I am so glad you are here!
Welcome to my site! I am so excited to introduce you to my custom art pieces and share a bit of life with you through my blog. I am determined to become the woman God wants me to be and I believe that path includes glorifying Him in all that I do. This blog is a testament to my everyday journey through faith, family, friendship, service and creativity.
AE{art} Summer Camp
Summer Art Camp for Teen Girls!Faith, Art, Science, Poetry, Photography, Nature, Mindfulness, Self-Discovery, Journaling, Friendship.Small groups of 6-8 in order to make the most meaningful connections.Each camp date have 2 groups: ages 12,13, 14 and 15,16,17.I’ll hire older teen camp counselors as needed (so excited about that!!)Camp will be 9:30a-3:30pm each day/ 5 days. We…
Snow Day!
We’ve got a Snow Day here in MN….and what goes better with a snow day than some baking?!Grandma’s shortbread for the win! Can’t wait for teatime!
Bookbinding 101: Saddle Stitch
I’ve had bookbinding on my “to-learn” list for years! It’s reached the top of my list now that I’ve been making my own travelers journals using watercolor paper. I visited with a friend last week who had a beautiful stack of handmade journals that she had hand-sewn. I was in love! That was just the…
My 2020 Reading List
This stack of books represents a year of growth to me. The balance between soul-searching surrender and encouragement. A few were difficult to get through because they were heavy, but the heaviness led to acknowledgement of hurts yet to be healed, (“Emotionally Healthy Spirituality”, “Forgiving what you can’t Forget”). They stirred places of anger and…
A Close-Up of Look into Eve’s Story
A few facts & tid-bits: *God’s command to Adam to not eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil came BEFORE Eve was created. (She was not around to hear the command) (Genesis 2:16) * Adam was standing NEXT to Eve when she was deceived by the serpent. She took a…
Tale of the Two Headed Serpent
This “two-headed” serpent whispering deception into Eve’s heart was not originally part of my vision.It was by complete chance that this little blob of wet paint slid its way from another layout onto this one! I cut Eve’s silhouette out, thinking I’d paint over the blob. As I glued her down, I couldn’t believe what…
Sweet Eve, in the Garden
Oh, how I wish we could know more about her!I think she meant well. I think she was probably a people-pleaser…. Wanting to please both Adam and God. She wanted to do what was right, but also didn’t want to offend. She trusted the snake…because she didn’t know NOT to trust. She knew God had…
Restoration
Shhhh…..I’m with the trees now. This is peace. With every step I took, I breathed deeper. I think I smiled the whole walk! The sound of the snow crunching beneath my boots, the swish-swish of my snow pants, a few birds chirping. It was mostly still. Except for me. I needed to feel small, small…
Legacy
STORY is my word of the year…and Ohmygoodness it’s taken me down some spiritual and self-awakening paths that I never would have imagined. “Story” has led me to think about my legacy. (Who would have thought in my early 40’s that I’m thinking about what I’ll leave behind? Surely not me!) But. This is going…
Note to Self.
Note to self. And you, as well! Just be YOU, sweet daughter of God. Keeping up, fitting in. All of those boxes we check for the world before we can settle in with ourselves. It’s why we feel anxious, spread thin, overwhelmed. What if we settled in with ourselves first? Our True Self– the one…