valentines on my mind

preparing my heart

for the language of a valentine

these + more available as both prints + cards

etsy added with love http://rachelawes.com

and...
if you'd like a lil' window into my presentation at the art store "wet paint" last week,
my facebook page has an album of photos https://www.facebook.com/rachel.awes?ref=tn_tnmn

and
here is a personal story behind my book writing that i'd love to share with you
over at mindy's blog
http://www.wishstudiolife.com/2013/01/jan20-all-i-did-was-listen.html

xox

smart

"what does being smart mean?"

was asked at a children's sermon

+ one of the children responded

"being true of yourself"

+ i took in a whoosh of breath

+ learned from this dear littlebig teacher.

*

KID t-shirt, print + cards, etsy added w/love:

 https://www.etsy.com/listing/109896782/smart-colorful-print-rachel-awes

*

other bits o news:

i'll be speaking here this week:

http://www.wetpaintart.com/page.cfm/Current-News/Events.html

+

transformative art journaling workshop is now available for sign-up here:

21 secrets

+

find article i've written for us all about resting here:

http://girlfriendology.com/7818/resting-a-new-years-perspective-for-girlfriends-from-guru-rachel-awes/

xox

available now! transformative art journaling workshop.

now available for registration!

here is the description of the workshop i'll be offering there:

transformative art journaling

this psychologist + art playgroundist will guide you through identifying messages within of fear + trembliness + transforming them into artful affirmations in your journals. come see how the beauty within is truly astounding ~ even, + maybe especially, out of the hidden + painful places.

and! there are many more fabulous art journaling workshops offered alongside!

come see at 21 secrets!

my word for 2013

(click pic to see bigger)

~held~

my word for 2013

this word found me.

this year my word references what i am

allowing/receiving/thanking.

i am a lil' tired from a lot of making,

blissfully so.

so i simply open up my palms

for renewal.

xox

(etsy added w/love http://rachelawes.com)

listening to you

the first lovely artist is maryann mckeating

Mary Ann is a self-taught artist and licensed speech-language pathologist, who finds inspiration in just about anything and everything around her. In addition to making art, Mary Ann loves yoga, gardening, antiquing/junking, exploring, working with her speech students and following her bliss whenever at all possible.  She resides in the middle of cornfields and woods with her very supportive husband and kitty tribe in southern WI. 

she can be found at:

http://followyourbliss.etsy.com/

http://followyourblissdesigns.facebook.com/

http://twitter.com/followurbliss

http://followyourbliss.pinterest.com/

http://firstborn.wordpress.com/

+

the next lovely artist is mary nassar

Mary is a painter and art educator living in the Greater St. Louis Area. She loves creating mixed-media paintings layered with maps and geologic drawings.

This work was inspired by her experiences taking walks and hikes outside, listening and reconnecting with nature.  

she can be found at:

http://marycnasser.com/blog.html

http://marycnasser.com/

http://twitter.com/marycnasser

http://facebook.com/MaryNasserArt

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(if you would like your art/photography referencing listening here, please email me with 1-2 attachments, your links + short bio to rachelawes@gmail.com) 

a new year + a new offering

happy new years (eve)!

transformative art journaling workshop 2013

i am excited to share the news

of this offering in 2013.

i will be teaching an online workshop,

alongside a number of other talented teachers,

through dirty footprints studio.

registration begins in january.

please click on the link to learn more!

*

+ i share this drawing, as we all turn into a new year

+ as we begin to peek into all that our deeply beautiful lives

want to offer.

*sending out love to each + every one of you.

xox

things to give away

like blowing bubbles, i send this love out to you.

feel free to copy + paste + pass it on.

let's fill up the whole wide world.

happy holidays xox
*
also! i just learned of my dear friend now hosting a giveaway
of one "all i did was listen" book + a beautiful print...
find these at: http://www.apapersnowflake.blogspot.com/2012/12/give-away-print-of-sun-signe.html

listening to you

this lovely artist is marie heb:

"I've always been an artist from the days I would quietly sit behind my childhood home, and sketch photos from borrowed library books.  However,it wasn't  until 7 years ago I became more serious about pursuing it when I serendipitously met a woman whom I connected with. She took me under her wing for a year with private studies in Fine Art.  Unfortunately, my mentor passed away, and I continued on my journey by taking many workshops, mainly in mixed media. It took me approx. 2 years to find  my style, and discovered that I don't slot  myself in a particular  category. I would say I'm  a creative soul. I love to create on how I feel in the moment.Some of my subjects are stylized, fantasy, whimsies with positive messages, angels,florals,and assemblage.

It's a beautiful  continual journey of learning and discovering.

Here's a taste of what I create. These are recent art!"

More of my artwork can be found @ my blog , Facebook or etsy.

http://petitbijouartshop.etsy.com

 http://lotuspond56-artlover.blogspot.ca/

 https://www.facebook.com/mariette.heb

+

this lovely artist is lisa erickson:

Listen to the flowers
Listening to their body language, their unfolding in the morning and closing in the evening, open pedaled to the sun and unrecognizable lines for bee paths to the center. Listening with all senses as I believe they have secrets to tell.
 (Part of a series of images about taking in flowers with all senses.)

Lisa has been interested in art since she was young. She graduated from Kansas City Art Institute in the late 80's art has led her in many directions including backdrops, printmaking, illustration, teaching, painting and drawing and recently she has started up a new body of digital work that includes cards and prints.' Hear the Flowers' is one of these new works. It is a series of five pieces depicting the five senses and is inspired from working at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in the Sensory Garden with recovering substance abuse and teenage pregnancy teens. She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota and is married with two children and works also as a dental hygienst. 

 www.lisarydinerickson.com
www.apapersnowflake.blogspot.com

(if you would like your art/photography referencing listening here, please email me with 1-2 attachments, your links + short bio to rachelawes@gmail.com)

lovely spaces

offering thanks

that "all i did was listen"

has found its way

into lovely spaces:

http://www.commongoodbooks.com/

http://www.bibelotshops.com/ on grand ave.

http://www.micawbers.com/

http://www.livelaughlovegifts.com/

+

also online
to reach
you + you + you
with love always
http://rachelawes.com
and
http://amazon.com
 xox

for the season

bringing back a lil' collection

for the season

all living in the land of etsy

as prints + cards

with love http://rachelawes.etsy.com 

listening to you

this lovely artist is fiona hill:

I'm Fiona Hill...I see myself as a creative explorer and am finding a new found freedom in applying paint to paper/canvas intuitively (without a prior plan). I never know what I'll come up with! I am working hard to set aside my fears of not being perfect and listening to my inner voice .



http://creativelyyoursbubandme.blogspot.com/

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this lovely artist is suzi dennis:



My name is Suzi Dennis and I am retired from the 9-5 and now work the whenever to whenever in my studio. I spent years traveling the art fair circuit but now concentrate on galleries and teaching online and on location workshops. Having a Great time in my old age!!

http://www.suzisart.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/#!/suzimade

http://www.etsy.com/shop/suzimade

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(if you would like your art/photography referencing listening here, please email me with 1-2 attachments, your links + short bio to rachelawes@gmail.com)

posters

~ posters ~

"wake up"

12 X 18
excerpt from book "all i did was listen"

+ 

"follow my heart"

13 X 19

excerpt from book "all i did was listen"

are now etsy added w/love
http://rachelawes.com 
(please click on pics to see bigger)
xox
*
(+ wanted to also share my delight in kelly rae's inspiration post today!
http://kellyraeroberts.blogspot.com/2012/12/hello-inspiration.html#.ULyTHuT7J2C)

dressed to soar

a new invitation

to soar

(please click on pic to see bigger)

(etsy added w/love http://rachelawes.com)

+

the dear http://loriportka.com 

interviewed me via skype + made this vimeo

please click on this link if you'd like to hear more

about the back-story of the making of the book

"all i did was listen"

https://vimeo.com/53908586

*

all shared w/love

+ thanksgiving for each of you.

swinging

a new print is available

(click on pic to make bigger)

+ it can also be found in cards,

which could be chosen 

in the girlfriend pack

through the holidays!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/110838547/the-girlfriend-pack-5-all-i-did-was

swinging out 

all the love

i can.

xox

listening to you

this lovely artist is: faygie fellig



faygie is a mother of 7, maker of crafts, a crafter of words, a wig stylist of 30 years, and a dreamer about mountain tops where she could see what else is inside her for arting. for now, she makes room on her kitchen table for her creations by clearing one box at a time.

http://beingfaygie.blogspot.com/

**

The Best Support

The best way to help

Is to listen

Advice seems to pour

From those

Who insist they understand

But have never experienced it.

Those who help

Are those who listen

Those who accept

There is no magic cure

Accept they cannot instantly

Make things happily ever after

The best support

Is not a quick fix

But a listening ear,

No judgment,

And acceptance.

copyright 1997

this lovely artist is: shiloh moore

Hi I'm Shiloh.  I've lived with severe ME and Fibromyalgia since age 10.  I wrote this at age 16 after a year of being entirely bedridden.  I had a book of poems and drawings, 'Stranger In The Moving Chair,' self published in 2004.  Now I am still ill but not as severe and I love to experiment and find joy in art (self taught.)

http://byshi-art.blogspot.com/

http://www.shilohmoore.wix.com/byshi

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(if you would like your art/photography referencing listening here, please email me with 1-2 attachments, your links + short bio to rachelawes@gmail.com)

all i did was listen books have arrived!

all i did was listen books have arrived!

i have begun packaging up the dear orders that have come in so far...

including these fun girlfriend packs!

(http://rachelawes.com)

shelves have been hung, in white, green, yellow, orange, pink + blue, 

for the other books to rest

+ await their new homes.

as delightful as it is to finally receive these into my hands,

i am finding that my deepest joy is in the sending them back out.

in the letting go. in the giving my heart away.

xox
...
here's a lil' rough video of my first opening of the book ~
you can see both my practical/checking it out + simply delighted sides:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VXApubjsu8Q

stars + shelves

as i got a lil' fear + temble-ee

about pursuing the moving forward 

with putting my book into

our beautiful world, this sentence dropped in

+ i made this drawing...really, for all of us.

(click on pic to see larger)

+

i've been having fun envisioning 

+ beginning to put together what i'll set 

all these books on!

stay tuned, dear ones.

xox

listening to you

this lovely artist: amy kendrat



Amy is a library-loving waitress who has a fascination with the night sky.  She paints, draws, and loves to listen.

http://etsy.com/shop/CraftingOwl

https://twitter.com/Amyek83



AND

charmed

by the wee fairy

juggling spheres of magic berries in her hand

not only did she watch

with her heart she did listen

for tales of once upon a time

spilled forth

with the mesmerizing spinning

and

tossing of each berry as it danced into the air

~

this lovely artist: tammie lee



I fill my days with nature photography,writing poetry and enjoy painting and drawing, very much. I live in a wee log cabin surrounded by woods, meadows and wildlife in NW Montana.

You can visit my two blogs to have a peak into NW Montana living. Or either of my two shops: www.beautyflows.com

 www.spirithelpers.net

http://miztlee.blogspot.com/

http://beautyflows.blogspot.com/

 

**

(if you would like your art/photography referencing listening here, please email me with 1-2 attachments, your links + short bio to rachelawes@gmail.com)

a couple treat offerings

i've re-listed this happy halloween to you

+

carissa (http://carissapaige.blogspot.com) + i

made this next one together...

each of us taking turns adding the next thing.

(please click on images to see bigger)

both etsy added w/love

http://rachelawes.etsy.com