"Dream Catcher"
Acrylic on textured gallery wrap canvas
$45
Available at Luna's Mandala
This is one of several pieces I'm doing as a special series specifically for my gallery at Luna's Mandala. If you have not been up to Conifer to see this special space I hope you do soon! Luna has a wonderful store that includes original artwork from local artisans...jewelry, wonderful organic and trade free clothing, minerals, crystals and MORE! I love the atmosphere at Luna's Mandala...it is CALM and INVITING! She is wonderful about making everyone who stops by feel like they are the one and only! SO, I am pleased to do work that "fits" in when ever she asks. "Dream Catcher" is one such piece!
ALSO specific to Luna's are my "Affirmation Sticks". These fun little bits o art are my way of reminding us that we are important, and we need to remember it! I create these affirmation sticks by wrapping a dowel with hemp, leather, and other bits of this or that and then add color and such with beads of different stones. Then comes the affirmation. I will use metal pre printed ones if it fits, but if it doesn't fit what I want to say I make my own and encase it in two part epoxy for a permanent application.
"Do Your Best"
Affirmation Stick
$45
Available at Luna's Mandala
"do your best and let that be enough" is something I say to myself ALL THE TIME! I think women often push themselves to do so much and then spend so much time regretting that it wasn't enough. THIS affirmation is for a woman like this! We need to remember, OUR BEST IS ENOUGH! Thus the birth of this piece!This wrapped affirmation is attached to old barn wood and is ready to hang!
and, is if that wasn't enough, the little reminder below "truth" should be enough to cement that thought in our minds...IT IS TRUE! BEST IS BEST! lol (by the way, things coated with epoxy are hard to photograph...the glare is not something I can avoid for straight on shots...i promise it isn't "glarey" in life!) 👍
"Choose Happy"
Affirmation Stick on gallery wrap canvas
$45
Available at Luna's Mandala in Conifer, CO
"Choose Happy" was a no brainer for me...we are living in some stressful times right now, so I wanted to bring some bright color and a reminder that we CAN "Choose Happy" to make our day tun around. This Affirmation comes to the person who needs that visual reminder to turn their frown upside down to quote a long loved phrase!
I will continue to create these fun reminders to self as I am inspired to do so! We all need to remember to be kind to ourselves!
FIND INSPIRATION WHERE YOU CAN!
Continuing on with my work specifically created for Luna's Mandala this is a "long skinny" (as I like to call them) version of my affirmation sticks. Again, they are wrapped dowels with an affirmation thrown in to give it the meaning intended! "I am worthy of my dreams" is a powerful statement that reminds us that we are worthy..to keep dreaming! I've included some peridot and lapis stones in the mix pulling together this powerful little reminder!
