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.

Mom and Me Time

There are many roles that I have taken on in this lifetime, daughter, sister, student, entrepreneur, artist, wife and mother.  The one role that I feel is truly my life purpose is that of a mother.  I have been a single mother for the past fifteen years.  There are a lot of challenges involved, lack of sleep, lack of help, lack of energy, lack of time, lack of support you can go on and on and on with the lack song.  There is one thing that you have an abundance of and that is Love!  Love from your children and Love for your children.  There are many times that I wanted peace and quiet to be left alone.  But, the kids continue to push the boundaries and insist that their presence be known. Finally,  I stop whatever I thought was important and cave into the hugs and kisses and the 'I love you mommy's'.  They make the 'lack song' go away and my heart sings a new song of 'Love and Joy.'

For most of my life I have been using journaling and intuitive collage to express myself.  Here is a collage that I made that represents 'motherhood' to me.

For throwback Thursday here is a picture taken during my first year of single motherhood about 15 years ago.  P.S.  my two youngest children were born around valentines day.  How about that for Love!