Guest Designer

Here is an opening sentence to an email I received last week:

"Hi Teresa!

I'm very excited to tell you that you have been selected to be a Guest Designer for Linnie Blooms! "

I am thrilled and a little apprehensive all rolled into one.  I am ready for the artistic stretching exercise.The first debut of my design(s) will be the first part of August..  I have added a link to Linnie Blooms'  site  on the sidebar.  Please check the site out. 

My heart and face continually smile about the synchronicity of it all.  I recently started being clear and declaring my  intention and the Universe is responding in kind.  I'm practicing (notice I said practicing-I haven't mastered it yet!) being aware of messages I get from other people.  It's a wonderful thing!  

Please tune into http://www.linnieblooms.com August 5-10 to witness my debut of being a Guest Designer.  

A BIG thanks to you!

it's time to dream big!

Have you ever heard the saying, "it's time to sh*t or get off the pot?"  Well... that's how I am feeling, lately.  I have creative ideas that I think about and journal about, I have no clue where they will go but I am finding that it no longer suits me to only think about them.  I want to bring them into fruition.   If it is to be, it is up to me!  

I was watching Oprah's Super Soul Sunday and I heard her say, again, "be clear on your intention and the Universe will rise up to meet you, wherever you are".  I've heard this before but on that particular day it was like the message was deliberately for me.  Then several days later an artist friend of mine, Kelly Hoernig, contacted me and we decided to get together.  She came to my house and we spent the entire day together.  Kelly is really good at probing and asking just the right questions to help you see things from a different perspective.  And she did just that with me on that day.  Most of her questions were "left brain" questions that I did not have answers for.  I was a little surprised at that.  The light bulb went on for sure.  That's all I thought about the next day.   One of my all time favorite sayings is "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear".  My teacher that day was Kelly!  I am ever so grateful for our friendship.  We both set a goal.   Mine is to have my website published by 8/11/13.

Do you have a dream that has only been in your head and you need to break it down into manageable goals in order to make the dream come true?

good news angels

OK everyone out there, who is listening, I am going to share something with you that has been extremely near and dear to my heart since 1993.   Whew!  That is 20 years ago!  These " little angels" came to me in a dream and I had to get out of bed to sketch them, within a few weeks I had started making them.  I would sell them at craft shows  and anywhere I possibly could.  I had a mission because I believed in the message they carried.  I still do!  It's almost as if it's part of who I am.

                                

In October 2012, these little angels popped back into my head.  You can read about it here.  The message was loud and clear, "I was to bring them back".  I set out with good intentions and here it is now 9 months later.  Now I know why I like the saying, "give a slow beginner and I'll show you a winner".  These little angels are taking flight  in a little shop in Indiana called Great Finds.  My husband, John, proudly made the stand re-purposing an old coat tree.  He did a great job, too!   

I have another idea that come to me in a dream of how to bring a smile to someone's face.  It warms my heart when I think about it.  I am in the midst of creating a website (experiencing a learning curve) as part of my plan.  will definitely let you know when it is a go.  I wanted to put this bit of info out there as a way to spur me on.  I would not define myself as a procrastinator but I have noticed a lag between my ideas and the fruition.  

a little drawing time

While my sister enjoyed herself and laid out in the sun.  I sat in a chair beside her, my pencil in hand, my pencil box to my side, and I just drew away.  I'm having a delightful time drawing in my journal.  There are no expectations, just taking the time to practice my skill.  Here are the results.

Daring Greatly

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

...believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path."  

This is an excerpt from a speech given by Steve Jobs.  The first time heard it, it resonated with me.  Lately I have been drawn to it again.  I know within my heart that I am moving in the right direction yet there are times that those little voices seem to be overwhelming and  trying to knock me off my creative path.  I've been here before, as I'm sure you have, too.  I am, as my Mom use to say, "stubborn as an ole mule", so there is no changing my course.  I'm sharing how I feel because I have been reading a book by Brene Brown titled Daring Greatly.   She speaks about shame and how it can haunt us.  One of the essential ways to loosen the grip and affects it has on us is to talk about it.  Well... that is what I am doing here, today.  Nuff said!  -  Thanks for listening!

out of the mouth of babes

Yesterday I had my grandchildren, Delaina and Brayden, at my house all day.  We ALWAYS have a good time.  When I really watch and listen to who they are, I am amazed.    These little beings  have so much to say and so much they can teach me.  I have absolutely no words that can express how much I love them!!!
Anyway...we decided (they actually coerced me) that at 10:00 in the morning it was OK to eat ice cream at Grandmas.  So we did!

Later in the day, while Brayden napped,  Delaina and I got out scissors and I told her we were going to cut some lavender to make some posies.  She was so excited to be able to cut lavender with big people's scissors.  Several times she told me how pretty the flowers were and how much fun she was having.  Then she stopped cutting, looked right at me with a quizzical look on her face and said, "Grandma... is a posie like in the song ring around the rosie,  pocket full of posies,  ashes to ashes all fall down."  

I smiled real big and said, Yes!

create art with a free spirit

My husband and I just returned from our vacation in Mexico.  We have gone there for the last 14 years. We just hang out on the beach, play in the ocean, listen the waves from the ocean,  take many beach naps, drink margaritas, walk along the shoreline... I'm sure by now you get the picture.  We simply go there to reconnect with each other and relax.  This time I took my sketching tablet with me and I made this commitment in my journal.  

Then I did as I committed and I followed thru.  I was going to draw each day and not be concerendd about the outcome. 

There I sat on the beach with a towel folded up as my make shift desk, my pad on my lap, and my box of pencils to my side,  just drawing away.

Here are the results of my very own artist retreat in Mexico.

This one I did not finish in Mexico, she will be done soon.