It's just a rumor I heard

It's just a rumor I heard

Yesterday, today and tomorrow

Life is curved, acrylic, 4' x 4'
Jean Hart Artwork
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Yesterday is only a dream, tucked away in the recess's of your mind. Tomorrow only a vision, a hope and dream. The question for today is "

"What will you do today, while you live and breathe and are alive to make your tomorrows happier, wiser and stronger?

Will you sit and wait for the world, your world to change? Or will you have the courage to take a small step to change yourself for your world or the larger world?

The answer of course is yours alone. But, it reminds me of a quote I remember, "If you always do the same things you have always done, then  you will always get the same answer you have always gotten". It's something like that, and I'm sorry I don't remember who said that or if I'm quoting it correctly, but still it is something that has always stayed with me. 
Today, really is the best life you have....it's the present life....the one that you are reaping the benefits of yesterdays decisions and planning for  the future. All things rely I what you do NOW, TODAY. 

Heart's Desires, acrylic 4' x 4' Jean Hart Artwork
Heart's desires, they come from within, from without. Idea's are acted upon and plans are made. 
Opportunities!!!
Do they really only come knocking on your door once?
I THINK NOT!!!!
I think that's just a rumor.....for the people who don't meet their dreams half way...
Be Inspired,
~Jean
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Creative Life A thru Z ~J is for Join In

Jean Hart Artwork

Healing Arts journal 

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The Creative Life A thru Z

~J is for Join IN

 Week Eleven

Join In and enjoy !

Join In, with Autumn just about here, I've been looking over the calendar for Fall events. This is the season when Festivals are everywhere .

I've been in the garden cleaning up the summer flowers and wrapping up the hoses. 

There's been a lot of talk about Nutrition around my house. Since we are coming to the end of Farmers Markets, I've been grabbing up all the fresh vegetables and fruits. I'm not saying I'm now a vegetarian, but my plate is about 3/4 vegetables these days. 

Fall is also a good time to think about joining a book club. 

I belong to several on line book clubs. I always enjoy reading the reviews and adding my own comments. 

Art Journal Assignment:

Juxl puzzle, Earth, Jean Hart 

Juxl Puzzles. 

http://www.wikihow.com/Create-and-Work-a-Juxl-Puzzle

  If you are in a group this is a fun way to create a co-art piece of artwork. Just start with one line and pass it to the next person, who draws one line, passes it on again until you have drawn all the lines. Continue with the connecting the lines and pass it on until the picture is complete. Then color it up any way you wish. 

Writing Assignment:

Joy, Joy, Joy....What does it mean? 

.

"a feeling of great pleasure and happiness."

"Don't cry because its over, Smile because it happened. "

Dr. Seuss 

1. Write what Joy means to you?

How do you get it?

Where does it come from?

When does it happen?

Why is it important? 

Music please!
Jazz music that is....

Have you listened to Jazz music? 

If not your missing out on some amazingly talented people. 

This is a little Ted Talk to explain the heart of Jazz music. 

How Jazz Wisdom Will Change Your Life | Niels Lan Doky | 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ee-XROfON0

Go to your source of music and switch it over to a Jazz station and listen, move, journal, or just BE with it. 
Some of my favorite Jazz musicians.
Melody Gardot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ee-XROfON0 

Start here and then just keep exploring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGq-AA8Ksk

As always, have fun with this and join in, like, share, comment. 
Pass it on. 
Be Inspired,
~jean 

Creative Life A thru Z I is for Imagination

The Creative Life A thru Z 

Jean Hart Artwork

Healing Arts journal 

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The Creative Life A thru Z

~I is for Imagination 

 Week Ten

I would like to express my gratitude to all of you who have joined me in this healing journey of creating a more creative life. 

It's been fun for me to come up with activities for each letter of the alphabet. I have so many ideas that they don't all make it on this blog but are written in my printed pages.  I'm sure by the end of this project it will all be filled with fun activities and helpful projects so everyone can live a greater expression of their own creativity. 

       I is for Imagination

" The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere." 

Terence McKenna

I love the idea of a golden pathway. 

Just like the Wizard of OZ walking on the yellow brick road. 

For me, it has been about curiosity, that is the seed of imagination. 

Asking questions begins a whole snow ball of ideas. 

Golden path to a new vision, journal page Jean Hart

Change.

 I've felt the strong sense of change since the Eclipses!! 

What has been happening for me is a lot of questions about my beliefs, my work, my life. 

It of course starts with what do you want your life to look like. 

How will you get there, and When. The When is important to me especially because I like deadlines. But, then again, maybe that's something I might think about changing. ....

Art Journal Assignment: 

What's on your Golden Path

1. In your art journal, arrange your page to make a golden path. 

It can be straight, crooked, up, down, across.  Anyway YOU want it. 

2. Next, create all the things you want to experience along your path.

3. Create landscapes, texture, people, places, things.

4. Let go and IMAGINE!!

Writing Journal Assignment:

"It's Here...!"

1. Complete this sentence. 

2. Write a page of what your imagination has brought to you on your Golden Path. 

3. The imagination works on all your senses, try to use words that help express the whole experience. The more verbs the better for this assignment. 

I is for Informed

 Change the channel, and watch something you have never seen before. 

This week, change how you get your information. 

Pick up a new magazine, new genre in books and movies. 

See if you can do this once a day for 7 days. 

I is for Ice Cream

Summers not over where I live. 

According to Baskin Robbins there is 31 flavors of ice cream.  I have yet to try them all. 

So, before the summer is over I plan on trying a few new flavors. 

How about you? 

Meditation is one of the purest ways for me to get in touch with my true self. 

Just before creating I sit in nature and be still. 

This helps me open my mind to all new ideas. 

Last week I went up to Lamoille Canyon for a last summer picnic. I made a video of sitting by the stream listening to the water. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmtu1hINgUY&t=23s

Please enjoy, relax, and 

As always, have fun with this. 

Be inspired, 

~jean 

The Creative Life A thru Z ~F's Big Question

The Creative Life A thru Z

 Week Seven

F is for Fun 

Jean Hart Artwork

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The Big Question?

?
Who or what inspires your creative urges?

Yesterday afternoon I heard thunder, so I knew we were not going to go kayaking. 
I put my apron on and started looking through my magazines for something to bake. 
I went to Martha Stewart's Living Magazine and found a recipe for 
Chocolate Mayonnaise Cupcakes with Chocolate Mayonnaise Frosting. 
Martha never lets me down. 
She is my inspiration. 
In my mothers day it was Julia Child's cooking, and for my daughter it is Rachael Ray.
But for me it's Martha Stewart. 

When I started this blog I was looking for ways that I could bring in creative ideas and expressions into my life. 
Just putting on the apron alone would have done it, but baking a cake from scratch!!
Well this made me feel accomplished!!
It was well worth the little mess in the kitchen, and to my surprise it really wasn't that hard. 
Tell me what inspires you? 
Be Inspired,
~jean 

The Creative Life A thru Z week four

The Creative Life A thru Z

 week Four

Jean Hart Artwork

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What's cooking 

C is for Cooking

Recently, I had a visit with my brother and his daughter.

She had just graduated from high school and

 was on a summer vacation with her dad to visit us,

 and see our grandson.

 We were planning our meals for the week,

 when the conversation lead to our favorite childhood foods. 

We settled on Mom's potatoes salad. 

A truly wonderful dish that says summer. 

We made our grocery list

 and came home

to prepare the potato salad for the next days barbecue.

Mom never wrote down her recipes, to our frustration,  

she just added a little of this and a little of that. 

Isn't is funny how we all remember things differently? 

Between the both of us we managed to make this family favorite 

and come up with a close enough recipe of Mom's potato salad that it inspired family stories.  

Memories in the kitchen are a great way to share your life stories with others. 

This weeks assignment :

C is for Cooking 

1. Sit quietly and remember a time when you were enjoying your favorite childhood food. 

2. Look at your weeks menu and see if you can make it this week. 

3. Share in the actual cooking with family and friends. 

4. Enjoy the meal, and share the history of this favorite childhood food with family and friends. 

Journal Work

CIRCLES

Better Together, by artist  Jean Hart 

1. In your journal start to draw circles. Circles of all sizes,  fill up the page with circles.

The circles can be touching, inside each other, or separate.  

2.Now, with your art supplies, pens, marker, paints. 

Fill in the circles with color.

3. Note which colors you used most, or which color is the most pleasing to you. 

How are you responding to particularity colors? 

Do you have a favorite color?

COLOR Therapy 

Color therapy is an interesting subject. 

I have read many books on this and studied the color wheel for painting. 

I came across this website about the Psychology of Color.

Since, I'm doing a sampling of my curriculum here with you  online,

 I thought I would share this website with you here. 

https://www.colorpsychology.org/

Cook Books
Do you have a favorite cookbook?
Reading recipes makes me feel like a chemist. 
I'm a very good cook! Why? 
Because I follow the recipes. 
Break out your favorite cookbook, 
or good to a second hand store and find an old time cookbook that's
been very well used. 
Here is a cookbook from a restaurant I'm hoping to visit in my travels. 
jeanhartartists.blogspot.com/2016/08/eating-at-the.html

Two Minutes in Nature, bubbling stream 
Take two minutes to simply breathe deeply and imagine putting your feet in a cool stream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-bU5fP96nA&t=45s

As always, be inspired, and  have fun with the assignments. 

~jean 

The Creative Life A thru Z week three B is for Beyond

The Creative Life A thru Z

 week three

Jean Hart Artwork

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If you will allow yourself to go beyond your imagination,

 you will be surprised by all the interesting things that will bubble up!

Bravo! 

You have made it to the B week

B is for ~  Beyond

This week we are going to go beyond our imaginations. 

Just like our many names described who we are,

 our stories shape where we are connected. 

As time goes by, we enter into different chapters of our lives,

 people come and go, family expands or decreases, 

and we are older and wiser.  

Your story, past, present, and future. 

This week you will need:

1. Your lined Journal

2. Paints, markers, pens, etc...

if you wish to express yourself in that way.

3. Bubbles

This weeks assignment:

Writing your truth

1.  Write your story past and present in the first three (3) pages. 

2. The next pages are for the life you would like to live Beyond this point.

a. What would you like to be doing?

b. Where would you like to be?

c. Why do you want this for yourself?

d. When do you see this happening? 

In my experience with writing this way, 

I found that even if I went a little beyond the real possibility of this happening, there still was some truth to it.

Activity

It's play time, time to go beyond your imaginations. 

1. Think of three intentions that will help you make this future life story possible. I always like to start these intentions with the words "I will..."

2.  You will need a bottle of bubbles for this.

Say your intentions out loud before blowing a bubble, 

or blow your intentions silently into the bubble.

Watch it float up into the sky,

and once the bubble has burst 

your intention has been released  

into the universe.

3. Do this again and again until the bottle of bubbles are gone.

As always have fun with this. 

Be Inspired,

~jean 

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Jean with her certificate in "Healing With The Arts"

The creative life 

A thru Z 

Welcome to this new workshop. 

I have just received my certificate in 

"Healing With The Arts"

from the 

University of Florida.

I have put together a curriculum for this class along with positive psychology, happy fulfilled living, life experience, and  many art class, to come up with a creative way to help express ourselves through the arts. 

Hi, let me introduce myself.

I live in Northeastern Nevada, where we experience all four seasons of the year.

I love art, cooking, walking, doing 5k's, traveling, and my cat Jax .

I'm a bit of a messy painter,

 but I'm learning to keep the paint on the canvas.

I have been an artist for over 15 years.

I've stated to declutter my whole house, 

it's better that way.

I can now find what I need when I need it. 

I love coffee, baked papaya, and pistachios, I have them in bowls all around my house.

I love to draw on paper cups and make them into prosperity banks.

The snow has melted, it's spring where I live so I can walk everyday. 

I have 4 cats, but Jax is the studio cat. 

He mostly eats, sleeps, lays around, and hunt birds. 

My hair drives me crazy. Sometimes it's short, long, brown or blonde. 

All my clothes have spatters of paint on them. 
On the next blog we will go over the materials for this workshop. 

My name is

~ Jean 

Nice to meet you. 

Certificates I have earned:
College Degree
Great Basin College, Elko, Nevada, AA, Bus, Art, Child Ed. 1993

• Coversations The Inspire: Coaching Learning, Leadership and Change, Case Western Reserve University
• Healing with the Arts, University of Florida
• Positive Psychology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  
• Work Smarter, Not Harder: Time Management of Personal and Professional Productivity, UCI Extension Coursera
• A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment, Indian School of Business 
• Introduction to Philosophy, The University of Edinburgh
• Best Artist Readers' Choice, Elko, Nv
• 2013- Silver
• 2014-Gold
• 2015 Bronze

My online store

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My YouTube channel

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My 500 Mile Walking Journey

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Be Inspired,
~jean 

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