tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:32:28 +0000scrapbookinglayoutsArt SuppliesArt JournalingBookslinkstechnologyCrafting EverydayOnline ClassesproductivityProject Lifetravelunfinished pagewatercolourwritingFilofaxOrganisingeventsphotographymandalaSupaNova 2011stationerywoywwzentangleAmy TangerineImperial Good Companiondaily snapshotshandicraftinsertsorganisationEveryday MattersPhoto Freedomdaybookmorning pagespetscrapbooking suppliestypecast30/30 iOS appApple WatchGTDHandspinningHeidi SwappJessica SpragueLightroomMay FlaumPhoto StreamReceskyStacy JulianTLRYNABchristmasdecorationeco-friendlyfrench-ruled paperhandwritinghazeliCloudiReconcileknittingmini-skeinofficeseyes papersketchestime mappingtypewritetypewritertypewritersyarnhttp://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-5146013311206639553Sun, 11 Mar 2018 03:56:00 +00002018-03-11T14:56:51.222+11:00I was going to write up this how-to in a Google doc to share with a Facebook group I was a part of, but I figured I might as well share it. Prep-work Create an account on Google Drive - if you have Gmail, you just need to activate Google Drive Create a folder called "shared" Create an account on IFTTT Download Workflow (app) onto your iPhone  Google Spreadsheet Open up the mail http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2018/03/how-i-log-my-incomingoutgoing-letters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-1677362287971721520Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:48:00 +00002017-08-26T16:42:39.942+10:00productivitytechnology This was originally posted on the YNAB forumA while back, I wrote about my move to a finance app called YNAB and how much I loved it. I’ve been using it for nearly two years now and there's an update.Unfortunately it's not good.I recently updated my iPhone YNAB app and discover the app icon now have an unattractive banner with the word “classic” over it.This was how I found out about the new http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2016/02/how-i-feel-about-new-ynab.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-7128570684785649534Fri, 24 Apr 2015 11:40:00 +00002017-10-25T17:02:43.221+11:00Apple WatchtechnologyI thought I would do a running commentary on what I think of my new Apple Watch. This would only be very casually formatted/edited, and I'll just be adding to this entry as I go, so check back for more updates as I get used to my latest gadget. Okay, so for some very quick background: I ordered a white 42mm Apple Watch Sport with the white elastopolymer band and received it on launch day (24thhttp://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2015/04/notes-on-apple-watch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-2526041318958235179Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:45:00 +00002017-10-25T17:04:43.689+11:00Imperial Good Companiontechnologytypecasttypewriter So did anyone see the lunar eclipse on Saturday night? I took out the telescope to have a closer look. After a while, I decided to try taking a photo through the telescope with the iPhone. It was a very hit or miss operation and my hand was shaking so much... but I did manage a shot or two. http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2015/04/lunar-eclipse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-2505816621196842726Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:25:00 +00002017-10-25T17:05:16.382+11:00Imperial Good Companiontechnologytypecasttypewritewriting This is my first typecast, so I'll keep everything left-aligned to make it easier for me. So already there is a typo, and the anal part of me is itching to retype the whole thing to fix it up, but that's not the point of this exercise, is it? I find, when typing on a typewriter - san first draft - that I have trouble thinking of something to write. More accurately, I am wary of typing http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2015/04/first-typecast.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-6774189332900118145Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:16:00 +00002017-10-25T17:10:09.138+11:00Imperial Good CompaniontechnologytypewriterswritingFor a very long time, I've thought about getting a typewriter. Not the electric one, nor the plastic ones from the 60's or 70's, but the honest-to-god-all-made-of-metal-could-kill-someone-if-you-threw-it typewriters. A recent correspondence between my latest IGGPPC-assigned pen-friend and I got me scouring eBay and Googling for any possible candidates in my area. My criteria were as follows (inhttp://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-imperial-good-companion-typewriter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-2417679904579558035Fri, 30 Jan 2015 23:44:00 +00002017-10-25T17:13:32.480+11:00hazeliCloudLightroomPhoto StreamtechnologyI think it was in the latest MPU Live that Katie Floyd and David Sparks mentioned the issue with managing photos across devices. This is how I do it with Hazel. Note: This is based on Adam Portilla's Automator method. 1. Create an "incoming" folder in Photos In /Library/Photos/ create a folder called incoming. 2. Turn on iCloud Photo Stream on both your iPhone and your Mac If you don’thttp://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2015/01/how-to-integrate-icloud-photo-stream.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-5021697001813653322Fri, 30 Jan 2015 02:44:00 +00002017-10-25T17:14:27.640+11:00french-ruled paperhandwritingseyes paperstationerywriting After watching Brian Goulet's video on séyès (French-ruled) paper, I got really excited to try it out. From far away it does look like my script is neater than before; it's certainly straighter! I'll need to practice more though; the lines make me write much larger than I'm used to. If you want to give the French-ruled style a go you can download your own séyès paper and print as http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2015/01/practicing-my-handwriting-with-french.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-243296826901107097Fri, 02 Jan 2015 16:51:00 +00002017-08-26T16:42:39.966+10:00Art Journalingdaily snapshotshandicraftphotographyproductivityscrapbookingstationerytechnologywritingJust letting you know, I have moved my site to WordPress. You still access the site through www.serendipitythis.com, however if you are using a rss feed reader, please update your feed, as it has now changed to www.serendipitythis.com/feedhttp://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2015/01/update-to-feed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-2406124451412625987Thu, 01 Jan 2015 04:19:00 +00002017-10-26T10:47:55.787+11:00scrapbookingtravel This is a much more structured scrapbook layout that I was inspired by a recent BigPictures class I was doing. Journaling Their collection of gramophones are impressive to me if for nothing more than I appreciate the amount of effort taken to care for the machines to keep them in working condition. They even have a "concert" every hour where you can choose an album from their collection http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2015/01/layout-gramophone-shiroi-koibito.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-6834789998553547285Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:00:00 +00002017-10-25T17:16:35.548+11:00writingI wrote about this in my last entry, but I've signed up for Sian's Pile of Postcards Exchange last month, and today I received my first postcard! It's a picture of a public sculpture in Middlesbrough by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen though the postcard itself was sent from Lincoln, UK. Now, I admit to being one of those people who would send themselves postcards whilst on http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2014/07/receiving-my-first-postcard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-628756024774317446Thu, 26 Jun 2014 06:25:00 +00002017-10-26T10:54:22.529+11:00writingRecently - and by this I mean yesterday - I found two snail mail related links and I thought I'd share them with you. The first one is the International Geek Girl Pen Pals Club. Once a month on the 15th, they open a new round of sign ups for people interested in getting pen pals. You tell them a little bit about you, including your top 5 geek loves and at the end of the month would pair you http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2014/06/lets-get-writing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-2644550392588500780Fri, 06 Jun 2014 07:14:00 +00002017-10-26T10:55:32.044+11:00scrapbooking There's actually a story behind this layout. You see, this layout wasn't created entirely by me. The Boy surprised me one Saturday by taking me to one of the largest scrapbooking store in the area (about 40 minutes drive). He said that for that entire day, we will be doing what I like to do, scrapbooking. We were going to shop for supplies, and I was to walk him through making a scrapbook http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2014/06/layout-peach-tea-first-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-1027655552280440352Thu, 08 May 2014 05:08:00 +00002017-10-26T11:05:42.945+11:00iReconcileorganisationproductivitytechnologyYNAB The latest thing I'm into: a software called YNAB (You Need A Budget). Previously I keep track of my budget with an iPhone app called iReconcile. I loved the app enough to pay a yearly subscription to get their online syncing service. That was two years ago. But over the two years, I've been using the app I've been experiencing annoyances large and small. Sometimes the sync would corrupthttp://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2014/05/leaving-ireconcile-and-moving-to-ynab.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-6177148283355822811Tue, 01 Apr 2014 01:12:00 +00002017-10-26T11:13:24.684+11:00scrapbookingJournalingAndrew just couldn't help himself; it was the perfect opportunity. The cat was napping and completely oblivious to her surroundings. Andrew pounced, catching Siu Hak completely off guard. Don't feel too badly for the cat, she gets Andrew plenty of times too, and when he's not even napping!When reading the journaling on this layout, some people would think that we're horrible owners, buthttp://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2014/04/layout-surprise-cat-attack.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-196534093913103515Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:50:00 +00002017-10-26T11:15:54.762+11:00scrapbooking I'm so slow at getting these articles published. I actually have a few layouts all photographed and uploaded to Squarespace, but I just haven't gotten around to writing a blog post about them. This layout is very similar to this one I did. I am not adverse to using the same layout designs; the colouring and the photos are different enough that I could have these in the same album without alarm http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2014/03/layout-shiroi-koibito-camera-travelling.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-1724575338191039827Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:27:00 +00002017-10-26T11:18:51.043+11:00layoutsscrapbookingsketches It's been a while since I've posted a scrapbook layout. To be honest I haven't been scrapbooking for the past few months. Life has been crazy and my Citrus Twist kits have been stacking up, unused. So with January well and truly behind me, I decided to roll up my sleeves and actually get some layouts done. To help me get started, I thought I would use one of the sketches on write.click.scrap. http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2014/02/layout-sea-angels.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-5858016727360328038Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:16:00 +00002017-10-26T11:26:45.526+11:0030/30 iOS appproductivitytechnologytime mappingRecently I watched Joshua LaPorte's video on his time mapping for 2014. I was so inspired, I decided to do something similar but using the 30/30 app instead of an Excel file. This is the first of a 2-part series on my system, hope you like it. The backgroundAs I mentioned, I recently watched LaPorte's video: Being the nerd that I am, I immediately opened up Excel and began mapping my own dayhttp://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2014/01/time-mapping-and-3030-app-part-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-6357951840224712656Thu, 02 Jan 2014 06:34:00 +00002017-10-26T11:28:07.047+11:00Art Journalingdaily snapshotshandicraftorganisationphotographyproductivityscrapbookingstationerytechnologywritingThanks Steve for pointing this out to me, but I forgot to mention what my RSS feed address is. For those using Feedly or Bloglovin, I believe you only need to enter the URL and the reader would automatically extract the RSS feed address. For those more tech-savvy, my RSS feed address is: http://www.serendipitythis.com/feedhttp://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2014/01/forgot-to-mention-rss-feed-address.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-2208908597113253030Wed, 01 Jan 2014 08:29:00 +00002017-10-26T11:29:04.522+11:00Art Journalingdaily snapshotshandicraftorganisationphotographyproductivityscrapbookingstationerytechnologywritingHappy New Year Everyone! Most, if not all, of you, would have come here from my old blogger blog http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com. As I have mentioned in my old blog, with the new year, I am revamping the site and moving it here. I hope the new domain name http://www.SerendipityArtJournaling.com http://www.serendipitythis.com would be easier to remember (and type). A http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2014/01/welcome-to-new-site.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-6042763278447485243Sun, 15 Dec 2013 02:26:00 +00002017-10-26T11:30:39.489+11:00christmasdecorationofficeproductivityI'd originally wrote up this ranting entry on how I wish people would put up Christmas decoration properly in the office, about how nothing is sadder than tinsel randomly draped over dying office plants or sticky-taped to cubicle walls and falling down constantly through the month. But then I thought it wasn't very Christmas-y of me to do that. So instead I just wanted to mention one little http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2013/12/christmas-decoration-at-workplace.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-8031409160752138735Sat, 07 Dec 2013 08:32:00 +00002017-10-26T14:36:40.535+11:00scrapbookingRecently I listened to Paperclipping’s episode 185: Scrapbooking in Asia and kudos to Noell for attempting the topic. The episode was very much from the point of Westerners-in-Asia though, so I thought I’d write a post on what my experiences had been with scrapbooking in Asia (or more specifically Hong Kong) as a local.12 Space in Hong Kong apartments is very limited, so even if early http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2013/12/scrapbooking-in-asia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-1583864649605275164Sat, 07 Dec 2013 02:32:00 +00002017-10-26T11:32:27.394+11:00technologySo the idea is to write a blog post entirely in Markdown and using the webapp stackedit.io1. I have never written in Markdown before2 but have read a couple of articles online. I have constantly heard mention of Markdown in productivity blogs, podcasts and even tumblr, but I have to admit that I have never really gotten into it. I blame this on the official Markdown website. The layout was a http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2013/12/testing-out-markdown.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-4168272254639349656Thu, 05 Dec 2013 01:52:00 +00002017-10-26T11:32:27.427+11:00technologyorbitkey - the kickstarter project If you never heard about kickstarter then I really do suggest checking them out. Kickstarter is the world’s largest crowdfunding platform. The amount of cool gadgetry and innovative ideas there are astounding. Of course there are some projects there that can be a bit “less polished”, but if you use your common sense you’ll easily see which project is worth http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2013/12/2orbitkey-kickstarter-projectmd.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977927687146964299.post-5992373214855278153Sat, 30 Nov 2013 04:18:00 +00002017-10-26T11:32:27.451+11:00 Woohoo! Now to actually write the damn thing properly instead of just trying to finish my word count. http://serendipity-art-journaling.blogspot.com/2013/11/nanowrimo-2013-winner.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0