Month: October 2025

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Dream and Make It True: A Simple Way to Turn Your Goals Into Daily Intentions

What if you could stay connected to your goals with just five minutes a day?

That is the heart behind my Dream and Make It True zine, a printable mini-book designed to help you track daily progress toward your dreams in the simplest, most creative way possible.

Inside the zine write your intentions

A Page a Day, a Week of Intention

This small but powerful zine includes a page for each day of the week. You can jot down a daily goal, a moment of gratitude, or a reflection that helps you stay grounded and mindful.

It pairs beautifully with the Dream and Make It True Journal, which offers more space for quarterly reflections, deeper journaling, and creative storytelling. The zine is perfect when you want something portable and easy to maintain, while the journal supports longer reflections that help you notice your growth over time.

A Family Practice of Dreaming Together

When I first printed a batch of Dream and Make It True zines, I brought them along on a week-long family vacation. Around the table were relatives ages three to seventy, and before the week began, I taught everyone how to fold their own zine. Each person wrote down their intentions for the week, whether it was to rest, explore, create, or simply savor time together.

We did not fill in every page every day. Some evenings the zines sat quietly in the middle of the table, inviting us to pause. Other nights, they became conversation starters. Someone might say, “I did what I hoped to do today,” or, “I realized my goal shifted.” The practice of writing, even briefly, created calm and opened up meaningful conversations across generations.

Why This Mindful Practice Works

A study from Drexel University found that just 45 minutes of creative activity can lower stress and reduce cortisol levels. Even a short session of drawing, writing, or journaling can have a calming effect on your body and mind.

The Dream and Make It True zine helps you integrate mindfulness and reflection into your daily routine. It is small enough to carry anywhere and flexible enough to use however you need. Whether you fill it out every day or simply leave it on your table as a reminder to pause, it gently supports your mental well-being through creative reflection.

Try It Yourself

If you would like to begin your own week of mindful reflection, you can download the Dream and Make It True zine free when you subscribe to my newsletter. You will receive the printable zine along with a short video tutorial that shows how to fold it.

And if you are ready to deepen your creative practice, the matching Dream and Make It True Journal is available in my shop. It is a beautiful space to record your quarterly reflections, explore new ideas, or write your story as it unfolds.

Let this be your invitation to dream, make, and notice what is already true.

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Navigating Transformation Through Fashion, Mood Boards, and a Little Bit of Zine Magic

Reflections by Rebecca Wood

Alexander McQueen Mood Board Inspiration

Finding Inspiration in Fashion and Change

Lately, I’ve found myself drawn back into the world of early 2000s fashion, back when I was graduating college and first discovering designers like Alexander McQueen. There’s something about those blush pinks, soft blacks, and smoky grays that continues to speak to me. The bold textures and expressive patterns remind me that art and life often move in cycles.

What I’ve come to realize is that this renewed fascination with fashion isn’t just about clothes. It’s a reflection of how we navigate transformation, how we evolve, how we reimagine who we are becoming, and how creativity can mirror that growth.

Transformative Learning: From Disorientation to Renewal

In a recent professional development session, I revisited Transformative Learning Theory, developed by Jack Mezirow, which suggests that true growth often begins with a disorienting dilemma, a moment or experience that unsettles what we thought we knew. When we pause to critically reflect on that discomfort, we open the door to new perspectives, and over time, that insight can inspire real change in how we see and act in the world.

For me, that process often happens through art. By engaging my creativity through collage, color, and texture, I make sense of change in a way that words alone can’t. Tools like mood boards or art journals help translate that inner reflection into something visual and tangible.

A Simple Creative Practice: The Zine Mood Board

If you’re craving a mindful, tactile project to reconnect with your creativity, here’s a simple exercise I love: make a mini zine mood board.

Fold a single piece of paper into a zine structure. You’ll end up with a few small panels, perfect creative boundaries to spark focus. Collage images that catch your eye. Use magazine clippings, sketches, or printed textures. A little Mod Podge goes a long way.

Next, choose a word that resonates with you. Then use a thesaurus to explore variations. Sometimes one small shift in language can open a whole new world. Match words and images intuitively. Let your inner artist, not your inner critic, guide the process.

This reflective process blends zine making, art journaling, and creative self-care, a beautiful mix of mindfulness and transformation.

Balancing Change and Continuity

When life feels uncertain, giving yourself small, contained creative spaces like the panels of a zine can help you reframe what’s emerging. You don’t have to have the answers; you just have to stay open to what’s unfolding (pun intended, I guess?).

So grab some paper, a glue stick, and a handful of images that move you. Let yourself play. Watch how creative transformation begins in the smallest, simplest acts.

✨ Try It Yourself

If you make your own zine mood board, I’d love to see it! Share your creation on Instagram and tag me @artandtheeveryday. Let’s celebrate the way art, mindfulness, and imagination can turn change into beauty.