Blogged for +20 years about art, craft and creativity.
Loves free-form embroidery and slow crafts as well as collage, mixed media, art journaling and photography/layout and creating books.
Oh well, I like it all.
iHanna
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New on the blog: thinking about over-consumption online & the doom & gloom of all our no-end scrolling habit...
#doomscrolling vs. #creativity
#yarn #overconsumption #crafts #newblogpost #blogs #instagram #socialmedia
Don't beat yourself up if today was not productive...
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#artjournaling #retroblogpost #procrastinating
As a self-proclaimed life-long learner I loved this list:
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#ihannalinklove #lifehacks #learning #lifeadvice
Starting a second Rainbow Glue Book www.ihanna.nu/blog/2026/05...
"Everything is connected, but that connection has a flattening effect."
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#ihannalinklove #creativity #connection #interestingread
Hmm... I think there's a party in my Doodle Book today! LOL
#creativeblogging #doodle #newblogpost #blogging #flamingos
Outgoing mail
#mailart #cutandpaste #artisttradingcards
The courage to be yourself — Virginia Woolf on how to hear your soul www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/12/v...
Haven't seen this character for a while....but I do have a new bird to add to the series......
"In The Garden - Female Chaffinch"
Hand embroidery thread painting artwork.
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#birds #embroidery #WildlifeArt
If you write short snippets rather than overthink everything and write long texts for hours that is great for you. You will likely save yourself headaches and time. But your writing will not be enough for everyone. Some of us crave depth, length, deep thoughts, and red threads leading us forward! Yes it's true, not everything is better in snippets.
If today was not a productive day don't beat yourself to death over it. Wake up tomorrow and start from there. Try it. It works. We can't go back. We can only go forward. Let's go! - Terry McMillan Ar...
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This blog post is about swatching out new pens when you buy them, about using doodling as a way to slow down and maybe even meditate, and about playing with gel pens in a journal or sketchbook. This blog post contains three videos from yours truly, iHanna, so let's start with those. Gel pen doodle videos The videos are all quite short and quick to watch.
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600+ women share what actually changed things for them
A Rainbow glue book is a notebook divided into color sections where you glue in monochrome images and photos you find in magazines. After I finished my first one a few years ago, made in a composition...
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Why inspiration feels harder to come by and how three types of creative ritual could be our strongest defence against the slow erosion of taste, attention, and intention.
Today I just want to share one single spread in my so called doodle book. I'll write more about what a "Doodle book" is to me another time, but simply put, it's just a sketchbook where I don't sketch but just allow myself to doodle. Patterns, forms, flowers, birds, lettering, anything that pops into my brain really. This time it was a bunch of flamingos, an entire Flamingo family actually.
