I have never collected postal stamps as a "real collector" but I still love them, and I do love using Postal Stamps as Collage Ephemera. I've made spreads in my art journals, used them in collage and one year I also made a whole series of DIY Postcards featuring only stamps. I loved how those turned out. So this summer, when I went to the recycle center with my brother to throw out a bunch of things he no longer wanted, I rescued his cancelled postal stamp collection.

I found this little lady (magazine clipping) in one of the mags from my grandmother. Isn't it cute? It's a little advice sent in by someone named Dagmar, and the text says: When I'm tired or feel down...

Today in my blog posting challenge "Spotted Photo Theme" we're looking at doors! Are you a fan of photographing beautiful doors that you pass when you're on holiday? Do you notice rustic doors frames, painted mail boxes and ornate door knobs and tilt your head to get a look of it from the right angle? Do you stop to snap a picture of people's homes, hoping they won't spot you standing outside their front door and think you a creep planning a crime?

After September 11, 2001, an influx of warblogs shakes up the blogosphere. It's part of a year-long transition in which blogging shifts from personal journaling to a more journalistic approach.

It is time to join iHanna's DIY Postcard Swap autumn 2025. I just opened the sign-up period and it will remain open until 25th of November. Sign up before then and join us in all this fun and joyful creativity! Let's create handmade postcards right now! You have from today and about one month forward to create ten handmade postcards (or 20 if you opt to create more) in any creative style you like (although they have to be originals).

It's a good idea, when you feel overwhelmed or even a bit stressed by your own ideas, to sit down and fill a spread in a notebook. Writing down a list of all the things you want to do and get done, sure that can be great, but even more, not doing anything about the ideas except forgetting about them for a while.

To create is to live twice. – Albert Camus I haven't updated in a while, but my few but dear blogging companions kept going. Robin of Robayre writes about two recent losses (one turned out great, the other unexpected and sad). Mary-Ann has, after doing a public count-down for years, finally stopped working to enjoy retired life. Her joy of being finally free is contagious.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. — William Hutchinson Murray My go to "notebook" for art journaling will always be an altered book. I me...

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. — Wayne Dyer Another week, another batch of collages, very fall inspired. I wish I'd had time to enjoy the beauty of all the orange and y...

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening—no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.

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When one's dead, one's dead… This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad? — Tove Jansson I think collage is always, in some way, made out of "leftovers" and I love that. The magazines that others have discarded, the papers left from other projects, the ephemera of your days all coming together into a new whole.

Recently, I came across a fantastic post about the importance of a “third space” - that place outside of home and work where you can exist without pressure to perform, or perform by different standard...