{"id":22900,"date":"2017-12-15T10:08:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T09:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/?p=22900"},"modified":"2017-12-15T10:08:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T09:08:06","slug":"less-active-and-a-lot-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/less-active-and-a-lot-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Less active and a lot to do ;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goodmorning lovelies, it&#8217;s me tuning in.\u00a0 It is that time of year that I am less active both on my blog as well as in my atelier. It&#8217;s the calm before the storm &#8217;cause as of Christmas day, the Top 2000 blogparty will explode on my blog&#8230; the pre-party already started in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/108322499538702\/?ref=group_header\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top 2000 blogparty Facebook-group<\/a> and all participants are set to go. No doubt in my mind the last week of December will again be a hell of a party!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being less active&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean I do nothing at all&#8230; there&#8217;s a large stack of Christmas cards on my desk that I need to finish. There&#8217;s pieces of paper showing &#8216;aquarel clouds&#8217; in the window sill, that I made after I came home from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mandyvangoeije.com\/uncategorized\/live-workshop-writing-illustrating-tankas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mandy&#8217;s workshop<\/a> last weekend. I want to work on those some more and write Tanka with the images (I may tell you more about it in a future blogpost.) I plan on binding a little journal to use for my Top 2000 art \u00e1nd I need to bind a new &#8216;Chronicles&#8217; journal to use next year.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and there&#8217;s the last week-spreads that will fill up this year&#8217;s Chronicles&#8230; here&#8217;s the last spread I created<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Chronicles of Marit 2017 &#8211; Week 48<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-chronicles-week48.jpg\"><img wpfc-lazyload-disable=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22901\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-chronicles-week48.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-chronicles-week48.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-chronicles-week48-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-chronicles-week48-768x635.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a spread I made in November in the &#8220;Grandes Chaleurs&#8221; journal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learning to Die<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GrandesChaleurs17-LerenSter.jpg\"><img wpfc-lazyload-disable=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22902\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GrandesChaleurs17-LerenSter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GrandesChaleurs17-LerenSter.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GrandesChaleurs17-LerenSter-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/GrandesChaleurs17-LerenSter-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also thinking about a word for 2018&#8230; are you choosing a word for each year? In 2010 I embraced <a href=\"https:\/\/aliedwards.com\/one-little-word\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this tradition that Eli Edwards started<\/a> and choose a word for the year ever since. I like it so much more than resolutions (which I never made, by the way.)<\/p>\n<p>Well, there are some Christmas cards waiting to be finished so I&#8217;m turning my back on the computer for now. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful Friday &amp; weekend. See you around someday next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodmorning lovelies, it&#8217;s me tuning in.\u00a0 It is that time of year that I am less active both on my blog as well as in my atelier. 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