About Me

Hi! I'm Lex (a.k.a Alexis), and I am an imperfect creative. Most importantly, I have always loved glitter and shiny things my entire life!!! Here's my journey so far...

Back in elementary school and middle school, art was my thing, but I wouldn't say I was overly talented (although my mother would say otherwise!). In high school, I dropped my art elective to take up singing and dancing in show choir all the way through college. (It did still involved a lot of sequins though!)

So since middle school, I've never had a steady hand in the arts, but I have been able to put my creative brain to work on many different things, from t-shirt designs for my sorority or a bachelorette party, to lettering and designing banners and signs for organizations and volunteer work, to basic website and logo design, to DIY holiday décor, to making decomesh wreaths, and ton of random things in between. I've always had a craft box handy!

Fast forward to my 40s... back in 2018, I stumbled upon bullet journaling and handlettering. I honestly don't even remember how at this point! I loved how it combined trying to organize my life while giving me a consistent creative outlet (check out these pictures to see how artistic you can get) that I really hadn't had for many years. But I'll be honestly, I am "on and off" with my bullet journal, and I'm still working on that!

At the beginning of 2021, I vowed to get back on the bullet journal track, and I was buying a ton of foiled planner stickers on etsy for a lot of money, and I thought to myself... I'm creative, I can make those myself and get exactly what I want, so I bought the supplies. I started looking up YouTube videos on how to do it, and started seeing videos about card making and how cool all the foiling, and stamping, and die cutting, and mediums, and stencils, and...everything is these days! 

So I did what any "newbie" would do, and spent months buying ALL THE THINGS! I was attempting to use some of it in my bullet journal, but the paper was not heavy enough to take a lot of what I was putting it through, so sadly, I have lost interest in my bullet journal, and I started trying to make cards...

OMG. My first few cards were awful! I thought to myself, what have I done? I have invested in all of these products, and I suck! Where did my artistic ability go?!?

I regrouped, and I decided to embrace the journey. I am not a trained artist. I am not someone who has been doing this for 20 years. I have to be humble, and start from the beginning, and know that everyone makes mistakes. I also cannot compare myself to all the "perfect" work I see all over social media, not only in card making, but in bullet journaling, and all the other crafty things.

So I wanted to start blog to document my journey with all my creative endeavors. (For transparency, this is also not my first blogging attempt either. I had a blog for several years that followed my weight loss journey, and I have a blog that I haven't updated in quite a while about Second Life - if any of you know what that is - which is another creative outlet using my very loose photo editing skills!)

This process is reawakening my artistic intuition that hasn't been called upon in years, and that is something I find important in the "second half" of my life, as challenging the brain helps cognitive function. 

I welcome you all to follow along my imperfect creative journey and maybe you will pick up little something along the way too.