a talented artist...

I have to share this with you.
When Steve and I went to Pa. to visit our family, my "sister"-friend Bridgette, offered to watch  Bella.  I went to go get her when we got home, and found her son Dusty was visiting.  He is a very talented young man, and sketches so well.  I saw his journal opened on the table and peeked at it.  I commented when I saw this drawing, and Bridgette said "do you know who that is"  ummm, no!  And she told me it was Bella.  I thought it was hysterical.  His inspiration was that Bella is "large and in charge" at heart...so he put her in a suit.
I will add her photo first...so you can see how well he captured her spirit.  (even down to her pouty lip)

I hope this made you smile, I know I did...
Thanks Dusty, for allowing me to share your amazing talent.

journals, time for a break

So, this weekend I am finishing up on journals, I have had a good run with them, but I am tired of them, lol.  I have the need for messy paint...so I will clean this up, and get to the painting and canvas's.  I need to fill my Etsy shop up, it is so neglected... So these are listed and I breath a sigh of relief!
Here is a peek...

 Enjoy a wonderful Sunday...

pushing past ...a fear

This is not something that I do easily.  Journal...I told myself today I would try, just try...I wouldn't die from it...and guess what?  I didn't...
I found myself this afternoon with a lot of thoughts in my head, "living in my head" I call it.  When I desire to live from my heart... I am learning to do so...I have the knowledge of things to do/try...to push past the fear, stress, anxiety... I have learned many tools to use, practicing my soul work.  Some of them come easily for me, some I haven't tried...I have taken art journaling classes, it didn't feel right to me,  It was like trying to write in a different language.
But I must try...
Guilt is what gets me most of the time...so I faced it first.
The art was/is simple...I wasn't looking to make a beautiful page, I was just looking to make a page.  I did! 
So tonight instead of all of the racing thoughts, I can say I did what I could, to lessen them.
"she did it anyway"

IDEA TO ARTWORK TO SHARE

Remember I told you about the bookmark I made for myself, to use as my journal guide?  Well, I went a little crazy and made a few of them... here they are.  I have them listed in my Etsy shop.

And here is the bide side, with the journal prompts on it...

RESOLUTION: TO JOURNAL

This is another resolution I have tried to get into the practice through out the years, but this year....I am trying again.  I like the idea of journaling but sometimes I do not know what to journal about.  My anxiety causes racing thoughts and sometimes they are hard to 'filter" through.  I was looking for a Gratitude journal, but came up empty...so I make myself a journal to use.

This is a photograph of my maternal grandma and her sister.  I love this photo...and I like the way the journal turned out.  While I was out shopping yesterday I came across a gratitude journal that I loved.  the pages were in a list form and them the other page for your own words, it was 24.00 and the cover was not what I wanted.  So what to do?  I took a pic of the page and I created a bookmark for MY journal with the prompts on it.

These are great thought provoking questions, or prompts.  I am so happy I found this book, if not to buy...to borrow the idea of it.  Happy journaling~