What is refreshing your mental health? Refreshing. What comes to mind when that word is mentioned? Cool, fresh air, ocean spray and sound, gurgling …
Block Printing For Fabric For Beginners
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3 Ways Inspiration Boosts Creativity
Inspiration begins as motivating external factors which cause you to create new ideas, products or actions. Inspiration can come in a variety of ways. …
Why Does Art Help Stress?
Have you ever wondered why does creative expression help stress? In this post I show you a little bit about why expressive art works for all kind of …
Creating Memorial Jewelry
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How Can Creativity Help In Healing Grief?
Grief is extremely important. Although in the midst of grief you may feel that emotions overwhelm and crush you, they are a vital part of your road to …
The Art Of Kintsugi- Broken Is Beautiful
Kintsugi Kintsugi is the Japanese art of reclaiming broken pottery. Kintsugi has been called a redemptive art form. A piece of broken pottery is …
All Things New
Jesus Makes All Things New Luke 5:17-31 Looking For A New Life? Does life sometimes feel stagnant for you? Like you need a refreshing …
The Purity of Christ
When we think of Jesus and the Christmas story, we see from the very beginning the purity of His birth and nature. Pure From …
Discovering Jesus Through Your Sketchbook pt.2
I am happy to bring you a new video and new viewpoint on Jesus' life. Jesus was born in Bethlehem, a pretty small and insignificant place at the …
Discovering Jesus Through Your Sketchbook
Advent Begins The season of Advent begins and we start to celebrate the birth of Jesus. If you are a church-goer oh, you have experienced the …
Sketching Your Garden Growth
A few weeks ago in June I had posted on creating a garden journal. This week I want to talk about filling your journal with sketches and notes on your …
Learn to See Like an Artist
There are many ways to see the world. If you are looking for new ways to broaden your perspective, start learning to see color shape and value like an …
Garden Journaling
Keeping a record of things is as old as the hills. People have journaled or kept records since the beginning of time. It's such an important act. Not …
Love Is In the Details
What comes to mind when you view an intricate pattern, work of art or the intricate beauty of nature?Do you wonder how long it took to create, marvel …
Creating From memories
Memories are important for creating It occurred to me recently that memories have quite a lot to do with how we create. Creativity and memory are …
The Beauty Points To God
This week we continue looking at God as the Creator and how creativity affects our spiritual life. God used skilled artists and craftsman to create …
Therapeutic Art During The Pandemic- Free Mini Course
Covid-19 has forced many people to become introverts and taken away much of our social interactions. For those who are social by nature this can be …
A Prayer For Focus
Father God, There are so many things, so much noise to distract and take me away from your voice. I need your help to focus my heart. Set me as an …
Useful Creativity
Your creations are useful and important to God. Did you ever think of that? He used many creative people to serve Him throughout the Bible and …
The Spiritual Side of Creativity
Did you ever stop to consider what creativity and God have in common? The answer is everything! He as the great Creator of our lives and the world …
Weekly Prayer- Tapestry
Heavenly Father, Our Creator, The times we are living in are hard to be a part of. We see many people that are suffering, including our own lives …
Christmas Art and Fun
As a child, I loved making my own Christmas cards with construction paper and glitter. Many times my sisters and I would create cards for nursing home …
Hygge: Happy Moments In Time
The other night as I was baking in my kitchen, I realized a hygge moment was occuring. My little six month old daughter was at my feet in her walker …
Hygge And Its Simple Pleasures
Hygge (pronounced Hoo-Gah) is a Scandanavian word meaning comfort or warmth. If you do a search on pinterest you will find hundreds of ideas regarding …
Homeschooling and Giving Your Child The Gift of The Arts
This past week was arts education week, which I did not know until coming across it in the news feed of my Facebook. I had already decided to begin …
How To Benefit From Sketching
Did you ever think about how sketching or even doodling could benefit your life? Of course it also benefits your artist's eye but it has more far …
Creative Bloggers and What You Can Learn From Them
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A Victorious Faith for Such A Time As This
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21 This post will finish our devotional on faith and the book of Esther. We will …
The Best Drawing Pencils
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Faith Begets Courage
Did you ever gain the courage to do something because you trusted in and had faith that the results would work? Faith helps your courage to rise and …
Free to Fly
Today in the art journaling post I want to encourage you to think about areas of your life where you feel hindered or held back. As you think of …
Inner Strength Letter Illumination Prompt
How To Express Your Inner Strength With Letter Illumination Inner Strength is something we all need in this life and when you find strength within …
Keeping The Faith Pt. 2
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1 Taking That First Step As we continue our …
Art Journaling
This week I wanted to start up the art journaling. You will need a sketch journal for mixed media any size, glue, some watercolors, regular ballpoint …
Keeping The Faith For Such A Time As This
The other day I was perusing my Amazon Prime movies for something to watch. I came across the story of Queen Esther of the bible. Ever since I was a …
Self Discovery Art Journaling
I am beginning a new series of lessons in the art of keeping a journal. Not just any journal but a creative art journal. The fun thing about art …
Trees, Towers of Inspiration
I love looking at trees, they are gorgeous in so many ways. There is a story to each tree, a growth journey that started as a seed and grew for so …
Creating Your Own Soap
I have found that during this difficult time of the Coronavirus, with many people unable to work and staying home, it pays to be creative and learn …
Fancy Feathers
Have you ever stopped to consider how creative nature is? I find it so very interesting to learn about different animals and their ways of life. They …
Spring Art Doodles!
Happy first day of spring everybody ! I know I have not written on the blog for a while but I've been dealing with a couple of changes and shifting …
God is Near
This morning I read a devotional that I love and felt compelled to share it with you. It is from the devotional, Grace for Today by Max Lucado. Short …
A Visionary Recipe
As you begin your weekend, I want to share with you a couple of recipes to remind you of how to keep adding great ideas to your growing vision! In …
Creating a Vision Board
I promised a post this week focusing on the theme of pursuing your vision. I want to give you a few ideas here for creating an inspiring vision board …
Your Vision Has Potential
In this post today, I am preaching to myself as well as encouraging you. I want to encourage you that whatever your vision is for the future in your …
Playing with Mixed Media for Stress Relief
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How To Write A Simple Haiku
Haiku was a form of Japanese poetry made popular in the 1100’s onward. Basho, the creator of the first Haiku poems, wanted to create a new …
Prayer Can Improve Your Life
Prayer is a place where you get quiet before your Creator. He longs to hear your heart and where you are in life today. In your life, maybe prayer was …
Renewal, Time and Action
Today I wanted to talk about renewal, time and action. Renewal is a part of every new year. For instance, I try and make goals and take a fresh …
Quotes for This Week
I hope these quotes will uplift and encourage you this week! Feel free to share your own favorite quote in the comments! If one really loves …
Lessons In Less Worry
Life can be so very worrisome. There's always so much to do and take care of, always some bad news in the world and always that sense of never being …
Welcome To Beauty For Ashes!
Welcome to Beauty For Ashes website! This blog exists for the purpose of your self care using art, creative writing, inspirational quotes, …