Wondrous Weaves and Healing Spirit Dolls Collection (+ my vintage shop)

 

 It all started with a spontaneous trip to IKEA, to look at chairs for Ever's room. In the kid's section, they had a loom set up. This loom was standing there smiling, calling my name... 

 

"Oh, this will be sooo fun!" I thought it would be something I'd mostly do with Ever. 

 

After I got home and made the first piece, it swirled me into creative whirlwind. The next thing I knew, I was rummaging through all the precious fabrics I'd collected over many years running an online vintage shop. Little and big scraps wove their way in. Finally a place for these treasured scraps to land! 

 It feels sooo good to create without an end result in mind. . . 

to feel a force greater than myself as I let my hands and heart roam. 

This healing collection is available now: www.carissapaige.etsy.com

For those interested in my vintage shop, see below!

www.jackandtilly.etsy.com

  

 With massive amounts of love, 

Carissa 

 

Mixed Media Essentials: Blog Hop!

Hi friends! I'm just beginning to peek out of the rabbit hole I fell into last week. Talk about New Moon swooshing in and stirring things up, deeeep. Did it have an effect on you too? I'm just grateful to be upright on the other side. I'm also excited to be a part of this little blog hop sharing the newest stamp line by Roben-Marie Smith... I am seriously in LOVE with these stamps. I made a little video to inspire you... Hope you enjoy!

The stamps are hot off the press & available right here:  http://www.paperbagstudios.com/shoppe/ 

Hip-hop on over to see the rest of the creative action / blog hop participants:

April Cole:  http://aprilmariecole.blogspot.com/

Carissa Paige:  http://carissapaige.blogspot.com/

Cynthia Shaffer: http://cynthiashaffer.typepad.com/

Danielle Donaldson:  http://danielledonaldson.com/

Jen Osborn:  http://identityseven.typepad.com/themessynest/

Kristin Peterson: http://alteredstatesstudio.blogspot.com/

Lorraine Bell: http://serendipitystudios.squarespace.com/

Roben-Marie Smith: http://www.robenmarie.com/blog/2013/5/1/mixed-media-essentials-blog-hop.html

Sandi Keene: http://sandi-keene.squarespace.com/

Following the Wild Winds.

PS! Speaking of Rabbit Holes: As I was polishing up this post late last night (1:30 AM) a WILD BUNNY   hopped by our back window and then binkied with JOY across our yard. 

Good things to come....  

XO, 

Carissa

New Paintings

Bubble Girl ~ Original Sold ~ Prints Available

Ethel ~ Original Sold ~ Prints Available

Henrietta ~ Original & Prints Avai
lable 

Eleven Whispers ~ Original & Prints Available 

Hello! Here are a few new paintings I finished this week. . .

 I can't recall if I've shown you the 3 big pieces I finished, so here they are too:

I am amping up for a solo exhibit in June 22 - July 22 at Little Fish Huge Pond in historic Downtown Sanford. I'm super excited (& a wee-bit nervous). Sanford is an old, adorable port town here in Central Florida. I couldn't be happier to have my art there for a month. I couldn't think of a better place to break the ice! If you are local ~ opening night is Friday June 22 from 6 - 9 pm ~ I'd love if you stopped by! Little Fish is the coolest little place in Sanford. . . The atmosphere is quirky, eclectic, weird, and wonderful (~.~)

Wisdom. Harmony. Angels Influence

Here's to a wonderful week ahead. . . 

X x 

Carissa

Feeling The Expansive

I can hardly believe January is almost over! I've filled this month with some deep soul-searching, major dialoging, cataloging, trail following, exploring, photographing, writing, and sweeping up the scatters of so many things. I've made a happy-little-list of all the glorious lessons and experiences 2011 had to offer, and what I'd like to welcome in for the ever-expansive 2012. I will share it here soon, but for now I just wanted to say a big-whopping THANK YOU. Thank you for allllll your immense L O V E on my Cover Girl post.

 I am entirely, utterly, fantastically blessed by all of you -- true and deep friends, my soul sisters, my fellow passengers on this ride we call life. Daring, dreaming, dangerous WILD WOMEN and MEN. . . Glorious tears fill my eyes as I think about all the garbage I've left behind so I could step fully into *this life*. This true and beautiful, ever light, ever buoyant, ever unfolding life. I'm so glad I swung off the closet doors into the here & now, and climbed into the me I've always been. As I continue to clean out the shelves, and shake off old dust, I am completely thankful for alllll of it. Thank you for being here, for being a witness to my ever-evolving carousel. I am so deeply blessed by YOU.

More and more collages fill my space. . . Did you know the first collage I had made in a long looonnng time was Own Your Story? Truthfully, I was getting wayyy too comfortable in my process, always painting my girls. When this piece landed on the cover of Somerset Studios, not only was it a huge sign to really step into myself, really, truly, fully and completely, *Own My Story* and *Write*, but also h u g e confirmation of the *Magic* that happens when we step outside of ourselves, our routines, explore deeper, and truly listen to the messages that appear. When. We. Just. Show. Up. The universe is conspiring for our happiness, our blissful existences, our growth, our change, our EVERYTHING! I am so wide awake grateful to just simply exist and create and share and inspire. Hellooo!!!

"In The Realms of The Unreal" (Click image to view it in my shop)

"31" Original Available Soon!