Friday Five Faves- Sites

Hey Wonderful Souls!

It’s Friday Five Faves time! This time I share my Five Fave Sites. With so much good stuff out there in the WWW it’s sometimes hard. But these are the sites I find myself going to again and again. Several of them are likely not news to you and that’s ok, maybe it will be a reminder of a site you love but rarely go to or just a reminder to think about and soak in some of your faves!

1. Pinterest (My pinterest goodies!) It’s more than just pretty stuff (though there is a ton of that and nothing wrong with it even if that was all there was to it!) This is a great way to have visuals of your visions, goals, things you want to explore and keeping track of great stuff on the web.
2. YouTube (My YouTube stuff!) There is so much stuff to get lost in here, however there is also a lot to learn in this site. You can type in just about anything and find a video on it!
3. Goodreads. This is a site where you can track your books that you want to read, that you have read, there are groups and there are reading challenges (that you set for yourself) it’s a great way to track, i love it!
4. Amazon. Look I know this one is not new to you but really it’s such a good site for finding all sorts of stuff, researching books ( I do not have much in the way of bookstores locally anymore ) finding all sorts of good stuff from jewelry to vitamins!
5. Pic Monkey A great site to add some fun editing and also text to your photos fairly easily and free!

What are some of your fave sites?

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

Everyday Inspiration-Video

Hey Inspiring Souls!

I put together a little video for you. It’s to remind you of the beauty that is all around and within us at all times if we just allow ourselves to notice it.

And I deeply encourage you to capture it, With photos (what my video was made of!) , videos, notes and/or deep breaths

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

Friday Five Faves -Visual Journal tools

Hey Beautiful Souls!

I love to share inspiration and I do so every once in a while but I have been wanting  to find a way to share more of my favorite things. I mean really there is SO much good stuff out there! So I thought instead of trying to get myself to do inspiration links every week (and lots of people do that) I would do them in themes so welcome to the first “Friday Five Faves” I will share 5 of my favorite things for all sorts of themes, etsy shops, shows, songs, quotes, products for… , sites and so on.

I LOVE visual journaling (and have a workshop coming up in the first few days of June for Layers of Life, visual journaling) so I though I would share my 5 fave products for visual journaling.

FIVE FAVE: Visual Journal Products

1-Paper tape (some varieties being Washi tape) this site has good prices and fairly fast service however you can now get this type of tape and washi tape at craft stores and on etsy.com

2-Colored pens there are lots of types of pens including gel pens and those are great, but I have found these to be a fun addition to my journaling visual (and otherwise actually!)

3-Great glue stick, I know you would think a glue stick is just a glue stick. But it makes a difference when you do lots of collage with magazine images and photos like I do!

4-This Journal -I have tried a variety of journals this is my current one. I have tried spiral, bound, small and big I like the size if this one and the spiral also the paper is thick enough to take a bit of a beating (aka paint!) I usually get mine at the craft store with a coupon. If your new to visual journaling , play around with sizes and bindings.

5-Inexpensive paint ( I have used this brand) just about every craft store has a inexpensive variety though these days and some great water-color selections my fave being a set of “cake” or pan ones from Michael’s craft store for $5

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

Inspired by Pinterest-Easy DIY’s to try

Hey Inspiring Souls!

It’s no secret I ADORE pinterest and I have found some great ideas, blogs, recipes and DIY ideas on there. Some are just collected to swoon over others are actions I want to take or things i want to reference. There is also my DIY Inspiration board that houses many a great DIY ideas and you know I actually get to them sometimes!

Here are a few that I was inspired by and my result of them!

“Floating” bookshelves inspired by this pin

And below my result. I have so much inspiration taking over the wall space I didn’t have a ton of room but this spot above my desk was perfect for some of my fave books to reference!

About a year and a half ago maybe more I painted my first canvas, it was a small one and I really liked it then. I was sort of ready to move on from it so I had it shoved in the closet until I could figure out what to do. Enter this pin for inspiration:  I have seen a few things like this idea taking old thrift store frames and doing this sort of thing to repurpose.

And my result: (and a shot of the before!)

BEFORE

AFTER

I may have shared this one before, but if not here it is! I have done this twice now it really is fairly easy and forgiving! Pin that inspired:

Result:

And a fave that I must do again (but I have done a few times) is this recipe, so easy and really tasty!

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

Your time to bloom- Inspiration through the lens

Hey Wonderful You! A reminder that it’s not later, it’s not when everything is all figured out .. it’s now!

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

Power of Thoughts- May theme

Hey Inspiring Souls!

So starting last month (and on my 37/37  list) I decided to have a theme each month to focus extra energy into. Last month was “Release” this month the theme is “The Power of Thoughts” Though last month went Ok but not great to what I had first envisioned, I am releasing that expectation I set for myself. And it just made me realize all the more how much I need this months theme!

Actually when I was deciding what this months theme should be I originally thought “Action” or as I would refer to it “Inspired Action” but the more I thought about it the more I realized  that it’s my thoughts, expectations and fear that are keeping me from that action so wouldn’t that make more sense to focus on instead and maybe even by default some inspired action will be happening along in this process as well?

I would say that most everyone who knows me would see me as a fairly positive person. Yet somehow I have realized recently that I have had a tendency for years to think in terms of lack.

Now this wasn’t obvious to me until recently. A mindset of lack showed up for me in many different ways.

Allowing myself to be defeated before I start at times, thinking things like “ I can’t afford it, I wouldn’t be able to, I am not qualified, I don’t want to bother them/be high maintainance , there is no way__ etc.

It shows up in the mindset of waiting until: Waiting until I have more money, time, better circumstances, when this relationship heals and the list goes on and on. This is also a mindset of lack as it implies that what I have both internally and externally is not enough as if I am missing something or someone. It comes in seemingly silly ways of holding onto new stuff for the “perfect” thing or waiting to wear that new outfit until I get my haircut (a long overdue need!)

Frankly I could go on and on in the examples. However I won’t , though I believe looking at where we are in a situation is a very important thing for knowing where we want to get to. I believe that the key to starting the healing in this situation is to counteract my disempowering thoughts and thoughts of lack into ones of empowerment and abundance.

Some ways I am working on doing that this month are:

-Gathering inspiration, affirmations and ideas via pinterest (creating a board for each month/theme) Here is May’s 

-Reading a daily devotional on affirming thoughts

-Daily affirmations

-Wearing and using that stuff that I have been saving until.

-Looking for the lesson and abundance (abundance is the opposite of lack) in my everyday life, through lists, the lens and speaking it, noticing it.

-Posting my heart resolutions up

 

-Engaging in my own advice on Self-Talk- when I notice myself saying negative things turn them around into more empowering statements. (example: I can’t afford it instead: I choose not to spend my money this way. Example: That was stupid Instead I didn’t make the most empowering choice (or I did my best) I can choose differently next time.)

 

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

 

 

Pockets of Space- Litte Inspirations

 

 

Hey Inspiring Souls!

 

As I may have mentioned once or a thousand times I am always looking for inspiration. This inspiration comes in all sorts of ways books, podcasts, blogs, tasks, hobbies, magazines etc.

 

However as with anything even good things we love sometimes we find that instead of inspiration or opportunity mode we have gone into obligation mode. The thing that inspired me to start thinking about this the last few days actually was some library books and few other things that I started to feel obligated to finish, when really I needed to create the space in my schedule and mind for things that I really wanted to read or listen to. But this spaciousness can come in other areas.

 

Create Pockets of space by:

 

Letting go

 

Not finishing that book

 

Scheduling in free time

 

 

Taking that 5 minutes to follow your inspiration

 

Unsubscribing from that blog, newsletter, facebook page

 

Prepping dinner early

 

Closing your eyes, taking a real deep soulful breath, even if just for a minute.

 

10 minute clutter blitz ( setting a timer and just grabbing all the obvious clutter or stuff to put away etc that you can ) this creates physical space and a clearer physical space can often = a clearer mental space.

 

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Around here-Inspiration through the lens

Hey Inspiring Souls,

Are your eyes and heart open to what inspiration and beauty is all around you?

Take some time this week to notice, with your camera (mine being my camera phone) or simply just noticing it and appreciating it.

Here are some things I have noticed and “captured”

Yes this last one is my strawberry it was full of hearts!

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

This Moment- Journal Prompt

Hey Beautiful Souls!

I am a fan of capturing bits of our “normal” everyday life. I love to do this by taking a photo and putting the thoughts, sounds and happenings of that moment being captured. That is this weeks journal prompt. just capture the moments, if you can’t or do not want to take a picture simply use words to describe it a bit more.

In this moment…

I see

Feel

Hear

Know

Here is to living Inspired,Creative and Empowered

Heather

Let Go- Words and Lens Inspiration

 

Hey Inspiring Souls..

 

Some advice I needed recently….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What do you need to let go of? What do you need to lean into?

 

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather