May you express yourself!
Yay May! It’s my favorite month of the year! Not only is the weather still deciding between cool spring days and hot summer vibes, it’s my birth month! Actually, it’s several of my favorite people’s birthdays this month AND Mother’s day! I’m just going to carry confetti with me all month and throw it around as needed!
To celebrate the month of MAY, I thought we would focus on celebrating ourselves! Whether it’s your birth month or not, you deserve to be celebrated! Every day this month I’m sharing on Instagram a fun fact or something I find delightful that makes up my whimsical life. A snapshot of mySELF so that you can get to know me better. #31daysofme
How often do you focus on the wonderful things that make you uniquely you? I encourage you to tackle your own show and tell! You don’t have to commit to a month - it could just as easily be for one or two weeks. You don’t have to stop at a month either - do a #100day sharing fest! Guess what?! You get to make the rules. The important thing is that you take the time to celebrate your own fun facts and delightful quirks.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
〰️ Oscar Wilde 〰️
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." 〰️ Oscar Wilde 〰️
Here are a few guidelines for you to participate in your own show and tell. Again, you make the rules, so choose something that works for you!
Set your timeline. It’s always nice to have a start and end date in mind. Do it for one week, every Whimsical Wednesday for a month, 31 days, 100 days… it’s totally up to you!
Decide how you’re going to express your fun facts. Do you want to take photos of your favorite things and post them on social media or print them out for your mood board? Do you want to write a poem each day about your fun quirk? Would you rather create a mixed-media art piece in your journal dedicated to one fun fact a day? What about just jotting your delight on a post-it and putting it around your mirror to see every morning?
Commit to sharing your fun facts! You can share on social media or keep it close to home, sharing with a close friend or your partner. In fact, I’d love it if you invited your favorite people to participate so that you can all celebrate together!
Here’s what I did: I wrote out a list of 31+ things about me - fun facts, interests, quirks, delights. Then I started moving photos I’d already taken into a special album that would go with each fact, taking note of the things that still needed a corresponding picture. I created a template in Adobe Illustrator so that I could keep these posts looking consistent. Then I started dragging in the photos I took - placing them at random aside from the ones I wanted to go out on Mother’s day and my actual birthday. Then I scheduled the posts for each day of May with Adobe Express! It was so much fun to dedicate some time to really think about silly things that delight me! I hope you enjoy getting to know a little bit more about me.
Here’s the post that kicks off my #31daysofme:
Starting today: 31 days of fun facts and delights that make up my whimsical life!
May is my birthday month! I love to celebrate throughout the entire month of May. I hope you enjoy learning more about me!
However you choose to express WHO YOU ARE, I hope that you have fun thinking about what makes you delightfully you! Who else are you going to be?
If you share your project on social, I’d love for you to tag me: @brandystarrcreates