I’ve lived in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area my whole life, but I’ve never seen it quite the way I have with Dave over the last year or so since he moved here. Dave has a way of scoping out events, venues, music, and fun holes-in-the-wall for great food. While I’d been to the Tennessee Aquarium, […]
Want more freedom, joy and peace in your life? Create! Create something every single day no matter what it is. Imagine a bird with its wings clipped so it can’t fly. Picture a stallion trapped in a tiny corral or a dog on a leash. None of these creatures can do what it was born […]
I’ve been playing around with these Artist’s Loft Watercolor Dual Tip markers on a small water color notepad. I really love the way the markers glide on. They’re easy to control and there’s something incredibly therapeutic and relaxing about drawing with them. I’ve been doodling different designs and learning how to control the pens. Today I […]
As an analytical person with perfectionist tendencies and an inclination toward drawing literal scenes, today I decided releasing perfection was the way to go. I wanted to draw some nature items from my front yard without worrying about literal-ism, placement, proportions or perfectionism. Today was about having fun and relaxing, not about a finished product, […]
I loved drawing people as a teenager… faces in particular. After I drew the okra blossom at the Social Security office on Friday (10/12/2018), I pulled up a photo of my husband on my phone and worked on a portrait sketch of him. Honestly, I had no expectations. I was 17 or 18 the last […]
At the end of the meditation that set me on this creative challenge, the idea flashed into my mind to create a photo collage for my husband’s birthday. I wasn’t sure exactly what I’d need to make a nice photo collage, but I figured I could research and find out. When I walked into the […]
For my creativity challenge project today I combined art, music, and poetry. I went to the meadow on our property for inspiration, and took my sketchpad, and drawing supplies along with the new easel I picked up at Hobby Lobby for only $17.50. The easel was the display model and the last one they had. […]
When I first felt inspired to start this creativity challenge, I heard the phrase “redeem the time.” Redeeming time is a phrase from the New Testament. Here’s how I used a wait at the Social Security office to discover a message from God in nature. Normally, if I’m waiting somewhere with nothing to do, I […]
You are a creator. Life is all about creation – creating outcomes, creating beauty, creating love, creating life. I have a form of prayer / meditation I use where I imagine myself coming into the presence of Jesus Christ. I go with a clear question in mind of what I want to ask Him and […]