 Hey guys, so I wanted to Chat with you all here a little bit in my creative year about projects that we're doing over here If you've been follow me for any length of time, I have been doing daily drawing every day For a long time now. I've kind of lost track at least three years I think but it could be longer than that. I honestly have no idea I was doing in them in smaller journals where we just do a daily drawing I do still do some of that but for the words for my creative year this year I decided to do one of these more skincare journals This is my major journal and I decided to do a combination of like collage a quote I love quotes and Then of course a little drawing still based on the word that we have for that day We do have lists of words here in my creative year. This is the unpretty copy I get I give you guys that a prettier copy of the words going forward Just make sure you all can see that and I always paste it in the front of my journal and then every day I do a spread like this and then I share on social media It has become a fun way for me to find in my stash and Use some of those bits and pieces that I kind of forgot I had whether it's stickers or washi tapes Completely forgot for instance this month. I had pulled this one out for completely forgot. I had this It's sort of a cross between washi tape and stickers. It's like a roll of stickers And it doesn't look like there's a whole bunch of left on here, but I did find this in my stash So we're gonna try and use it up this month Little bits of paper and little bits of paintings like these and just all kinds of things So I've created this sort of ephemera bag I keep trying to thin out the bag and it just still it just ends up like this this is really just for this journal and I this usually is downstairs next to my daily art bag because it doesn't fit in the daily art bag fun fact I Have a you who glue stick and a old hotel room key for pushing things down into the you who glue I've got a bag of tapes. I want to use up always I have a few little stencils now these mostly I use in my Journal that I'm doing for a life of art and self expression the other Facebook group But I they live in this bag. Anyway, it's a good spot to to store them. These are just some Inexpensive stencils from staples to be honest with you. They they're journaling or planner stencils. I don't know but anyway, they're cute and portable Stickers so every month I go through my sticker collection and I made this little sticker sort of folder out of some old sheet protectors and I just tape them together with packing tape and then sort of made a series of pockets and Every month I go through and I Pull out stickers for my collection and put them in here that I want to use up and or the idea is to use up What's in here and not take these out and put them away? So sometimes what is in here lives in here for a while until I can use it up I have this pad of stickers. I'm trying to use up and mostly it just doesn't fit in the other thing, but What else this is a little folder pocket of Collage items magazine and a few quotes these I use in both the journal for a life of art and self-expression but also in The one here for my creative year and Then a folder of just bits and pieces found papers Security envelopes painy papers Little tiny scrapbook papers all kinds of little bits and pieces that I don't want to throw away, but I want to use up and then Show you what else is in here In the front here. I have these little date Sheets of paper of this little tiny calendar thing I got from Ali express at the end of last year for this year and The it's a whole stack 365 and each one is an individual day. So every day I put one on there and then That's just wants to just be out of there. So we're gonna just do that. Okay. So that lives in here. These are my word Lists for this journal and the one for a life of art and self-expression that I'm trying to work through this year And then I have these little again little books These are actually stickers and again these are from Ali express and I've got a few of them in my stash So every month I pick one out of my stash and I use up the whole thing So it's become a way for me to use up what I have and Keep up with my daily practice of creating art and doing something interesting Hopefully inspiring for you all Every day and this is a bag I just I'm not able to get that to be less than what it is But I find it's something that I really enjoy doing at night to decompress After the day is done and before I go to bed after dinner I sit and do these journals and then I post the pictures on social media And then you know, I just kind of it enables me to sort of clear my mind And also if I have gotten nothing else done creative in that during the day Because life gets in the way sometimes I'm still able to do something creative by doing these So I just want to continue to share the idea of doing these with you all and Encourage you all to do something similar if you have a daily practice even if it has nothing to do with these words or word lists I love to see you share it in the group I will also say that the covers have become Away for me to use up more stickers in my stash whether I've created them myself or there are things I just have This used to be something I would do When we were traveling or we would go to a car show or something And I'd pick up a sticker and I'd glue it to the outside of the journal for the month And I would do like the daily drawings and stuff in the journal and the outside would sort of be covered with Stickers of different things that did during the month. Well, of course COVID made it so that we're not doing that So I thought I still I tried doing the plain covers and I was like, well, I really like that colorful covers I've got all these labels and stickers in my stash. Let's use them And so it that's just become something else. So every month is a little different, but I hope that Some kind of daily art practice or daily Creative thing that you're doing encourages you to Be a more expressive with your art to use up that stash of stuff that we've got hanging around And that's just taking up space. Why are we saving it for a rainy day? The rainy day is now let's use it or lose it which is another whole video series But anyway, and you know, if you are doing a daily practice, I would love to see you all share in the group What you are doing. So please do that. Let's start a conversation and If you want to follow me on Instagram to see, you know daily walk pictures and stuff like that That along with places to support the free content in the Facebook groups and also on the YouTube channel are all my link Treelista links, which is down below and the video description along with my link to my art foemies that I've designed for them and the class I'm teaching with Bay of Grubbin June All the links for all of that stuff are in the video description. So check it out don't forget to like share and subscribe even though this is an unlisted my creative year video only please still do that and You know, stay safe stay healthy stay creative don't forget to do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and Let's have a conversation. All right, that's it for right now. I'll see you next month. Bye guys