Showing posts with label lifebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lifebook. Show all posts

Thursday 14 September 2023

LIfe Book 2024 Tasters - Come and Join Us!

 

You can find out more information HERE  

I first heard about Life Book in 2013 and really enjoyed taking part.  I later became one of the teachers in the 2022 Life Book and it was an amazing experience being first a student and then a teacher.  I thoroughly enjoyed participating from both perspectives.

Each year you get to try out a session from each of the teachers as part of the 'Taster Sessions', it is a great way to get to know the teachers.

This year is no exception!  Come and join in the fun for Life Book 2024 Taster Sessions, where art meets the essence of holistic well-being! Tamara and her team have put together an impressive lineup, and we are set to embark on a journey that can profoundly impact our health and overall sense of well-being.

Over the next two weeks, we can immerse ourselves in the world of art as the Life Book 2024 Teaching Team introduces us to a fantastic range of soul-nurturing experiences. These sessions will ignite our creative spirits.



The Taster Sessions will be available from September 25th, 2023, to October 8th, 2023,  You can have continued access to the sessions if you join Life Book 2024, commencing on January 1st, 2024.

You will gain access to over 80 enriching mixed media art sessions, each session is designed to not only awaken your artistic talents but also to promote relaxation, reduce stress, and foster mindfulness.

If you already feel the excitement, you can take the first step by pre-ordering Life Book now or delving deeper into what awaits you here. Prepare to embark on a transformative voyage that will enrich not only your artistic skills but also your life. Welcome to a world where art and well-being converge in a symphony of self-discovery and joy.

Before you go....



Saturday 12 December 2020

7 DAY REPLAY - Life Book Taster Sessions - FREE

 



You get another opportunity to experience the Taster Sessions for 7 Days!!

The Life Book Taster Sessions were really popular and Over 15000 people joined in. The time went by so quickly that when it came to an end so many had not had the opportunity to complete all the sessions. Tam our host had many of you email to say that you had loved it, but not managed to finish them all. With 30 classes we can totally understand, which that's why we are offering a 
7-Day Replay all of the Taster Sessions content.

As soon as you checkout for FREE with the Taster Sessions in your basket, you will have 7 Days full access to the classes.

How Do I Access The Replay?

We wanted to make it straightforward for you to grab your Taster Sessions again, so all you have to do is go HERE, add it to your basket and checkout (for free, of course!) The Taster Sessions will then be in your account to watch at your leisure for 7 Days.

Get Your Taster Sessions Replay HERE



Take a week to work on all Taster content in the run up to 1st January when the new Life Book year begins (we are so excited are you? Oh and guess what? You get an amazing virtual gift bag with free printables/free classes and discount codes too! I really hope you'll join us! Remember if you are signing up to the main course in January then use the discount Early Bird Code at the check out.



Free virtual Gift Back filled with free printables/classes and discount codes too!   See you there...


Tuesday 22 September 2020

Would you like 30 FREE Art Sessions? We will be starting Soon 👀👀

 


Free Taster Sessions Event  Life Book 2021.


We have a week to go before we begin 2 weeks of fun creative immersion! All for FREE, it is going to be amazing!

Have you signed up to join us yet?

The team over at at Willowing have worked very hard to present you with another FREE Taster Event, This time, it's for Life Book 2021, which has is also now available to pre-order

I began my Mixed Media Art journey taking the classes in Life Book around 2008!! and I am so stoked years later to be one of the teachers on the Year Long Course!!  
Life Book 2021 will feature dozens of amazing artists of which I am proud to be one and will bring you the best art classes focused on YOU and your well-being!!

You can pre-order the full course right now! :) Hop on over here to pre-order the course (Use FEELHAPPY20 to get 20% off!). However if you want to learn a bit more about it first, then:


Sign up for the Free Taster Lessons

FREE Taster Alert! To introduce you to the Life Book course & the teachers (and just to have fun too), we are running two weeks of FREE Taster Sessions :)  If you want to learn more about this popular course and enjoy this Free Event (with free introductory classes, live faqs and giveaways), then make sure you:
Join the Life Book Free Taster Sessions by Clicking Here

The Taster Sessions are completely free and will start on 28th September 2020 (mark you calendars, we hope to see you there)! Should be so much fun! 

What is it?

A COMPLETELY FREE 2-week long exploration into art and wellbeing! The Sessions are filled with inspiring classes, art sessions, give aways, meditations and wellbeing activities to help you get present and connected to the healing power of your creativity!

WHAT DOES IT INVOLVE? 


30 teachers giving free classes over a two-week period, of course as your host, you'll get free lessons from Tam too! It’s going to be a big couple of weeks in our creative community!  We all can’t wait!

Not only are these Free Sessions filled with inspiring classes by amazing artists, but there will be freebies from each of us, as well as the chance to win a free place on the full Life Book 2021 course!

When you attend the Life Book Free Taster Sessions you are able to:

  • Watch the sessions at your leisure!
  • Join our Facebook Group with like-minded people from all over the world!
  • Wear whatever comfy clothes you want and enjoy the Free Taster Sessions from the comfort of your own home! 
  • Play, make mistakes, be fabulous or sad, it's all welcome! You are accepted just as you are!
  • Enjoy free art & well-being activities

GIVEAWAYS

Give Aways! 
If you want to win a spot on Life Book 2021, each teacher will be giving away 1 place (and Tam will be giving away 10 free spaces!) The giveaways will be held in the Life Book Taster Sessions Facebook Group, so make sure you join the Taster Session by going HERE and put your details into the sign up box! You will be sent an email with all the information.

Before You Go -



You can now pre-order the course early if you’re a 'YES' already. Use the Early Birdy Coupon Code to get 20% off! 

To Recap


Free Taster Sessions for Life Book begin on 28th September 2020 
Sign up here.
Pre-orders for Life Book 2021 are open NOW! Check it out here
Life Book 2021 the course starts on January 1stFind out all about this course here. 

Stay blessed and be a blessing.  Hope to see you on the taster week

Amandaxx



Sign Up for the Taster Sessions by Clicking HERE

Tuesday 8 September 2020

Life Book Taster Sessions 28th September 2020 - 11th October 2020


Welcome, I am excited to share with you the FREE Life Book Taster Sessions.  I hope you will join me for some amazing & Free Life Book Taster Sessions which begin on September 28th! 

This is my lesson lots of creative play

Do you want to learn how to create more well-being in your life? 

  • Do you want to create, express, develop and grow? 
  • Do you want to play with paints, get messy with collage, enjoy mark making and drawing? 
  • Do you want more hints and tips on how to use your creativity to become a happier person? 

Creative Play Detail - mark making and colour


If the answer to those questions is YES then come join us on the FREE Life Book Taster Sessions!






Wednesday 26 March 2014

New art - Courses Update


I have been busy in the studio working away on a variety of courses.  What I realized early this year was that I signed up for too many courses.  It is so important to keep moving forward and learning new things, but if you don't give yourself enough time to process what you are learning it can become stressful, falling behind and getting yourself in a stressful state. 

What I found happened to me was that I just stopped.  I had lost sight of why I was doing the courses as I just tried to churn out images in an attempt to keep up, and also keep up with the events happening around me in my life.  

I decided to change my mindset, I have slowed down and have been taking my time, having given myself a breather and got on with things like moving my mum into a new home, I have come out the other end excited about the new work that I will produce over the course of the next year.

I am very pleased to share with you some of the pieces that I have done over the last couple of weeks from Soul Food and Life Book courses, I will also be sharing over the coming months some larger paintings that I will be working on for the Bloom True - Flora Bowley Course  It is a 5 week course, with access after the course for 6 months, the next course starts May 12th – June 14th, 2014, so go on the waiting list to get more information. 

Here are a glimpse of 3 pieces that I recently finished....
Going to the party

Palette Love

Sweety Pie

If you would like to see the complete image you can check them out here at my mixed media art site

Friday 17 January 2014

Gratitude's and Celebrations - Week 28 - The doors are opening....

The doors are opening, are you ready to walk through?

The page before completion

One of my promises to myself for 2014 was that I would learn as much as I could and increase my knowledge and skill base. I have started the year doing that and I am in the middle of a few courses that are already stretching me and getting me out of my comfort zone.

Paying close attention means that I have to take my time, be persistent as things won't happen on their own, to see things through to the end while maybe not being in familiar territory, a different way of doing things, different outlook, but with one step in front of the other. 


I am going into the second week of Life Book and Soul Food and just finished a week of Explorations in Collage. Each of the courses have their own challenges, In Life Book and Soul Food we have been working with a number of creatives who are sharing their techniques. The main thing for me is to take what I need from each and see how it can inform the work that I do. I have been doing things I haven't done in a while, not realising how much I enjoyed them, and with Experiments in Collage III, I am coming into contact with a range of artists that I really admire and working with collage in a different way.  I will share some of the work tomorrow.
Gratitude's and Celebrations Journal - The doors are opening

One thing that I am mindful about is making sure that when distraction and feelings of 'what am I really doing' strike, especially in those times where you need to get past a barrier of thinking, is to have some strategies in place that will put me back on track and re-motivated. Having a page where I can say what I celebrate and am grateful for is a great reminder that often pushes me forward. I know that those thoughts will come as I learn more techniques and try and grow and develop even further.

I celebrate the lives of those fellow artists and creatives that are on the courses with me and look forward to new relationships, interactions and collaborations. I will walk through the doors knowing that I have worked hard, and been persistent to get to where I want to go and I am grateful for the ability to be able to take part in the variety of courses and to really take the time to grow as an artist.

What opportunities are coming your way that could possibly make a difference to your outlook on your work? I would love to hear from you and share what action you will be taking. As this week draws to a close have a blessed weekend! If you want to see how I made the journal (click here) Blessings! 

Tuesday 7 January 2014

Course Review and Insights - Life Book and Soul Food


Life Book and Soul Food are in progress and as I said a few days ago HERE the focus for Tuesdays on the blog for 3 weeks out of the 4 will change slightly as I share insights and Ahha moments from the courses that I am doing, while sharing some of the work. In an ideal world I would just be doing my work on the courses, but the reality for most of us is that life still goes on in the meantime. There is no pause button, so being realistic you can’t get everything done at once, it just isn't possible and choices have to be made.

In both courses we have already had quite a few videos to watch and techniques to try out, while we battle with the ‘Critic’, and mine tells me ‘I don’t have the time’ and that it isn’t necessary to grow or stretch myself, and by no means climb out of my comfort zone. My critic is the one who wants me compare myself to other artists as I sit up watching anything on sky tv – flicking through the channels until at least 1am rather than be in my studio space being creative, perhaps what the critic needs is a holiday with a roller coaster ride of adventure to shake it up a bit!

Within all the chatter and the noise the still small voice says don’t be afraid, everything will be alright, you can do all things, I will give you the strength, step out in faith, your steps will be ordered and when you can’t stand, I will carry you, standing in the gap for you!’  

What I‘ve been doing so far on the courses is thinking about what I am learning from each contributor, what is it that is an encouragement to my own work and the processes that I use. There isn’t always going to be something, but even doing something different from the way you would normally do it will help you come back refreshed. 

A couple of things that I am trying to do is be freer with the techniques and playing with the materials, thinking about colour and how I use it in my work and whether I can be bolder experimenting more with the materials that I have. 

In Life Book Tam did some useful exercises around the colour wheel and i thought about the different ways I use it and how I can experiment with colour more within my work.
My Encourager

Be strong in heart because miracles can happen 


This image came out for me as that gentle reminder that I just need to be who I have been called to be through my work.

In Soul Food, Mystele shared with us how she uses her gelli plate, I don’t have one but have been improvising with a Perspex plate using the tools I have and I created a few backgrounds which led to this image;

Fly

The perspex is hard and it dries quite quickly, so I’ll continue to experiment and see what I come up with over the weeks.


Yesterday I spent time watching Gwen Seemels contribution
working with coloured markers and pens and working in layers. I’ve been using Promarkers pens and more recently Spectrum Noir and revisited a page I did 

Love yourself..

And thought that I would spend more time working with the pens as I quite enjoyed it. I had stopped using the Promarkers because I felt that I’d hit a wall, but again just needed to push.

I intend to do more pen based images. What also resonated with some of the things she said was about layers and self portraits. Over the course of around 20 years I have only done 2.  I guess with all the faces I have done over the years there is a little bit of me or my personality in each.


Doing self portraits really gets us to look at ourselves and we need to do this from time to time. We can be too hard on ourselves, and walk with the perception of what we think others are seeing and then depending on your frame of mind see yourself how you think others are seeing you or how you think they think you should be seeing yourself! ((Really).... – did that make sense to you?).

I only want to see myself the way God sees me...


My Heart Overflows


When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings an crowned him with glory and honour...Psalm 8:3-5

I want to see the gifts and talents I have been blessed with used to bless others. My word for the year which I’ll remind myself of again is ‘attention to detail’ – what exactly can you hear, see, smell, feel, taste – and being present, all of me in every situation. I want to see the seeds that I planted and tended last year bear fruit this year. I am looking for growth, change, sometimes it will be uncomfortable and awkward, sometimes I’ll share, sometimes not, but we are going to see new opportunities, doors opening, new techniques learnt and we will be speaking of miracles. I don’t want to be the same or do the same things that I did last year and I plant to work hard to see those things come to pass.

Planted by the River

Let me encourage you as you face your own journey, to really see yourself, who you really are, the whole you, not a fragmented image. It is not an overnight transformation but a slow and steady pace, a get you up early and stay focused pace that calls on you to be here in the moment right now!



If you are talking either Soul Food or Life Book or any other course that is great, it would be lovely to hear how you have found the course so far, share your insights. If you hadn’t taken the step yet, it is still early days and you don’t need to worry about catching up. Whatever you do today do it with meaning, passion and intent. I am looking forward to sharing other insights with you along the way. Blessings!

Monday 30 December 2013

Material Mondays - Looking back on 2013 and changes for 2014

I have been spending time over the past few days with family and there have been quite a few late nights.  I am trying to get my body clock back to getting up early, so that I can catch the house when it is quiet and get on with a few things before everyone wakes up.

I have been trying to set myself some schedules, planning my learning for 2014, which starts today with Soul Food.  I feel that it is important to ensure that you do something for your self-development.  I will also be taking a few other courses including Life Book in January and Bloom True which starts in February.  

I am really pushing my learning next year and also intend to learn about quilting, book binding and photo shop.  I am intending on using them as ways to capture stories, my mums, mine and my role as her daughter and carer.  I hope to develop some creative activities that others will be able to use and be inspired to use with those they care for who have dementia.  I will be sharing my journey on the courses and recommend that you take a look at some of them as you think about your own learning for 2014.

I will be changing my posting schedule to make room for the courses and to be able to share what I've been learning and all the new art work that will be produced.  Material Mondays, Tutorial Tuesdays and Recycled Projects will all be posted once a month. I thought I would share with you the projects I have made so far with Material Mondays and put a link so that you can go and take a look.

I started Material Mondays as a way to show some of the creative work that I had done with textiles and crochet.  As I progress in my mixed media walk it is really enabling me to explore and experiment with all the techniques and equipment that I have always wanted to try.  I may find that as I progress there are some that I will not be trying at all, but the main thing is that I will have a taste of many of the techniques then decide if I want to incorporate it within my mixed media work.

I started sharing around October this year and have been posting pretty much every week, here is what I have created so far, if you want to take a closer look click on the image and it will take you to the post:

Crochet Choker

Crochet Necklace

Painted Recycled Fabric

Painted Fabric with Stitching added 

Recycled Bag Journal

Chunky button Fabric Journal

Crochet Neck warmers
Crochet Baby Hat
Chunky Wrist Cuff
Fabric Journal

Crochet Owl

Reusable Crochet Journal Cover
I am quite proud of myself for keeping up with creating and look forward to seeing the projects I make next year, one of which I hope to be a crochet bag and doll that you can keep inspiring messages in.  I hope you do continue to join me in my creative travels.  I am looking forward to the growth and expansion that will come from stepping out and not worrying about what you are creating but enjoying the process. Blessings and much love!
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