Birthday Giveaway!

I'm 38!!!

Today's my birthday and I'm having a Giveaway on my FaceBook page. Go to the page and like it, and then leave a comment under the giveaway link telling me 'What you Love About today" and one lucky reader will receive a -special made just for you One of a Kind piece of art, doo dads, glitzy stuffs, and other fun thingys to create a beautiful journal spread! All in a cutey patootey arty package sent straight to your door!

Love is my Fuel-Art is My Vehicle

Scrap paper, china pencil, acrylic and stencils on 98lb Mixed media paper

Rainy day faces

Be Creative Everywhere!

Monkey Joe's- an indoor bouncy haven for bubba's!

My travel studio!

Look what I created while the bubba's were playing!

I try to find pockets of time everyday, not such an easy task with 4 bubba's and a husband who's pretty cute. I'm always distracted and procrastinating. One of my goals for 2013 is to create EVERYDAY. Sounds like a large project, but it's totally manageable!

1. Sketch, doodle, write for 10 minutes a day.

2. Paint a background, walk away, come back and add elements throughout the day. You don't have to finish today, just work on it daily.

3. A little TMI, but I always take a note pad in the bathroom with me, it's really the only place in the house that I can get a bit of privacy.

4. I always have a sketchbook and some colored pens on hand, so if I'm waiting in line, or waiting on the kids, I can be productive!

It's easy to make time to be creative, you just have to do the work. If you create a daily practice, you'll start getting that artistic corner of your brain all juiced up and it will be ready for creation always!

Pump Up The Volume

YAHOOEY! I Finally did it!! I wrote my first e-book! 

 I've really been trying to get my shizz together and work on beautiful freebies for y'all to enjoy and this is the very first...and it's supa cool!!! It's all about the insanely simple things I do to pump up the volume on my intuition to ear audio path and how you too can do it! 

Check it out

Love it up

 And tell me what you think!

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I've been painting!!!

I've been painting!!! Again; Finally!!!!

For so long I'v e just been making stuff in my journal and making papers for my books, but I haven't really painted in a month. Last night I finally got my supplies together and while I watched a very disturbing movie -Sleeping Beauty- on Sundance, I worked. Simple but fun, I love simple beauty and I love LOTS of color!! I'll be putting them in my Shop today as well as some other handmade goodies...I'm spinning again too! I hope you are all doing well, more on the Chakra's next week and more on the Self Love series Monday...I'm so happy to have so many new readers!!! Please let me know if there's anything I can do better less or more.

xxanastasiaxx

Wordless Wednesday

The Lump in My Throat

I got a very validating and terrifying call today. A gentleman contacted me and said he had gone into my studio and saw a piece of my work that would fit perfectly with a project he was working on and could we meet?

 Holy Moly- someone is actually drawn to something I created?!?  I actually started to cry when I got off the phone...I never realized I doubted myself until someone I've never met before complimented me!

And then it hit me...EVERYONE doubts themselves...everybody has that inner critic, something that tries to tell them they are never ENOUGH...And, guess what? That fear has no real power...it can slow you down, you can let it trick you into sabotaging yourself or even not following through. But when you get to the real root of it , and all that's there is fear, you HAVE to push it aside. The lingering what if's and self-doubt cannot be a part of your plan. Fear has no power. It can't stop you...you stop yourself. Tell that fear to fuck off and go ahead with your plan. You are amazing, and once you believe that, the what ifs and fearful thoughts disappear like smoke.

YOU ARE ENOUGH!

Journaling Inward Workshop

I'm so happy to announce my first workshop in the Journaling Inward Series!!!


Oct. 13th 6:00 pm at The Bottle Shoppe, 174 W. Main St. Gastonia NC


This Art Journaling Workshop is the first HappyTrees Studio workshop in the Journaling Inward series. We will take a mixed media artistic look at who we are and how we know ourselves, through drawing, painting, journaling, photography and poetry.

Cost: $15
All supplies are included, Please bring you're own journal or sketchbook to take notes and sketches in. And, bring any personal ephemera you'd like to include.

Please RSVP!- this workshop will be kept smalll so that we can all have personal and reflective time. If you have any further questions please email me at happysappytrees@gmail.com

Anastasia
HappyTrees Studio


Sorry, but for now, this is offered as a Local event only...I'm working on the Online version now!