All posts tagged: The 100 Day Project

‘I like’ Friday – the Mandala edition.

I have been looking at and drawing and making lots of mandalas lately. It all started when I did Susannah Conway‘s new year workbook – ‘Unravelling the Year Ahead’ and at the end were some beautiful mandalas, placed to inspire our word for 2015 and aid the search for said word.  They looked equally complicated and simple and so lovely to look at. I loved the mandalas so much I decided to research further about how to get started drawing them and what they mean and symbolise.  I found lots of ‘colouring in’ mandala books which I am not really into, I am more about the lines than the inside colours and don’t tend to color in the ones I draw, so I won’t be colouring a book full. When I came across the 100 Day Project I decided to make and draw mandalas for 100 days and I am really enjoying it, we have just reached double digits as we are on day 12 today.  All of my mandalas are on Instagram under my …

Ideas for The 100 Day Project

  Have you heard about The 100 Day Project?  It is a fab thing that The Great Discontent magazine and Elle Luna are hosting and it starts on April 6th.  You just have to make or do something every day for 100 days and record it with a hashtag of your choice on Instagram.  Sounds fun I think. I just need to decide what to do/draw/make/photo for 100 days which takes us right into July – phew!  That is a lot of doing the same thing every day, well not exactly the same thing but the same project over 100 days. I know I am not going to be doing something like dancing (although that would be worth it for the laughs), yoga poses (there will be no photos of me doing yoga anywhere, let alone every day on Instagram for over 3 months), there will be no food involved (I eat everyday and may not be inventing anything new or interesting in that department) and I won’t be recording my reading, knitting, crocheting or …