Category: Life

  • Thank-Full

    It’s Thanksgiving week here in the U.S. and I’m writing this post a bit early so I can truly take the week off with my family. Our prompt this week is simple: take a moment to write, tell, or somehow communicate your gratitude. I think it’s so important to take these moments of reflection throughout…

  • Choose Your Internet

    Choose Your Internet

    You know that feeling. You’re scrolling through your feed on Instagram and suddenly, your self-worth begins to fall to the floor in shambles. You look up from the screen and your home looks more pathetic than ever. You hover over liking a photo of an adorable baby, and your sweet adorable baby . . .…

  • The Creative Retreat Book (Plus a Video Tour)

    The Creative Retreat Book (Plus a Video Tour)

    You’re creative. You know that, right? It doesn’t matter if you’re not a knitter or a painter. At the core of who you are, creativity flows. You might lead meetings at work like they’re nothing, you might plant a garden every spring that turns magic in the summer, or you might know how to put…

  • Make a Summer Bucket List

    Make a Summer Bucket List

    Ah, summer! My favorite time of the year is finally here. My parents were both teachers so summer meant a collective sigh of school being over and time to go camping, work in the yard (read, play in the sprinklers for us girls), and lots and lots of art projects. Not to mention one of…

  • How to Be a Journalista | Journaling Myths & Writing in a Journal

    How to Be a Journalista | Journaling Myths & Writing in a Journal

    I’ve been writing in a journal since I was six years old, and in that time I’ve encountered a lot of surprised comments, random thoughts concerning journaling, and a fair share of myths. For some reason, the practice of journaling is shrouded in sort of a mysterious cloak—as if only writers and poets and teenage…

  • It’s Reader Survey Time!

    It’s Reader Survey Time!

    This survey is now CLOSED. Thank you so much for your help! Last year around this time, I offered my first reader survey here at Little Girl Designs. Learning what posts you enjoyed and what you wanted to learn about greatly helped me with the direction of my blog. It can be easy to get…

  • Taking A Mini Blogging Break

    Taking A Mini Blogging Break

    Hey there, so this weekend I was working on a project that I’m really excited to be able to share with you and realized that it will not be ready as quickly as I had planned. Such is life, right? So I decided to take a mini blogging break in order to finish this project…

  • This Was October

    This Was October

    Hi everyone. This post is going to be a little different from my typical monthly recap post. Usually I recount the projects I’ve been working on throughout the month but today I’m going to share some recent scenery pictures as well as thoughts I had from attending The Hello Sessions this month (a workshop-based conference…

  • This Was September

    This Was September

    I will not mention that this month went by way too fast. Oh, oops. Okay, now that I got that out of the way . . . I suppose this is the inevitable as life goes on. I’m on my way to being the little old lady who shakes her head every time she sees…

  • This Was August

    This Was August

    It’s always surreal writing these monthly recaps. I started out writing them because I was inspired by Emily from Chatting At The Sky’s monthly recap (and link party.) They’re a great way to look back at the month, but super surreal because the months go by So Fast. I’ve just decided to own that I…