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[Final Notification] He Restores My Soul

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Just a friendly reminder about He Restores My Soul—a transformative Faith+Art journey through Psalm 23! Early Bird pricing ends tonight!  👩🏻‍🎨 I’m so excited to invite you to my He Restores My Soul soul- transforming Faith+Art course! 🎨 This course is all about exploring Psalm 23, and the restoration of our souls that Jesus provides. We will work through the meaning and application of each verse in this Psalm, and then in response, express our worship and prayers to God through the soul-transforming creative process of Mixed Media Art.  🫟 Early Bird Special price: $47 until Sept 1! Coupon Code for discount… Continue reading →

2–How Mixed Media Can Transform Your Life

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Part 2 of How Mixed Media Ruined My Art—But changed my Life! Please Read Part 1 first. This healing and freeing process also brought liberty to my creative teaching. I’ve always taught a wide variety of creative endeavors—in many different “mediums”, from fabric to yarn to paper to many others. As you can imagine, I used to only teach what I felt I could do with a completely predictable outcome, a perfect finished product. Through my healing journey, I also discovered that so many people don’t create, not because they don’t want to, but because they think they can’t. They… Continue reading →

How Mixed Media Ruined My Art

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How Mixed Media Ruined My Art… But brought healing to my soul. Perhaps you can relate in some way. Are you being held back from creating because you think you can’t do it? Won’t be any good at it? Don’t have any natural talent for it? Can’t take the time to do it if it doesn’t turn out great? Were you driven to perfectionism as a child? Or did an abuser shame you into it as an adult? Were you an overachiever? Put that pressure on yourself? What holds you back? My Journey Creating with a goal of perfection came… Continue reading →

It’s Worth It!

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Sometimes you just need to create for the sake of the fun-the calming-the therapeutic benefits. No outcome in mind. No goal. No cares as to whether it’s “pretty” or not. Just creating to create. And it’s worth it! You are worthy to take time to create!Creating just to create contributes to your wholeness—spirit, soul, and body! Last week, I spent creative time just making backgrounds. Experimenting with color combos. Utilizing various techniques. Playing. Practicing. Relaxing. No cares. No holdbacks. No finished product or page as a goal. Just creative time to engage my body. Calm my mind. Refresh my spirit…. Continue reading →

It’s Here—He Restores My Soul

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It’s been quite the week of work and play, calm and challenges. What that means for you is a lot of updates on my website. Perhaps the biggest exciting part of that news is the He Restores My Soul Faith+Art Course is open for Early Bird Registration, at less than half-price! He Restores My Soul—a transformative Faith+Art journey through Psalm 23! Register Now! I am super excited about this Course, and I hope you are too—and that you’ll join me! This course has been a long time coming, and I’ve poured my heart and soul into it. I have packed… Continue reading →

What’s the Difference?

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It seems there’s a plethora of “journaling” types out there these days. Junk journaling. Art journaling. Bible journaling. Mixed Media journaling. Faith journaling. Hymn journaling. Collaging. Neurographic Art journaling. And the list goes on and on…. (Not to mention the way Planners have become so artistic. And I won’t (mention) in this article.) It can be a confusing mess—like my image below. What’s it all mean? Let’s see if we can sort it out—like in my image below. 😊 The Many Faces of Journaling Recently, I was part of a junk journal video collaboration. But I rarely create what is… Continue reading →

Psalm 26:11 {Bible Art Tutorial}

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The Psalms were my manna as I was going through The Valley of the Shadow of Death, after discovering x’s adultery and waking up to the destructiveness of the entire marriage, and necessity of me getting a life-saving divorce. This post is a Throwback Thursday for a Bible Art Tutorial on Psalm 26:11, from October 29, 2022. I posted the video of this Tutorial on YouTube back then, but never got this web post finished and posted. (Which happens more often than you’d think.) 😊 When I Bible Art Journaled this verse, made and posted the video—and started this post,… Continue reading →

He Restores My Soul

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Psalm 23 is known throughout place and time as a song of God’s comfort in times of trouble. For thousands of years, God’s people have turned to it as they go through trials of life and seek God’s presence, love, and trustworthiness to get them through. These words are still there, serving the same purpose for His followers today. Giving the same hope, the same comfort, because we serve the same Sovereign, loving, caring, Almighty God! He Restores My Soul—a transformative journey through Psalm 23! He Restores My Soul is a new online course, coming next month. Through this Faith+Art… Continue reading →

Rejoice & Thrive

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As we’ve looked at rejoicing through trials and suffering this week, and how that is possible only through being connected to and full of Jesus and His Spirit, looking through faith with hope at what is before us, we come now to Paul’s words “Rejoice always.” Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Paul is closing his letter to the church of the Thessalonians, with some closing exhortations and blessings. I love that the word he uses here, χαίρω—Chairo, is a salutation, a greeting. It’s translated as godspeed,… Continue reading →

He Endured for Joy

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Day 12 — Hebrews 12:2 How can we have joy during trials? By keeping our eyes on Jesus! He’s the Source and Completer of our faith, as well as our example—“He endured the cross for the joy to come,” which was the finished work, our salvation. …keeping our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy that lay before him, he endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2 This page continues my work* in my Exploring Joy Journal for #faithjournaljuly2025 The Guest Creator for… Continue reading →