06: doing okay 🙂
i’m back!
hello babes,
it has indeed been a few months since you last heard from me. how are you? hehe okay cool, now back to me… look, i’m doing okay! not the best but also not the worst. lots of things have changed in my life, new home, new routines, new perspectives.
i wasn’t really sure if i was going to continue with the newsletter. i didn’t feel compelled or motivated to write. usually, this sort of thing would stress me out:
will i ever go back to the newsletter?
have i flushed everything i’ve worked for down the toilet because i wasn’t ‘feeling it’?
what if i flop when i return?
it’s easy to spiral into a million questions, to enter that creative uncertainty… but idk, i just didn’t feel like putting the newsletter together, so i didn’t. it felt good to just be. i’m lucky that this newsletter is a hobby, the stakes aren’t high, so i can come back when i’m ready and if it’s time to let it go, that’s okay too.
i mean, the receipts are there, i said this in my last newsletter back in nov 2022:
hopefully i’ll see you in a fortnight, it would be awesome to stay consistent with this, i really enjoy putting these newsletters together.
so this time, i’ll leave you with this:
i enjoyed putting this edition of the newsletter together and i’m really proud of it. let’s see what happens next!
thanks for sticking around,
jade x
p.s. shout out to my bestie @forge.forward, aka amy crow, who gave me the wave of inspiration to get back on the newsletter train.
amy puts together incredible newsletters - check them out here.
she also sells dope shit like stickers, t-shirts and prints - check those out here.
wallpapers
👀 looks like you need a new wallpaper… go on… say i claim! and redecorate your wallpaper with one of these bad boys.
to download, click the image, it should open a webpage, hold down on the image or right click and click ‘save to photos’
if you’re having trouble, i’ll put them on my instagram story later today and add them to my ‘wallpaper’ highlights 🥰
thoughts
while i’ve been away from the newsletter, i used instagram a lot less and i even took a step back from collaging. it wasn’t even one of those ‘i’m taking a break from social media’ things, i just wasn’t interested in using the app. it was the same with collaging. i didn’t feel like riding that wave so i didn’t. for the first time, i didn’t over analyse it. i just went with how i was feeling at the time. my enjoyment for collaging will always be there, and i guess i trusted that the feeling to want to go back would come at the right time.
media i’ve been consuming
more silly/goofy, less artsy/creative content.
📺 vanderpump rules (s9 and s10)
shout out to my bestie chels for getting me into this beautiful documentary series on how to be a good friend! kidding, vanderpump rules is the trashiest reality tv show there is… and i love it!!! the things that come out of these people’s mouths could never be written by any sort of professional writer. i think my favourite quote was when dj james kennedy said something along the lines of:
the most romantic place in the world is the coachella rave tent!!!
he said that unprovoked and it was NOT a bit, he was dead serious. you can’t make this shit up! chels and i will always debrief via call after every new episode, usually chatting for over an hour, dissecting EVERYTHING. i think abbie chatfield said it best on her ig story:
it’s true, chels and i are just talking politics, duh!
🎬 angus, thongs and perfect snogging (2008)
i’ve watched this movie enough times, i can recite the entire script shamelessly.
i think about these quotes a lot:
if you haven't noticed i am a woman now. i wear a bra!
phwoar, they are sex gods!
i'm not boylingual yet
libby! stop putting angus in the fridge
i fort u was difrent jawja
⏯️ mike’s mic on youtube
i can count on this man to make me chuckle, no matter how grumpy i am.
i don’t have synaesthesia but if i did, it would be this budget version.
mike also does very good recap videos on nostalgic movies and tv, these are my fave:
collage kit - fun!
download it, print it, make collages with it. if you post your collages on ig, you know i wanna see them, so tag me duh @chubbycalico_ !
collage
one of the first collages i did that wasn’t made as ig content. is it a good collage? nah. that’s why i’m posting it here and not ig lol. there is something freeing about putting out work that you don’t really love. it grounds me into reality - i won’t love everything i make. there’s a line in one of my favourite plays, drizzle boy - “okay is good.”
quote
i refer to this round table a lot - a group of talented, funny women who listen to each other and talk about their shared experiences in the entertainment industry. when asked about their career peaks and valleys, alex borstein (the marvellous mrs maisel, family guy, the lizzie mcguire movie) had this to say:
i think people forget that on the other side of a peak can also be a really amazing plateau
this was always in the back of my mind during my time away from creativity and it provided a lot of comfort 😌
last notes
taking a break from being creative was actually really nice.
remember, okay is still good!
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