I’ve said it once, but I’ll say again and again. Connecting with myself creatively is super important. I held myself back from expressing myself creatively for way too long. Now that I’m allowing myself to explore my creative side, it’s rushing through me like a flood. I’m dancing, I’m writing, I’m watercoloring and I’m taking photos and it all feels so, so, so good.
I’m a huge admirer of Tracy at Shutterbean. I love how she explores her creativity as a practice and how she encourages others to do the same. A couple of years ago, she launched the Handwriting Club on instagram, which has now expanded to a full line of products including her Currently workbook. This workbook encourages people to reflect, set intention and document their lives by chronicling every month of their year. It’s really cool.
Obviously, I bought one and that’s the subject of this post. I want to share my spreads with you all here because I truly enjoyed this process.
I had purchased a watercolor set more than a year ago and I never used it because I knew I was going to be bad at it. Do you ever do this? I’ve held myself back from so many interests over the years because I didn’t want to be a beginner. As a recovering self-conscious perfectionist, that shit gets annoying. I’m working on being okay with not being good at something for the first or second or millionth try and still moving forward with it because it feels so good to create and to learn new skills.
Even with this workbook, I almost just used crayons because I didn’t want to ‘mess it up’ with my sloppy watercolors. But then I just watched a little youtube tutorial and committed to doing SOMETHING. I love my results. Doing all of those little dots was so soothing and I loved how cohesive my final pages are.
Seriously, creating is the best. When I wrote in my journal that night, I just wrote ‘I LOVE MAKING SHIT’. haha. So, I encourage you to explore your own creativity and pick up one of these workbooks. I’m so pumped to work on my January spreads while we are on vacation in a couple of weeks.
Without further ado, here’s what I made:
I loved reflecting on my favorite sounds and colors and words. I don’t think I’ve ever done something like that before.
You know your girl MeeshyD couldn’t be constrained to more than one word this year. I’m still going forward with Surrender, but I also added Believe and I love it. Intention setting was also really fun. It doesn’t feel like as much pressure as a list of resolutions.
I finished it out with a little letter to myself. It was refreshing to speak to myself with kindness. 2020 is on like Donkey Kong!!
Thanks for letting me share my Currently workbook with you all. HUGE thanks to Shutterbean for developing such a cool workbook. Interested in getting one for yourself? They are $22 and available on Amazon. Let me know if you decide to do it so I can follow along.
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