It’s a little bit of a vulnerable thing to throw yourself a birthday party, let alone a big Parks and Recreation themed birthday party. I turned 36 this year, and with my birthday arriving at the end of a year that held both significant loss and much growth, I was ready to celebrate big. Most…
This post features a video showing the full waffle making process, a list of supplies to gather, a printable pattern, and finally a shorter step-by-step set of written instructions. Tutorial Video: [if no video displays, turn off ad-blocker and refresh page] I’ve been making felt food for my niece since…
You don’t have to be a master of Spencerian handwriting or embellished and flourished scripts to add hand-lettered charm to your bullet journal or classnotes. Recently I took a few minutes to catalog 21 different ideas for non-script hand-lettered fonts that build on basic handwriting (rather than requiring a light box and penciling in…
Right click the image below to print this bullet journal banners doodle cheat sheet or save to your harddrive. I like doodling during speaker presentations at events and conferences, and most contemporary speakers understand that doodling listeners are actually listening-listeners, not daydreamers. I find a lot of freedom to doodle at psychology and counseling related…
Occasionally in school, a teacher might require a handout as one of the course assignments. Typically the handout is done as an accompaniment to a research paper or presentation that can be shared with other students in the course. I think making short handouts at the end of a research project is very helpful. The…
Today I wanted to add a quick tutorial for doodling a few of my favorite bullet journal style accents. I primarily use these in doodle notes in the classroom- to draw attention to key concepts or just to fill empty space to create a visually balanced page of notes. And here’s the play by…
How To: Make Your Doodles Pop with Grey Highlighter Shading When I first began taking elaborate hand lettered notes I experimented with using lots of colors and varying pen styles, but I found through trial and error that the more action on the page, the more overwhelming my doodle notes were when I went…
