Category: Pretty things

Buying handmade journals and notebooks at Etsy

I think there are great stuff to be found if you dig around on Etsy, like awesome handmade journals. Check out…

Categories Bookbinding/Inspiration/Pretty things

Pens and journals are always on my wish list

Winter delight! So what is a fountain pen then? A pen filled from an external source and containing an ink reservoir…

Categories Inspiration/List Writing/Pretty things

Fountain Pen + black ink = true love

I was feeling low on energy and very depressed. Going into the bookstore didn’t help, neither did buying a new white…

Categories Pretty things

Deco tape – it’s only my newest obsession

Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart. Mencius (Meng-Tse), 4th century BCE Maybe it was one or…

Categories Notebooks/Paper Crafting/Pretty things

Thrifted Finds | Archive box, Owls and a fat Buddhas

Time for a thrifty post, don’t you think?! Mom thrifted this box for me. It’s a little archive box that is…

Categories Pretty things/Thrift & Recycle

Your Lucky Star Shines Through

This is the only reality there is. If you can get it down on paper, in words, notes, or color, so…

Categories Mail bliss/Pretty things

I’m just a Giddy Girl filled with Enthusiasm

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the…

Categories Pretty things

Thrifting along this summer

When we went to the Craft Market in Dalarna (the area Dalecarlia in Sweden) this summer I sat in the backseat…

Categories Draw & doodle/Photography/Pretty things/Thrift & Recycle

Some of my favorite pens for Mixed Media

I’m not a pen expert at all, but I’ve received some questions on what pens I use in my art journal…

Categories Draw & doodle/Pretty things

A notebook collectors wet dream

My friend Ellinor in one of our favorite paper shops. It’s small but has a very nice selection of beautiful papers,…

Categories Pretty things

Spreading Kindness

I look just like the girls next door… if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. Dolly Parton…

Categories Mail bliss/Pretty things

Thrift Girl strikes Sugar again

I am the Great Thrift Girl, always looking for luck. I love thrifting, i.e. finding second hand goods and lovingly bringing…

Categories Pretty things/Thrift & Recycle