my first creativity kit is now ready! i am so happy about this that i am celebrating by giving away three free creativity kits. visit the lovely leah at creative every day and enter to win.
a creativity kit contains the magic, inspiration and possibility of a creativity workshop in a downloadable e-kit. the first creativity toolkit is called “making friends with creativity“. this kit will support you in
- exploring your creative energy
- dissolving your creative blocks/fears
- deepening your connection with your creative spirit
- receiving new messages/insights/ideas/inspirations from your creative spirit
connecting with your creative spirit is connecting with your:
intuition
uniqueness
wisdom
imagination
beauty
as you strengthen and develop your friendship with your creativity you can draw on it in all aspects of your life.
you are a creative being.
there is no limit to what you can create.
making friends with creativity creativity toolkit is available now and includes:
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inspirational art journal video
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creativity guided meditation
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journaling prompts
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creative journaling exercise ideas
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creative prayer
andrea schroeder creates creativity workshops, downloadable creativity kits and guided meditations to support you in knowing and remembering that you are a creative being and you can create anything. you can do it. let’s make some magic.
join in on her free creative journaling workshop now and learn how to use an art journal as a tool for healing, happiness and self-discovery.
i changed my header (the photo at the top of this page) a little while ago. it used to say “let’s all live happily ever after” and now it says “create your own happily ever after”.
no matter what, my work is about happily ever after – about loving, appreciating and enjoying life. knowing that we can change anything that isn’t working for us and that we can create anything that we’d like to have in our lives. we humans are such incredible beings with such incredible potential. i did my making friends with creativity workshop earlier this week and in it i was talking about how the creative energy we use to draw and paint and make collages and do creative journaling is the exact same creative energy we use to create our lives. we can learn to harness and direct that energy towards what we do want which automatically directs us away from what we don’t want.
“let’s all live happily ever after” is a beautiful idea and it is the feeling that has inspired my work this year, and it’s what i named my art show. what i am feeling now is more of a call to remind myself and others that the happily ever after is something that you, yourself, create. it’s not about being lucky enough for it to all fall into your lap or about waiting for the right person to come along and give it to you, or about dreaming about happily ever after and not doing anything about it, it’s about being who you want to be and doing what you want to do right here and now.
so in making this change i see that i am feeling inspired to bring more of my work as a new thought practitioner (which could be described as a believer in possibility, a creator of dreams come true and a mentor for supporting others in making their dreams come true) into my art and my creative journaling and my creativity kits and workshops and what i share here. i’d also like to do some creativity coaching, similar to how i do new thought coaching, but bringing more creative play into it. i see new possibilities and ideas opening up all over the place.
i would love to hear from you about this… what kind of happily ever after are you creating for yourself?
andrea schroeder creates creativity workshops, downloadable creativity kits and guided meditations to support you in knowing and remembering that you are a creative being and you can create anything. you can do it. let’s make some magic.
join in on her free creative journaling workshop now and learn how to use an art journal as a tool for healing, happiness and self-discovery.
putting a little reminder out there…
whatever it is you want to do, you can do it.
let’s believe in ourselves more, and make all of our dreams come true.
i can do it is available as a print.
confused self portrait
i am often unsure about what to do next or what i want next, i find there is great value in being with the uncertainty. there is even greater value in letting go of what i “know” and completely immersing myself in the uncertainty.
uncertainty is this open and murky space where nothing is sure and everything is possible.
can you think of an area in your life where you are uncertain? or are you willing to let go of your certainty and be uncertain about something in order to allow new ideas can emerge?
this creative journaling exercise begins with an illustration of uncertainty. what does uncertainty look and feel like for you? what colour is it? what texture? what is it saying? i did mine as a confused self-portrait. you might want to just make a jumbly mess of colour and scribbles on your page.
after the illustration comes the journaling exercise. this one was inspired by debbie ford. i had my confused self-portrait sitting half-finished in my art room. i was in my living room, knitting and listening to debbie’s podcast and she was talking to someone who was not sure about something. i was listening closely. she suggested that the caller make a list of 10 reasons to do it, and 10 reasons not to do it. i thought she was talking to me. i put down my knitting and wrote my lists on top of my confused drawing as clarity, inspiration and new ideas began to settle in.
self-portrait journal sitting on a chair
i love this exercise and look forward to seeing what you do with it. don’t forget to use the creativity meditation if you need some inspiration or a creative kick-start.
the illustration friday theme this week is “impossibility”. when i think of impossible, i think of the sark quote “impossible means i’m possible!” my art time is mostly going to art show preparations right now, but i wanted to keep up with illustration friday too, so i did a quick (so quick i didn’t even take the time to spell impossible right!) pencil sketch at work yesterday:
- impossible
it’s pretty amazing to think of all of the things i once felt were impossible for me, that i now have in my life. we can plant impossible seeds and see what grows in our lives.
ps – i started an animation class last night. very inspiring! i have never paid much attention to animation but am very inspired by it all right now. so far my idea for the animation i will make in this class is planting an impossible seed that doesn’t know if it can grow, but then in the end it does. hmmm. that idea sounded better in my mind than said out loud like that. i’ll work with it and see where it goes. i do think i want to animate a growing flower/vine. i am having a lot of fun playing with the ideas for now.
