As I moved through Days 55 – 68 of my 100-day project, I realized that since my collages were becoming more complex, I needed to revise my original project guidelines to match their ever evolving complexity. How? So glad you asked 😉! I started this project wanting to bring collage making back into my daily life. After … Keep reading…
I’m now on day 35 of the 100 day project (I started 2 weeks early), and I’m learning sooooo much about myself. Where do I start . . . Initially this journey was about motivating myself to collage EVERY day after a long draught of creating almost nothing as I focused on my art biz. … Keep reading…
After creating over 100 collages during March, and launching 33 of them as the PURE JOY collection in April, I jumped back into creating one-collage-a-day in May. HOWEVER, I got off to a bit of a rough start. As odd as it sounds, I suddenly couldn’t remember HOW to start a collage. So instead of … Keep reading…
Every January I read about people choosing a word that will define or be the focus of their year ahead. They choose powerful words like TRUST, OPEN, REST. And although I truly love this concept as I’m all about having a spiritual focus, I just realized why I have never chosen a word for the … Keep reading…
On January 1, 2020, I challenged myself to… Create one hour of art a day for 30 consecutive days. Why? I hadn’t been in the studio for over a month, and the longer I stalled, the more excuses I invented to block me from starting. It turned out that this simple goal was just what … Keep reading…
People often tell me that I look organized. The truth is that I’ve spent much of my life quite scattered, sporadically focused on what mattered most . That is until I stumbled on the motivation hacks I’m about to share with you, which usually shift me into a natural and joyful flow. Hack Number One … Keep reading…
Fear and uncertainty seem to be surrounding us. And with no end in site, it’s easy to get caught in the net of our collective fear, going down doomsday rabbit holes, reading article after article about what is happening and not happening, and how much worse it’s likely to get. Yet in the middle of … Keep reading…
For the past 6+ months, I’ve had a major case of “artist’s block”. This is what inspired my journey through The Artist’s Way last October (more on this here, here and here), where I committed to extensive self-exploration for 12+ weeks, including daily morning pages (151 consecutive days, so far) and weekly artists dates. And … Keep reading…
I spent the first 4 months as a full time artist learning how to navigate this new unstructured territory. Before I quit my job in January, I had a LONG list of what I wanted to accomplish with my art biz, and envisioned it would be easy to tackle everything on my list with so … Keep reading…