Current Creative Endeavors

By: Lynda
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Believe it or not, it’s not all marbling around here! I’ve been taking a couple of classes – a bit out of my comfort zone. One is an online class, Story Threads, with Cat Caracelo. This is my first collage for this class.  The cat is my Sidd who came to me in the guided…

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Starting A 2013 Monthly Art Journal

By: Lynda
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Years ago, I taught an online class called Monthly Write where on a certain date each month we would respond to four writing prompts and also include art and pictures. It was a fun class and I treasure that journal. I’ve really had trouble getting back into the habit of keeping any type of journal…

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It’s a new year!

By: Lynda
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Happy New Year everyone! Before I get started with this post I wanted to thank you all for all of the kind comments and emails about Sidd. Those kind words have meant so much to me. We buried him down next to Shel by the beehive. Years ago Deeg had given me rocks with painted…

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Watercolor Card Class

By: Lynda
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Yesterday I stopped by Make Time To Create, a local craft studio/store, to attend a watercolor card class. I bought these Twinkling H20s several years ago in Nashville, Indiana on a getaway with hubby. We were checking out all the quaint little stores and there down an alley was a great shop with all kinds…

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All Things Must End

By: Lynda
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Last night was the fifth and final session of my Journal To The Self® class. This was the first time I’ve taught this basic introduction to journal writing class in many years. What a wonderful group of women and a man! I’ve been asked many times over the years why would anyone need to take…

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Goodbye Heartwriting

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Many of you don’t know this, but for years I have had a website called Heartwriting. Originally it was heartwriting.com. In 2007 with selling houses, buying a house, and getting married, I took down the site to get settled. I reopened the site as heartwriting.biz (.com was gone). From those sites I taught many online…

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Strathmore Visual Journaling

By: Lynda
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We just completed Workshop One of Strathmore’s Online Visual Journaling Series. This month’s topic has been Recycled Journal pages. We started creating with one page made from copies of previous journal pages we’ve created. Here is my original journal page I created a while back that was the basis of this workshop’s page. Each week…

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Art Journal Interview

By: Lynda
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I am so excited! I was interviewed last month by Wellness & Writing Connections for their January newsletter about my art journal and it’s now out! The interview has now been taken down so I’ve included it in this post. —————————— Lynda, would you please introduce yourself to our readers and share how you began…

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Writing Your Story Class Begins Soon!

By: Lynda
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I’ve been spending some time with my mother lately. Well, not really my mother, but her words and thoughts from her high school diary. She wrote about her boyfriends and her courtship with Dad. She wrote about taking a cooking class and how much she hated school. It was so nice to have this, but…

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