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Trusting Your Ideas

Dear Wonderful Creative You, One of the most important questions you can ask yourself is why...

Fine Line Flower Tutorial

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: Over the last six years, presenting roughly 40 different patterns...

Developing Your Artistic Voice

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: This quarter in The Gathering, we are focused on developing your...

How to Create a Gorgeous, Authentic Art Journal Page

Jan 26, 2015 | Art Tutorials

Hello You Wonderful, Creative Soul: This is a post I have been wanting to do for you for some time: a free mini art journaling class and tutorial! It's a step-by-step tutorial for creating a gorgeous, authentic journal page with no canned stamps or stencils. I promise...

What Is Creative Self-Care?

Jan 20, 2015 | Art Tutorials, Creative Self-Care

Creative self-care is not just about regular exercise, eating right, and making time to relax. Creative self-care is about feeding your soul. It's making sure that you have something to be excited about when you get up in the morning. For me, that's family,...

Easy Self-Care Ideas: How to Plan an Afternoon to Yourself

Jan 11, 2015 | Art Tutorials, Creative Self-Care

By: Amy Maricle This week I am guest posting on the Small Talk blog at Small Company Artworks. Melissa Gondeck is a sculptor and blogger who focuses on bringing more lovely and fun into life. She asked if I'd be willing to blog about about how to prep for that...

New Year’s Intention: Choose Love

Jan 4, 2015 | Creative Self-Care, Spirituality

Several months ago one of my clients asked if I had heard Jim Carrey's commencement speech about choosing LOVE. She thought the message closely aligned with the work we had been doing, and after watching, I couldn't agree more. I hope his message...

Year End Gratitude, Our Winner, and a Special Gift

Dec 30, 2014 | Creative Self-Care

Hello Wonderful, Creative You: Well, you did it. We are almost at the close of the year, the holidays are over, and you're still here. How did your self-care strategy work out this holiday? What did you do? Did you take things off your plate? Make more time for...

The Holiday Self-Care Challenge Week: 4

Dec 22, 2014 | Creative Self-Care

By: Amy Maricle Hello You! This last week of the challenge, (plus a couple of days) I thought we could focus on something that really speaks to the spirit of the season: Giving. When we talk about self-care, we focus a lot on needing to be sure that you give to...

The Holiday Self-Care Challenge Week: 3

Dec 15, 2014 | Creative Self-Care

By: Amy Maricle Hello Wonderful You, How are you? We are now officially in the throws of the holiday rush. How's it going? Have you been able to steal away some moments for yourself - whether taking pictures for the contest, working on some art, or just slowing down...

The Holiday Self-Care Challenge Week 2

Dec 8, 2014 | Art Tutorials

Hello You! Welcome to Week Two! This week's theme is: Beauty. Get creative. Be on the lookout for beauty all day every day this week. How can you capture it? A snowflake gently resting on a child's hand Twinkling Christmas lights Morning frost on a few...