Author: Jamie

Finding Beauty in My Neglected Garden

My Neglected Garden

It’s fall and I’ve been feeling badly about neglecting my garden this year. Maybe it was the heat. Maybe it was the intense work going on in the studio. I hardly got out there at all. Weeds grew to a massive height. Grass pushed the boundaries, establishing dominance over the garden borders. Stray morning glories wound their way tightly around phlox and roses, intertwining their fates for the season. When I saw my peonies covered in powdery mildew, I wanted to go back inside.

Instead. I looked a little closer. Here’s what I saw.

tenderness

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phlox

hydrangea

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The beauty of life always and always finds a way and that always and always gives me hope.

Jamie photographing Shibumi & Scout

The Wrong Road, Getting Behind & Creating Anyway

Every Monday, Wednesday & Friday morning I invite you Behind the Scenes at my studio.

Today: Creating always teaches me so many lessons, including how to keep creating when I get stuck or feel behind and why it’s worth it!

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Creative Living with Jamie: Joan Stanford

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 This Week on Creative Living with Jamie: Joan Stanford, author & art therapist

About Joan..

Joan is a board-certified art therapist and full-time innkeeper who has been facilitating creativity groups for over twenty years encouraging people of all ages, especially non-artists, to expand their awareness through playing with art materials. She has been recognized with the Soroptimist “Making a Difference For Women” award for an art-based curriculum she co-created and taught in local schools. Her poems have been published and her art exhibited. She lives in Mendocino, California with her husband, and offers imagination playshops and creativity retreats at their inn and wellness center— The Stanford Inn by the Sea and the Mendocino Center for Living Well.

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Doodles, Environments & Clearing the Way for Fall

Every Monday, Wednesday & Friday morning I invite you Behind the Scenes at my studio.

Today:   Still working on clearing up and letting go before the seasons shifts this Thursday and also finding time to enjoy poetry and invite in beauty, creativity and more with my dreamboard.

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Letting Go, Poetry & Dreamboards

Every Monday, Wednesday & Friday morning I invite you Behind the Scenes at my studio.

Today:   Still working on clearing up and letting go before the seasons shifts this Thursday and also finding time to enjoy poetry and invite in beauty, creativity and more with my dreamboard.

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