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Paper: I love paper!! Any kind of paper, stationery, loose pieces of paper, letter sets, postcards, notecards, ephemera.

Arts & crafts I’m into are journals, book pages like old books including illustrated flowers and plants, washi tape, wrapping paper, home made paper, yarn, tissue, packaging, found objects, and more.

Thank you for all the extras and gifts from you all!!!

Anything paper related, stationery, die cuts,

Postcards I like any and I love handmade or altered postcards!

Eclectic

Vintage or new but in a vintage style

Junk journals and fodder for them

Art all kinds and every style of art and crafts

Doodles

ephemera, any

Lace

Ribbons

Rice paper

Sari ribbon

Stamped images

Stickers

Washi tape

Found objects

Dyed by ink or store bought or hand dyed fabric or yarn

Recipes

Junk journals and scrapbooks

I like all colors.

Here are a few of the artists and makers I watch at YouTube:

There are so many makers. I can’t list them all.

Tim Holtz

Recrafted by Carol

Meg Journals

Jack Ravi who makes junk journals I’m in love with his style

And Wendy Robinson who goes by the username The Unexpected Gypsy

“Pen pal with me”style videos though I’m almost 60 years old, mostly these folks are younger than me but my fav is Hedda aka mochibujo

Caroline on the Hillside

Ana Bondu she works in French mostly and her specialty is Gelli prints

Barbara at 49dragonflies

Claire at art_journal love

Cathy’s Garden

Denise Love aka @2lilowlsstudio and she makes intuitive abstract art very colorful

Dyan Reaveley

Tim Holtz

Dina Wakely

Maremi Small Art

Amity Bloom

Gayle Agostinelli

Helen Colebrook

Jackie Bernardi

Jane Davenport

Louise Heinzl

Mystele

Niamh Baly

Nicole Relax.Cut.Glue

Nik the Booksmith

Pink Odd Bird

Roxy Creations

Shabbydabbydoodah

ShanoukiArt

Shawn Petite

Susanne Rose Art

Teal and Tattered Journal

The Paper Outpost

TiffanySmplySharpe

Willowing

These are my favorites!!!

Hiatus the last 150 days.

I’m back as of August 1, 2025.

Going to take it slow here.

Watched slow living videos like user at YouTube “Poetry of a slow life.”

Many days I turned off technology completely. Unplugged.

Fasting from the addiction to technology to social networking online. Or to people in general.

The odd thing about fasting is helps to see clearer what is valuable and what has substance.

Remember at the end of the book Fahrenheit 451? When they each memorize a book. And they become that loving book.

And yet we are all dust and ashes. Like the Indian sadhus naked or almost naked and covered in ash. Or like repentants during the high holy days, we see that this world passes quickly and we are not like the rocks and magma that may last millions of years. If we last 100 years we think we are so very old. But we pass like flowers.

I remember that is the point of the Burning Man when I first awakened to my own art. That it all fades. But there is something that will remain. Will we have amnesia and lose all memory of this world when we step into the next? Will we be able to look down or look around when we lose this body we have here? It’s a great mystery isn’t it?

Our life is art. Our life is our expression. And we shouldn’t hold onto it too tightly. Like a clutch.

Fly freely. Learn to fly. To swim. To dance. To sing. Just start somewhere. Even if people laugh at us. Even if they mock us. And belittle us. It will all pass. Let them laugh. Let them mock. They are spectators or critics and that says more about them than it speaks about our truth. Mystery of mysteries.

Song of Songs. Come dance with me. Come sing.