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Dreaming Your Life

‘The most crucial stories are the ones we tell ourselves.’…‘Your real glory days are yet to be created.’
~ Sheri Salata

Inside My Studio: The Dream.Love.Paint Cottage

I have grown my studio to reflect me and my dreams. 
It is not based on what a proper artist’s studio ‘should’ have. (Who wrote those ‘rules’ anyway??)
It is and will always be reflective of my changing dreams and desires.

Let’s head inside so you can see what I’ve chosen and why.
I hope you are inspired to do the same for yourself. Create a magical space, one that reflects and supports YOU in your creative endeavors!

Your Creative Space

Your Creative Space
I’ve so much to share with you about this all-important topic!

I’m talking about doing something that provides a kind of magic that pulls you creatively forward every day.
It takes into account that you are evolving.
It’s a way for you to begin doing something kind and good for the most important person you will ever know. 
You.

Wanted: A Creative Nest

Our creative spaces are our nests.

They are one way we testify to ourselves that we believe in our potential, in our worth at this very moment.

They give legs to new ideas and possibility thinking.

They hold the door open for inspiration.

A Cool Fifteen to Creativity

Getting started is hard.
As tempting as it is to wait for inspiration
and as wonderful as it is when our beginning is lock step with being inspired
there are more days….

where we must simply…

Feeling Your Way to Creativity

When you look at a rose and think to paint it, might it first make sense to leave behind the mechanics of painting and instead, look within your heart about how the presence of the rose makes you feel? The emotions that you possess about what it is that you are experiencing —-this is the gold to mine to create your art.

The Magic of Beginnings

My two cents worth on getting started?
Begin from where you are at this very moment— doing what you can with what you have.

A story about you in Paris…

‘A snapshot of you in Paris. Musings and watercolor stories coming to life in the journal you hold. Maybe a bit nostalgic, thinking of a young Hemingway writing away in the cafe you now sit, munching on your pastry and café. You sweep the hair back off your brow and begin tracing the lines of…

Becoming

To become we must let go of what, where and sometimes even who we think we are.

What’s Belief Got to Do With It?

Perhaps the biggest thing that has stood in my way is my own belief that I was less…