Be aware of New Ideas Flowing In! As you comb your hair, brew your coffee, make your breakfast, have a notebook handy to write down any inspired thoughts that flow in from the ‘Other Side’. Just creating this attitude of Expecting inspiration, gets it flowing. You see, the mundane things we do, take showers, wash…… Continue Reading
Collect Art by Your Favorite Artist! You love them. You love their work. Let them know by buying their work. There’s something so special about an original from the Art Maker them self! It carries their energy, their thoughts at that moment of creation, like a diary page in their life. The print above is…… Continue Reading
The Big Dream! Two weeks before Christmas, my husband returned from a business trip, sick with a major head cold. By the Tuesday, one week before Christmas, I could feel it coming on, in spite of all my avoiding tactics. I couldn’t be sick for Christmas! That night, I asked the Universe what to do.…… Continue Reading
Just Pretend! Lately I’ve read some funny ways to get through the Holiday Family Get Together! One said they pretend they are an anthropologist investigating an alien culture. Another said they acted like a Director writing up the yearly report of a mental asylum. All life is about experience. What a great, unusual, filled with…… Continue Reading
Live with your Ebb and Flow Some years ago while teaching jewelry at the local craft center, one of my students said, ‘Oh the new Sundance Catalogue is out. Everybody scrambles to see the latest trends to get ideas for their work’. Really??!! Why? These other people have created the perfect example of each beautiful…… Continue Reading
Fear, Risk, Challenge, Worth It? I’ve been reading these judgement calls lately. People doing things that AREN’T fun, or they don’t even think of how it makes them feel, but do IT because it’s the ‘thing’ to do. It gives validity! It’s the next step that everyone else is doing. I’ll write the book, create…… Continue Reading
View the World in a Different Way Seeing life through the Eyes of an Artistic Creative can often feel like you’re different, out of the mainstream at work, or even unique in a family. Creativity can often be spontaneous, exciting, risky, and certainly a change from the norm! It’s not the status quo, and THAT…… Continue Reading
Dragon Earrings I always say Birthdays are for Celebrating, not counting! And Celebrate all week long, but better yet, all month long! I completed my gift to myself: Dragon Earrings of Power. My Guardians, in fine silver, 24k gold, and each has 3 magical pearls of wisdom! The power of the Universe comes together on…… Continue Reading
My Raven Messengers Ravens, from guarding the Tower of London to bringing down the Light from the Sun for first fires, have been ancient messengers to all cultures. I knew I needed Ravens to balance my Owl. I thought Owl was to carry my message at night, Ravens by day. But Thurs was a blustery,…… Continue Reading
I love when immensely relative information just pops up online! To me, the art we do in my classes is an Active Meditation, a going deep within, a mega visualization experience, directing our focus on ourselves in this moment of time. It becomes a feeling, a way of life, that carries over to all aspects…… Continue Reading