Weekly Glimmers | A Week In Pictures: Mar 9-15

Creative Practice
Written By Sarah Hailey

💜 For a recovery week, I’m honestly pretty pleased with how much creative time I still had the energy for. I even managed to make my Spring heART journal before the season slipped away — which is rare for me.

Scrapbooks and junk journals tend to do that… I let the moment pass and then suddenly feel the pressure to “catch up.” And if you’re a sentimental memory collector like me, you already know that catch-up never actually happens.

This week, though, rest was the priority.

Luckily, creating art is restorative for me — I just have to shift what I’m working on. Which usually means my iPad and the COUCH, COUCH, COUCH!

✨Weekly Glimmers is a photo series about noticing small moments of creativity, nervous system safety, and meaning while healing, parenting, and building a sustainable creative life.

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cozy image of an ipad with a strawberry illustration on illustrator's blanket covered lap with a window in the background looking out on a bucolic spring scene

Spent much of my early week right here.👩‍💻

 
image of an ominous sunset hidden behind thick navy clouds rolling in with the spring thrunderstorms

Sky check: Ominous

 
overhead desk shot of illustrator sketching a rainbow trout with colored pencils

75 Art | Louisiana Love - Trout

 
flat lay of scrap papers from magazines, books and other ephemera for assembling into a handmade junk journal

Weekly paperwork - gathering bits for a heART journal. One of my favorite things!

closeup image of artist's hand sketching a celery motif for 75 Art

Sketching + shading. Good tonic for when my brain has too much static.

 
overhead desk shot of completed celery sketch surrounded by water pastels and colored pencils on a marble background

75 Art | Louisiana Love - Celery

 
flat lay of spring themed ephemera and painted papers for heART journal

I ❤️ ephemera!

 
chartreuse and golden hour prism flares against a natural colored wall

Golden hour ✨

 
process shot of sewing the binding of the heaART journal with a large dull needle, book awl, and leather cording

Assembling the journal. 🪡

 
a bright pink eastern red bud in full bloom against a rich, clear, blue sky

The Eastern Red Buds are POPPIN this week!🌸🩷💮

 

You won’t find me at the club, but you WILL find me collaging in my car… 😅

 
macro image of light shining through an iridescent teardrop prism

Found some more good light. ✨

 
artist's hand holding a teeny bouquet of grape hyacinths up with a large open field and forest in the background

The littlest hands give the loveliest gifts. 🪻From my little bird.

 
desk shot of painted papers town and strewn around with scissors and scraps

Working on the heART journal cover. ✂️

 
overhead image of completed heART journal open on desk with a tray of ephemera and photos to put inside

Actually adding spreads in REAL TIME - rather than 6 months later and totally out of season… 😅

 
image of heARt journal birthday spread with a photo of a homemade zelda birthday cake and presents around

Happy 7th Birthday, Little Bear! 🎂

 
close up of a 4 year old crabapple tree just beginning to sprout new leaves

Pleased to see our wee apple survived the winter + relocation! 🍎

 
image of a graffiti tag on a moving train taken while stopped at the crossing

Being blocked by a train is always a good time to spot some glimmers.

 

This week: expression + transformation… nbd. 😉

What’s one of your favorite glimmers from the week?

Xo,

Sarah

Sarah Hailey
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