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Top 10 Art Supplies for Creatives
Someone asked about the tools I use to write and create art so I thought I’d let you know. Some tools are crap. I cannot even imagine how anyone writes with this monster: That’s a stock photo. I...
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My latest art journal pages
What do you do when you have a mostly blank day book from 2020? Make an art journal, of course! The video of the big reveal is over at my YouTube channel. Subscribe if you dare. But below are the...
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The literary gifts of isolation
Covid came to town. Not just my town. Yours, too. Our province stopped contract tracing, limited testing, and told everyone, if you’ve got ANYTHING, stay home. It’s winter in Canada, so totally doable....
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Road trips and the art of finding good travel companions
Thought I’d share a Typewriter Letter I mailed out to subscribers… edited for worldwide consumption, typos, and reconfigured for a blog post with pictures. When I start writing, I’m not sure where I’m...
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One planner to rule them all
I’m basically in the creative game just to solve my own problems. You may recall one of my previous posts when I showed you my art journal pages created with a blank 2020 daily planner. Because no...
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Which book cover?
Email me your fave at janicemacleod@gmail.com I can’t make decisions easily these days. I’m sure you feel the same. The turmoil. The images on TV. The astounding decisions other people make. Fury....
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Spiritual Retreat at Home, Cover Reveal
Over 500 people voted on the cover for my new book, Spiritual Retreat at Home. Watch the book reveal here. Or just keep scrolling. The votes were enthusiastic, funny and kind. You, dear reader, are...
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The length of happiness about a note from Tom Hanks
We create routines for ourselves so we can fit in work, play, errands. We work on our mood underneath our skin. It is both a stormy sea and a morning meadow. Tricky business. Life. Often this depends...
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Living the elegant life
Watch the interview where we discuss the flow of creative living Sometimes I think there is NOTHING out there, no BEYOND, no hope. No nothing. The world is just cruel and then it’s over. And then…...
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May the 4th be with you… Top 10 Obi-Wan quotes
And also with you. I just can’t help it. Neither can you if you spent childhood Sunday mornings counting the stained glass in church… counting the pews… counting the candles… counting the people....
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How a fever can cure you of your ridiculousness
It started off as either a bug bite or an infected hair follicle. Blood work hasn’t come back yet so no need to scroll to the bottom for a big reveal. Even I don’t know what happened. All I know is I...
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Lyme + Surgery = Not exactly a summer to remember
This is not me. This is a woman wading through the dangers of the wild. You’ve seen a million images of ladies in dresses frolicking through a meadow feeling enlightened or happy or introspective. All...
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Love letters, Go Fund Me and the art of asking
Much has happened since my last post. It started with flowers from Barbara who is one of my Typewriter Letters subscribers. Then came a few emails about how to help during my recovery period after...
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Oh September, you woodsy month of delight
If I could sniff you, September, you would smell like freshly sharpened pencils. Dropped Miss Mini Me off to school this morning. Neither of us slept well in the night. Anxious about ALL THE THINGS...
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Brain fog, being a few apples short of a basket, and the Paris planner
I’m a few apples short of a basket these days. This morning I made it to the end of one of my writing journals. It took all summer. Now I have a book full of half baked ideas and hazy thoughts....
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Top 3 courses for fall… the perfect trifecta of upgrades for self
Now that most of the physical healing of my surgery and Lyme disease is behind me, I’m noticing EMOTIONAL TURMOIL bubbling up. They tell me this is normal. When one is surgically opened up from side...
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Typewriter Letters: My favourite mistake
I’ll be ending the Typewriter Letter series at the end of 2022… with a few for a few hangers on moving into January 2023. A mere twelve-ish letters to go to my solid, loyal, little list of...
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What compels makers to make one thing over another?
This picture almost makes me want to take up knitting. And yet… I would love to WANT to get myself all up in some soft yarny-type knitting situation, but it’s just NOT ME. My sister…. hell yesssssss....
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The Paris books are only three bucks today
I admit, I get both a little excited and a little cringey when posting blatantly promo posts. I want to talk and tell you a story about something fantastic, then end with, oh by the way, the books are...
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Living the elegant life
Watch the interview where we discuss the flow of creative living Sometimes I think there is NOTHING out there, no BEYOND, no hope. No nothing. The world is just cruel and then it’s over. And then…...
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