Blog posts on Artfully Carin may contain affiliate links to products or services I think are awesome. For more information, see my disclosures page..Blog posts on Artfully Carin may contain affiliate links to products or services I think are awesome. For more information, see my disclosures page.. Let your heart guide you. It will lead […]
10 memory-keeping prompts
August 1, 2013 By 6 Comments
I mentioned last week that I sometimes use prompts when I’m brainstorming ideas. I have to admit. I resisted prompts for a long time after I started art journaling, thinking they were a form of cheating. I had enough ideas of my own thankyouverymuch. Then I realised that they’re actually great starting points. Whether a […]
I believe I can fly
July 29, 2013 By 10 Comments
For a long time after I was physically ready to go out in public again after having been bedridden/ housebound for several years, I was afraid to. As much as I wanted to, being around people was pretty scary. The world was noisy, and I was afraid of getting bumped and hurt. My back was […]
Artful memory-keeping: brainstorming ideas
July 25, 2013 By 10 Comments
When I share memory-keeping projects, I often get questions like “How do you even get started on something like that?”, or “Where do you get all your ideas from?”. So today I thought I’d share a little bit about the early stages of my process. Much of my art process is intuitive, but when it […]
Art journal: In the still
July 22, 2013 By 8 Comments
I slip out of the comfort of my warm bed, shivering as the cool air hits my body. Sneaking out of the master, I expertly side-step the creaky floorboards and toys piled outside the children’s bedrooms to look in on my sleeping babies. I smile as I see their familar forms. Aoife is sprawled out […]
Kirby: 2 1/2 years
July 10, 2013 By 14 Comments
Kirby is 2 1/2 today. The letter below is part of a series of letters I write to my children a few times a year. My darling Kirby, You are such a big, beautiful boy now. You have grown up a lot in the last month or so and become more independant. It’s been wonderful […]
sketching childhood: Aoife’s camera
June 10, 2013 By 10 Comments
We asked her what she wanted to do with her Christmas and birthday money. She quickly asked for a new camera to replace the point-and-shoot I accidentally smashed on the kitchen floor a few months back. She had used it since she was three and was pretty confident with it (you can see some of […]
May highlights
June 4, 2013 By 12 Comments
I art journal for a number of reasons, but one of the main ones (yet probably the least shown here) is simply to remember normal details from our lives…while they still seem normal. I tried calendar journaling as a way to document the everyday a couple of years ago. It seemed the easiest way to […]
Sketching childhood: stacking rings
May 28, 2013 By 15 Comments
I have a bit of a thing for wooden toys, and always choose them over plastic. So I love when the kids choose them as their favourites too. Unlike their plastic cousins, wooden toys just grow more beautiful with play. I even have a little dream of having a collection of well worn wooden toys […]
Sketching childhood: Kirby’s push along cat
May 7, 2013 By 13 Comments
We bought the wooden push along cat for Aoife when she was little, but she never really took to it. She was probably a little too old for it when she got it, but I couldn’t resist it when I saw it in the shop. Sometimes parents get toys that are more for them than […]
