2015 Hobonichi

This past year, I challenged myself to do a sketch or a painting everyday and in order to track my progress I have chosen to do so on a Hobonichi planner. I wasn't quite sure that the super thin pages would cope but they did and they did so beautifully well.

This year, I have decided to not do this particular challenge but instead, I will take part in any monthly art challenge that I can find. In February, I am going to take part in the #29faces challenge that consists in drawing/painting/sketching one face per day. This is going to be even more of a challenge for me since I'm not that good at drawing (human) faces. I'm really hoping to learn from this and to improve my skills.

For now, here are quite a few pictures of the best sketches I did in my Hobonichi this past year.

You can get your very own Hobonichi here!

Decorating my Nerdmaids

Since I have received my two Nerdmaids, I have been using them a lot. Well, I have been using mostly the light one and I have added the Hobonichi Cousin for 2016 to Nerdmaid Dark and I'm waiting for January 1st to start using it on a daily basis.

I use my regular Nerdmaid for journaling mainly and I'm applying the One Book July challenge for the month of November. Since I'm doing more writing than sketching, I need to always have one pen at hand at all times. Until today, I had simply placed the pen inside the book and closed the TN with the elastic band and it was working although denting the inside pages a bit.

So today I went stationery shopping and I bought some self-adhesive pen loops by Leuchtturm. I had used them once for my dark brown TN by Morgan LeFae's Trinkets and it was working well.

I used some scrapbook paper that I placed behind the notebooks and where I attached the pen loop.

Back of the scrapbook page

So I went scrapbook paper hunting and after looking at many shops, I finally found some beach themed paper among all the Christmas paper. I also found some pen loops in different shades of blue (there were at least 3 different shades that I saw in the shop!) and I went to work. Here is the result:

And a last family photo for the road!