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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Rita Maria Gallery
creating art is my way of communicating my deepest thoughts and feelings. it can be a little intimidating to put some of my paintings “out there”. it almost feels like i’m exposing my journal for everyone to read. why create something if it isn’t going to be personal to you? not being able to paint would be the same as taking away my ability to communicate. with many of my paintings you might notice that i usually title the piece after a quote or i’ll include the quote in the painting. its usually something that i’ve connected to in some way. maybe it’s in the form of a song or a poem. i will jot it down on whatever is in front of me. sometimes i’ll carry a quote around for years until i can illustrate it in a way that just feels right. i’m really not a good writer or speaker, but i know when it is important to me, i can say it best with a brush and some paint. just like my own spirit, my work may appear very whimsical and colorful on the outside. however, if you look deeper you would see that it is very honest, meaningful and bittersweet. i leave you with not just my work, but my inspirations, my secrets, my journal; hoping that it will inspire you to express yourself as well. i invite you into my world at www.ritamariagallery.com.****************************************
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Over the last few weeks autumn, Erica Cooper has been dividing the time in her studio office with designing client spaces, creating new items for her upcoming shop, photographing those items, and writing about celebrating the ordinary in our lives. Erica’s passion is “all things home”, evident in her blog Celebrate Life Everyday. By celebrating the moments that are big and small; living life using the creativity within us; and embracing the place called home, that centers & restores us; we pass on all that matters. It’s telling our story and writing the pages each day with meaning and joy.
So, please grab a cup of coffee and a warm cookie and join Erica over at her Blog: www.CelebrateLifeEveryday.com where the journey always heads home and where soon you can shop her latest venture, Celebrate HOME Studios, featuring unique finds for home and life. While visiting her blog, sign-up for Erica’s newsletter to receive updates & specials for her new shop and pass the link along to another kindred spirit who also loves to celebrate the daily. Update: The new shop will debut soon, so please stop by and subscribe to the blog… special “Preview Invite” will be going out this month!
So, please grab a cup of coffee and a warm cookie and join Erica over at her Blog: www.CelebrateLifeEveryday.com where the journey always heads home and where soon you can shop her latest venture, Celebrate HOME Studios, featuring unique finds for home and life. While visiting her blog, sign-up for Erica’s newsletter to receive updates & specials for her new shop and pass the link along to another kindred spirit who also loves to celebrate the daily. Update: The new shop will debut soon, so please stop by and subscribe to the blog… special “Preview Invite” will be going out this month!
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I am Kaye-Lee Pantony artist and psychotherapist. I have created the e-course Sublime which is an online course with a focus on helping us remember and integrate a very powerful part of ourselves - our inner adolescent girl. We use photography, collage, mixed media and journaling to draw forth this potent self. Remembered and integrated this girl within provides us with limitless growth and possibilities, as well as the potential to become unapologetically ourselves.
The Fall Sublime class has just begun so there is still time to join us. If you join as a late comer, you will receive $50 dollars off our fall session! Alternatively, we will run the class again in January 2011 with registration in early December. Hope to see you on one of our creative journeys!
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Also, for added incentive, profits of the website go to the Close2myArt Cycling Team, a non-profit training program that Michelle and her husband Gary started, teaching kids the basics of bike handling and racing in a fun and healthy environment. To learn more about our studio and the artist, Michelle Allen, check out her blog here!
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Where Ava Dreams was created by artist, children's writer and dreamer-girl, Dyan Whyte to celebrate and express the magical and childlike creative spirit that she sees in everyone she meets. Ever a creative soul who believes in the power of dreams and the inner child, Where Ava Dreams offers art both for and inspired by the childlike, children and Dyan's childhood. Gentle angels and sometimes cuddly animals are part of the world of Where Ava Dreams, which primarily features the little dolls as they're affectionately called.
Dyan muses and shares her own creative journey and unfolding on her blog, as well as her experiences as a Jamaican living in Canada and adventures with her furry yet mischievous cockapoo - SweetSop. At the heart of it all she's a playful and imaginative dreamer who feels inspired to help others connect with their childlike spirit as she nurtures her own creativity in between wondering what pretty outfits to dress her little dolls in next! Follow along with the little dolls at Dyan's blog and wander by her store to explore her art. Dyan is offering all Kelly Rae blog readers FREE SHIPPING on each purchase all week from her online store - please use discount code: LITTLESTAR
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.
