Celebrate You 2016 Workshop

We had a wonderful time creating vision boards at our Celebrate You 2016 creative arts workshop.  Let's see what fantastic creations unfold for the ladies this year.  Come join us for more creativity at Blue Pelican Gallery Gifts & Yarn every Saturday beginning in February. Stay posted.


The process of creating our visions.

Living the dream teaching creativity and healing on the beach!

Create Your Dreams Workshop 2016

Do you want to create your best year yet?  Come have fun crafting your 2016 vision board with local artist and dream coach Michelle Spaulding at Blue Pelican Gallery and Gifts from 10:00am-1:00pm on Saturday, January 16, 2016.  Cost is $20 includes all materials.  To sign up email:  Craftydivacottage@gmail.com

Dream Circle Workshop

Yesterday, I had the pleasure to work with two local women business owners.  They were interested in making Dream Boards, a visual collage activity.  This process assists the creator in tapping into their own unique inner eye and bringing those visions or dreams, goals and desires into the physical world.  Once you see your hearts desire on the boards it gives your dreams more clarity and enables you to focus on things and feelings that you want to manifest in your life.  It's also a form of active meditation and can be very soothing and empowering.  The boards reveal a lot about our selves and I thoroughly enjoy facilitating this technique.  We had fun playing with the art materials and of course sprinkling the fairy dust around the table.  I look forward to working further with these women on their creative journey towards personal and professional success.

This was my piece that I worked on after the workshop.  I have not painted something like this before.  It was nice to just make 'art for art's' sake.  Of course, I had to take advantage of the art table.

Dream Business Coaching

Yesterday was a great day!  I was able to facilitate a Team Building exercise for my friend's small business, Mad Mad World a creative lifestyle company which specializes in art-to-wear clothing.  (www.Arttowearhouse.com)  I had previously coached Suzanne through the process of closing her store a few years ago and pursuing new business avenues.  Which led to expansion and the opening of many opportunities.  This year Suzanne wants to take her team and her business to new levels.  I have been coaching her on different organizational and strategic planning strategies that would take her there.  But, first we wanted to empower her team and allow them as a group to develop a new company mission statement.  I lead them through a process of self-discovery by facilitating my dream board workshop. We also redefined the teams individual roles within the company and then created a new mission statement.  This was a fun, upleveling  and empowering session.  It's so enjoyable to see how using creativity and art-making can enhance the development of left brain structured business processes.  My intent is to continue to facilitate this process with this team as they continue to create their dream business.

As you know most great business decisions are made around the kitchen table.  Here we are creating in my kitchen around my kitchen table.  It's exciting to be able to interject a touch of whimsy to such a heavy subject.

Dreams do come true

This is the purpose of Dream Boards!

Dream Board 2015

Working on my dreamboard today.  This is the first board I have made in a couple of years.  During those dark days I was mad that my dreams were not coming true.  I had made many dream boards and visual art journals and dream circles.  I loved the collage work and cutting and pasting.  Adding glitter at the end.  I made them all throughout the year not just the new year.  I had long stopped making New Years resolutions.  They didn't work for me.  I taught dream board workshops and helped other create, make and visualize their own dreams, goals and intentions.  I heard back from my students that their dreams were actually manifesting and coming true.  I celebrated for them and with them, but was sad that my dreams weren't manifesting.  Yes, I could manifest short term goals or items.  But, the dreams that were childhood dreams weren't happening.  Why?  I felt like a fake.  Teaching others while all along hurt that mine weren't materializing.  Two year ago I packed up all of my dream boards, dream journals and left them in storage.  I was on the run, survival mode.  Didn't know where I was going and didn't want to stay where I was.  I was forced to focus on one thing.  Getting well.  I tossed my dreams aside and took one step at a time one day at a time.  Then one day my dreams starting manifesting and I was living the life I had always imagined.  Wow!  These boards and ideas really do work.  I realized that I had all of these dreams and was asking for God and the angels to help me create them.  But, I wasn't living in alignment with my dreams.  Once I let go of what wasn't working in my life and focused on what it was I really wanted, things started to happen.

So this year 2015 I am making and creating a new dream board with new intentions.  I learned the key to the success for these boards and that is 'get outta your own way'!  Just make it and release it, then allow it to become.