Monthly Round Up–April 2023

It’s time for my monthly round up – April 2023…

Latest posts

Galleries updated

  • none

Progress on yearly projects

  • 2023 Creative Journal – March & April done. May intro pages done
  • Memory planner – April page plans done. Journaling done in Day One.
  • 2022 Memory planner – didn’t get any done.
  • Book of Me. Pages plans for all prompts done. Journaling done for all basic pages. 
  • Week in the Life. Journaling all done.

What I’ve been consuming (craft videos, podcasts, books, workshops)

  • Book of Me lives
  • Sketchbook Revival workshop
  • Sell Digital Crafts Summit
  • Gnome Craft Countdown
  • Unlock Your Artist Challenge
  • Four Seasons with Esté MacLeod

What I’ve bought

Placed an order on Temu. Waiting on it to arrive. Unboxing & thoughts coming as soon as it arrives.
Rejoined Get Messy.

Monthly favourite products

Glue sticks. cause there always heaps of them around when I need to stick something down

Upcoming events

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Week in the Life 2023

This week just gone I’ve been taking part in Ali Edwards Week in the Life project. This year I gave myself much more grace and less pressure to take photos and document everything. I journaled each day in my DayOne  journal I have set up for Week in the Life as well as using Ali’s Digital Journal in GoodNotes.

I was planning to do this year totally digital and print it out but then I decided to use one of my blank Heidi Swapp Storyline Chapters books as it will sit perfectly with my memory planner books. I’ll print out the pages I want from the digital journal, stick them in and embellish.

Once I’m done I’ll be back to update this post with my album gallery.

Monthly Round Up – March 2023

Welcome to something new I’m doing in 2023 – my crafty month in review. Each month I’ll be sharing what I’ve posted here, progress on yearly projects, what crafty things I’ve been consuming, any new crafty supplies I’ve bought, and my favourite product of the month. I may even add a head’s up about any workshops or classes that will be happening.

So onto March 2023…

Latest posts

  • Nothing new I’ve been busy (see below) but I am updating some galleries

Galleries updated

Progress on yearly projects

  • 2023 Creative Journal – March almost done
  • Memory planner – Feb & March page plans done. Journaling done in Day One.
  • 2022 Memory planner – didn’t get any done.
  • Book of Me. Prompt 2 done. Created an insert for my introspective answers

What I’ve been consuming (craft videos, podcasts, books, workshops)

  • Book of Me lives
  • Sketchbook Revival workshop
  • Cricut Adventures (even though I own a Silhouette lol)
  • Happy Crafty Easter
  • Creative Spark Summit
  • Drawing Whimsical Faces
  • Easter Craft Countdown
  • Spring Crafts for Cricut makers

What I’ve bought

Nothing new this month

Monthly favourite products

Baby wipes. Great for cleaning up so many things.

Upcoming events

Sell Digital Crafts Summit

Week in the Life

Want to see previous reviews? Check out the 2023 monthly review tag

Monthly Round Up – February 2023

Welcome to something new I’m doing in 2023 – my crafty month in review. Each month I’ll be sharing what I’ve posted here, progress on yearly projects, what crafty things I’ve been consuming, any new crafty supplies I’ve bought, and my favourite product of the month.

I may even add a head’s up about any workshops or classes that will be happening.

So onto February 2023

Latest posts

Progress on yearly projects

  • Junk Journal January – didn’t get any more done.
  • 2023 Creative Journal – February done. Will be in the gallery soon.
  • Daily Pages – weekly Currently & Thursday 3 done, 30 Days of showing up finished (see the last post).
  • Memory planner – January pages started. February – page plan done, journaling done in DayOne app. Need to order photos.
  • 2022 Memory planner – only June to go in insert 1
  • Book of Me. Working through Bootcamp. Book of Me: Finding Your Voice starts in March.

What I’ve been consuming (craft videos, podcasts, books, workshops)

  • 30 Days of Showing Up videos & lives.
  • Book of Me Boot camp replays
  • Fragments workshop. Flip through coming soon.
  • Books: Creative Watercolor by Ana Victoria Calderón

What I’ve bought

  • Nothing new this month apart from usual subscription kits

Monthly favourite products

  • My glue stick – it’s getting a real workout.

Upcoming events

Want to see previous reviews? Check out the monthly round up tag.

30 Days of Showing Up

One of my favourite projects at the Awesome Ladies Project is 30 Days of Showing up. It’s about showing up for 30 days and doing something creative each day. Lots create in their Daily Pages, others do art. I decided to do another digital version of Daily Pages. It’s something I can do each evening in a short period of time – I like to limit myself to 15 minutes, 30 minutes max.
It helps me learn more about my programs and gives me a little creative boost each day.

Anyway, here’s my 30 pages for 2023

My Creative Journal

I’ve been a Patreon of Helen Colebrook’s for ages but at the beginning of the year I decided to take part in her monthly creative journal. At the end of each month Helen posts the prompts for the upcoming month and they are a mix of writing and creative prompts. Inspiration for you to create in your journal.

I’ve created a gallery for my 2023 Creative journal so I can share my progress. I’ll be updating it at the end of each month. January is up and February will be going up later this week.

It’s a nice change from just creating journal pages and it’s encouraging me to journal a bit more. Some pages it’s just a quote, other pages it’s lots of writing.

Anywho, if you’d like to join Helen’s Patreon you can do so here. She shares monthly printables, the journal prompts, monthly challenges, tutorials and a ton of video inspiration.