Tag: happy journal
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26 Happy Journal Prompts to Try
Talk about FUN! Try these 26 happy journal prompts to take your happy journaling to another level. 🙂 The premise of a happy journal is this: draw what brings you joy each day. Simple and sweet. Stick figures are fine and encouraged. Doodles are very much okay. Basically, a happy journal is the cute, rambunctious…
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What is a Happiness Journal?
What is a happiness journal anyway? Learn what this whole happy journaling thing is about as well as my take on it! Apparently, keeping a happiness journal is a thing now. When I began my happy journal twenty years ago (when I was a toddler, ahem), I didn’t even call it a happy journal. Sure,…
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Happy Journal for Kids — A Gratitude Journal for Children
A gratitude journal plus an art journal makes a happy journal! And this happy journal for kids is a great (and easy) way to teach your child about finding the good in life! Earlier this year, I started happy journaling with my daughter for our homeschool. We usually start the day with this—she doodles in…
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The Art Journaling Gift Guide
Whether you’re looking for ideas for a birthday, Christmas, or just a fun gift for yourself, you’ll find something you’ll love in this art journaling gift guide. Art journal and happy journal supplies are the best! Keeping an art journal is a great way to express your creativity and de-stress. It’s also a great activity…
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Three Ways to Make Time for Creativity
Ah, the time factor. Have you ever wanted to jump into a creative project and then talked yourself out of it because of the time involved? Maybe you imagined hauling out all the fabric and sorting it. Or searching through your closet or drawers for the knitting needles. Or driving over to the store to…
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How to Draw Cute Stick Figures
Today I’m going to teach you how to draw cute stick figures for your happy journal or planner. We’re going to unlock our playful side and see that we don’t have to go to art school to learn to draw. To start, let’s take a deep breath and remind ourselves that drawing is for ourselves.…
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Why Happy Journal, Happy Life Isn’t Full of Examples
Since publishing the Kindle version of Happy Journal, Happy Life at the beginning of the month, there have been a few questions as to why I didn’t add more pictorial examples. There was a reason, actually several, that kept me from adding pages of pictures throughout the book. Believe me, I was tempted. But here…
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Anyone Can Start a Happy Journal
What a delicious week of happiness! Thank you for all of your support of my new eBook, Happy Journal, Happy Life. I have BIG dreams for this little book because I think it is a method of gratitude that is accessible to so many. You don’t have to be an ARTIST. You don’t have to…
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Happy Journal, Happy Life — My Gratitude Journal Journey
This is the little book that almost didn’t happen. I was writing another book and ran into a major roadblock. And while I was digging myself out, Happy Journal, Happy Life emerged. It also almost didn’t happen because the concept of drawing my life is one I’m too familiar with. I have been sketching vignettes…
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How a Sticker-Covered Book Makes Me Happy
Who knew a sticker-covered book would start me on this journey? I was digging through our flat files one afternoon when I came across a small booklet. The sight of it immediately brought a smile to my face. It was completely covered with stickers from fruit I had eaten. Opening the pages, I entered into…