Category: 30daysofgrace

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” –Thich Nhat Hanh “Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.” –Pierre Teilhard de Chardin “According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking …

*In your sketchbook, create a 10 – 20 minute pen and ink piece that affirms some light and positivity in your life. The purpose of this exercise is to: * Work your trust and instincts in the creative process by allowing a time limit. You won’t second guess yourself. * Affirm your own unique beauty: to …

“Now shall I walk or shall I ride? ‘Ride,’ Pleasure said; ‘Walk,’ Joy replied.” — W. H. Davies “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” –Friedrich Nietzche As mentioned before in a previous lesson, going on a walk can be a sacred act. *This time, I would like for you to act as collector, …

“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.” –Audrey Hepburn Materials needed for this lesson: 1. Aquabord …

“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”  –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”  –Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943 “Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once …

“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.” –Henry David Thoreau “Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, …

“Silence is a source of Great Strength.” –Laozi “I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.” –Chaim Potok Take this day as an opportunity to gather and become still. Listen to the silence. Feel it. Welcome it. What does …

Time to paint, dear goddesses! Materials needed for this lesson: Pencil Canvas or canvas board Gesso Acrylic paints (a variety of flower colors, choose brights, flourescents, black and white) Acrylic brushes (a variety of sizes of course) Fine Glitter Water-based Paint Pens Gel pens Let the bright and bold palette of the flower world inspire …

GIVE me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling, Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard, Give me a field where the unmowed grass grows, Give me an arbor, give me the trellised grape, Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching content, Give me nights …

Materials needed for this lesson: 1. Mixed media sketchbook or watercolor paper. 2. Brushes (soft round is best). 3. Inks. 4. Paint pens/gel pens. 5. Washi tape (optional) you can also glue in bright paper if you don’t have Washi tape. 6. A few bright acrylic paints. password for the above video: peninkbliss The still …

“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her… I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her…” –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince “since the …

And that quote above from Gibran is exactly why I value this lesson so much. Ladies, it’s time to dust off your self-love lens and see yourself anew. I know this may be difficult or challenging for many of you, but TRULY I cannot tell you how valuable this lesson is! We have created safe …

“The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is the mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all.” –Hildegard of Bingen *Take out your sketchbook. *In what ways can you begin, starting today, to more embody …

“Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.” –Doreen Valiente Create: Take out a canvas board, gesso, papers, matte/gloss medium, acrylic paints, brushes, glitter, paint …

I believe within every woman lies a Goddess, and by that I mean an empowered woman: a creatrix of beauty, nourishment, sustenance, passion, understanding, wisdom, and so much more. For me, it has been healing and fulfilling to discover and paint my feminine muses. It is honoring and knowing that the divine feminine resides within …

Today’s exercise is honestly one of my favorite creative activities. It’s the simple and meditative act of going on a walk in Nature and taking your smart phone or digital camera, and capturing what you notice. I find it to be a wonderful self-care practice, along with a way to stir my creative juju and …

So as we close this week, I’d like you to focus on a few things today and this weekend. Its all about self care, loves. So do it up and do it well. * Take a hot bath. Light candles, put some spirit-nurturing music on. (I love Lisa Gerrard and Enya, totally new age and …

“Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.” –Marianne Williamson “Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could …

“Rather than setting out to paint something I began painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself under my brush.… The first stage is free, unconscious.” -Joán Miró From the MoMA website: André Masson (who created the above image on the right, Joán Miró, the work on the left) began …