5 things for the weekend 23.02
just start, bake bread, crochet mittens, reading jamaica, sister reads on ig
Our theme for this month is “start”. Just start. You don’t have to have all of it figured out, or all the tools and supplies you need, or have read all the articles about whatever you want to do. Just choose one project, grab the minimal set of equipment you need and get started. Ask yourself “ what’s the simplest way that I can get this going?”. Then go.
I have had “get back to memory keeping” as a yearly goal for the last three years (or more!), but it never happened because I wanted it to be this huge project with different moving parts encompassing every memory keeping philosophy I had heard of. (yes, memory keeping philosophies do exist!). Then I saw a scrappy friend of mine post about her memory planner on Instagram, and it clicked. I grabbed a blank weekly planner, and got started with the papers and stickers that I already use for my journaling. It helps that I got a Canon mini-printer for Christmas, but you don’t need it. Photos are not necessary. As you can see in my photo above I just used stickers for the day I didn’t have a photo.
I’m doing this on my desk in the family room, where I also do my daily-ish journaling, so one constraint is that I can’t have all my supplies there. I filled a small box with a selection of scrapbooking stickers (some way old stuff from my stash), and that’s been working out splendidly.
Seriously, just start.
5 Things
1. Get doodling with this free 30-minute Doodle Workshop from Lisa Stickley.
2. Bake bread in a Pyrex dish and never look back! You can make this with seasonings, or plain.
3. Take five minutes to watch this beautiful meditation on art and abundance.
4. Crochet up some chunky mittens in three hours. Put on your current binge-worthy show, and whip them out.
5. If you’re dreaming of a Jamaican vacation but can’t make it in person, why not read your way through Kingston with these recommendations from Marlon James?
What are you DoING?
I am:
Reading: Hell of a Book
Listening: Under the Whispering Door
Watching: Vikings Valhalla
Making: Minimal Scarf
Loving: spots of sunshine in my day
News from The Callaloo Collective
We now have an official Instagram account for the Sister Reads Book Club! Follow us here.
Speaking of the book club, this month we are reading Remarkably Bright Creatures.
Modern Maker Membership includes printable and/or paperback copies of the 365 Days of Making planner. The first portion of the planner is now available for download! It will set you up to start prioritising your projects for 2023, and plan out your month of January.
“I was so enthused with literature -- not stuck on literature, but in love with letters -- that I was easily inclined to bring all the conversations round to works I had read or fictitious characters from my readings about whom I loved to talk”
― Joseph Zobel, Black Shack Alley
Good advice!