Author: Jennie Moraitis
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Daily Prompts for Your Journal
Try these daily prompts for your journal and see your journal pages come alive with your own beautiful self-expression! I love to journal, but sometimes I get into a rut. My happy journal pages start looking the same, my art journal pages look bleh, and my bullet journal just looks sad. Okay, my bullet journal…
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How to Come Up With Blog Post Ideas In Your Sleep
“How to Come Up With Blog Post Ideas In Your Sleep” is the second in a couple of posts for new bloggers. You can read the first article here. Like I mentioned in my first article, there is SO much information out there about starting a blog. But let me tell you, the most important…
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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 your creative life? If you’re new to this whole making goals for your creative life thing, then read this article first on why it’s important to make them. Then come…
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26 Happy Journal Prompts to Try
Talk about FUN! Try these 26 happy journal prompts to take your happy journaling to another level. 🙂 The premise of a happy journal is this: draw what brings you joy each day. Simple and sweet. Stick figures are fine and encouraged. Doodles are very much okay. Basically, a happy journal is the cute, rambunctious…
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Process Video for Art Journaling Backgrounds
Using art journaling backgrounds is a great way to add variety to your journal pages. Here’s a process video of how I use them. I love experimenting in my art journal. And as of late, that experimenting has meant playing with printable art journal pages. I scan them from my own art journals and then…
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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 a word of the year in your Instagram feed? Or anywhere for that matter? A lot of people decide at the beginning of the year that one word will be…
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How to Use Printable Backgrounds for an Art Journal
Get a creative jumpstart with printable art journaling backgrounds. They’re perfect for beginners! I LOVE working with art journaling backgrounds. Using patterned papers, especially ones that have painterly elements adds a unique touch to my art journals. They are also great for helping me get past the initial blank page in my art journal. I’ve…
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What is a Happiness Journal?
What is a happiness journal anyway? Learn what this whole happy journaling thing is about as well as my take on it! Apparently, keeping a happiness journal is a thing now. When I began my happy journal twenty years ago (when I was a toddler, ahem), I didn’t even call it a happy journal. Sure,…
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55+ Free Art Journal Prompts
I love using free art journal prompts because they encourage me to create things in my journals that I normally wouldn’t make. Rather than painting or collaging the same old, same old, I get to play and imagine and try something completely new. Personally, I use art journaling prompts in several different ways, so I…
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Happy Journal for Kids — A Gratitude Journal for Children
A gratitude journal plus an art journal makes a happy journal! And this happy journal for kids is a great (and easy) way to teach your child about finding the good in life! Earlier this year, I started happy journaling with my daughter for our homeschool. We usually start the day with this—she doodles in…