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Fine Art for the finer things in Life

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The reviews are in and here is what was sent to me about my Better Together Poster. 

Zazzle has great quality products. 

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    Print Quality

Excellent

Recommended

Yes

Recommended For

Birthdays

Shipped on Time

Yes

About the Product

        I love the canvas that this poster is printed on, it is durable and glossy.

About the Print

The printing and customization are excellent.

Creative life A thru Z ~ Lets Get Cooking

Creative Life
A thru Z

Let's Get Cooking

This week Fall came in like a tiger!!

Cold Rains, Snow, and Morning Fog!!

Baby, it's cold outside, so lets make soup. 

I'm cooking out of the 

The Soup Bible book. 

I turned the page for this weeks soup. 

BACON POTATO CHOWDER

As I read through the recipe, I noticed that this recipe used 

condensed cream of potato soup. 

Well, I'm trying to learn to cook with fresh ingredients. 

So, with the inspiration of this weeks soup I went off recipe a bit. 

I will give you the Soup Bible books recipe, and in italics you will read what I did.   

Fresh, fresh, fresh ingredients.  

Truly is there anything more fun then whisking? 

Homemade Bacon Potato Chowder, with a glass of Pinot Griss Rose from France

Dessert, camel apples 

Bacon Potato Chowder 

4 slices of bacon, 

( I did a pound of bacon)

1 large onion, chopped

4 cans ( 10 3/4 ounces each) Campbells's Condensed Cream of Potato Soup

( I did not add this)

4 soup cans milk 

( I added 2/3 cups milk, you can substitute almond milk if you want)

1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

2 large russet potatoes, cut into 1/2 inch pieces. 

(I did not do this)

2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese

1/2 cup chopped fresh chives 

( I added , one large leek,  4 stalks celery, 6 Brussels sprouts, 1 can Great Northern white beans, 

8 cups of chicken broth,2 2/3 cups water,  2 cups dried potatoes with 1/4 cup butter )

Part of this recipe came from the 

Betty Crocker cookbook. 

So, it's a combination of the Soul Bible, Betty Croker and ME. 

Steps.

1. In 2 quart saucepan, heat water, butter and salt to boiling over medium high heat. Remove from heat. Stir in milk and potatoes just until moistened. Let stand about 30 seconds or until liquid is absorbed, whip with fork, set aside. 

2. In 6 quart heavy stockpot, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Use slotted spoon to transfer bacon to paper towels, leaving drippings in stockpot. Add onion and pepper and celery to stockpot. Cook 4 to 5 minutes or until onions are translucent and lightly browned. Add potatoes and broth to stockpot. Beat with whisk until ingredients are will combined. Continue to cook until heated through. 

3. Transfer soup to bowls. Top with bacon, cheese and green onion. 

This will make 8 servings. 

Enjoy

Be Inspired, 

~jean 

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Interview with an Artist

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Interview With an Artist

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Jean Hart , Artist 

Hello, first may I thank you all for following me on my blog, 

The Creative Life A thru Z, 

and  asking me questions. It's been awhile since I've introduced myself to everyone. 

Since I started this new blog  "The Creative Life A thru Z" I've had lots of questions. 

1. What is this blog about? 

After taking a Healing Arts class I had a chance to really look at my life and ask myself some tough questions. This blog for me started as a way of putting together art, creative activities, and doing self awareness projects.  It is the beginning of a course, workbook, or just a fun gathering of like minded people.
I am constantly adding to it as I find more interesting projects that reflect creative living to me. 

This blog is a work in progress. 

2. When was the first time that you remember realizing that you are a creative person? 

I think I have always felt I was creative. As a young child I would spend hours alone creating art, sculpting, sewing. But, as you get older you do others things to make a living. I started this blog as a way of getting back to the creative life I had as a young child. Many of the activities are from my childhood revisited. 

3. When did you know that this was what you wanted to do with your life? How did you get started? 

Being an artist was something that came back to me after I had a back injury. It was during that time of recovery that I started to draw again. I began to show my work publicly, and then learned how to market myself. It has been such a joy to have art back in my life. In the beginning I would put my artwork in competitions and I would win ribbons and awards, this made me feel confident. Outwardly, that gave me confidence knowing that other people liked my artwork. However, inwardly I was not feeling it. 

I had to pull myself out of the public for awhile, go inside myself and really ask how I was doing. 

That's when I started to take "Healing Art" courses, and psychology classes. I was still having to deal with how the injury had changed my life.  

4. What traits, if any, do you think that creative people have as compared to people who are not creative? 

Actually, I find that most people are creative. The difference to me is that the highly creative people take their ideas to a completion. 

5. Do you believe that training has influenced what you create? 

Yes! Training and or education is the best way to open yourself up to creative thinking? 

When you are with a group of creative people, it is so exciting to watch how ideas grow. 

My hope is for people to take what I have to offer and then expand on it to make it personal to them. 

Thank you for the questions, yes there were many more questions asked, but for now I think this will be enough.  I will put a question into the blog now and then to keep the conversation going. 

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Be Inspired, 

~jean 

The Creative Life A thru Z Week 2

The Creative Life A thru Z week two

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The Creative Life 

A thru Z 

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. 

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Use the power of your imagination everyday.
artwork by Jean Hart

I hope you had an exciting time at the art supply store.

I can't wait to see what everyone makes with new and interesting material. 

A is for Affirming Yourself

To start this weeks assignments you will need your sketch journal,  
pens, marker, paint, whatever you want to create with.

When we are thinking about where we are in the world or who you are I like to start with affirmations. 

There will be two parts to this weeks assignment. 

1. Let's start with who you are. What names do you answer to? Maybe you have a nickname, your relationships with family, friends, co workers. 

Do you like titles such at Mrs., Mr., Ms. Dr. .

We you many people to different people, but all of them make up who you are. 

On the first side of the paper write your name, and all the names you go by.

Make them big, small, upside down, bold. Fill the who page and color it in. 

2. Affirmations. I like affirmations but like it has been said before,

affirmations are only words if they do not motivate you to move. 

Pick three (3) preexisting affirmations that really speak to you. 

Something that you could really believe. 

Next, write three (3) that you make up. 

These will truly be words from you

 and should be words that will motivate you. 

Lastly, take all six (6) affirmations and write them on the back side of the name page. 

These will become your motivation affirmations. 

Once a day for this next week, write out all six affirmations. 
Write them each three times.

Here's what will happen, 

each day you will start writing the affirmations, 

day by day one or two of the affirmations will fall away, 

don't worry that's ok. 

Because by the time the seventh day comes 

you will be naturally only writing one affirmation three times. 

That's the affirmation that will become your motivation and motto!!  

Now, for those who are feeling more energetic, you can continue on to find your most powerful  A word.

 Fill a new journal page with this one A word 

in all the most creative ways you can think of. 
It sometimes helps to sit with nature and breath deeply before doing a creative project. 

Two Minutes in Nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2XkA23_IJU&t=31s

Have fun with this, take your time, and as always be inspired,

~jean 

50,000 beautiful souls

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Jean Hart, Artist 

Celebrating 50,000 visits to my blog.

Thank You so much to the wonderful beautiful souls who have come to my blog .

Let's give something away!!!

If you like, share and leave a comment here on the blog,

your name will go into a drawing for a free 

5 by 7 print of my choosing. 

Drawing will be August 31st.

Please pass this on. 

Be Inspired,

~jean 

Take Me To The Wonderlands

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Today's Assignment is to write a poem and paint a picture. 

Rainbow Forest, by artist Jean Hart 

Take Me To The Wonderlands 

Be Jean Hart 

Take me to the River,

to the wild side of life,

where I can see how 

dreams come true,

If only I believed. 

Take me to the wild wind,

and let it pull me up.

Where I can see the landscapes of

all diversity. 

Take me to the mountain face,

it's rocks are fragile but solid, 

 Where I can feel faith, 

while swing from the mountain tops,
on thin breaded threads. 

Take me to the wonderlands,

the place where silence lives,

where I can learn to speak 
the language of Gods love. 

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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The time of day

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When you start wandering where did my day go?

 It's time to sit down and make your organized "to do list". 

What are the things you put on your list? 

For me it starts with appointments and phone calls.

1. Work, getting in the studio is hard some days, but each day I must find time to do so.

Even if that mean only 30 min. of cleaning up the art table.

2. Errands.  I live out of town so I try to only go once or twice a week. These are things like Banking, Post Office, stores, even going out to lunch and spa appointments fall into this category. 

3. Shopping for food. I keep an on going list so when I'm out I can pick something up.

4. Shopping for the house or clothes. Yes, this gets it's own to do time.

5. Home. House work is always scheduled in each day just to keep up on it.

Each day of the week has it's own room.

6. Education. I take many on line classes so I have to schedule time for being on the computer.

7. Personal. This is anything from meditation, exercise, to reading, home spa, and relaxing

I'm sure there are lots more items you can add to this list. 

But I don't like to get too tied to the time schedule because for me everything seems to take much longer then planned and before I know it the day is gone. 

Be Inspired,

~ jean 

How do you like your regular coffee?

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Doodle Cup by Jean Hart 

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New York City,

smart games

Question

When New Yorkers order a regular coffee, they want it:

A. Black 

B. Black with sugar

C. with milk and sugar 

D. With milk, no sugar

Answer C.

With milk and sugar 

Regular coffee ordered not from a barista but "to go" from a harried waiter in a New York coffee shop, means with milk and sugar. This can be quite confusing to tourists from Chicago, where regular means black and Boston, where regular connotes, "milk, no sugar." But toss in a "poppy with shmear", (a poppy seed bagel with cream cheeses) and you've got a nice little New Your breakfast .

Wow, I never knew there was so many ways to order a regular coffee. Which is what I say when I want a black cup of coffee. 

However, a little "shmear" of cream cheese is always a good idea on any type of bagel. 

How do you order your coffee? 

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I can fly, color pencil, Jean Hart 

"The world belongs to the energetic." 

                                                            Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Olympic's will be starting soon.

I can hardly wait. It is seriously the only time when I plan my schedule to sit and watch TV.

I think I may have to look up some recipes from 

Rio de Janeiro

Here is a link to get you ready for the summer Olympic's.

https://www.olympic.org/rio-2016

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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All about New York City

The Big Apple

New York City

smarts game

Question:All of these edibles first appeared in New York .

except:

A. Chewing gum

B. Pizza slices

C. Bagels

D. Egg creams

Answer:

C. Bagels

The bagel, now so thoroughly associated with New York that most people think you can't get a good one outside the city, originated in Germany in the 14th century and made its American debut in Philadelphia. Chewing gum was invented in New York in 1870. Pizza sold by the slice is also a New York innovation. And egg creams, fugeddabout it!! These delicious concoctions of chocolate syrup, mild and seltzer began in Brooklyn around the turn of the century. 

I was fooled!! I thought for sure the Bagel came from New York.

This was an interesting history of the foods I do enjoy even living in Nevada.

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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A drawing from the Soul

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Be Kind, Be caring, Be Compassionate 

To Yourself 

One line drawing

We all have a song in us. Maybe even a poem.

But what I feel inside myself is that I will always have a drawing inside myself.

If you were to take a pencil and listen to inspirational music and just start moving the pencil along.

What do you think you would draw?

I think it is something from your soul.

I believe when you do this little exercise you will be surprised to see that you have created something from deep down in your heart. 

The point of this exercise is to not let the pencil come off the page.

You can listen to music and close your eyes and just let your hand be guided or you can purposely make a drawing. The one rule is not to leave the pencil/paper connection.

After you are done with your masterpiece, fill it in if you wish, 

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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Making a few friends

Be kind to yourself

Make a few friends

Artwork by Jean Hart 

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There's always time to make friends. 

Have you ever heard the saying, 

"If you can count your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky person."

How do you make new friends? 

Today's challenge:

draw your friends.

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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an ounce of prevention

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"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."  Proverb

So, it's never too late to get moving, and lose weight.

Getting health starts at any age. 

However, it's probably better to get started before a major life change is needed. 

What is your motivation to get moving? 

Be Inspired,

~jean

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To start again

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"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein

Oh, that painting did work out, or the project that looked so good in your head didn't exactly turn out. 

It happens.

But don't give up.

I paint more paintings that no ones sees then the paintings that I put out here.

Every painting is a learning experience.

Keep the things that did turn out right, and lose the technique that didn't.

No, it's not fun, but it is the process.

It's never too late to start again.

Be Inspired,

~jean

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What my Soul wants me to Know

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What my Soul Wants me to Know
Soul coaching 
by Denise Linn 

Today's card is 
Embracing
"I embrace and love all of my life."

Once again the perfect card has come to me.
Card meaning: embrace all of your life, both the dark and the light. 
"The path to wholeness is through accepting and embracing all parts of yourself. 

Every experience you've had, even the ones that you thought were bad, was important for your spiritual journey. "

Of course, we are everything we have choosen up to this time.

My embracing has come at the beginning of the year when I wrote on my 2016 journal.

Title page: This will be the best year of my life.

How does that come to past? 

Planning, plotting, engaging, and embracing life. 

I have more peace this year by moving physically.

Not so much physical exercise but planning each day to accomplishing tasks. (Tasks, things that were important to me to make my life better.)

Because the last couple of years have been more about physical therapy, having only a few steps for each day meant I had to plan how I would spend them. 

I didn't want that to be the only movement I did this year.

 I have embraced chores. 

For me right now there is nothing better then first, a clean home, 

second, a organized home, and thirdly, having more time because I have taken care of my home.

I can now truly say this affirmation with complete honesty.

"I embrace and love all of my life." 

What part of your life are you embracing? 

If you were not raised by Martha Stewart I found this website helpful. 

http://www.pullingcurls.com/2015/10/things-smart-moms-do-create-a-cleaning-schedule.html 

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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By the beautiful sea

Summer, Jean Hart 

The ocean in Summer, the ocean in Spring, the ocean in Winter or maybe even in Fall.

It doesn't matter when you go to the ocean.  Just being near the water is good for your health.

Here's a little article that explains why you should go to the ocean. 

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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5 reasons to stay near the ocean for your health 

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/5-reasons-stay-near-the-ocean-for-your-health.html

The Tomato Bowl

Jean Hart Artwork 

Drawing What You See

Drawing is an interesting practice.

We all see things differently.

If I were to put a bowl of tomatoes on a table and ask ten people to drawing what they saw.

The bowl, the tomatoes, the table would all be different. 

WHY is that. 

It's because we all have a stylized ideas of what every object we see looks like. 

We are drawing from our minds and not from our eyes. 

I think that's FANTASTIC!!

That's would make your work original.

Artist Tip! 

"Throughout the drawing and painting process, hold up your work in front of a mirror. This can help you see and correct inaccuracies in the proportion. "The Daily Book of ART 

Just get started. 

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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Beach days are here

Spring Creek Marine, Jean Hart 

Summer is here!!

Just last week it was raining and cold, but now we are in the 90's.

This summer I have put on my calendar a few days at the beach.

I am so fortunate to live by a marina with a beach.

Be Inspired,

~jean

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Be Kind, Be caring, Be compassionate to yourself

Fire, Jean Hart Artwork

Be kind, be caring, be compassionate  Therapy,

Sometimes you just have to feel the pain. Feel the angry and feel the hurt.

Once you have decide how you want to handle it. 

Some feelings you may want to take actions on, others you may only want to accept them for what they are. 

Whatever way is best for you,

express it, feel it, grow with it. 

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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Summertime art

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Art O Mat Block

Welcome Summer.

I just love summer. It's a time to sit outside and soak up the sun.

Now that I have my studio redone, it's been a pleasure to get in there and paint.

Here are the latest blocks going out to

Art O Mat 

Be Inspired,

~jean

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