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Date Joined: October 15, 2017
Last Online: September 27, 2023 Birthday: August 22 Country: United States |
Thank you for visiting my profile. I’m Marie or my nickname is Mons. Born and raised in San Francisco, California and I’m Filipina American.
Do you struggle with keeping your space your home your life clean and clear?! I do! My latest interest is cleaning and clearing and decluttering. I’ve been listening to Dana K. White’s podcasts, audiobooks and her blog. She also has YouTube videos but I’m listening to her first! I’m afraid to look at the mess that is my space my spaces!! What about you? Please share your tips and tricks! I’d love to learn more. And share if you feel like sharing with me.
Tell me something about you. Tell me what you are reading or watching or making! We went to Santa Barbara last month. Beaches and the beach towns were beautiful and actually they were beyond my expectations. My stepdaughter graduated from university but she's jumped right into graduate school. And she's staying on so we will have more chances to visit her at University of California, Santa Barbara.
Have you been camping or hiking or wandering? Tell me about your adventure.
I live in Alameda, California which is a rather large island over 75,000 population. It’s really three islands and I’m on Bay Farm. It used to be old stone fruit orchards which are plums, apricots, peaches and still occasionally you will see some of those old fruit trees.
I'm currently reading two books written by @junemoon who is June Calender. I’m on the Friendship Quilts and love it!
My reading goal for 2023 was to read about 150 books this year. I’ve read 29 books so far this year.
My reading goal is now a 3-5 year goal instead of a one year goal. But that’s ok.
Watching and reading or listening to over at YouTube or Podcasts or Etsy or magazines:
2 Lil Owls Studio
TiffanySimplySharpe
Tim Holtz
Shana at Shanouki
Pam at The Paper Outpost
Mystele
Marta at Maremi Small Arts
Martyna at tealandtattered
Louise Heinzl
Barbara at 49dragonflies
Susanne Rose Art - collage, painting, stamping
CreeationsCeeCee - she does watercolor
Joie de fi
Gayle Agostinelli
LightSpeed Magazine also a podcast
Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast
Michael Lewis’ Against the Rules podcast
Terry Gross' Fresh Air podcast
Magazines I love love love are:
Daphne’s Diary
Bella Grace
Somerset Studio
Art Journaling
Pioneer Woman
For praise music I’m enraptured by the YouTube channel for the Jesus Image. They also have songs out on ITunes. I found them by listening to a version of How Great Thou Art. They do podcasts but mostly now I listen to the songs. For me they are very powerful and they get all kinds of singers and musicians to lead their songs. It’s multiethnic and just beautiful to me.
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Paper: I love paper!! Any kind of paper, stationery, loose pieces of paper, letter sets, postcards, notecards, ephemera.
Arts & crafts I’m into are journals, book pages like old books including illustrated flowers and plants, washi tape, wrapping paper, home made paper, yarn, tissue, packaging, found objects, and more.
Thank you for all the extras and gifts from you all!!!
Likes:
Vintage or new but in a vintage style
Junk journals and fodder for them
Art all kinds and every style of art and crafts
Die cuts
Doodles
ephemera, any
Lace
Ribbons
Rice paper
Sari ribbon
Stationery anything
Stamped images
Stickers
Washi tape
Found objects
Dyed by ink or store bought or hand dyed fabric or yarn
Recipes
In general I like all colors.
** For JJJ Let’s Make a Junk Journal **
Any size journal works for me.
And I like all themes. To give you a few ideas, here are some: sea, nautical, floral, circus, antique or vintage even if it's new but in the vintage style, Asian theme or French style.
Any theme is good as I like eclectic or putting various themes together in more a mix! Ha ha!
I have been collecting things to put into a junk journal but I haven't actually started making the journal itself. I've no doubt it'll happen. I'm having a ton of itself and enjoying the process. I hope you enjoy your process too!
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Comments
Thank you for the pretty birthday card, sweet friend!
I appreciate you!
Hugs, Pam
Thank you so much for the AIW paper pad for your August RAK. I absolutely adore it and I'm going to use it in my Alice in Wonderland junk journal. Thank you for sending something so very special. I appreciate your thoughtfulness! Aloha and have a great day!
Thank you for your envie! I really needed it. Via All About the Wishes September Wishlist.
G.I.F.T. ~ Faith Sister ~ September
Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Aren't you thankful that God already has plans for us and they are plans that can only be for good, even when we don't understand why things happen in our lives, it was his plan all along and he will give us the strength to go through it.
Have a Blessed Week!
Rak August 2 surprise. Thank you for the great package. The atcs are an awesome addition to my collection. I will be putting one of them on my easel as soon as I figure which one will be first. The washi and stickers are neat and I may be using them soon. I appreciate the unused postage...can never have too much of them 🙂
I love the two books you sent from the RAK group. Such a wonderful surprise!
Wow. I found you. Thank you very much for the scrapbooking paper you sent from Amazon! Incredibly generous of you.
Thank you monsbrick for contributing to my Pass & Paste postcard. What a treat to see the finished results. Here's what the PC looks like:
G.I.F.T. ~ Faith Sister ~ September
Ephesians 4:29 - Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
You are loved!
Hugs, Pam
G.I.F.T. ~ Faith Sister ~ September
Romans 15:13 - May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
May the Holy Spirit bring you abounding Hope today!
Have a Blessed Day!
Hugs, Pam