Big thanks to my sponsors...I'm really enjoying these weekly sponsor spotlights where their creative talents and businesses are featured. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor (includes your ad on the sidebar + ongoing spotlights), please send me an email for further information! Now taking sign-ups for the holiday season (Nov/Dec).
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The Be Present Retreats are an invitation to pause in your life and gather in an intimate, creative community to explore, create, discover, and soak up the world around you. Each retreat takes place in the Pacific Northwest and includes time spent in creative community paired with exercises to remind you to open your eyes and heart and be present on your path.
2011 brings a new type of retreat with the Studio Gathering Series. These retreats are inspired by the image of a room our own where we can write, paint, play, and live creative dreams into reality combined with the idea that creative souls crave community with others who speak their language. These retreats will include time spent in group discussions and experiential activities, time for small group and one-on-one private sessions with mentors who will be at each retreat, and several hours each day for personal "studio" time. The first retreat in this series is "Sea Studio: Pen & Paper," which will take place in February in Manzanita, Oregon. This retreat focuses on writing and includes these amazing mentors: Kate Inglis, Jenna McGuiggan, and Christen Olivarez. Registration for Sea Studio: Pen & Paper will begin October 26. To learn more about this retreat and for a sneak peek of other 2011 retreats, please visit www.bepresentretreats.com.
2011 brings a new type of retreat with the Studio Gathering Series. These retreats are inspired by the image of a room our own where we can write, paint, play, and live creative dreams into reality combined with the idea that creative souls crave community with others who speak their language. These retreats will include time spent in group discussions and experiential activities, time for small group and one-on-one private sessions with mentors who will be at each retreat, and several hours each day for personal "studio" time. The first retreat in this series is "Sea Studio: Pen & Paper," which will take place in February in Manzanita, Oregon. This retreat focuses on writing and includes these amazing mentors: Kate Inglis, Jenna McGuiggan, and Christen Olivarez. Registration for Sea Studio: Pen & Paper will begin October 26. To learn more about this retreat and for a sneak peek of other 2011 retreats, please visit www.bepresentretreats.com.
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Stephanie Lee writes, "I'm so pleased to present another round of my most comprehensive, non-traditional metal-smithing class to date! The first four-week round was a huge success and I'm so excited to be sharing an entire weeks worth of new information this go 'round. (You don't have to have taken session one to join in on session two.) It comes at the perfect time of year...just in time for Holiday gift giving. Imagine being able to generously give your own handcrafted beautiful works of metal art and jewelry to all your amazed friends! Heck, you could even give the class itself as an early present! If you've never done anything like this before, no worries. I'm totally committed to helping you comfortably explore the medium at whatever pace you want.
There is so much information I'll be sharing with you in class. FIVE (!!) weeks of video tutorials, PDF's, and a heckuva lot more. Not only that, but you will also have three full months after the last official day of class where you will have access to the class site and all content so's you can digest it all at your own pace. Whether you are a jeweler or a dabbler in other mediums, this class is sure to have plenty of spark to light your creative fire! I'd love to have you in on the fun!
There is so much information I'll be sharing with you in class. FIVE (!!) weeks of video tutorials, PDF's, and a heckuva lot more. Not only that, but you will also have three full months after the last official day of class where you will have access to the class site and all content so's you can digest it all at your own pace. Whether you are a jeweler or a dabbler in other mediums, this class is sure to have plenty of spark to light your creative fire! I'd love to have you in on the fun!
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I am a firm believer that our stories are not for us alone that they are for us to give courage, support and wisdom to each other. You can read about my creative journey and see my latest works on my blog.
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Jennifer Valentine of Sacred Cake is an assemblage artist and vintage assemblage jewelry designer living in small town Michigan with her husband, a talented portrait painter, and four of her five lively children. Her inspiration is drawn from her years living the quiet country life, her study of religious iconography, and her adoration and deep appreciation for remnants of the past. All of these elements intertwine to create one of a kind assemblage jewelry and functional artwork infused with spirit and the stories of her heart. You can read more about her life and her work on her blog. To celebrate her recent publications this year in Belle Armoire Jewelry, Jewelry Affaire, Artful Blogging and Somerset Life, she is offering a 5.00 coupon to all Kelly Rae readers this week, good for any purchase over 20.00 in her new Artfire shop. Use coupon code “Celebrate with Sacred Cake” to receive your discount.
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ABCcreativity is the online home of artist, healer, teacher and coach Andrea Schroeder. Everything at ABCcreativity has one goal: to support you in using your creativity to light a path to your dreams.
Andrea offers creative coaching/healing/magic-making sessions, creativity and meditation kits, a free creativity 101 e-course for discovering your creative magic and all sorts of creative magic every week on her blog.
To me, art has been the unexpected discovery of finding my passion. When I finally put paint onto paper, my heart and life exploded with a joy I hadn’t known before.
