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As this year comes to an end and a new one begins, make time to take time to color.
Click the link to print out the Happy New Year Coloring Page. Download Happynewyearcoloringpage
p.s TODAY (12/31/ 2014) is the last day to sign up for "A whole New Doodle" After tonight, the class is no longer open for registration and is officially retired. (once you register, the class content is yours for the rest of your life!)
It is time BUT:
How do I let you know that it is time?
Advertising fees for E! ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MTV and all of the other channels are way to much money. Airtime during The Bandid Bowl, The Tupperware Bowl, The Toilet Bowl, The Dog Bowl and all of the other Bowl games is out of the question and it is 11 months too late to build a float for the Rose Parade.
Today is the 30th and there is only one day left in this year. I am going to reattempt to send out emails today BUT DO NOT FREAK OUT OF YOU DO NOT GET ONE because all of the same information that is on the email will be:
and this is where YOU come in. Help a girl out here and IF you see someone needing help online, can you help me point them in the right direction?
Where do you point them?? To the new Documented Faith 2015 site.
Are you ready?
I am!
My 2014 was jam packed with traveling, teaching, journaling, learning, focusing, celebrating, reconnecting, slowing down, saying no, staying open, choosing, dreaming, failing, balancing, dropping, growing, stretching and transforming.
2014 was a good year because it was a good year.
Yes it had bumps, bruises, forks in the road, terrible moments and heartbreaking situations but it had equally wonderful times, celebrations, random acts of crazy and everything that comes in-between.
I guess because I am growing older (& wiser) I am learning to embrace and accept each day as it comes and to make lemonade out of the lemons that drop from the tree once in awhile. I am also recognizing that time is going by faster,
Way faster.
Way too fast and that is why it is most important to get a recipe to make lemonade. I know this all sounds a little cliche' but really, any day that is a new day is a good day.
Of course there will be those days BUT when they come, it all has to do with how firmly your roots are planted to be able to handle and manage those days. For me, I know that I have to eat well, sleep well, physically move daily and stay aligned with God to deal with anything.
Actually to deal with everything.
If any one of those things are off center then when a gust of life blows in, I crumble.
yep.
Let me remind you that I am human and admit that I am not always aligned. I get busy, I get out of whack, off tract, out of focus and off my axis and it is ugly. I KNOW what I need to do but don't always do it.
ugh. When I am mishandling my personal, physical and/or spiritual life, crap happens and that is the very moment that I know that I have got to refocus, realign, readjust and get myself back on tract. It is something I MUST do everyday (sometimes several times a day.)
Am I babbling or do you totally get it?
Here it is.
When I am deeply rooted, aligned, well fed and rested, well then, all is well (even when it isn't) I am prepared and ready to handle take the occasional gust of wind and the storms that come with life. I can say all of that with confidence now because 2014 was my year of "transforming"
What I learned is that I don't do the "transforming" but that I open up and allow God to do the transforming. I learned that on February 15, 2014 (and the reason I remember that is because I wrote it down in my Documented Life Planner.)
The process of being transformed has changed my disposition, the way I work, the way I react, respond and because it is a lifelong process, I will fall, I will fail and I will forget. BUT I will NOT let it stop my progression. Like anything else, I will learn from the hiccups, get up, brush off (okay, maybe cry a little) and then keep on going. It is sorta like a new peace that I have learned. Yay!
But again, there are those moments where I just want to punch someone, spit on someone or just cry under the sheets. That does happen (okay, NOT the spitting) but I do not let it overcome me or ruin anything.
2014 and Transform have been very good for me and as I head straight into a new year, I will not choose a new word but continue to stay OPEN to what is to come (and THAT is part of transforming)
Thank you for always hanging on with me, celebrating with me, high fiving with me, forgiving me, understanding me and accepting me. I am grateful, thankful and blessed by you and I look forward to a wildly creative journey with you in 2015.
Merry Christmas to your family from ours.
At the end of 2014 I will be retiring my online workshop, "A Whole New Doodle"
Now, if you have previously registered or choose to register before Dec. 31, your class content is safe. The classroom NEVER closes anf the content is yours forever and ever.
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I am so excited to head back to the Heber House in Utah at the end of January. It will be my first teaching event of 2015 and I am planning and preparing for an "Artsy Weekend" with Marci to make it a warm, cozy and creative time. My first trip to the Heber House was back in July and it was hot so I am super excited to be there in the snow (remind me of that when I am freezing!)
I will teaching a ton of things including watercolors with Distress Markers
A brand new class using my brand new dies that launch at CHA in the beginning of January (which is just a few weeks away)
as well as some lettering, journaling, pouch painting,
bible journaling all while staying in the same place, getting to know one another,eating, staying up late, eating, getting up early, eating and staying in our jammies if we want! This is my group of friends from my first trip to the Heber House and I look forward to making new memories soon. I hope to see you and ring in the New Year.
To read more about the "Artsy Weekend" please head over to Fallow Field Farms.
Continuing on with my NTD Advent Devotional recap,..
Day 5 talks about what Jesus would be called and what the meaning behind the names stand for. After I had read through the devotional and journaled in my Bible, I got ready for church. When I got there, I sat in my normal spot waiting for the rest of my family to arrive and looked over and kinda giggled. There on the wall was the same exact verse.
THAT is how God works.
Day 6 reminds us about the importance of roots and strength and where our strength comes from. I am loving that each day I am getting so much out of what is in the devotional and how it relates to my everyday life. If you are doing this, are you feeling that? I would love to hear your thoughts.
Day 7 is about what love does and doesn't do and although I have said that each day has been one of my favorites, this really reminded me of things I had not thought about before. For so many of us we always say "love is this" and "love is that" but we don't mention what love isn't and that is probably even more important.
Between all of the Bible Journaling and prepping for Documented Faith 2015, it is getting me so excited to be part of TRUTH SCRAP with my best pal, Lain and a line up of amazing girls. Be sure to go over and check out all of the info about TRUTH SCRAP as well as what Shanna and Heather are doing in their Bibles.
Thank you for all of your shares and comments in regards to my first few days of Advent.
The winner of the mug is robin - [email protected]. Please email me at homegrown1(at)att(dot)net with your mailing address and I will ship it to you.
While this looks like something I would have done, I am not the person who created for the cover of the "Country Living" magazine...
Since I bought the magazine and happily paged through it, I thought I would show you how YOU can recreate the little banners on the cover tree using my Sizzix Banners and Hearts die.
I happen to have a big roll of the red and kraft furniture binding but you can use whatever you want to make your banner.
"Where did I find the furniture binding?" (because I knew you would ask) I bought a big roll of it about four years ago at Wal-Mart in the craft/fabric section by the ribbons & trims.
Okay, cut a piece long enough to fold in half and will be the length of the big banner. IMPORTANT: place the fold BELOW the top cut line of the banner:
Make a Sizzix sandwich (cutting pad on the bottom, die, material, cutting pad on top) and run it through the Big Shot
Place the fold over a string of Jute
and place it happily on the little fake Christmas Tree you have on your kitchen table:
Oh and a bonus, a little heart. I would have had those on my tree if it were on the cover of Country Living, just sayin.
I wonder who I contact so that I can be on the cover of the 2015 Holiday issue..
