Legend of YOU: Sneak Peek

My heart is so silly full as we approach this new year, so ready to journey into 2013 beginning with Legend of YOU. Thank you for hanging in there while I sort out the technical aspects! And deepest gratitude for being a part of this journey. More words and sneak peeks as January draws closer!

Cheers to new years + NEW LEGENDS!

All my heart,
Carissa 

PS. You are warmly invited to join my new creative community: Legend of YOU!  I have yet to set up the mobile version, so it may appear blank if you aren't viewing from your computer.

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!

 

 

 

 

 

Art Journal Magic

Dear Friends, I have some exciting news!! I've been gearing up & pouring my heart into a new project: An art journaling class called "Art Journal Magic!" I'll be teaching it locally @ "Art and Soul Studio." The lovely owner Bonnie just finished revamping her entire store. It's a fusion of Spiritual / Metaphysical and Art. It's really amazing how much it's changed in just the short period from when I first visited a month or two ago. It's a perfect space to hold a sacred journaling venture. I feel blessed. I'll be using a mash up of foto-transfers, paint, paper, glue, heart, soul, intuition, words, and wine! My hope is that it will be a safe and sacred space and that we'll all let-loose... and magic will happen. What magic you say?! The kind of magic that happens when you just show up... and play.... and be.... and listen.... and receive... a vast pool of inner wisdom. A space where intuitions can be giddy... With a brave heart I share this.

A

Magnificently

Amazing and

Giddy

Intuition

Creates Magic

My soul is searching and open wide listening. 

Ready to hear and share and create a 

Soul

Practice
A'la mode de
Creative Exploration

.... I wish to spread magic... and healing.... and bold inner knowings.... (and maybe a little fairy dust!)

Dear All-Knowing-Wise-Spirit, I also wish to cast out a blessing to this new venture... Right now as I type this, I feel butterflies and chills. I'd really love to dig up all I need for this, and conjure a healthy dose of brave! (Thank you.)


XO
Carissa

*The middle image is the transfers in the sink. The female magician is from my 2011 planner which is filled w/ old magician pics! The other is one of the portraits from The Woods series (currently blog header!)