A Little Challenge...

So my last post I shared with you how my MOJO had taken a hike and that, after a month it was slowly coming back. Well, you know what?? I want it back 100%. And the very best way I know how to get it back is to just put in the time...

The creative time that is!


‘The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.’  Alan Alda

Like Alan Alda says...I want to leave my city of comfort and go into the wilderness of my intuition. 

I want to take all those ideas running around in my head and get them down on canvas or in my art journal or scrap with photos of my family.

Art is what I love.

It fills me up like nothing else.

So, I have decided that starting Monday, January 23rd to create everyday for 2 weeks.

Everyday I will journal or paint or scrap or draw...something.

AND I will share it here with you.

What to know the best part??

I want YOU to join me!!

I know, I know...there are about a dozen e-courses going on out there right now...but all I'm asking is just 2 weeks of your time! 

January 23-February 6.

“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.” — Edward de Bono

So, will you join me? Come on, girls!! Let's get our creativity on!!!

Oh and don not worry!! You do NOT need to post your work unless you want to:) The goal is to JUST CREATE!!!

You girls are awesome:)

It's the Small and Simple Things...Friday Prompt

Frugality is one of the most 

beautiful and joyful words

in the English language, 

and yet one that we are culturally 

cut off from understanding and enjoying. 

The consumption society has made us

feel that happiness lies in having things, 

and has failed to teach us 

the happiness of not having things. 

~Elise Boulding

This summer has been hard. 

 The economy in our smaller town

is getting tighter and tighter. 

And when you are self-employed...

it can be a very scary thing. 

And while I've tried keeping my chin up

most of the times I have failed miserably.

While it seems like all my friends 

and family are going on vacations to Disney World

and island cruises and shopping at the

local mall...we are watching

every single penny that leaves

this house. 

No vacation for us this year.

No back to school shopping sprees.

I just haven't been my cheerful self.

I hate that.

But then...when I was just feeling my lowest...

I read a comment from my friend Kay

on Facebook. It said...

"I woke up early today and am now canning

pickles. I love my life."

Girls, I thought about these 2

sentences all day. 

During my hour long walk, during my 

house cleaning and while I cooked dinner. 

It's the small and simple things in our life that bring us 

true joy. That gives our life meaning.

I already knew that. But maybe, somewhere I had forgot it. 

I didn't think I had forgot it....

but I had. I have been so consumed 

with all the CAN NOTS that I forgot

about the truly good things in my life.

So this weekend our Friday Prompt is to make a list...a very long list...of all 

the small and simple things that 

make us happy. 

That make our hearts sing.

And while you're at...why not put this list in your Art Journals

or scrapbook pages? Create a pretty reminder of 

all that is so very good in your life.

What are the the Simple things that make your life oh so good?