Thank you all for being so amazing and encouraging in your comments, emails and blog posts! It has been a long year of changes, challenges, growth and great joy! I am thankful for everything and everyone in my life. From my family to yours, Happy Holidays and Winter Solstice! ... Continue Reading »
News & Updates
Time Out: Visual Therapy
Last week, I set up Mondays for marketing and focusing on the business of the day. That went amazingly well, so I'm staying with that schedule, unless a better way shows itself. I believe in going with what works and re-examining it again in a couple of months, to make sure it's still working. But I also scheduled in time-outs or much needed breaks...to do what my heart calls me to do in that moment. Which means, I stop to drink a nice hot chocolate and savor its goodness. Or to just look up from my desk and laugh at the silly pictures on my bulletin board, to make me remember that laughter is important, too! Today, during my scheduled ... Continue Reading »
Gratitude for Imagination
My imagination has been on overdrive this week! Creating my own pages for my Book of Days Art Journal and creating pages for the "Gratitude Art Journal" Give-Away. I wanted the pages for the give-away to be different from my everyday art journaling efforts, but still have plenty of the bold colors, I'm known for. Below are some of the pages, I've completed for the Gratitude Art Journal. Next, I will be adding text to the pages, but also leaving room for the winner to add whatever they'd like to the journal as well, once they receive it. This is going to be a sweet, deliciously colorful journal, if I must say so myself! :) So in order to get ... Continue Reading »
Gratitude Journal – Give Away!
I am creating a "Gratitude Art Journal." The journal will be filled with art, collages, quotes and affirmations about gratitude. The journal will have all kind of embellishment and colors, with plenty of room for your journal entries and/or entries of gratitude. Once it's completed, I will be giving it away! So in order to get this Gratitude Art Journal all you have to do is leave a comment here about what you're grateful for and/or "like" my Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/indigeneart (you also get to see my art journaling pages on my FB page). If you leave a comment and like my FB Page, you will get two entries and for those of ... Continue Reading »
Bounce Back
The last few weeks have been an incredibly busy time for me. I've finished (15) paintings in three weeks, while I continue working and being part of an Artist Mentoring Program. I am art journaling in a new altered book that has me reaching deep into the well of inspiration and creativity, adding new items to my Etsy Shop and still dealing with the now smaller waves of grief that come to me since the loss of my sister and mother. With all of these feelings running rampant, I'm breathing deeply, meditating, indulging in active self-care and lots of family and friends' love. I'm loving the becoming and realizing that I'm absolutely the Queen of ... Continue Reading »
My New & Shiny Video!
I've been journaling with an art journaling group, " Book of Days", which is art journaling for the year of 2012. I generally journal alone, but after setting my intention to be courageous this year; (in March 2012) I decided to share my art journal, individually and as part of a collaborative. Art Journaling everyday, necessitates creative wandering and when I wander, I produce work that is authentically me, through connections that exist only in my mind. This is my way of nurturing my creative self daily. I want my art journaling to act as a healing form for me and to others, in this journey of life. So, in following that road of courage, ... Continue Reading »
The Sight of Me…
Art journaling really helps you to look inward. For me, it operates as a visual diary of thoughts, ideas, issues, personal junk and humor. One recurring theme with me is I love creating portraits of women, archetypes, goddesses and mythical women, in general. What I don't do and realized I don't like is self-portraits or photos of myself. I never have! In looking through my Mom's old photos, I realized that there are probably 20 photos of me from childhood until now! I was always camera-shy and really hated it, when there was a family photo-shoot. (I probably get this from my Mom's side of the family, they weren't very keen on picture-taking ... Continue Reading »
