Want to be happier? Make time for creativity in your life! My favorite creative projects right now are art journaling and painting but there are endless ways to express yourself creatively: sewing baking dancing singing doodling writing cooking creatively decorating wood carving jewelry making Whatever allows you to express your uniqueness is a form of […]
I love saving money and I spend a lot of effort saving so that I can stay home with my children. There is one area, however, where I have learned to spend a little more so that I can maintain my penny-pinching ways over the long term: taking care of myself. “Taking care of yourself” […]
It’s finally here! I have been working hard behind the scenes on my new website: Beautiful Life 365. While The Peaceful Mom is a very practical site where I give you tools to save money, get organized and enjoy life, my new site is more spiritual, inspirational and personal. I am opening up my spiritual […]
My Creative Projects: Art Journaling Patterns Engaging in creative projects increases my productivity, helps me to connect spiritually and makes me happy so I plan specific times each week to express my creativity. (Read about how I create more time in my schedule here.) Lately I have been crazy about drawing patterns in my […]
Expressing myself creatively makes me happy and keeps me stress free! This past week I continued my monthly calendar art journal project and created my April calendar. I write a word or phrase on each square — either something memorable about the day or something for which I am grateful. I have had a lot of […]
Expressing my creativity increases my productivity, helps me to connect spiritually and makes me happy so I am setting aside Wednesdays of each week for creative projects. This week I completed my March calendar in my art journal. I will write a little note on each square about something that happened that day or something […]
While I enjoyed my month-long “vacation” due to my knee injury, I had lots of time to do “research” on Pinterest (if I call it “research” I’m not wasting time, right?). I found some photos of art journal calendars and thought that I would try making some myself. Both of these photos were taken in progress, […]
Get Organized: 2014 Planner (& Printable Planning Pages) I admit it. I am on a seemingly endless journey to become more efficient and productive and after I encouraged you last week to evaluate your current organization system, I re-evaluated what I was using. (I am one of those people who likes to “walk the talk” and do what […]
Be More: Baby steps to the life you want– starting now! One of my favorite tasks to accomplish for the new year is to create a vision board to lay out my hopes and dreams for the upcoming 365 days and beyond. Here is a peek at the beginnings of my vision board […]