Heyho, my little pirates *ARRR*! :D
How are you all? *group hugs* I have been feeling quite unproductive recently, so I decided to take a break from the internet, which I didn*t succeed in for real but still I also focused on other things, so I got some things done. Maybe some of you know about the "Radical Self-Love" movement that Gala Darling started, and if you know this, you probably know about the "Radical Self-Love Bible", which I must admit I just made for myself.
I often struggle with self-doubt, if not self-loathing, and therefore I decided I would make this Radical Self-Love Bible for myself, in order to lift my spirits a little. So far, I created a front page, and two double pages on characteristics of mine. :) This might be far from "perfect", but then again, it is not perfection we should be striving for. ^^
Here are some pictures I took today :
This is the RSLB from the outside. I bought it like this but I also plan to beautify it a little more :). I love the Zen feeling I get when looking at it, too.
This is the front page and ... Yeah ... I accidentally wrote "Bibel" (German for "bible") instead of "Bible", but once again, what is it with perfection? Hm? Screw it :P!
"Authentic" is the first double page. I cut out this picture in the center and ... I used super fast glue to glue it to the page ("Kra!", goes the crow : "Mistake!"). But once again, screw perfection. It only makes me sad because the pages tend to stick together ALL THE TIME. Is there any way to remove this effect? I am quite unsure ...
"Empathetic". Yes, that is Sailor Moon (Favourite anime/manga character of all time! OF ALL TIME!! :D). Yes, I drew that myself. Yes, free-handedly. :)
"Imaginative". There is this card I made for my solo music project (Valley Visionary) that I glued (This time not with super fast super sticky glue!) to the right page. I cut out one part of this card and wrote something into it. I think it is just "Imaginative = Rina! :)". And it is sad that some things don*t show well enough here, like the moon and the sun and the clouds and the stars ;).
I really think there is much more to work on in this project, and maybe some pages will need to get re-vamped a little. But so far I like it.
What do you think of my RSLB? & what would you put into a Radical Self-Love Bible? :)
I am currently taking a break from the place I usually wriite at, thus trying to gather more time and ideas for projects I could talk about here :).
Since I*m currently taking part in a project for people who want to make greeting cards and such, I got to make greeting cards a lot recently, but I cannot show evidence since I didn*t take any pictures. It was really amazing, though; we worked with water colour crayons, i. e. crayons that you paint something with, and then you grab a paint brush (NOT too wide, though!), dip it into water, and brush over what you painted ... It will give a little water colour effect, and since I love water colour pictures, I want to try this at home. We also added smaller things to the cards.
Right now, the next step of the project is to make things for Crizzlemas (something that, once folded, looks like a tree or an angel or whatever), aaand we start making key chains ourselves next week. All this really IS inspiring me to make my own greeting cards and such. Working with the pliers (something that is necessary for making key chains) was a little hard, but I will get the hang of it after a few tries I guess :).
Then, I am planning on corresponding with other people more via actual letters, which is a good idea I think, since I haven*t written to people in such a long time. ^^
I also want to make a list of projects I really want to do, but then again, they are probably not always unlike the original ones. I want to try some things, though, like ...
* CRAFTING MORE.
* Making stuff off FIMO.
* Making jewellery myself.
* Working on the perfect paper (...) :D.
* Painting an actual picture with water colour crayons first and then making a water colour painting out of it.
* Making an actual art journal.
* Continuing to work on my RSLB.
* SEWING, knitting, etc.
I have found that, unlike what I believed when I was a child, I am not that bad at crafting. Back in my childhood, I thought I totally failed there, but I also guess I just didn*t have the right tools ... E. g. the glue I used always was very dry and didn*t stick. And I could barely use the scissors I had. It is getting better :).
Hello.
I haven*t been around much and I am sorry for this. However, I wanted to tell you some things that have been going on in my life/our lives lately.
One of our cats got very ill, and after several days he spent at the vet and his feet all being paralysed in the end and him being in pain, he was put to sleep. The doctor said it is possible that he had a meningitis or maybe a moving thrombus, but either way it was really painful for him ... He was 12 years old when he went over the rainbowbridge and has been my feline companion ever since he was three months old. I miss him a lot ... I am not crying that much anymore, but this doesn*t mean he isn*t missing. Everything reminds me of him. But somehow my own belief is giving me strength - which I won*t go into detail with now, because belief is something very personal and I respect that others may not have the same ideas of the afterlife as I do.
Then, we did a lot of DIY work at home. Lots of work like building up furniture again and painting walls. I didn*t do much of all that, though, but I am still kind of pleased with the results, plus the colour in the kitchen is really lovely and warm.
And I am working on a scrapbook-kind of project. Maybe you have heard from Gala Darling before; she is one of my favourite bloggers :). She also is the one innitiating the Radical Self-Love movement, and also came up with the idea to start a Radical Self-Love Bible, which is the project I am working on. The only downside I have come across thus far is that I used too much glue and the sides are stuck together now? I will maybe remove them and tear them apart again, and then "glue" them in with some kind of poster strips. Sounds like a better idea to me? Or maybe glue stick instead ... :\ I loved the work on it so far, though. :)
For those interested, here*s a link to the Radical Self-Love movement and several texts on that subject for that matter ^^ : *Clickedy Click*.
