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Some of my 5 - 10 minute drawings in mu note pad

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Some of my lates artworks

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End of the year Asks

Song of the year?

Album of the year?

Favorite musical artist / group you started listening to this year?

Movie of the year?

TV show of the year?

Episode of tv or webisode that defined the year for you?

Favorite actor of the year?

Game of the year?

Best month for you this year?

Something that made you cry this year?

Something you want to do again next year?

Talk about a new friend you made this year

How was your birthday this year?

Favorite book you read this year?

What’s a bad habit you picked up this year?

Post a picture from the beginning of the year

Post a picture from the end of the year

A memorable meal this year?

What’re you excited about for next year?

What’s something you learned this year?

What’s something new about your place of residence (room, home, or general location) now vs the start of the year?

Favorite place you visited this year?

If you could send a message to yourself back on the first day of the year, what would it be?

Did you keep any New Year’s Resolutions?

Did you create any characters (in games, art, or writing) this year? Describe one

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valentine’s day asks!

do you have a crush on anyone?

what’s your favorite candy?

favorite love song?

what was your first kiss like?

what was your last kiss like?

sexual/romantic orientation?

do you prefer poems or love letters?

favorite fanfic trope?

have you ever been in love?

favorite milkshake flavor?

dinner dates or brunch dates?

favorite flowers?

favorite perfume/cologne?

favorite candle scent?

what’s your ideal first date?

favorite love story?

what’s the most attractive thing a person could wear?

chocolate, vanilla, or red velvet?

snow, rain, or sun?

sweetest romantic memory?

favorite dating sim (and favorite character)?

fictional crushes?

what’s your dream wedding like?

what makes you blush?

do you believe in love at first sight?

do you believe in soulmates?

denim jackets, leather jackets, or bomber jackets?

what’s your sign?

are you single?

do you prefer to charm, or be charmed?

guitar or piano?

favorite romcom (or any romantic movie)?

do you fall in love easily?

valentine’s decorations: yay or nay?

would you prefer to propose or be proposed to? what’s your dream proposal?

cloud gazing or star gazing?

do you like to dance?

what’s your OTP?

kittens or puppies?

coffee, hot chocolate, or tea?

favorite soda?

do you prefer gazing wistfully out the window or lying dramatically over the sofa?

favorite ABBA song?

fuck/marry/kill? (anons name 3 people of your choice)

favorite pajamas?

favorite liquor?

do you think about love a lot?

a walk in the park or a walk on the beach?

hand kisses or nose kisses?

what’s your dreamhouse?

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Pixar’s Luca director Enrico Casarosa shares his very own recipe for the Trenette al Pesto featured in the movie. ⁣

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the one problem i have with people my age and younger is that a lot of us do not have hands on hobbies. like i have spoken to so many people my age who go to work, go to school and then fuck around on their phone/computer for hours and then ???????? like no wonder ur depressed and have low confidence in urself. u need to get ur hands on something, feed those dopamine receptors! learn how to play guitar, garden, scrapbook, fucking make model trains. i don’t give a shit, MAKE SOMETHING!!

it feels better than drugs when i finish making a thing—and then show it off or gift it.

and then so people my age say to me ‘well—i can’t draw/paint/knit/etc. like you can. my stuff would be terrible.’ yeah, well duh—a part of developing skill is sucking at something and then practicing it over and over and over again until you suck less. u’ll have a hard time feeling lonely or bored when you can’t stop thinking abt a technique you want to try or something you want to make for someone else. making things has SAVED MY LIFE. it gave me a reason to keep living day after day when i wanted to die.

making things improved my generational relationships (when i worked for the newspaper i would talk to customers abt jamming recipes or cross-stitch, one of my grandmas always gives me pattern books and tell me abt when she knitted things for mom, my other grandma is giving me a wedding quilt that HER grandma gave her 50 years ago because she knows i will appreciate it). it also got me likeminded friends who also make things.

take a ceramics class! pick up water colors, bake cakes! learn to work on cars! make soap. DO SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T INVOLVE STARING AT A SCREEN.

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Things to write about and fill your journal with

1. Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the the sidewalk. 

2. Write a letter to yourself in the future. 

3. Buy something inexpensive as a symbol for your need to create, (new pen, a tea cup, journal). Use it everyday. 

4. Draw your dinner. 

5. Find a piece of poetry you respond to. Rewrite it and glue it into your journal.    

6. Glue an envelope into your journal. For one week collect items you find on the street. 

7. Expose yourself to a new artist, (go to a gallery, or in a book.) Write about what moves you about it. 

 8. Find a photo of a person you do not know. Write a brief bio about them. 9. Spend a day drawing only red things. 

10. Draw your bike.

11. Make a list of everything you buy in the next week. 

12. Make a map of everywhere you went in one day. 

13. Draw a map of the creases on your hand, (knuckles, palm) 

14. Trace your footsteps with chalk.  

15. Record an overheard conversation.

16. Trace the path of the moon in relation to where you live.

17. Go to a paint store. Collect ‘chips’ of all your favorite colors.

18. Draw your favorite tree.

19. Take 15 minutes to eat an orange.

20. Write a haiku.

21. Hang upside down for five minutes.

22. Hang found objects from tree branches.

23. Make a puppet.

24. Create an outdoor room from things you find in nature. 

25. Read a book in one day.

26. Illustrate your grocery list.

27. Read a story out loud to a friend.

28. Write a letter to someone you admire.

29. Study the face of someone you do not like.

30. Make a meal based on a color theme. (i.e. all white).

31. Create a museum of very small things.

32. List the smells in your neighborhood. 

33. List 100 uses for a tin can.

34. Fill an entire page in your journal with small circles. Color them in.

35. Giving away something you love.

36. Choose an object, draw the side you can’t see.

37. List all of the places you’ve ever lived.

38. Describe your favourite room in detail.

39. Write about your relationship with your washing machine.

40. Draw all of the things in your purse/bag.

41. Make a mini book based on the theme, “my grocery list”.

42. Create a character based on someone you know. Write a list of personality traits.

43. Recall your favorite childhood game.

44. Put postcards of art pieces/painting on the inside of your kitchen cupboard doors, so you can see them everyday (but not become deaf to them.)

45. Draw the same object every day for a week.

46. Write in your journal using a different medium (brush & ink, charcoal, old typewriter, crayons, fat markers.

47. Draw the individual items of your favorite outfit.

48. Make a useful item using only paper & tape. 

49. Research a celebration or ritual from another culture.

50. Do a temporary art installation using a pad of post it notes & a pen.

51. Draw a map of your favorite sitting spots in your town/city. (photocopy it and give it to someone you like.)

52. Record all of the sounds you hear in the course of one hours.

53. Using a grid, collect various textures from magazine and play them off of each other.

54. Cut out all media for one day. Write about the effects.

55. Make pencil rubbings of six different surfaces.

56. Draw your garbage.

57. Do a morning collage.

58. List your ten most important things, (not including animals or people.)

59. List ten things you would like to do every day.

60. Glue a photo of yourself as a child into your journal.

61. Transform some garbage.

62. Write an entry in your journal in really LARGE letters.

63. Collect some ‘flat’ things in nature (leaves, flowers). Glue or tape them into your journal.

64. Physically alter a page. (i.e. cut a hole, pour tea on it, burn it, fold it, etc.)

65. Find several color combinations you respond to in public. Document them using swatches, write where you found them. 

66. Write a journal entry describing something “secret”. Cut it up into several pieces and glue them back in scrambled.

67. Record descriptions or definitions of subjects or words you are interested in, found in encyclopedias or dictionaries.

68. Draw the outline of an object without looking at the page. (contour drawing).  

69. What were you thinking just now? write it down.

70. Do nothing.

71. Write a list of ten things you could to do. Do the last thing on the list. 

72. Create an image using dots. 

73. Do 3 drawings at different speeds.

74. Put a small object in your left pocket (or in a bag), Put your left hand in the pocket. Draw it by feel.

75. Create a graph documenting or measuring something in your life.

76. Draw the sun.

77. Create instructions for a simple everyday task.

78. Make prints using food. (fruit and vegetables cut in half, fish, etc.)

79. Find a photo. Alter it by drawing over it.

80. Write a letter using an unconventional medium.

81. Draw one object for twenty minutes.

82. Combine two activities that have not been combined before.

83. Write about your day in an encyclopedic fashion. (i.e. organize by subject.) 

84. Write a list of all the things you do to escape.

85. Cut a random shape out of several layers of a magazine. Make a collage out of the results.

86. Write an entry in code.

87. Make a painting using tools from the bathroom.

88. Work with a medium that is subtractive.

89. Write about or draw some of the doors in your life.

90. Make a postcard that has some kind of activity on it. 

91. Devise a journal entry using “layers”.

92. Devise an entry using “layers”.

93. Write your own definition of one of the following concepts, sitting, waiting, sleeping (without using the actual word.)

94. List 10 of your habits.

95. Illustrate the concept of “simplicity”.

 (source: Keri Smith, 100 ideas)

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“They all talk about addictions, Addicted to pills; Addicted to drinking; Addicted to the pain. None of them ever mention you though. They don’t talk about the curls of your hair hanging down your face. They don’t discuss the scar on your left thigh, or the stretch marks that cascade around your body as if your skin were a rock behind a waterfall of beauty. None of them told me about your morning laugh over coffee, and the way you bite your bottom lip before you speak each time. They didn’t say how you’d love sneaking up behind me while I’m writing only to cast your arms around my shoulders like a net and pull me back into you without ever disturbing my process. They all talk about addictions, Addicted to fake love; Addicted to abuse; Addicted to the things that are bad for you. None of them ever mention your eyes. They don’t talk about the way you lose yourself between the pages of book after book. They don’t discuss the way you only focus on the positive things around you and you avoid the negative because you are so damn gentle, far too pure for this world. None of them told me about the feeling of your fingertips scattering across my skin, and the way I would almost beg you to drag them down my arms or my back or anywhere on me just one last time. They didn’t say how you’d wake me with kisses, or tell me the story about the elderly couple you saw from across the room today at lunch - still as in love as ever. There are so many addictions in this world, So many habits that are hard to break and drop. There are so many terrible dependencies that surround us that are utterly damaging to our daily lives. Yet, you’re not one of them. Yes, you’re an addiction. Yes, you keep me up at night and I lose sleep over you But it has never been a negative source in my life. You have never been a habit of mine that is anything other than love. If love were a drug, then I’d be damned; I’d use you every single day. Addictions are hard to kick, and I just want to hold your hand.”

— ARH // The addiction of holding your hand

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Masterpost of my favorite journal prompts...

I’ve been getting some asks about my journaling habits, so I wanted to make a list addressing one question regarding my favorite prompts. These always make me feel better! 

List 3 positive habits you have and explain why they benefit you. 

If you had 2 other lives to live, what would you do with them? 

Discuss 3 people who encouraged you and has continually supported you. What qualities do they have that you admire? 

List 5 tasks that take up most (or a lot of) your week. 

What do you need to protect? 

Have you avoided anything this week? 

Create a list of books you plan to read. 

What do you want to learn to do? 

Create a list of movies you plan to watch. 

What are you currently looking forward to? 

What is your favorite holiday? 

When do you feel the most comfortable and at ease? 

What is discouraging you right now, and what can you do to move past it? 

List 5 short-term goals and explain steps you can take to achieve them. 

What is your biggest strength? 

What are you totally honest about? 

Who knows the most about you? 

Why are you proud of yourself? 

What would you do with a million dollars? 

What is and isn’t working in your life? 

What lessons are you currently learning? 

Create a gratitude list. List as many things as you can. 

What do you stand for? 

What moves you? 

What qualities do you enjoy about yourself, and how can you continue to develop them? 

Explain the best compliment you’ve ever received. 

Who are you right now? 

How have you changed in the past 5 years? 

List positive quotes that you enjoy or find motivating. 

Create a self-care playlist of positive songs. 

Discuss your favorite movies, books, hobbies, music, foods, drinks, etc. 

List things that make you happy. 

What are your wildest dreams? 

Write a bio for your future self - who you want to become - but write it in the present tense. 

Describe your ideal day. 

What is the best advice you’ve ever received? 

When do you feel vibrant, electric, and alive? 

How can you be a source of love and magic to the world? 

How can you incorporate more fun and play into your life? 

What experiences trigger fear for you? 

Discuss 3 times you were proud of yourself. 

How does stress emerge in your life, and how can you manage it? 

How do you compare yourself to others? 

What can you do to make yourself feel calmer and more peaceful? 

What are you here to do (what is your purpose)? 

What do you no longer need? 

What do you know for sure? 

If you could start your life over, what would you change? 

Write a letter to your teenage self. 

What have you learned today? 

What would you do if you had no fears? 

Write a letter to a fictional character. 

Write about something that didn’t happen. 

What do you wonder about? 

List your favorite sounds. 

What are you worried about, and what can you do about it? 

What do you have difficulty accepting? 

Write about an act of kindness you performed or witnessed today. 

Discuss your favorite memory. 

How can you practice self-care? 

Is there a difference between happiness and fulfillment? 

Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 

List some of your insecurities about your physical body, and then, for each body part, write down something positive about it. 

Create a word map with the word “Identity” in the center. 

Focus on a regret that haunts you. 

What does family mean to you? 

What did you believe about love as a teenager, and how have your beliefs changed? 

Describe a moment that changed the course of your life forever. 

Write a letter to your future self. 

Are you introverted or extroverted? 

What does beautiful thinking mean to you? 

What are your favorite words? 

What is your aesthetic, or personal style, and who or what has influenced it? 

What is your favorite way to spend the day? 

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The pages that i made about my communions back in 2002

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Some cute way to store the Post Cards that i receive throught the years. Had to do it that way as i don't have much space in my room

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The only memories that i have from my father

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Some quotes pages in my St Exupery paperblanks

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Some more pages made in my St. Exupery paperblanks journal. I drew that girl when I was 15 years old.

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A two pages spread for the lyrics of a Song that i identify with

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