Glow by Lady E

  Dear Glow Girls, Thank you for being on this journey with me starting with  Issue 01: Background Noise Issue 02: Beautiful Things And now we’re here, Issue 03: Fun & Flirty. The past few months have been an emotional journey for me.  It still is.  After being treated like background noise, discovering beautiful things again, I now ask this question - What makes me feel alive again? For the past two months, it’s painting.  I’ve always been an artist, but painting is different.  I’ve dabbled with jewelry design and making and other forms of art, but I’ve never considered myself a brush artist.  My son is.  And I remember watching him during his painting lessons and wishing I could hold the brush, too. It took many years to find the courage to hold a brush.  I didn’t know why.  I still don’t know why I was so scared to just paint.  Today, I can produce 4 paintings in one afternoon.  And I find pleasure in admiring my work af...

  What do I want to flirt with this season? Not necessarily who . What. Maybe you want to flirt with a new version of yourself. A hobby you’ve been curious about. A color you’ve always thought wasn’t “you.” A different way of dressing. A city you’ve never explored. An idea that seems slightly ridiculous. A dream you aren’t ready to commit to yet. That’s the lovely thing about flirting. It doesn’t ask you to make promises. It doesn’t require a five-year plan or a carefully constructed list of goals. You don’t even have to know whether you want something permanently. You can simply move a little closer and see what happens. What catches your eye lately? What keeps appearing in the corner of your thoughts? What makes you think, Hmm. Maybe. Perhaps this season doesn’t need another commitment. Perhaps it needs curiosity. A little experimentation. Permission to try something simply because it delights you. So tonight, open your journal and ask yourself: What do I want to flirt with this ...

  I have a lot of stationery. (Remember that sack that arrived on Black Saturday?) Probably more than I need. Definitely more than I need. But I’ve stopped feeling guilty about it. Because somewhere between buying pretty pens, collecting stickers, and convincing myself that yes, I absolutely needed another tiny pad of paper, I realized something: I actually use them. Not all at once, of course. That would be chaos. Instead, I’ve started letting different pieces find their way into different pages. This Page, These Things This is one of my recent journal pages. For this spread, I used just three pens: a Zebra Sarasa Clip, a soft-colored marking pen from Daiso, and a Chosch Click Dot pen. I also used little grid paper pieces from a set of Daiso memo pads, along with a few stickers I had collected from KKV. Nothing particularly complicated. Nothing carefully coordinated beforehand. I simply chose what I felt like using and started putting things on the page. A little paper here. A sti...