Goals for the Year

Hello my lovelies. I hope you had a great week. I'm so glad it was a short work week. It was easier to get back into it. 

So I have a few goals for this year. I realised when I look over my goals from previous years they are basicially the same goals. Seeing that made a me a little sad but it has pushed me to really organise myself this year and to work towards them. 

1. Flowers from my gorgeous friend Laura. She also drew the card!

2. Happiness journal and book

3. More journals for the year

4. Journals

I had to add the flowers from one of my best friends Laura. She's amazingly talented and I simply adore her. So back to my list...

♥ To do a letterpress course (there is one next month so I HAVE to do it)

♥ To take care of my body better with a healthier diet, more exercise, to sleep better and to relax more

♥ To be organised and work at my organisational skills

♥ To be more involved with my church (perhaps go to Cambodia on a missions trip)

♥ To do devotionals like SheReadsTruth

♥ To have a handmade business

♥ To put together my creative space

♥ One of my main goals this year is to journal more and to keep more memories

I want to live a more creative life and I need to stop waiting for the right time. When is the right time anyway? I have a collection of notebooks that I'm using to organise the different aspects of my life and I'm using the Kikki.K 2013 diary to write a line (or word) each day. I will try to write updates on these goals (and to keep me accountable) I do have a few more but these are the main ones that I want to achieve this year. 

What are your goals this year?

Randomness

Aww you guys are so lovely. Thanks for your comments. We had a great weekend! We watched Inception on Friday night and loved it!! How I love you Leo and I think I have a new crush on Joseph Gordan Levitt.

On Saturday, the 6 month anniversary we had a really lazy day. But we had dinner with Jason's mum, brother, his brother's gf and some friends. We then went off to watch Australia play South Africa in the Rugby Union Tri nations tournament (also includes New Zealand). We won. Yay! Though I don't really watch Rugby union so I didn't know all the rules.

Here's an action shot, as some of you may not be be familiar with rugby. We had really great seats. Australia is yellow and green.

I even wore a yellow cardigan to get into the spirit. The best bit is the atmosphere, the worst bit is trying to get out and catching the bus home.

And because it's Monday, it's a bit of randomness, I thought I would include my journal collection for the moment.

The red 365 Kikki.K journal I finally started on our 6 month wedding anniversary so I hope I can keep it up for a year; The black spiral is an organising notebook (based on the Paper Flow book); the tree spiral notebook is my list of books I'm reading and movies I've watched.

On the second row: The aqua journal is my list of books, movies, music I want to read, watch, download - just a place to list it all; the butterfly one is my new current personal journal; the black Moleskine is for all my creative ideas and craftiness; the one with big flowers is for all the creative endeavours I want to try, classes I want to take with details and wish lists and the last one is for the organising/decorating our home.

I thought I had no collections for anything but now I see that I have a journal/notebook collection. I think one day I will gather them all up and get a photo. I love them so much! (Though I prefer blank pages but lined pages always seem to be more dominant in shops).

A question for you though, do you prefer lined or blank journals???

Have a wonderful week everyone!

A fairytale journal

I'm sure a lot of you are experiencing problems with blogger and comments. It's pretty annoying and I'm thinking of changing to something else. We'll see.

Well I thought I would share some pages from the Swap-bot fairytale journal I made. I won't show every page because that would be way to many pictures, plus a lot of them are fairly similar. Maybe I will add them to my flickr (I have so many photos I need to add there).

This is the front cover of the journal. I bought a cute little carriage charm.

It was so fat when it was done.

Pretty much the first page. That's one of my Polyvore sets that I have shared before.

I made some envelopes and put some pretty paper inside.

I printed out some of the fairytale stories that I loved.

More little envelopes. This has tiny cards with a castle on it inside.

A Snow White page.

I bought a few bits from Etsy. This ACEO is from Darkling Woods etsy shop.

This Little Red Riding Hood art postcard is from Matilou Etsy.

I got this Red Riding Hood button/bookmark from Buttonsbylulu madeit shop.

Just a Thumbelina movie quote and picture.

I got this little fairytale from Papier Mache magazine. It's a little download story I bought.

And the ending. I had a fairytale paper pack. I just stamped the Happily Ever After.

So basically I filled it up with pictures, quotes, little gifts and gave my opinions on some of the fairytales. It was a fun swap! I'm really loving these journals swaps. They're more effort but fun (especially if you get one that is lovely back).

Anyway, I'm going back to doing my to do and thinking about moving my blog somewhere else. Have a great rest of week.

Journals and writing

I mentioned in my previous post that I would show a few of the items that are inspiring me. That is journals (especially leather bound with personalised embossing) and the content that goes into them.

So I had a search through flickr and found some pictures that I liked. It's a mixture of journal collections and pages from various different type of journal.

It made me want to get out to some nice little cafe armed with a journal, an assortment of different material such as pens, paper, stickers, glue, etc and just sit and reflect. Or this could be in a park, a field or even in my backyard with my own self made paradise (which I have some lovely pictures from a magazine I need to share).

1. Journals and notebooks, 2. Journals, Moleskines, Notebooks, 3. Pile of Journals, 4. My Journals, 5. Journal page 7/21, 6. Traveling Journal Kit - contents, 7. La Dame Art Journal......, 8. Art Journal - Challenge, 9. Travel Journal, 10. Traveling Journal 3rd page, 11. Art Journal, 12. 1 Jan. 2008, 1st journal page, 13. Journals and daily planners: 1991 through 2006, 14. Embellished Journal from Laura!, 15. journal shelf #1, 16. journal shelf #2

I made another little thing in photo shop.

All these items come from Jenni Bick. This site will personalise most of their journals with embossing. These are just a few of my picks. And I added the writing implements because I would love to have a little set like them.

A. Roma Lussa leather journal
B. Italian songbird soft leather journal
C. Feather Quill pen set with inkwell and pen rest
D. Glass dip pen set black
E. Vintage crackle leather journal

Anyway, I'm anticipating the opening of my Etsy. I hope it will be open by next month. I have a few ideas but I haven't really been making anything. I was thinking of having a little grand opening giveaway though =) More about that later.

An amazing weekend and other things

I had such an awesome weekend! I went to the 4her conference. It was held in the Sunshine Coast which is a beautiful part of Queensland. It's a women's conference run by Christian Outreach Centre. The church I go to is the 'mother' church of all the COC's called Citipointe. I stayed with my brothers gf, Melly who lives on the Sunshine coast. It was fantastic! It was seriously life-changing. And it makes me glad that I am a Christian and a woman.

It was held from Thursday night until Saturday afternoon. Although the weather was lovely on Thursday it was raining the rest of the time which is a shame because Melly was going to take me to Mooloolaba to check out the boutiques and beach. But that's alright next time it will happen.

Melly is so sweet, she had this towel on the bed when I came. It was like a hotel having a little conditioner, lotion, a Lindt chocolate, a welcome card and pretty butterfly for my wall.

She wrote this on the white board in her kitchen. The A accidentally got rubbed off.

A sweet picture in Melly's room
I met some absolutely lovely girls who are so inspirational and beautiful people. I wish I was able to get photos with them but I forgot to charge my camera before I left so these photos from the unit are the only ones I have.

This is the view from Melly's unit balcony. I wish I could have gotten a better photo. You can actually see the ocean. It is so peaceful and beautiful up there. I can see why people from there don't want to move down to Brisbane.

I thought this was gorgeous. It's from Melly's room. From the top of her dresser.

And I thought I would share some of the lovely items from 4her.

This is a shirt I purchased. The back shows 'Love never fails.' From the well-known bible verse from 1 Corinthians 12:4-8.

This the journal and pen given to us to take notes. It was in the pack for everyone who had registered for the weekend. Melly is the one of the very left of the picture =)

They had stalls there and it was fun to look around and buy things in the breaks. These cards and other inspirational verses can be bought from Inspirational Verse. I'm going to purchase more next time.

This is another item I bought from that stall. It's a journal with poems throughout the journal and came with a bookmark and pen. It's beautiful!

This is what is looks like. I hadn't untied the ribbon until I took that photo home.

Click on the picture to see it closer. It's what inspirational verse is to her Lucinda Matheson, the creator.

Again to see it clearer, it is best to click on the photo. It's one of the poems from the journal. On the other side she explains the poem.

Ohh and I want you all to meet......

....Brenda. She's my new sponsor child through Compassion. I was so touched at the conference when they showed a video I just had to sponsor a child. I've been wanting to do this for ages anyway, I just thought I will do it now =) Plus my parents have a compassion child as well.

The last thing...Anastasia is doing a Pay if Forward so I thought I would join in as well. So here it is... to those who are interested (I took some of the wording from Anastasia).

I will send a parcel to the first 2 interested bloggers. Then on your blog you send a parcel to other bloggers to keep this going. You have 365 days to send something so it's no rush. It doesn't have to be expensive either just a nice surprise package. I'm sure most of you are familiar with this idea anyway. My parcel will be my notecards, some other bits of stationary and a few other little surprises. So let me know if you want to get involved =)

Well thank you for everyone. I hope you were able to make it through this long post. I'm just feeling so inspired and uplifted. Have a wonderful week!

xox

Etsy, note cards and journal Love

For awhile now I have been contemplating on getting a Mac laptop. And I'm so ready to get one but at the rate I'm spending it might be another month before it even happens.

I have a few Etsy things to show that I purchased the last month. I have a bit of a thing for cute artwork =)

I got this sweet little postcard and this cute little button from BelleandBoo . I adore all of her artwork. It was difficult to decide which ones to get. I still have quite a few that I would like to get from her.

I purchased this from Charliemotel She has some really sweet artwork as well. She had a buy 1 get 1 free sale so I bought some greeting cards which I will frame. I love this style.

Besides that I have been making more note cards (of course). I've decided to make a special set.

These are my new note cards. I have recently bought a corner cutter and I love making round edges now. And since I love butterflies and polka dots I thought I would try and make some simple ones. I love glitter glue as well. I had so much fun making them I am making a few more. I have yet to make envelopes for them.

Here they are again, resting on two of my new journals. As you can see I'm pretty much butterfly obsessed. And paper....and journals....and stationary eeep!

I decorated these journals simple with some lovely vellum butterfly stickers I got in a swap awhile ago. The pink journal has a 'Dream Big" rub on. I'm planning on using it for my Etsy everything.

These are some envelopes I made because I wanted to use my paper for something =) I'm thinking of making more and maybe put them in my Esty as well. I have a lot of ideas I think.

That's it I think. Thanks everyone.