ODETTE LOVE LETTER

A love song to the season. Plus, some exciting announcements: we're shifting over to Substack in the coming weeks. As always, shop the full creative reflection collection over at www.odettepress.us Mentioned in today's love letter: Find us at Renegade Craft in San Francisco on April 1 + 2 april 12 | values and visions: journaling with intention april 19 | inspiration + ideation: generative...

A love letter for you about kettles. Well, not exactly. What's growing, emerging, and bubbling up for you this Spring? In today's love letter, I'm riffing on creative practice, creativity as an ecology, and sharing some new chances to write and reflect together this season. As always, tag us in your reflections over on Instagram @OdettePress, and shop the full creative reflection colle...

Today's theme is a continuation on emergence. What's coming up this spring? What are the nutrients and ingredients that inspire our ideas onward? Let's dig in.  Mentioned in today's letter to you: grounded in gratitude: meditation and journaling on march 21  suminagashi in person march 19 at manor mill  in monkton  most notably, new map journal colors are live in the shop! get...

Today, today. Today's love letter is a riff on the almost-spring. The edge of emergence. Let's march our way into this new season with effort and ease - and bring our creative practice with us in the process.  Come along now:  Join in for classes and events here (visit the calendar) Shop marbled goods and equip your writing and drawing Liking this newsletter? Share it with a friend! Let'...

today's letter is a shorter one. we're letting ease lead. plus, some prompts for your practice.  mentioned in today's love letter: a quote on flow from dune  this weekend's classes, including suminagashi marbling at the brooklyn brainery next month's online experiences, including build your journaling practice and grounded in gratitude: meditation and journaling today's a great day to su...

my muse is immersion with the environment. and you? today's letter is centered on colors and landscape, with a little bit more on the newly released line of cards in the odette on the road card collection (find those here). mentioned in today's newsletter: jack kerouac's on the road a field guide to getting lost by rebecca solnit  the new odette press youtube channel - watch parts of the proc...

this week's newsletter comes conveniently timed with valentine's day, so we're getting into how creative reflective practice is really a practice for awareness, love, and care. and hey! if you like writing letters, you'll love the newest odette press card collection. shop the new cards here and watch the process unfold over on youtube. for all of you asking for longer process videos, now's your ti...

We're exploring the creative waters of life with a dispatch from this week's writing (and hello from California!). How can writing practice support our fluid natures, our ebbs and flows, and make way for depths and mysteries?  Mentioned in today's letter: creativity: flow and the psychology of discovery and invention by mihaly csikszentmihalyi the creative waters of suminagashi on thursday, f...

On writing practice as a way to embrace your life.  Mentioned in today's letter:  Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg Creative Landscape: An Online Course in Connection (we start 2/18!, sign up here ) Suminagashi classes in person ( sign up here )  Odette Press for all of your notebook needs: www.odettepress.us   How does writing support and em...

In today's #odetteloveletter, we're using the lens of nature to explore creative practice and this season of winter, and I'm sharing with you the first hints of a new collection.  Mentioned in today's newsletter: mihaly csikszentmihalyi and his framing of creative practice from creativity: flow and the psychology of discovery creative landscape: an online course in connection on love: writing...

Today's newsletter is a love letter to the river of the mind, the questions it asks, and ways I'm learning to love it.  Mentioned in today's letter: beginner's journaling, my four week online series in person workshops: suminagashi on love: writing for self-care and connection   creative landscape: a course in caring and connection tools for creative reflection: www.odettepress.us Reply...

What's the gravity, or driving force in your writing? In today's #odetteloveletter, we're digging into journaling as a foundation, or the soil of our lives.  Mentioned in today's letter: This 2018 study on the positive impacts of journaling on mental and physical health Beginner's Journaling: A Four Week Series, which starts tomorrow, 1/11  Our full calendar of upcoming events (including...

new day, new year, a new love letter.  today's #odetteloveletter digs into the idea of slowing down in winter, going in. how can we infuse january with the intentional energy that you need? let's use creative practice and inner wisdom as guides this season.  mentioned in today's letter:  journaling for intention 1/4 (online) journaling for intention, suminagashi: the art of meditati...

On journaling and end-of-year reflection. Is this part of your practice? What does year-end journaling mean to you?  In this #odetteloveletter, the last of the year, we're reflecting on a practice I turn to for looking through journals without judgement, intuiting intentions and next steps, and a prompt for savoring the small things. Let's find awe and wonder in our practices.  Mentioned...

We're circling back to a familiar theme here in the #odetteloveletter landscape: cycles and seasons. There's the season of winter, the solstice approaching, holidays, birthdays, and of course, the cycles we experience inside. From the personal to the collective, seasons can support us, and we can write and reflect our way through these cycles in life. In today's letter, explore prompts for pausing...

In today's #odetteloveletter, we're celebrating the gifts of the cold dark season in anticipating of the seasonal shift into winter. Included are some prompts for reflections, an update on map journals, heirloom journals, and spiral notebooks, and notes on this weekend's upcoming events and experiences.  Of course, tag us in your reflections over on Instagram @OdettePress and shop creative re...

In today's newsletter, we're riffing (briefly) on world cup, and how writing practice is a way of settling into life's experiences. In the mood for creative practice? Join in for some suminagashi and bookbinding this weekend.  Mentioned in this week's #odetteloveletter:  12/10 suminagashi @ manor mill, monkton  12/10 bookbinding @ manor mill, monkton   12/11 greater goods @ r.h...

Today's another installment of our community constellation conversations, and what a rich one it is indeed. In this #odetteloveletter, I'm joined by Joyell of Writer in the Tub, an artist, midwife, and writer dedicated to crafting containers and ritual for creativity in connection with water. We talk process, intention, and inspiration, and Joyell shares about her thinking behind the Sojourn Journ...

today we're celebrating and highlighting community and conversation with shawn chopra, founder and owner of good neighbor here in baltimore, maryland talking about his sources of inspiration, his writing practice, and how family and intentionality are threads woven into community. We recently worked together on some print and digital design pieces  if you're in the DC area, be sure to ch...

Today I'm sharing some thanks and reflect on this past weekend in New York. It's market season, friends! Plan accordingly. For journals and cards and more visit www.odettepress.us and for process views, follow along on Instagram @OdettePress . PS. Do you love this newsletter? Give it a rating! Forward it to a friend. Thank you!  Mentioned in today's #odetteloveletter: 11/21 Grounded in Gratit...

VOTE, and then find flow with the teachers, guides of your life in this week's reflection. Learn all about upcoming classes and events with Kelly, founder of Odette Press here , and equip your writing/drawing/notetaking and creative exploration with tools over at www.odettepress.us  

Let's dig into seasonality with the cycles and seasons of creative practice.  Mentioned in today's newsletter:  Grounded Wisdom: Writing for the Senses Suminagashi Stationery: The Art of Meditative Marbling   Suminagashi Basics And of course, www.odettepress.us Community: What's the season of your life? Your communities? Tag us in your reflections on Instagram @OdettePress and be we...

How can writing bring us into connection with our felt sense and our seasonal experience? That's a great question that we'll root into a little deeper in today's newsletter. Don't forget to sign up for this weekend's class and next week's in person experience, and follow along on Instagram @OdettePress for more.  Find journals and cards for your creative endeavors at www.odettepress.us 

Let's explore in broad strokes "creative life". And, a thread for you to pull on, play around with, or write to: my creative life is made up of... Listen along, or follow along on Instagram @OdettePress for more (and find journals and cards at www.odettepress.us) 

Today's #odetteloveletter is a reflection on the shift of seasons and some invitations to upcoming classes + events! For more visit www.odettepress.us or follow along on Instagram @OdettePress .