5 things for the weekend 25.01

new year blessings, printable calendars, air dry clay, most borrowed books, illustrated diaries

Happy New Year! I hope 2025 finds you rested, refreshed and ready for new adventures.

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5 Things

1. Let’s begin the year with some blessings from The Marginalian.

2. Be ready to plan the year ahead with these printable month on a page calendars for 2025.

3. Looking for a new craft? How about working with air dry clay? Take a stab at one (or more) of these air dry clay tutorials.

4. What were the most borrowed library books (in the US) in 2024?

5. I loved these five different ideas of how people keep a diary.

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News from The Callaloo Collective

• Download the craft reflection and planning sheet for 2025

• Sign up for Journaling Through the Year on my Kofi site, or simply make a donation to keep the collective and the book club running.

• The Book Club meets this Sunday, January 5th to discuss Recitatif* by Toni Morrison

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I am:

Reading: A Stranger in the Citadel* by Tobias Bucknell

Eating: black cake

Making: time for reflection and planning

Planning: the start of the year

Drinking: sorrel

Loving: being warm and cosy

What are you doING?

““This is how you heal, niña. You are thoughtful about what you offer yourself; you study what you put out.” - Elizabeth Acevedo

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