Weekly Wonder Drop | Week 8 Prompts
This is the Halfway Mark of Our First 100-Days Together!
In This Weekly Wonder Drop
Prompt & Ponder: Our One-Word Wonder Prompts for Week 8 of the #100DaysofWonder and an audio celebration and encouragement message from moi.
Weekly Round-Up of content from this week on TWH.
Weekly LOVE & LEARN: Where I share 1 thing I loved, 1 thing I learned, and 1 thing I leaned into (tried out, took action, explored).
Community Corner: News, updates, and practical tidbits.
Open Studio members… your extended content is now coming in its very own separate email in just a few minutes.
01. | Prompt & Ponder
Our One-Word Wonder Prompts for Week 8 of the #100DaysofWonder
🎉 We are at the Halfway Mark Through Our 1st 100 Days Together! 🎉
I can’t even tell you how much these first 50 days with you have changed my life. Your kindness and encouragement and the remarkable beauty we are unleashing into the world together. Friends it is just plain astounding.
I recorded a little midway-point encouragement below. There is something so personal about getting to hear someone’s voice.
02. | A Weekly Recap
Gosh, this has been an amazing week around here… here are the links to new content to check out in case you missed it.
WE HAVE OUR OWN PRIVATE PODCAST!
Introducing… Ponder: Five-Minute Field Notes on the Creative Life. I wanted a place to whip out my phone and capture bite-sized 5-15 minute thoughts as they came and share them with you. Here is the intro and the first episode. I know it says read, but I promise once you get to the page it is listen 🎧.
HOW TO ADD PONDER TO YOUR PODCAST APP
In case, you’d like to listen directly on Apple, here is a screenshot of the episode page. (If you use a different app or have questions, I’m sorry this is all I know to tell you. I just started listening to podcasts this year. 🤣 )
Click on the Apple Podcasts button on the right and follow the prompts. Once you have added it, you should be good to go.
It is not listed on Apple Podcasts because it is just for our community, hence “private podcast”. That’s why you have to add it manually. I am thinking hard about a public podcast with longer segments but I don’t want to start too many things at the same time.
Also, I shared a little more of my back story and thoughts about finding wonder in hard situations ⬇️:
03. | Love & Learn
One Thing I Loved, Learned, & Leaned Into This Week
LOVED: Digging through my archives of old work to find the files to digitize and/or edit so I could send them off to my printer. I know not everyone can afford original artwork so I am hard at work trying to come up with a variety of options. These prints will be limited editions I hand sign and embellish.
LEARNED: I can record, edit, and upload a podcast on my phone. What??? It even can do a clean-up of the file. It isn’t perfect but it’s almost as good as my profesh mic/mac setup. And Substack has AI-automated captions and a beautiful show page. I feel like Alice in Wonderland!
LEANED INTO: Owning my story and my space. I literally leaned into moving a large wood bookshelf into a different room to make way for a bookshelf wall I’m diy-ing this weekend. I’ve lived in this house for 8 years but never really done a full move-in. I still have boxes in closets; this is the year I turn this space into a dreamy artist's cottage.
Sometimes it’s not about finding the right place as much as it is about making the place we are in “right”.
04. | Community Corner
Updates & News: The practical things. Announcements. Things to get excited about.
THURSDAY 04/011 is our weekly SHARE & CELEBRATE Thread: It will go live at 12 PM EST and stay open until Saturday afternoon so you can post your favorite work from the week (related to the 100 Days of Wonder). I am setting my alarm this week so I don’t think it is Wednesday on Thursday.
Falyn, Congratulations!!! You are the winner of the drawing for answering the survey! You received complimentary access to our paid Open Studio content for 2 months starting today.
Just so thrilled to be doing this journey with you.
All my love,
PS. Open Studio members your content is coming in a few moments in its very own email. See you there!
Your voice is so soothing, I listened to your intro podcast while I painted and felt so relaxed. Thank you again. Not sure if I get access to all your podcasts as unpaid sub (takes me ages to read and digest information) but Im happy to listen to the first one many times. Much love Jeannette xx
The next 50 days will certainly test my wonder commitment given the time of year and all demands & distractions that come with spring. But with it come some great opportunities to expand and explore the winder: working outside (plein air), an abundant increase of subject matter, and organizing a longer day (think early am, longer evenings). Then there is the thought of actually carrying a sketchbook around. Going to go find one now.
Looking forward, one day at a time!
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