I love it when grace and serendipity collide.

This last week I hit the point of exhaustion. I’d put the final touches on the new workshop series and have been burning the candle at both ends for several months.

I just had nothing left in the tank. I was that kind of tired, where you start crying and you don’t know why.

And the thought of putting a Sunday inspiration together seemed impossible. I felt incapable of finding any inspiration to create with.

Then it happened, …. I was cleaning the mess in my studio after creating for weeks for the workshop and putting things away when out of one of my lovely vintage books falls little tiny bits of scaps. One tiny torn scrap said …”waning spirit”… another said “fraction” …. another said “one step forward and one step back”…. another said, “the toil will end”.

I stood there looking at the pieces for several minutes… and tears rolled down my cheeks and I felt that rush of inspiration that could have only come from the divine.

I share more about it in the video, how grace covered me at that moment. It’s a simple page…. the last page in my journal…. on the last Sunday inspiration for 2020, how’s that for serendipity…. But it’s often in the simple moments, the simple creations that we find our joy.

Have fun watching

https://youtu.be/ZnjeuDLtrW4

Supplies used:

Handmade journal, Liquitex acrylic ink (carbon black, turquoise deep, transparent raw umber, muted violet, yellow oxide), Nova color texture paste, Liquitex matte gel and fluid matte medium, Liquitex gesso, Stabilo all pencil, Stabilo woody pencils for marks, charcoal pencil,

Stencils used: scribble marks 1 and simple branches

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