Happiness is....

Getting happy mail on a gloomy day!

I received this beautiful handmade postcard from Ulrike ( you can find her blog here )

 and I just can' tell you how happy it made me.

This past week I also saw "The Happiness Jar" by Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat, Pray, Love)

and so I decided to start saving my happy moments each day.
Beginning with my happy mail happy moment from Ulrike

At the end of the day I write down my happy moment(s) on a slip of paper

and put that slip of paper in a jar.

You might want to start a happiness jar too!

xo

WOYWW - my DIY carved stamp!

I've never done this before, but I wanted to try to make my own stamp. I thought that it would be better to make a big one. A small stamp might just be to intricate to carve, because I've never done this before.

  I drew a flaming heart { I'm really into flaming hearts lately ♥ }
directly on this rubber carving block and then just started carving away!

Not really knowing if I wanted to take more of the carving rubber off or not

I made a first control of how it would look when stamped.

I really like the way it turned out!!

So now I have an absolute unique and one of a kind stamp that nobody else has!  I think that I'm going to have to try this out in my journal.

Gotta go now, I'm off to journal again ♥

Hugs,