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When Your Soul Needs Peace

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When there are so many unsettling things in this world surrounding us… 💜 I swing my porch swing, on these beautiful, quiet nights with a cool breeze, the insects chirping. Swinging is so soothing. 💜 I attend a candlelight prayer vigil, with over 100 others. We pray. We encourage. We sing. 💜 I invest in soul settling creativity time. Just putting color and texture to the page. I’ll finish them when the time is right. When your soul needs peace, just create. No plan, no finished art piece. Just rest in the moment, and let color and texture express your… Continue reading →

Light Overcomes

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Last night, my heart was heavy. I knew I needed some creative meditative time. The feeling of “Play” wasn’t there. The “Pray” was heavily dominant in my Pray & Play time. I felt like collaging. Just gluing all the torn pieces together—into a heart of love. The scripture above came immediately to my mind. The quote above came across my feed. But as I dumped my envelope of book and music pages collage fodder on my desk, this verse was at the top of a scrap, on the top of my pile. ❤️ The light shines in the darkness, and… Continue reading →

[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 →

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 →

Good News Great Joy

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The angels preached the Gospel—Good News, that God had come to earth to live among us, Emmanuel is here, to preach the gospel to the poor; to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. Emmanuel—God with us is the most Joyous news ever! But the angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people: “Today in the city of David a Savior was born for… Continue reading →