Wrap it up or Paint it On! Cyber Monday is Here!

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend and enjoyed time with your family and friends!  I'm still in a Turkey coma I believe! We had a whirlwind trip to the beach to see family and do a little shopping before heading back and diving back into finishing up my artwork that I'll be taking with me for my book photo shoot next week!!! I can hardly believe it is almost here....EEEEK!!  lol  


 There is art everywhere in my house. Honestly, I have had a few freak out moments this week trying to manage it all!   My sweet boy tried to help Momma today by moving the furniture around in the living room so we could set up our tree while I was working in the studio.  awww...right???

    Anway, on to the business of the day which is showcasing all the great deals I have lined up for YOU!  I hope you find something creative or inspirational for your life and or home with one of these great specials:

Looking for some great gift items? 

Original Art, prints, stationary, classes and more can be found in my Etsy shop:

Over at Colourarte's Artevillage my Funky Little Cityscape class is 25.00 off the regular price for cyber Monday!

Or take 15.00 off the regular price of my other classes including:  Painterly in Pink, Extreme Portraits, and Twinks on  Yupo.

Another big big deal:  25.00 off my Podtastic class featured over at Creative Workshops!

Or, save 20% off any of my other work shops and tutorials over at Creative workshops including: Grunge Ink,  Sweet Art, Who Are You, Fearless Faux Encaustics,  Fun with Faux Encaustics, and Behind You! 

Don't forget, Monday is the last day to save off of the EARLY early bird special on my upcoming workshop (jam packed workshop I might add), "Dirty Flirty Birds" .  Save 25 dollars off of the regular price through Monday.  After Monday the pre-registration price will be 15.00 off the regular list price, so save more by purchasing today!  

My friends at Interweave are having an super duper sale over at the shop today as well! Save 50% off most items AND get an additional 10% off with code cyberdeals10.  BTW..my DVDS and downloads are available at a HUGE discount this weekend, too. 

 Check it out!
Save an Additional 10% at Interweave with Offer Code CYBERDEALS10


So ya...LOTS of great stuff going on!  I have a couple more announcements coming up this week so be sure to stay tuned over the next few days!

Please share this post if you have a moment, I really appreciate your support!  Have a great Monday!!

Art Everyday Month Project 11 "There is No Map"

I took part of the day off yesterday to go and play with little man which I don't get to do often enough. The kids of course had a day off for Veteran's Day and he wanted to go to the mall to get some new sneakers.  What is it with boys and their sneakers?  Oh my.  He's addicted.

We even started doing a little Christmas shopping which felt good to do. My normal MO is to wait to the last minute and be totally stressed out about it.  

Doing things at the wire of any deadline seems to be my MO for a lot of things! Funny how your personality traits trickle down to more than one part of your life.

It's not that I sit around either doing nothing. If there is free time in my schedule, I seem to fill it with more things. Then what happens, I start to scramble when I realize I've over committed. Time to change. How do you change?  What do you let go of when you want to do it all and feel like you need to do it all?

Today's Art Everyday Month (or yesterdays rather) is a journal page I'm calling:

"There Is No Map.....Only Signs"

 It may seem like there is a life map out there, but there's not.  No instruction book written expressly for you. Oh sure there are plenty of people, books, articles, shows and so on that will tell you what to do and when, but they don't know YOU and your situation. Your whys, your obstacles, challenges, opportunities, blessings and curses.

Only you know all that and sometimes not even you can see the big picture.

 So what do you do when you are at a crossroads, a fork in the road?

The only thing I know to do is:

Trust the signs.  It's simple enough but hard to do.  Sometimes discerning the signs is not easy.

I look for them all the time to guide me.

 Sometimes I follow them, sometimes I fight them with every last ounce of strength I have.

I do believe we get better at recognizing the right and wrong way to go as we get older but it still can be a murky highway at times.

So as you are swimming out of the murky waters and searching for the dry ground,  listen to your heart, it will more than not show you the way.

Okay so I'm off to the races....lots of great fun things in the air that need to be juggled one at a time back out into the world. I'm outta here to go and bring some colorful goodness out into the world!

Artfully Yours,

Jodi

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Embrace Your Limitations-and Winner of my Giveaway

 Good Monday Morning!

I hope everyone is well rested and ready for a beautiful week ahead, our first full week of June! It hardly seems possible we are hitting the halfway mark of 2013!  

With each passing day, time flies faster than the one before and each year melds into the next in a blink of an eye. 
I think acknowledging this and making the most of each and every day is so important. I know you all know that, but until something sneaks up on you or a life changing event happens, we often forget to make the most of every day and every moment we have with our loved ones.

We forget to do this with ourselves as well. How often do we do something just because others think we should? 

Granted there are times when we just need to do something  or it's the right thing to do, but how often is it that you put yourself to the wayside or make excuses as to why you can't do it?

 Reading through the comments in my giveaway last week really reconfirmed to me that we often make excuses, let fear override our faith and, and put off what we want for the sake of everyone but ourselves, (Among many other amazing 'aha' moments that were shared")

The winner of  my giveaway,  Mo Wassell had this to say,

 "  my AHA moment... so many... I heard something yesterday from an inspirational speaker - basically, to embrace your limitations. I thought of how I don't have much space to create, and even less time, and I tend to put off even trying. But his advice was to use that to push you as an artist... so I will begin creating small pieces that don't take as long... duh! Who knows from there?"

Congratulations Mo! I love what you had to say, even though it was a random pick of numbers that led me to you...I think the words you chose to share with us really are so important and I'm grateful you shared what you've learned.

Embrace Your Limitations.

Make the most of what you have, when you have it (or where you have it).

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No excuses, now go out and do great things in the world. We need you to 'show up'.  Time is ticking as we all know. :)

Jodi

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Did you know my class "Painterly in Pink" over at Dreaming in Color is now open for self study work?  Your registration comes with a 12 month subscription to the class AND a 30.00 coupon for product on the Dreaming in Color (website within the Splash of Color family) for the class!

Stop on by and check it out....learn tips and tricks to drawing facial features and painting semi stylized semi realistic portraits.  Over 36 videos shared all for one low price.