Art Day: Sisters, Sparkles & Packing Tape

Art Day with Suzie and Shannon

One of the joys of my week is Art Day every Sunday at our house. My sister Shannon and I spend a few hours at the kitchen table, exploring, creating and having a wonderful time. This week was extra special because my sister Suzie is in visiting from Vancouver and we were able to all create together!

Art Day Prep

All three of us are taking Year of the Spark with Carla Sonheim & Lynn Whipple. We got out all of our supplies and dove into Packing Tape 101, a lesson from Carla.

Art Day Painting Packing Tape

I found it surprisingly fun to paint on packing tape!

Shannon's Art

Perhaps the greatest delight of the day was seeing how everyone’s personal style came out in their creations. Here’s Shannon’s, which includes this awesome cosmic dog on the right!

Suzie's Art

Suzie used food as her inspiration and came up with these beauties. I love the way the one on the left captures her sense of cute and street at the same time!

Jamie's Packing Tape Art

And I think I must have been inspired by my recent visit to the Emily Carr exhibit! She and I share a love of trees.

Art Day Sisters

The upcoming Full Strawberry Moon is all about delight. Clearly we’re feeling her influence already!

Permission to Go Slow, Tarot & Delight

Every weekday morning I invite you Behind the Scenes at my studio.

Today: This morning I experienced a huge sense of release when one of my dear friends gave me permission to go slow. Plus, I’m prepping for the big tarot and oracle card Creative Living Bookshelf and the Full Strawberry Moon!

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Creativity, Magic & Mystery

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Today: The long weekend was glorious – beautiful weather, board games, the garden and art day. Thank goodness after a turn for the worse, with lots of love and care, Jinx seems to be doing a little bit better.

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Create Dreams that Delight You under the Full Strawberry Moon

JRS Full Strawberry Moon Workshop

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What dreams would delight you?

The practice of creating a dreamboard The Studio Way invites more of what you desire into your life while serving as a powerful tool of creative self-reflection. Dreaming in tandem with the phases of the moon helps us deepen our practice, learning the lessons of each moon and developing our Year of Dreams.

Over more than a decade of this practice, I have learned to make dreamboards that are not only manifestation magnets (which they are!) but also powerful reflecting pools. Creating a dreamboard with the full moon tunes you into your inner compass, focusing your heart on the true north of your dreams.

To support you in discovering the powerful practice of dreamboarding, I’ve created a series of workshops, rooted deeply in moon cycles, creativity and magic, rooted in my deep belief in dreams and in you.

Join me in this Full Moon practice and connect to your self, the Universe and your dreams: big and small, tender and brave, grounded and wild.

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For each cycle of the moon, the Year of Dreams series offers a workshop that will guide you through creating your dreamboard under the specific influence of the upcoming Full Moon (e.g. Full Snow Moon, Full Worm Moon, Full Pink Moon). Every monthly offering will include not only the moon-specific workshop but also the How to Make a Dreamboard the Studio Way lesson so that we are all creating in the same context and on the same sacred ground. Once you’ve registered for your workshop, you will have access to it for the lifetime of this offering at the studio. You can return again and again under this full moon to connect to your dreams.

Each Full Moon brings with it a specific focus, a guiding light for your dreams.

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On every New Moon, I will launch a new workshop that will guide you in creating your dreamboard under the specific influence of the upcoming Full Moon (e.g. Full Snow Moon, Full Worm Moon, Full Pink Moon). Every monthly offering will include not only the moon-specific workshop but also the How to Make a Dreamboard the Studio Way lesson so that we are all creating in the same context and on the same sacred ground. Once you purchase your first Year of Dreams workshop, you will receive a coupon giving you access to a special price for every workshop this year.

The Full Strawberry Moon asks: What delights do you dream of?

That is the question we will be focusing on for this workshop. From the moment you arrive, that question will start to steep in your heart. Clues will begin to bubble as you gather your materials, holding the question in your heart. As you step into the creative process, you will start to engage with your dreams. When you enter the circle with the Full Pink Moon, you will have the opportunity to discover the messages she has for you. In that moment, you will create a dreamboard that will become a manifestation magnet but that will also serve as a reflecting pool, helping you discover the dreams in your heart – and the parts of yourself – that want to emerge.

Here’s what you get with this workshop:

  • Welcome: A personal welcome video from me, introducing you to the workshop and inviting you into the circle.
  • Dreamboard Lesson: A complete lesson on How to Make a Dreamboard the Studio Way, rich with magic, creativity, intention and intuition.
  • Full Strawberry Moon Workshop: In this audio workshop, I take you through the entire process of creating a dreamboard as well as using it and journaling to to discover and connect to your dreams.
  • Full Strawberry Moon Guided Visualization: One of the most powerful aspects of the workshop is connecting to the magic of the full moon. You’ll receive a separate MP3 so that you can visit with the Full Snow Moon anytime.
  • Full Strawberry Moon Journal Sheets: To support you in the workshop, you will downloadable journal sheets, one to connect you to your dreams in this very moment and the other to uncover the wisdom within your dreamboard.
  • Printable Supply List: This supply list will make sure you have everything you need for dreamboarding.
  • Bonus Lesson: An additional lesson designed specifically to give you even more opportunity to deepen your experience with your dreamboard and bring more of its magic to life.
  • Bonus Resource: A PDF of the moon cycles of 2015
  • Lifetime Access: As a registrant of this full moon workshop, you will have access to this content for the workshop’s lifetime.
  • Bonus Opportunity: Access to a dreamboard discovery session with me – at a special price!

A Note About Timing: When you register, you’ll have immediate access to this program and everything you need to know in order to create your dreamboard for the Full Strawberry Moon.

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Years ago, sitting in my mom’s living room, hanging out with Mom and my sisters, cutting and gluing, dreaming, chatting, I had no idea that a life-changing practice had entered into my life.

Who would imagine that a simple, creative activity could open up the door to my dreams?

I know it will do the same for you!

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More love from dreamers…

  • I see so many doors and possibilities opening up already as a result of the workshops and my dreamboard. So exciting! Sara Rae
  • I feel power crackling within my own [dreamboard]. It’s amazing. Angie
  • I feel like my dreamboard reached into those core dreams that I sometimes hold back. Tonight, they are out and I feel WILD! Rae
  • This was an incredibly powerful project. I have spent the better part of the past two weeks since the New Moon thinking about it, and collecting thoughts and images. But putting it all together and gluing it down — wow — such a commitment to myself that was. Camilla.
  • It opened my eyes to the many dreams & desires I’ve been keeping deep within. Thanks, Jamie! Poetic Dreams
  • This helped me to start back to where I need to be, listen to my intuition again. Thank you. Anita
  • This is exactly what I need to keep living intentionally. Thank you, Jamie! Ginette
  • What a wonderful way to focus intention for the month ahead. I almost felt like working magic! Emily
  • I found a magical message hidden in a bunch of random magazines! Amazing. Thanks again, Jamie. Elle
  • Thank you Jamie for creating this sacred space and place and for holding all our dreams so tenderly. Susan

Art Rules

Art Rules

Our personal art history has inevitably filled us with Art Rules,  some helpful, some not so much.

A rule that my siblings subconsciously developed was that each art could only belong to one of us. There could be only one dancer, one writer, one artist, one musician, one photographer. What the heck?! This isn’t Highlander! There can be more than one! All of us are multi-passionate creatives and need to explore and express ourselves through whichever art(s) call our names. My brother and sisters and I have talked about it and have consciously decided to let this particular “rule” go.

A lot of the Art Rules that we’ve made up or absorbed over time live in our unconscious. It takes a little nudging (from inside or outside) for them to reveal themselves. Once we become aware of them, we can choose whether to own them or release them.

I had an unconscious Art Rule rear its head in a mixed media class I was taking. The instructor told us to use tracing paper to create our figures.

My first reaction was “You can do that?”

My second reaction was, “You can’t do that!”

In my mind, using tracing paper was cheating. Where did I get that rule? Clearly that wasn’t a rule for the teacher. As a professional artist, she used tracing paper as a tool.

I decided to examine this rule and discovered the belief that fueled it was that if you trace a figure, you won’t learn to draw a figure.

Is that true?

Only one way to find out! I bought some tracing paper and started tracing figures. The first thing I noticed was that it was fun! I could spend hours tracing and that alone would be a gift to my creative practice. Secondly, I could literally feel the learning.I  experienced the curve of a shoulder. I felt the proportion of the body. Tracing bypassed my brain and let my body gain the experience and for a visual-art-fearful kinesthetic learner like me, that was perfect!

I am officially adopting the new rule that tracing paper is an art tool.

What Art Rules are you living by? Here are a few to look at. See if any (or all) of them are familiar.

Art Rules

  • Real art takes time. (I got this one from my mom)
  • Real art is totally original. It must spring fully formed exclusively from your own heart and mind.
  • Each art form can only belong to one member of the family.
  • You have to be born with talent.
  • I can’t ______ (Fill in the blank e.g. dance, sing, write, draw, sew, bake…)
  • Art is a hobby.
  • You can’t make a living as an artist.
  • You’re only a real artist if someone buys your work.
  • If it’s been done, why bother?
  • If someone else does it better, why bother?
  • Creating art is a struggle.
  • Creating art should be easy.
  • To be great, you have to pursue one art exclusively.
  • You need formal training.
  • Formal training will ruin you.
  • Art has to _______ in order to be taken seriously.
  • It’s too late for me to pursue my art
  • Artists have to suffer in order to be great.
  • Artists are the “cool kids”.

Clearing the rules that aren’t supporting us creatively is powerful and important work – for ourselves and for the others we impact in our lives. We will pass along the rules that we are living, whether we know it or not. Let’s make sure that we pass on what we truly believe in.

Please share your art rules in the comments. Let us know which ones you believe in and which ones you are ready to break!

Pace, Writing & the ABCs of Creative Living

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Today: Feeling the pace shift as we slip into the warmer season. It feels like just the right time for writing and creating the ABCs of Creative Living. I’d love your input!

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Intention, Sisters & Secondhand Style

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Today: The energy behind the book is really starting to steer the boat – plus I’m takingI’m taking time to have fun with my sisters and that includes secondhand shopping!

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