About a creative 2025

With the end of 2025 my most creative and artistic year so far ended, and I have many plans for the next year to be just as, if not even more, fulfilling! (Lots of plans for this blog as well to have it be closer to my expectations from last year when I started it all.)

So stay tuned~

Until then I will summarise my months of the last year to rewind and look back onto my projects!

⚘.𖡼.𖥧.𖤣‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚. 𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘

January:

A not so calm month filled with my (then) boyfriend moving in with me! Everything around me was so busy and in the movement of change so I tried to bring some stillness by sitting own and paint. I don't think I ever finished the painting in the picture, but it showed me that I still understand color theory and also that I don't enjoy painting nearly as much as crafting. I like to work with my hands and not depend solely on my creativity, but more on my skills. Not saying that crafting (/sewing/knitting) doesn't need creativity, but your skills and knowledge of the craft can often make up the lack of imaginary and sitting down to paint showed me what I want to focus on in this new year.

February:

My drive for creativity started growing but I didn't really know where to start. I started by adding some small sparks to my clothing and overcoming insecurities (long earrings, bright colours, big rings, noticeable head wear etc.). Most of it sticked! I felt lots of love this month with my (then) boyfriend proposing to me and all of my family being there to celebrate, which made me feel really light and motivated for the rest of this month.⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢 

 I recall picking up my knitting needles multiple times but being a little frustrated since I didn't really have a clue what I was doing. So I stopped with that and tried to find other activities that would keep me busy and content!

March:

With the slow arrival of spring some new passions and hobbies started sprouting! In march I learnt how to bind books out of old paper you have laying around, decorating it with either collages or other treasures you can find at home and this way personalising an every day item by using up "trash"! I've talked about this before, but now (after having bound ten books) I can proudly say that this became one of my most anticipated rituals for the end of each month!⋆˚꩜｡That month I also started a series of Sophie scarfs (by petiteknit) to improve my knitting skills – a big recommendation for anyone trying to understand. Along with that I was cat sitting and the apartment I stay in always inspires me lots~~☆

April:

After purchasing someone's old and big button collection and going semi crazy with the amount of possibilities for new projects I could do now, I spent some weeks at home cuddling with my lady cat Bazi and knitting another two Sophie scarfs for my mom and my sister. After finishing my sister's I felt really confident I could understand how everything works without needing a pattern so I knitted one last Sophie scarf in fingering yarn for my self. Once I got back to the city I went out with my fiancé to purchase fabrics for the cover art… it would take a lot longer for me to actually start working on it, but who cares, right? xP Otherwise I felt stressed a lot because I couldn't keep up with my uni essays and work so when my friend started taking me to this weekly ceramics workshop, I finally found a place to calm down at just enjoy making… silly things! Like my the-very-hungry-caterpillar yarn bowl!! 𐔌՞ ܸ.ˬ.ܸ՞𐦯

May:

Last May stood for friendship. ⋆⭒˚𖠋𖠋𖠋*.⋆

I spent so much time with my small friend group, went on trips with them and just got inspired so much. Mrs. Green (top picture) is one of my biggest inspirations and together with our partners we went on food dates, had sleepovers and carved stamps together! Work was fun, I went on lots of walks or just spent time outside, went to museums and met a lot of people whom would become my friends the following months! I went to the shelter regularly and found time to read some more. The weather got warmer. Flowers bloomed everywhere. There's a reason why May is my favorite month of the year: Life feels colourful!❁✿❀

June: 

If I needed to choose matching words for each month, I'd choose busy and experimenting for June. I don't really remember where my time went if it wasn't spent with work, uni or friends but I remember restarting the same project about five times this month before I finally gave up (later I found out it was a yarn issue). I let out my inner child (and probably leftover frustration from the failed project) at Ceramics classes which… honestly also got a little frustrating. I thought I figured it all out when I met my –probably forever – final boss: the unpredictability of glaze. Even though the caterpillar yarn bowl turned out a lot better than anything I could've imagined, all future projects would just lack the perfection I was looking for and hostly, that was probably exactly the lesson June wanted to teach me. I was dancing on so many weddings all at once that I couldn't really expect to do perfectly in all of them and for all the joy I was feeling that month, I didn't need to. 𓂃✍︎

July:

Seeing my friend's concert, celebrating my fiancé's visa, being more in contact with my family, getting actually started on projects and slowly updating our apartment… July was filled with positive changes and improving my routine. ⨾༊󠀺 I spotted lots of foxes which I count as a good sign considering foxes being my favorite animal ;>

I felt as close to my partner, friends and family as ever before which helped me find my way back to the basics. I tried to use the internet with a more aware mind, started reading on the subway felt like an FBI agent when I finally modded my 3DS after talking and thinking about it for months. I also got myself an iPod nano and honestly, distancing myself from the online void that traps me every now and then let me clear my mind and become more productive!｡𖦹°‧

August:

The year stayed great (and got even better at times) when I got to host my first home café with a friend, finished the collage for morning sun and showed my fiancé's family around my home!𖤓 I saw more concerts (not of friends this time), carved more stamps, played more Pokémon on the 3DS, crocheted more gifts and made more time in my routine for creative hobbies now that the semester was over. My friend and I went to some art exhibition openings and got to know fellow artists. And with a couple of trips home every two weeks I got to enjoy sunshine and nature at its best. 

September:

I finally found the courage to sit down and start knitting my first ever sweater (this time with correct yarn and correct measurements) !!!! I spent a couple of weeks in my home town to catsit my Bazi and all I was doing was understanding and knitting the boatneck sweater (3mm needles and fingering alpaca yarn really didn't make this an easy starter, especially because I wanted it fitted and not loose, but I learnt SO much during the process!) Right before I left for home I visited my friend at her second art market ever and I couldn't have been any prouder. 𐀪𐀪 Her art is so inspiring and beautiful, so seeing other people discover it, felt so satisfying~~I hope there will be more art markets in the future! Another cool thing that happened was filming the music video for my fiancé's new single on an analog video camera. We had three filming days until we noticed that the film got stuck and nothing got recorded, but when it finally worked it was so much fun and the results looks amazing! music video is yet to come out…ᨒ ོ ☼

October:

my oh my… I love October! I finished my first sweater (the one in the picture), celebrated multiple birthdays including mine and my fiancé's, got back to pottery and finished small projects like a sponge and soap holders and went on a hike to the Brocken – the highest mountain of northern Germany (it's tiny really in comparison to the mountains at home). Furthermore, now after finishing this first ever sweater and one pair of tabs slippers (by miaskuddelmuddel) I felt confident enough to apply for a tester call for the devon top (by november studios) which… was a lot to be honest ˙𐃷˙ As a full-time student with a minicab and voluntary work at the shelter it got really overwhelming sometimes. But I again learned so much during the process, suddenly became part of this little knitting community and knitted one of the prettiest sweaters I could think of! I used 3mm needles and the same alpaca yarn a for the previous sweater (just in a different colour) and even made some buttons myself at pottery! I'm so proud to have finished this sweater by now and I wear it every chance I get! Also – and I really don't know how I even found the time to organise this – I hosted a home café day with a friend and it was a full success! Big menu, lots of fun drinks and many many rounds of Werewolf (aka Mafia): we're already planning the next one in February ☕︎

November:

November is one of the months that always starts really chill and gets more busy each week… even though this time it actually started busy even :D I had my graduation class reunion of 5 years and seeing all these people really showed me how much I've changed in that time. I had one close friend telling me how I inspired him to restart his art which flattered me and showed me to keep doing what I'm doing! Another highlight was a book printing workshop at the Technikmuseum – big fan of printing and it gave me bigger ideas for future stamps muahahahhaha

Overall I feel like by know creative and crafty work found a way into every corner of my life and I constantly have something around me that keeps my hands busy. That also means that I have less time to read and honestly my attention for uni preparation hasn't really been the best. But what should I do, art is just too much fun!!(˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)

December:

The end of this year was as musically and creatively filled as it could have been! I saw some of my favorite musicians live: Musogabi and Damon Smith; The Army, The Navy; and Radiohead (even twice?!?!?!) 𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋ 

I went to another workshop to learn how to make these gorgeous charms and Christmas time means present making time… this year I managed to knit a beanie for my dad, a scarf for my future MIL, a beanie for my fiancé and a pair of tabby slippers for my friend!! along with that I had one exam that I passed without studying (because I was too busy knitting) and lots of time with friends! This year all my secret Santa people got a little piece of my 2025 since it was supposed to be something you have laying around and in my case I had lots of self bound journals :p One of my highlights of this month though was, when I got my first own spinning wheel for Christmas! I've been wanting to pick up spinning for some time now and was just never sure how to actually start but with my mom and her best friend's help I now own a spinning wheel and the ability to make my own yarn out of wool!!! ꨄ︎

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So I really don't have anything else to say but

Thank you 2025!!!

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This year has treated me well in every way possible: my relationship and friendships, my career (I just quit and started a new job in January 2026), my creative spark and my mental ability to focus and appreciate beauty all around me!

Let's make the best of 2026⋆˙⟡♡

༝༚༝༚, Kat