Welcome to Paper Cafe!
I use this as a blog, home for my video diaries, and a junk-journal of sorts.
I hope you enjoy!
Let's draw together! :)
Making space to create art and be me :)
03.09.2025
I'm heading towards a photo & reflection journey. I've always wanted to print my photos over the years to collect in my scrapbook and photo album to have a physical copy of the adventures of my life - and to help me sit with my life, my choices, and my future. It's a way to reflect but also sit with all of that nostalgia.
I'm using Mootsh for my photo printing and I'm really excited to see how they turn out. I've always wanted to have my photos printed in different sizes, rather than just the standard size, so I'm excited to see how they look. With a nice white border, too! Isn't that just way more satisfying?
I'm filming my first vlog today! It might not be the first video I post, but I'm excited to get things started. I don't want to keep writing down my goals over and over again without taking any action to start.
- h
03.08.2025
Greetings from the PNW! Follow my journey on here where I try to find balance as a creative woman with a strict 9-5. My goal with my video diaries are to try find my creative spark again, find my purpose, and to document my creative projects. Hopefully they keep me accountable, too!
I'm not much of a social media person, but I would love to build a community of other artists and creatives so we can push each other to finish our projects that we set out to do. My video diaries will be broken up into three categories (which are subject to change, but I hope this will make things easy to find);
1.) Finding Balance and Rekindling My Creative Spark with my Strict 9-5. - Draw with Me! Let's Work on My Animated Short Film, Getting Messy, Exploring Different Art Mediums, Finding Art in Nature, Art & Design Jams, Scrapbook with Me!, etc.
2.) Nighttime Routine for Stress & Brain Health. Yoga, Make Tea & Study with Me! (Japanese or Animation)
3.) A Day in My Life (Meal Prep, Getting Ready for Work, Logging on, Walking or Biking Home, Tidying, Making Dinner, Freelance Work or Passion Project Work, Yoga & Exercise, Tea & Study, Read, Bed)
Later, I might do travel and adventure video diaries, but I'm trying to keep them contained to my studio space for now - at least until I get the hang of things :)
Thanks!
- h