HeyJaredThe Life and Times of Helena Bird
I am an artist, poet and hedgewitch who lives by the sea. These are my journals and field notes of a life lived less ordinary. I send a free digital artist's postcard direct to your inbox every week.
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The Artist’s Codex: September 2026 (opens the original)
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A Pre-Raphaelite Autumn Printable Collage Booklet (opens the original)
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How to Slow Stitch Your Junk (opens the original)
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If you’ve ever looked at beautiful slow stitching in somebody else’s journal and thought, absolutely not, I can’t sew, this article is for you.You don’t need to know embroidery. You don’t need expensive equipment. You don’t even need particularly neat stitches.I use just three very simple stitches in my junk journals — running stitch, back stitch and cross stitch — and between them, you can add borders, lettering, patterns and wonderful three-dimensional texture t
The Vintage Christmas Collage Compendium (opens the original)
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I am determined to be organized for a crafty Christmas this year. Honestly, you guys I MEAN IT.But if I’m going to hand make all my cards, tags and gift wrap, I need to get started this week.As such, I have put together a unique cut and collage book that will help me, and hopefully you, delight all my friends and family come Yule tide. Or alternatively, just give you a bunch of Christmas-themed fodder to play with in your glue books and junk journals. You can find a full flip through of the book
Your Trash Tells a Story (opens the original)
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What did you throw away this week?It sounds like an odd question. Perhaps even a slightly intrusive one. But if you emptied out your recycling bin onto the table right now, what would it tell me about the life you have been living?Recently, I started a One Woman’s Trash journal. The premise is extremely simple: I saved the paper-based rubbish I accumulated over the course of one week and then started turning it into a junk journal.And there was a lot of it.Food packaging. Scraps of paper. Failed
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