allowed to buy a new one. the 8 and X were just out and i wanted to see with my own eyes how the feel & work. heaven. 

go watch the video how i made this page here:

 

 

supplies used:
ban.do large agenda 
watercolors (Jane Davenport)
washi tape
stabilo pen
Jane Davenport journal tattoos (aka rubons)
puffy stickers from Sostrene Grenes
stickers from Shimelle (glitter girl) via American Crafts
sticker girl from the Planner Society
more stickers / puffy stickers, can't remember the brand :O
brush and of course a pot of water

thanks for watching & have a wonderful happy & beautiful weekend! the weatherman is telling us hell is freezing over this weekend, so maybe we can skate next to our garden :).

#52promisestome #8 EMBRACE

 

this week the word is EMBRACE. such a beautiful, but for me also very difficult word. the journaling is written in Dutch. a little translation:

EMBRACE. embrace. embracing. a difficult word for me to pay extra attention to. because WHAT is it, i want to embrace? i think the most important thing is ME. being me. that i am allowed to be me. that i don't have to live up to certain expectations. that i don't have to 'fit in'. that i have the right to live the life i want to live it, that i don't have to run my company as any other entrepeneur is doing, and that it is totally ok to feel i am allowed to work less, be less at the company and put more hours into my creative business. and mostly, to be there for my kids. that i want to be creative every single day. that i am allowed to read as often as i want to, to relax or walk as often as i want to. but mostly that i don't have to give a single fuck about 'other people opinions'. so EMBRACE everything. everything i am and want to be or become. the path Arjan and i want to walk and feel good at. our life. <3.

a few close up shots

 

 

supplies i've used to make this art journal page:
of course my own art journal :)
gelato's
white acrylic paint from Liquitex
stamps
black and pink stazzon ink
white molotow acrylic marker
black posca pen

happy creating everybody!
love

do you want to create with me, in real life?

{we'll have fun creating in our art journals!}

i haven't taught workshops in real life for awhile. mostly because my body hurts too much and i was happy teaching online. but now i got this opportunity to teach at a lovely Creative Weekend in the Netherlands!

there will be a bunch of fabulous teachers! and i'm proud to say i'm one of them! i will teach 3 short workshops of 1,5 hour how to art journal with gelato's to reach the 'watercolory look'. we can chat, have fun & create our little hearts out.

this coming monday (February 19th) at 19.00 hours you can sign up. and when the seats are gone, they are gone. there simply is not more room. so if you want a day out on a Creative Weekend with lots of stands & fabulous teachers to learn soooo many fun stuff, make sure to be ready Monday the 19th at 19.00 hours to sign up via this link: 

Bit.ly/HippeWorkshopplein.

 

 

my workshops will only be 17,50 euro so that's a no brainer, right?! i would love to see you there, let me know if you are signing up!
 

oh, and seriously, make sure you SUBSCRIBE to my YouTube channel so you won't miss a thing of the fun stuff i throw in the air there :D. 

#52promisestome #7 CREATE

52promisestome #7 CREATE

 

it's that time again!!! a brand new promise to me, and this time it's actually a promise i made myself a long time ago, and i still have it! CREATE. yes. exactly!

journaling is in Dutch.
CREATE. funny. a promise i don't have to make myself anymore because i already allow myself lot's of creative hours. making things always had my heart and set it on fire and the last couple of years it has become such a big part of my life that i simply cannot live without it anymore. making something, create something with your own hands that was not there before is just magical. the feeling of paint on your fingers. a messy desk, brushes everywhere, containers, art journals and watercolor, are making me simply intense happy. it's not just a way to release stress. It's a form of being. feeling that good because you are creating and sharing those creations, sharing how you make things. helping others see that creating simply makes happy. and that you only need 15 minutes a day to turn on your happy motor. that exactly. create = life <3.

to see what supplies i've used, scroll all the way down. some cute pics of my page:

 

supplies i've used to make this art journal page:
of course my own art journal :)
pencil
Jane Davenport watercolors
white molotow acrylic marker
black micron pen 1.0
modeling paste from Liquitex
mask from Birgit Koopsen

happy creating everybody!
love