ilovemrburrows

Hi,

I'm Courtney. I live in Austin, TX with my husband and two cats. I enjoy journaling, zines, printmaking, ceramics, drawing, painting, and collage. Lately I have been enjoying making junk journals.

Favorite Podcasts: -The Slow Home Podcast -Criminal -The Girl Next Door -Straight & Curly -Chasing Creative -True Crime Garage

Favorite Music: -Tool -Nine Inch Nails -Drive-By Truckers -PJ Harvey -Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Some of my favorite writers: Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Jack Kerouac, William S Burroughs, Charles Bukowski

Some books I have enjoyed recently: -Bound by Rachel Hazell -A Book That Takes It's Time (Flow magazine) -Freehand by Helen Birch -Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport -This Woman's Work by Julie Delporte -Hungry Ghosts by Anthony Bourdain -An Illustrated Life by Danny Gregory (I just love looking at people's sketchbooks and journals in general)

Favorite Magazines: -Flow -In The Moment -Project Calm

-Amelie is one of my favorite "feel-good" movies -I also love "Being John Malkovich" (It's kind of strange and makes me laugh) -I love all of the films of Pedro Almodovar

-Killing Eve -The Twilight Zone (original series) -Fleabag

Favorite YouTube Channels: -Fran Meneses -Wild We Roam -Holly Exley -Jordan Clark

Drawing, painting, printmaking (linocuts and block printing), collage, bookbinding

Things that I love and would be happy to receive: -Paper/clippings from magazines like Flow -washi tape -journaling cards -paper ephemera -paper scraps for collage -happy planner stickers -art supplies (right now I’m really getting into watercolor painting) -drawings/watercolor paintings/journal entries made by other people -zines -creative reuse of old materials -bookmaking supplies -Smashbooks -handmade mini journals -pastel colors -neutrals -If you happen to have an old moleskine planner/notebook/or sketchbook that you don't want anymore, I would love to reuse it. I'm also interested in just the cover if you want to tear out the pages

I'm not fond of: -holiday stuff (cards/stickers/papers that can only be used once per year) -children's stickers -animal prints -glitter