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It's What you Do With your Mistakes that Matter

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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
 – Scott Adams

Creativity as Nourishment for Your Soul and Your Spirit

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"In order to communicate the message entrusted to us by Christ, the Church needs art.  Art has a unique capacity to take one or another facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes, and sounds that nourish the intuition of those who look and listen"

- Pope John Paul II

The Creative Gift You are Given is Not Just for Personal Use

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"Our gifts are not from God to us, but from God through us to the world."

-The Creative Call

You Owe it To Yourself and to The World to Be More Creative

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"Creative people know that not only are they missing something important when they aren't exercising their creative gifts but they are also shrinking from the responsibility they have to develop those gifts."

-The Creative Call

Maybe We Need to Adjust How We See the World

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 “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, the just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while” 

– Steve Jobs

What Creativity is Really All About

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“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity”

 – Charles Mingus

Creative Habit #4: Good Things Happen When you Take a Walk

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There's something about getting out in the fresh air that clears the mind and helps the clutter of responsibilities and stressers give way a bit and make room for.... something else.  Perspective.  Possibilities.  And once the calm sets in, gradually you begin to feel that perspective give way to alternative ways of looking at a situation.  Have you found this to be true?

Whether the feeling comes from taking a walk or doing a little stretching or simply sitting in a quiet room,  take this into your creative practice.  When you think you do not have anything you want to get out on the page, yet something in you keeps pulling you towards the need to begin or complete something, take whatever activity clears your head a bit from being consumed by responsibility and bring it into your creative habits.

Creative Habit #3: What Do you Mean You Don't Want to Look Silly?

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Life can be intense.  The day to day responsibilities that so many of us carry can leave us too drained to even think about taking the time to do something creative.

But what if...

you allowed your creative activities to bring a bit of sparkle into your life. What if you decided that in the creative space you would allow yourself to play.  Leave the expectations in the realm where you have little choice but to tackle and drive and endure and press on.

In the creative areas of our lives, we can have access to the lighter side of life... things do not have to be as intense.  I find that I have much more stamina in the intense decisions I have to make and a greater ability to follow through in my responsibilities.   I somehow 'find' the energy and have a deeper capacity to take care of business when I take just a few minutes to... play.

Creative Habit Rule #1 - Why Socializing and Finding Your Creative Voice Do Not Fit Together

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I  have noticed that there is always something that needs to be done. Important things. Not so important things.  For others or for yourself.  Your home needs to be cleaned.  Your budget needs to be handled.  Working.  Caring for family. Friendships.  Where will you find time for your creative habit?

One place to look for time is in the down time.  Look at what you are doing in the down moments.  The ten minutes here, 15 minutes over there.  Waiting in a doctor's office or sitting in your break room at work.  What are you doing?  Chatting about the latest gossip?  Checking your phone for texts?  Checking facebook?  

These are the times EVEN IF YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE IT, that you take out your sketch pad, jot down new ideas for a story, take out your watercolor pencils and just do a little.  Just a little.  The little bits and spaces not only fuel your soul but they really do add up.  

I actually started doing this a month ago.  I carry my watercolor pencils with me and during my down time in between calls (I work in a call center)  I bring a little bit of joy into my cubicle.  By the end of the month I had completed over 15 pieces (like the one you see above.)

Grace is Available to you

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Grace
Breath
Transform
Life
Meaning
Free

You Can Start Over and Make it Better

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Time to Dream Again

It's My Dream So Take your Hands Off

Poster Its My Dream Mixed Media Original 7x10 Art and Words Faith Inspire You are enough

Welcome to my series: Inspire Signs

These are one of a kind signs that you can hang in your special studio space or office and you can take a few moments and cherish the bravery you exhibit in your life.

Words:
It's my Dream

Size:
7x10

$10

Do you Know How Brave You Are?

Poster Brave Girl Mixed Media Original 7x9 Art and Words Faith Inspire You are enough

Welcome to my series: Inspire Signs

These are one of a kind signs that you can hang in your special studio space or office and you can take a few moments and cherish the bravery you exhibit in your life.

Words:
Brave Girl

Size:
7x9

$10

Art is Like the Air I Breathe

Poster Faith Art Life Mixed Media Original 7x9 Art and Words Faith Inspire You are enough

Welcome to my series: Inspire Signs

These are one of a kind signs that you can hang in your special studio space or office and you can take a few moments and cherish the bravery you exhibit in your life.

Words:
Faith
Art
Life

Size:
7x9

$10

Idea Girl

She has got 

a ton of ideas

The whispers come to her

night and day

she trusts her instinct

and she believes

that it is her duty to 

bring them to the world...

Details:

6.5" x 9"

mixed media

watercolor/acrylic paint/ink/ephemera

$20

She Puts Her Heart and Soul into It

She sits at her desk

and breathes deeply

and does her best

to put what she has to share with the world

on the page

in the words

in the ink

and the paint

She dreams and hopes

that this could be THE THING

but even so

she shows up

every day...

Details:

Acrylic paint/ephemera/ india ink
9" x 12"
108 lb watercolor paper

$35

I Dream

No matter what is going on in my life

This one thing

is my ace in the hole

my secret place

my garden of joy

yes

no matter what

I find space

I Dream

Details:

Altered book page

7x9

ephemera/india ink

$10

This Little Submarine of Mine

She went on a voyage to her soul and found through looking past the muck of disappointments...
There is was
her dreams
her ideas
her vision
there they are...

Details:
9" x 12"
108lb watercolor paper
acrylic paint/pencil/watercolor

$35

She Decided to Live More Fully

"Live Life Fully"

Here are her lovely details:

This poster is created on an altered book page with paper and acrylic paint, india ink and other ephemera

Details:
7" x 9"

This is a one of a kind piece and will come to you with a certificate of authenticity.

Wrapped securely in bubble wrap

$15