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On Sheila’s Podcast
I had a chat with Sheila Botelho about my book The Four Phases of Creativity and dived deeper into my story as an artist, mother and student of A Course in Miracles…
Tarinatädin värityskuvat – end of story
A warm welcome to all who found their way here from my Tarinatädin värityskuvat website. Now that I ended the story with that branch of my art, I wanted to acknowledge and celebrate the great journey I had…
Doodle Notes for Doodle #42
In this series of blog posts I’ll dive deeper into the world of my doodles. In this post we’ll take a closer look at doodle #42 in MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart…
MIRA Is Published!
Today is the happy day when MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart is launched! A collection of Mira(cle)Doodles finally in between covers, ahhh, I’ve waited for this day, because…
Early Birds A-hoy!
Here’s my pre-order offering for
MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart! It’ll be published on Monday, wohoo! Have you ordered your copy yet?
Glimpses of Life…
Mira(cle)Doodles are glimpses of life, sneak peeks into a life that yearns to evolve into a more and more loving one—but which fails to do so ever so often. Mira gets caught up in the swirls of the ego’s demands and forgets to listen to the whispers from her heart…
Doodle Notes for Doodle #13
In this series of blog posts I’ll dive deeper into the world of my doodles. In this post we’ll take a closer look at doodle #13 in MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart…
A Surprise!
Watch a video with a little story – I included this doodle also in MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart. But How!? Get your copy and find out…
#Inktober2022 Notes
It’s time for another round of Inktober!! Here you’ll find my notes & daily #Inktober2022 doodles in October. The newest drawing on the top (almost) daily …
Doodle Notes for Doodle #7
In this series of blog posts I’ll dive deeper into the world of my doodles. In this post we’ll take a closer look at doodle #7 in MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart…
Coloring pictures for children’s hospitals
I licensed three coloring pictures this summer to be used in children’s hospitals in Finland…
This Doodle Didn’t Make it…
While editing you get all these great ideas for doodles that you wanted to include in the book, until… You realize that you wouldn’t like to…
Doodle notes for Doodle #34
In this series of blog posts I’ll dive deeper into the world of my doodles. In this post we’ll take a closer look at doodle #34 in MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart…
MIRA is Here!
Whoop whoop! MIRA is here! Still all wrapped up in plastic, fresh from print. I ordered a box of books, to have them ready to ship on the publication date, on October 10th, and now they are here—So well in advance! Yay!
Evolving with editing…
Writing a book, illustrating it, editing, killing your darlings, sketching more and editing some more… It’s a messy process to create a book—Here’s a couple of pages from MIRA and how they evolved in the process…
Friday Evening at an event…
The Four Phases of Creativity visited an event with me and had fun on its own little corner of the table next to my friend’s ceramics…
Doodle notes for Doodle #29
In this series of blog posts I’ll dive deeper into the world of my doodles. In this post we’ll take a closer look at doodle #29 in MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart…
Follow Your Heart Planner Vibes
Here’s a personal project of mine that I’d like to share with you! Fresh from print! For a couple of years, I’ve created my own planners and have been testing out what works for me. I love to have a customized planner…
You Can Now Pre-Order MIRA
Yay, now—finally—the first ever
collection of Mira(cle)Doodles is
available for pre-order! This is a whole 120-page book filled with delightful doodles! Jessica said it made her feel happy and optimistic, and another reader…
Paperbacks available at elinap shop!
I have now stocked a few copies of The Four Phases of Creativity paperbacks on the shelves of my online store – elinap shop…
What’s Mira Up to at Patreon?
I shook things up a bit at Patreon, so, what’s Mira up to over there nowadays? Here’s a little update…
The Bookmarks arrived!
This is the final design for the bookmark that’s 4 cm x 13 cm in size. It looks so great with MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart! “What would Love do?” has been my go-to question in tricky situations, when I’ve felt the urge to fix and solve…
Popcorn with Love
Here’s a page from my NEXT book… MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart. It’s a 120-page collection of Mira(cle)Doodles and it’ll be published in October! Wohoo!
Ässän Sihinää is Published!
Ässän sihinää is written in Finnish, (it’s a sequel to Ärrän pärinää), helping children to figure out how to get their S sounds HISSssss through games and play. Now available for purchase…