Be Your Own Best Friend in February
A first look at our February design and download your February calendars while you're at it!
After our January quote of “Listen to yourself, trust yourself and be unapologetically you” we’re heading into February with another important reminder to “Be your own Best Friend”. Both are quotes I very much need regular reminders of, especially right now, with the way my 2024 has started!
Ending last year with a bit of burnout, and starting this year with bits of illness, has left me a fair bit behind where I hoped to be with work. It could’ve left me feeling totally overwhelmed & stressed out, however with our January quote constantly around me (I have it on my phone, tablet & laptop) I am really proud of myself for listening to myself, trusting my instincts that I needed to take the pressure off, and letting things be imperfect, messy and delayed while I gently get back up to speed with myself.
February, being Valentine’s month, I wanted to use my Peacocks in Love collection as the basis for our design… but I wanted the quote to be about showing some extra love to ourselves this Valentine’s Day. After mulling it over for a little while I thought about one of my favourite go to coaching quotes “What would you say to a friend in this situation? How would you support them?”
Most of us give so much more understanding, support and compassion to our friends than we do to ourselves. So I love this question for reminding ourselves that we are allowed to treat ourselves the way we would treat a friend in any situation. We can give ourselves that understanding, support & compassion.
However, it’s REALLY tough to actually remember to do that in the moment - which is where this month’s Feel Goodies come in. It’s a lot easier to remember to do it if you have reminders all around you! Seeing it every time you pick up your phone, tablet or laptop. Seeing it on your wall as a calendar or art print. Being reminded as you plan with your planner calendar and note paper! Whether you use one or all of the Feel Goodies in February, I hope it will remind you to be your own best friend!
This year for our Feel Goodies designs I’m playing with turning my pattern collections into quilt designs. Whereas January’s Twinkle Twinkle Rainbow Sky design worked as a backdrop to our quote without too much tweaking, for February I needed to simplify the Peacocks in Love hexie quilt idea to make it work. I’ll share more about my design process - and the original quilt layout idea - during February.
As the Peacocks in Love fabric collection comes in two colourways - pink & red + aqua & blue - I decided to do two versions of our Feel Goodies this month too (mostly because if I’d tried to just pick one I wouldn’t have made up my mind yet 😂)
What do you think of our February Feel Goodies? Do you like the quote? Which colourway is your favourite? The pinks or the aqua blues?
These Feel Goodies will be available to paid subscribers from Thursday 1st February - with free subscribers getting one of the phone wallpapers that day too!
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Your February calendars are ready to downlad now! Everyone will find the link to the free planner calendar below - and if you’re a paid subscriber keep scrolling down for your links to both calendars in both colours!
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