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The steps and choices... easy or diy... for chapped hands or hardworking hands.
01/25/2026

The steps and choices... easy or diy... for chapped hands or hardworking hands.

How long does it take for you to finish a journal page?A. less than an hourB. more than an hour
08/24/2025

How long does it take for you to finish a journal page?

A. less than an hour
B. more than an hour

Do yo like bees like we do?We love them!
05/21/2025

Do yo like bees like we do?

We love them!

This is going to upset some of my artist friends.If you and I have had any time together in our art journeys... you migh...
05/19/2025

This is going to upset some of my artist friends.

If you and I have had any time together in our art journeys... you might recognize that anytime someone mentions junk journaling... My spirit and sometimes my whole self willl flinch.

Last Friday my new super creative BFF and I were walking through Hobby Lobby... we were picking up some stuff to finish a project. She told me that she was really interested in Junk Journaling. I had turned my face away... but she could sense my teeth biting down into a tight disapproving prejudice.

Do you know the facial expression that I'm talking about?

Okay... Here is why I almost always feel uneasy about junk journaling... it's the usual product of blight and somberness... honestly... most are depressing to look at.... not filled with wandering pages and curious moments in time like a good trip through a well curated antique shop...

Nope...

Most of what I see published or created for show... look like sadness and expressions of anxiety.

And I get that everyone's healing through art looks different. But I think about what Jesus told us on the mount... long ago... as it pertains to fasting. For us NOT to go around looking sullen and somber as we quietly fast...

[Char Translation....as we do the work of emptying ourselves of the dependence of what feeds us normally... ridding our activities of barriers between our spirit and the truth and character of the ultimate JOY That Jesus calls us forth to know wisely.]

Well... okay this is my belief... and why I journal... so... of course My opinion is a bit prejudice. 🙄

I love... artful expressions that people share... I just think... that what is being shown as an example of junk journaling is a bit monotone in that most looks depressing without hope... and exhausting in spirit.

What do you think?

05/09/2025

Okay... be honest. Do you you every return your purchases to the craft store?

In truth... I'm an exchanger more than a returner.

Aww... the fresh feeling of a ready work space... How long does it take you to clean your art space?
05/03/2025

Aww... the fresh feeling of a ready work space...
How long does it take you to clean your art space?

04/22/2025

Seriously...you don't need to get those magic beans from the craft store. What you need is the taker-downer of the Goliath sized fear and de-motivation of your inner critic.

No one is coming. Go take the beast down, Sis.

If we know one another you might also know that I am ofvthe belief that true beauty and all it loveliness comes from wit...
04/10/2025

If we know one another you might also know that I am ofvthe belief that true beauty and all it loveliness comes from within.

Makeup trends and clothing can elevate our physical features with color... perhaps even support us a bit emotionally... to help us feel that we are looking our best.

Can I be honest?

It's a lot to keep up with...but I adore it!

Which feels good... looks good... is generally pleasing and doesn't look like a I chaotic train wreck.... which is appropriate on the first pew... which needs one less layer it's a lot!!! I GET IT!!

As a long time consultant... I have pulled a lot together... to meld a precise story and design that presents the same story at all angles that are seen.

A creative mullet if you will... where the finished work looks as if it were just all party in the front.... story in the back.

Very much like the beauty of people. Or at least the ones I am blessed to know.

Take for instance this woman's likeness... inked into my journal this week... after stealing a long gaze of her selfie a few days ago.

I couldn't quite capture her spirit on this page... because it is so huge and holds volumes of stories....this 40 something year old woman that has a rich identity that surpasses every affliction she was born with... I won't share her details... but many seem heavy and perplexing... as she has told me.

I've known her for about a decade. When I met her... I will admit I thought she was just an older kid... but she was near 30... interesting... a little bit hard core in her moxie... but beautiful in her spirit... and love for others.... and a passion for fashion and selfies!!

I have been sort of keeping up with her on socials... Im always excited to see her eyes looking into the camera... because my story of her is that SHE is rare and uniquely beautiful. Most Intriguing.

How would you journal this?It's from Ro11:29
03/23/2025

How would you journal this?
It's from Ro11:29

Last fall at our Women's conference we were asked to let go of the labels that we put on ourselves. .. to let go of the ...
02/27/2025

Last fall at our Women's conference we were asked to let go of the labels that we put on ourselves. .. to let go of the barriers that board us in... to trade whatever darkness we see in ourselves... and let our Father turn it into light.

As he does so masterfully, when we surrender our contrived ideas to his good making.

We wrote our things... our prayers... our grievances on little papers... and laid them at the cross..

At the end of our conference... we still had all these burdens in a wicker basket. So my friends, the Minstry Leader and I prayed over each.

My friend Melissa took them home and incinerated them each into Ash afterwards. When they were finished and nothing more than ash... she had an idea... she asked for my creative counsel... later showed up to bible study with a zip lock bag of a few ounces of ashes. And just asked... would you just do it?

I wept with joy. As my heart was really grieving... and had just wrote in my journal...

"You have scattered your time in lieu of ashes"

This inscription in my journal was like a scar on my heart... I had still so much to grieve... from the emptiness or unbslancing of my husband's side of my life... that it was really hard to commit to anything more than a page or two... much less a full painting course... or completed canvas.

I prayed. I prayed more. I thanked God for His incredible gift of the odd talent and crazy way I am able to fuse together Underwhelming colour into words... and asked Him to give me some kind of quelled perspective above my passion... so that I could just finish something... instead of linger.

I prayed the question to God to just give me persistent peace over this new life... and some hope... and refreshment.

And here is my friend... with a baggie full of something like 100 or more women's burdens in a gallon size sack... turned to ash... and she gives me the sack... places her fingers together and prays and smiles...

My heart quaked in such amazing grace... that she would ask me to transform them in the holy huddle of my creative space.

HOLY spirit always shows up in my quiet time...

We worked through lots of color fields... lots of scripture lots of songs... lots of breaking points... lots of cursing out the color purple for getting into the yellow... lots of tears... lots of tissues. Lots of healing... lots of letting go... lots of shutting up. And being still... Lots of listening. Lots of rescue... lots of hearing. Lots of dreaming again. Lots of hoping in the darkness of my own sleepiness... lots of opening my heart and saying... here you go Lord... Here I am.

Here us where we landed this morning.

I sealed it up... snd Melissa is taking it to our friend Shiny tonight.

I hope it blesses her.

After finishing my appointments today... I made myself go outside and enjoy this fall day.Here is the first layer of my ...
11/11/2024

After finishing my appointments today... I made myself go outside and enjoy this fall day.
Here is the first layer of my decorative painting for my master bedroom.

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