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Winter Guest Post by Goddess Leonie

How to stay connected to nature even when it's cold! Hola gorgeous goddesses! For me, a huge part of my creativity is feeling connected with gorgeous nature. Before I create I get my hands in the earth, my face in…

Day 10: Fall

Another day of starting art during the morning nap and finishing it after the baby's bedtime. This is good! I'm finding ways to fit art in that work for all of us, even if it is a tight squeeze, especially…

Day One: Night Mother, Work-In-Progress

For day one, I had my husband helping me out a bit during the day and was able to spend a little extra time painting. How nice! I had already completed the collage background for this piece, but I'm SO…

Gratitude for the Small Things

To finish up the month of Small (can you believe it's the end of April?), I thought it'd be nice to take some time to reflect on all the small things we're grateful for. It can be so easy to…

Fire Underneath

I've been feeling a little fire-less this summer, but lately, I'm starting to feel an inner-fire kindling away beneath the surface. Sort of like in this painting that is all reds and oranges underneath, even though the top is all…

Fire and Water

I'm a total water person. I'm soothed by the sounds of water, blue is my favorite color, and my sign is Cancer (a water sign), so it's an interesting challenge to focus on fire this month. As I was working…

Fire Red Kayak

So much fun with the hubster yesterday out on the Charles River in a fire red double kayak (how perfect for the fire theme!) Man, what a workout! It was wild being out on the river, it felt like we…

Life Outdoors

I've spent a lot more time outdoors in the mornings this summer as I've been jogging and it's just too hot to go later in the day. But no matter what time I'm out, I'm often using my iphone to…

Tree of Life

Here's what the layers painting became, a tree of life, drawn with ink over the layers of paint. Last night the hubster and I watched an installment of Through the Wormhole, a program on the Science Channel, narrated by Morgan…

A Poem to Inspire

In Blackwater Woods   Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars   of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment,   the long tapers of cattails are bursting and floating away over the…