Hello everyone! I hope that you are all doing well! I am sooo ready to get outside more and do some gardening but Michigan just won’t get it together with her weather. Hopefully soon!
In January, I joined up with Little Truth Studios for her Analog Life Project and I have found that I am spending a lot less time on my phone. At first, it was a conscious effort. Now, I find myself in the middle of all sorts of other projects and I am not reaching for my phone like I used to. If I get a notification, which I have mostly turned off except for a few special things, I don’t even pick it up. I am not cutting out scrolling or the digital world entirely, but I wanted to cut it way back and I have.
In fact, I managed to get myself to yoga after telling myself I am going to get back to it for ten years! I went for a whole month after discovering there is a class in my city. I love its cozy little attic like vibe. I have gone to all kinds of yoga places and I have found I prefer this one, in an old room in an old building. Nothing flashy, nothing to prove.
I have also been enjoying writing to my pen pals, reading their letters to me which is always a bright spot, and doing some thrifting. Most of the time I just poke around and look and not buy anything, but it is fun nonetheless. Sometimes I do pick stuff up though!
I did not buy that bell but I considered it. I was super excited because I found a store that does a 50% day and they have some nice books there. On half off day, the books are like .60 cents each!
I have also been working on my embroidery as well, and Billy is painting these cute little mini pictures. We have decided that we are going to make a fun gallery wall of them, all hung together, in our bedroom.
Billy has also been working on analog “bags”. He made himself a go bag for his painting supplies that he wants to take on the go, like if we were to go hiking or picnicking or camping. He is in the process of making a specialized one for my journals and book stuff, but hasn’t stitched anything together just yet. It is all in pieces on his worktable. I am excited to get it though! We are lazy day picnic people in the summer, where we set up in the shade of three trees on a hill in a local park, and spend a few hours there just drawing and reading and snacking, and enjoying the cool breeze that blows over the river. Even on the hottest days it is cool there.
I took some pictures of his bag but they don’t do it justice. It gives you an idea of what it is though.
Right now I keep all of my hobby stuff in my bedside table – but that would be a post for another day!
And I think that is enough show and tell here for one day. I am running behind this morning and I have to get lunch for the kiddo and then start school!
What are you all up to these days?
I love all your art! I don’t usually have the patience for crafts. 🙂
Lol! I used to be that way too. I seem to have settled more into it in my old age.
I use my phone these days, primarily, for emails and texts. I try not to scroll too much. It’s all I can do to keep up with reading and commenting on blogs. Your embroidery and Billy’s little pictures are just beautiful! What a statement they will make. Yay for yoga!
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I am the same! I try to allot time in the morning and then time in the afternoon a few days a week to keeping up with blogs. It is so hard to keep up with everyone! I do curl up with scrolling on rough days when I am super tired though, keeping it real here. Lol
Thank you! I am excited to see them all together, and add to it!
Love love love the concept of the go-bag! And it looks like it is gorgeous! Y’all are definitely talented – between the bags and the paintings and the embroidery 🙂
I guess I’ve been unintentionally analog lately, because I’ve gotten soooo behind on catching up with blogs – I don’t like to read them/comment on my phone as well, and I’ve not been at my desk as much either.
It’s finally raining here, after weeks (months) of being too dry, and while I am giddy about the good it is doing my garden and flowers, I want to be outside supervising chick hatching day!!! I guess I’ll have to keep myself busy inside, playing a little crochet catchup and maybe even – gasp – a little reading! 🙂
Lol thank you Rebecca! Billy is one of those people – he can look at something and reproduce it. It is crazy. Just very creative and talented.
You have been busy!! Growing flowers and birds takes a lot of time!
I would want to watch the chickens all day too! Those cute little peepers. I hope you had a nice rainy day!
I like Billy’s bag a lot! That should be really useful and lots of fun to have when you all go out. And that little teapot that you made a pencil holder — cutest thing ever! Just the kind of find you love! I hope you’re having a wonderful week. The sun’s out today — I’ll take it!
He is so talented! I love all the little bags he makes. 🙂 And thank you! I was so thrilled with that too. It is just so happy and cute! And it was like $2.00!
I picked up a basket at the dollar store for my analog things. I have my sketchbooks, scrabook/junk journal stuff, markers, my Gladys Taber boo, and a couple of journals. I really want a little pouch for pencils and markers for it too. I might have to take it an entire analog cubby if I am not careful.
I have a hard time narrowing it all down to a basket right now. I am like Steve Martin in The Jerk. I just keep adding stuff to a bag or basket. So right now it is all in my bedside table. Lol.
Same really. My basket is big and overflowing 😬😬😬😂😂
That bag is amazing! I have most of the Laurie Gilmores TBR on my Kindle, when I see them for 99p I grab them. Let me know if you fancy a readalong!
I will! Have you read any of them yet?
No! Just collected them!
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