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I believe the creative process is a powerful tool to fight anxiety and self-discovery is inherent within the process. By showing my work and process, my hope is for people to be encouraged to open their own hearts to an understanding and devotion of their own creativity that is more intentional.
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Today is the first day of a week-long creativity challenge I am hosting on Instagram running from February 13th through February 19th, 2017. If you have followed along with my creative endeavors since last year, you may remember the September Creative Challenge I gave myself where I made art a non-negotiable. Read the wrap up here….
If you have read my blog for a year at least, you may remember that I decorate the 15 foot tree at the Unitarian Universalist church we attend in Easton, Maryland. This year I added a new element or two which brought a little different texture to the tree’s design. The amazing paper snowflakes are…
I feel “off” if I don’t try to redecorate my mantel spaces, bar top, and/or shelves every so often. I’m especially compelled to make a total difference redecorating for Summer and for Winter. It’s a “Thing”. This year, I happily entertained the achievement of some of this activity both for Halloween here and now for…
Today I realized that I have come full circle back to the writing. Where I started to see that I needed to prioritize my writing back when I started my blog, I took a detour this past year for a little while focusing on my art. I feared that my art wasn’t prioritized enough. Like…
I almost didn’t do it. I thought about the effort it smacked of and the time it would take to go into the attic and drag everything out and down. And then I thought about how happy their little faces would be seeing Halloween explode in the house miraculously. And so I decorated! No plan,…
Ravens and their close cousins the crows always seem to make their appearance around now. Black figures circling overhead. I not only see them lurking about in flocks but I hear them in the trees making their specific noises. Some just a cawing while the Fish Crow saws “uh huh” “uh huh”. Audio for their…
It all started with a creative week in August. I pulled out my pastels I’d always been intending to use and did a little dabbling. And a light went off in my head. Why couldn’t I put myself to a month of creativity straight, ask to be accountable to my online tribe and at the…
My official Our Creative September wrap up will be posting on Tuesday October 4th, with art from everyone. But I thought perhaps it would be nice to show you my art that came from this last week and make this a mostly pictures Sunday. Remember, this month there’s a post every day. 31 days straight…
As this month wraps up and my month of creativity/Create every day challenge comes to an end, a reminder and perhaps a surprise for new readers, October is the month where I will post a post everyday ! Yes, every loving day! PLUS I will be doing another Soul Selfie Instagram challenge. For the past…
Yes, as if I could learn anymore, this third week of my, and our, creative September (#ourcreativeseptember on Instagram where others joined me !) has brought another few layers of ahas from this month-long creativity challenge. Having moved through the cloud of resistance, I am now stepping into create mode very quickly. As a given…
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