Creative Living with Jamie: Sarah Bray

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Sarah Bray, digital strategist & author

Sarah J. Bray is a digital strategist who loves collaborating on projects that make the Internet happier. She is the author of Gather the People: a simple, honest approach to creating work that people love, buy, and share (listeners can use code JAMIELOVE to get $10 off).

Sarah is also co-founder of everybranch, an online school where she is building community and helping produce a podcast around balancing creativity and life. Digital Detox is their first class, opening for enrollment early summer.

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Blessings, Creativity & Bringing Ideas to Life

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

Today: My heart is rich with blessings today and memories about the road that brought me here.

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I’m back to my #goodmorninggarden series! You can find me and my photos on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter

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Creativity, Curiosity & Our Art Stories

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

Today: Stories seem to be the theme these days, from family stories to art stories. I’m enjoying following along with curiosity and seeing where these stories will lead!

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Garden Phlox

Spring has returned and I’m back to my #goodmorninggarden series! You can find me and my photos on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter

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Tweaking, Expansion & Comfort Zones

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

Today: Experiencing Mother’s Day after the loss of our mom reminds me that we can tweak our experiences so that they fit us much better – though we should be wary of constantly creating our comfort zone! Plus, I have an idea for sharing our gardens!

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Spring has returned and I’m back to my #goodmorninggarden series! You can find me and my photos on Instagram, Facebook & Twitter

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Unboxing: Spring Plants for the Garden

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It’s spring in the garden and it feels like Christmas!

This year for the garden I decided to stop relying on whatever the buyer my local garden centre happens to order and instead branch out into the possibilities of what I can order online. Somehow I stumbled across Botanus, a mail-order gardening company guided by three women and three values: Care ~ Inspire ~ Grow. I signed up for their newsletter, watched some of their YouTube videos and decided I was going to give ordering a try. I wanted to share with you the excitement of opening up the box and discovering treasures within!

Here’s a list of my spring plant order – don’t peek if you want to be surprised on the video!

Acidanthera bicolor murielae
Astilbe japonica ‘Deutschland’
Astrantia major ‘Star of Billion’
Athyrium niponicum ‘Metallicum’
Cafe au Lait Giant Dinnerplate Dahlia
Claire Austin David Austin Rose
Helleborus orientalis ‘Double White Pearl’
Hemerocallis ‘White Temptation’
Philadelphus ‘Snowbelle’

I’ll be sure to keep you updated about how things grow.

Keeping a Gardening Journal

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Now that spring is truly here, I find that my studio extends right out into the garden. I still can’t quite believe how gardening has crept up on me as an interest.

The seeds were planting when I was young and my mom would walk me in the stroller and as we’d pass things say, “Oh, there are some hyacinths.” “Look at that forsythia. Isn’t it pretty?” Now I find myself insisting my husband walk around our little patch so that I can do the same with him. “Oh, honey, did you see this? That’s a hydrangea.” “Look, the tulips came up!”

Now, as I tend to my own garden, perhaps the most significant thing I’ve learned is to stay with and believe in larger projects, to trust that little by little with care and effort, things will develop and grow. This gives me a sense of peace, hope and patience – which is particularly great because the latter is not one of my best qualities!

As I admit to myself that gardening has simply and surprisingly become a part of my creative life, I was delighted to find a way to combine it with another favourite creative practice: journaling.

In the Garden with Jamie: Spring Is Really Here!

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When spring arrives I suddenly feel like my studio has grown and extended out into our backyard! It’s only been a couple of weeks that there has been any signs of green at all and now the tulips are blooming and just about everything else is sprouting – hostas, phlox, peonies, irises, my bleeding heart and more. Even the daffodils, which I had just about given up on, seem to have found their way.

I wanted to take you on a tour of the garden as it is right now, at the beginning of spring, before I plant anything new.

(Pssst… I’ll be sharing an unboxing soon of all the new plants I’ve ordered!)