Peace, Joy, Calm, and Other Things About 2020 🤪
This year I’ve been posting three times per month: WORDS on the 3rd, PICTURES on the 13th, and SOUND on the 23rd.
Welcome to this month’s PICTURES, which were crowd-sourced from you, my readers. 💜🙏🏽📝🖍
Last month’s SOUND episode (which came in both podcast and video mode) contained a doodle prompt: Write and embellish a word or phrase that is bringing you JOY or PEACE or COMFORT or a sense of CALM HOPEFULNESS right now. Yes, right here in the chaos of 2020.
I provided guiding steps for those who wanted to follow along, but also permission to ignore me and do(odle) your own thing, because… there’s no wrong way to do it. That’s an important rule of doodling.
Thank you to the following Doodlers for generously sharing your papers with the rest of us. The first six are free-form entries, the next five show pages from my new doodle book that these doodlers completed, and the last photo shows a fun way YOU can share the love of doodling this season.
Enjoy! 😊
Kate Meade, Oakland, CA
Gladys Salguero, Portland, OR
Kate Meade, Oakland, CA
Jeannie Geselbracht, Oakland, CA
Pam Consear, Portland, OR
Lara Tribe-Jones, Richmond, CA
Patti Carey, Seattle, WA
Patti Carey, Seattle, WA
Debi Stromberg, Milwaukie, OR
Amelia Carey, Seattle, WA
Ann Del Simone, Oakland, CA
I made this greeting card template by folding a piece of paper into quarters. The quadrants on the right will be the front of the cards. I stamped my logo on the back, but you could leave yours blank or sign your name. When the paper (cardstock works best, naturally) is cut along the center horizontal fold, you have two cards to fold, color and give — or send them as-is for your friends to color on the receiving end. Make copies of your designs before cutting and you’ve got holiday cards for your whole list! (You can order blank envelopes online or at a stationery store.) Yes, that’s a glob of white-out you see on the word “Peace.” It won’t show up in the copies.
Let’s hear it for the playful, soulful, calming, and very personal expression of doodling!
Love,
Pam
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P.S. Since I won’t be holding any in-person sales this season, I’ve been busy stocking my online shop with whimsical goodness for your holiday gift-giving and self-care needs.
You’ll find:
> sets of Doodle Cards like the ones above (in case you don’t want to make your own);
> my book, Doodle Your Way Out of Stuckness, which, from early feedback, is delighting and inspiring its reader-doodlers;
> an array of Gift Packs that were super fun to assemble; they’re collections of one-of-a-kind handmade items organized around themes like “Let’s Dance” and “The Little Things” and “Happy Denim”;
> Fun Kits and other art supplies to get your people unplugged from the news and busy making things with their hands.
You’ll want to explore each category shown along the menu bar of the shop. Info about FREE SHIPPING is there, too.
Thanks for supporting artists, small businesses, and your local vendors this season. 🙏🏽