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Free and helpful resources just for you! Here are a highlight of my favorite posts and activities that I have done over the years all on one shiny happy page,  I hope something strikes your fancy.

More to be added! Also check out my blog (words) and instagram for random things that might inspire reckless acts of creativity.

your own permission slip

Need some secret or not so secret permission? Over here on this blog post see how I turned sad night gown or slips found at Goodwill into beautiful reminders of permission.

Here is a blog post to how you might make your own slip.

But really all you need is to write out and sign your own permission slips, just like you used to do in grade school.

Or if you want to adorn yourself in permission find an onl nightly or slip and infuse it with the magical qualities of permision and maybe add more things like play, or grace or what ever the heck you need, that’s the beauty of it. Transforming a normal everyday object into a highly charged and magical one through ribboned or beads or buttons or simple intention. It’s powerful stuff.

pocket vision board or visual goal board

Create a tiny vision board for the year, for a project, or for a dream. It folds up so you have it with you everywhere! Pictures and instructions are pretty flexible.

I started with a full sheet of paper, made it into a 8 1/2 square (tricks start with origami paper cuz it’s already square)

Then I cut out the four corners to make the blue section in the photo

Then Ii got a different color paper and basically made the same thing but then trimmed it down so it fit inside (yellow paper)

Then I made an even smaller orange cross.

I glued the yellow to the blue then the orange to the yellow

They I wrote goals and placed images on all sides of the papers and I folded it all up and in on itself and voila! Tiny portable vision board.

make a map

Do you feel lost a lot? Me too! Make yourself an inner compass to help guide you on any adventure. Add a spinner or just close your eyes and point then do the activity and voila! At least you had some fun in your confusion.

I took a boring piece of paper and wrote out potential things that might get me moving or change the story in my head:

Take a walk, sing a song, search for clues, go on an adventure, make a map of how to get from a to b, write a love letter to myself or my project, talk to the monsters aka the voices in my head

I made it a bit pretty with colors and doodles or stickers and presto-change I have a compass that help help shift me out of my funk.