Falcon Travelers

Dutch Design Leather, Est 2013

Xmas presents

Monique

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December 23, 2013

A very short post from me today, to show that I’m still alive (and kicking).

I’ve been really busy building the content for my little Etsy shop, which is now starting to look like a real shop. I’m really proud with how it’s all starting to come together. Still not completely there yet, but people do seem to start noticing it and are buying Traveler’s Notebooks. So I’m happy about that.

It does mean I have less time for other things, especially with the holidays planning and presents for the people I love. Still I thought I’d share one of the presents I made for them. I can’t show the rest yet, because, well, that would spoil the surprise =)

I made a new agenda for my mother. It took me forever and a day to complete, because neither word, nor the printer wanted to cooperate with me. But I made it and shared the files on my Midori TN free inserts page for those of you who would like to make their own.

Here are a few pictures of the content….ok, maybe not so short after all…
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Art Journal Journey Theme for December

Monique

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November 30, 2013

A while back Susi from Art Journal Journey asked me if I would like to think of a theme for December. I immediately said yes, because I love joining in the Art Journal Journey montly prompts. I thought a bit for a while and finally came up with the theme “Dark and Light”.

I think (hope) this theme leaves enough room for play and still ties in with the overall December theme. She also asked me to make an example.

So here it is, I even found a quote that ties in with the theme wonderfully.

There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire,
which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity,
but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
– Washington Irving

I made some progress pics and detail shots, but forgot to turn the camera on and make a film.
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Traveler’s Notebook swap with Ray Blake

Monique

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November 25, 2013

Over a week ago Ray Blake asked me if I would like to enter into a Traveler’s Notebook swap with him. That seemed like fun, so I said yes. We agreed that I would send him one of my Traveler’s Notebooks with inserts and he would send me one of his.

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Some quick sketches

Monique

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November 25, 2013

I was first only going to post these to facebook as I thought they weren’t blogworthy, but then I thought, hold on, it’s my blog. I can do whatever I like, right? Perhaps I’m falling into the same trap I always fall into and maybe I’m setting my bar too high again. Making it near impossible for myself to post anything here. While this was supposed to be a place to share all my creative doodads and whotnots.

So I’m lowering my bar again to share some 5 minute sketches and some playing with watercolour paints. They are not perfect, but they’re not supposed to be.

Just me playing in my Travelers Notebook on my daily timetracking pages. The quick doodle above is a self portrait from a goofy picture my daughter took of me yesterday. I think, for a quick sketch it turned out alright.
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WOYWW 233

Monique

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November 20, 2013

Just a quick WOYWW blogpost before I head over to work, showing you what was on my workdesk last night. Since joining the NaNoWriMo fun, I’ve been almost completely in book making mode, so of course yesterday I made another set of booklets. This time as a present for a friend of mine that was so kind as to read my raw draft and tell me if I am at all any good.

And when I say raw draft, I mean RAW, because there has been no editing going on and the manuscript is riddled with spelling mistakes and there are no annotations to mark the spoken lines, because those stop the flow of words rattling out of my fingers.
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NaNoWriMo, or how to procrastinate on a professional level

Monique

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November 18, 2013

Last month I found out about a phenomenon called NaNoWriMo. I thought all month about joining, because I always wanted to write a book. I always figured I would do that someday. By the end of the month I realised, someday was never going to come. I would just have to bite the bullet or give up on the thought. I still was hesitant about writing 50000 words in a month though. So I only really joined on November the third. It has been a bit of an uphill struggle, so far, as I am forever trying to catch up, or so it seems. Yesterday I passed the halfway mark of 25000 words and I am actually really proud of myself and I feel my writing isn’t half bad. So yay to me.

I’m writing this though, not because I started writing a novel, but to show you what I did when I should have been writing my novel, my procrastination results so to speak…

I did not write a book, I made books and lots of them… It seems, I’m starting a collection.

these are all inserts for the Travelers Notebooks. I also made another template for the Midori Travelers Notebook Inserts (regular size).
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New diary insert for my Travelers Notebook

Monique

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November 3, 2013

This weekend I just wasn’t in the mood to do anything difficult, so I decided I would finally make myself a decent diary insert for my work Travelers Notebook. Yesterday evening, after we watched Alien, well you have to show the classics to your kids, don’t you, I set out to adapt a file so it would fit my needs.

Today I made it into a little booklet.
I kept it fairly plain, as it is for work, but I’m very happy with how it turned out.
The diary itself is a little different from what you usually see, as the normal week on two pages wasn’t working for me and the normal day per page diary’s don’t work for me either. So I made a combination.
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Second spread in Beate’s journal

Monique

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October 27, 2013

Today I finally finished the second spread in Beate’s Round Robin art journal. I had some difficulty with this one. Her theme for the journal was Fools and or Divinities and in keeping with the theme, I wanted this one to be about fools. The first one, I thought, was about Divinities. I also wanted it to be completely different.

I ended up making this one about Divinities and the first one about fools. Somehow intertwined, as they are in life. Both being two sides of the same thing, forever connected and dependant upon each other.

I did find my quote for the first spread and together with that one I found the quote to go with the second spread. They are both from Ursula K. Le Guin.
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WOYWW 229

Monique

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October 23, 2013

I think I skipped a few WOYWW‘s, I just haven’t been able to keep up with all that’s going on. Things are just not going to plan, as so often in life, but I think I’m getting it back together again. I just need to take it really slow and let go of the pressure.

So today I thought I would show you what my workdesk looks like when I’m like this…

You wouldn’t believe the mess I make…I’ve got too much on my mind and it shows.
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