Hello Wishcasters ! What do you wish to take a break from?

Hello everyone ! How are all of you ? Its been busy crazy around here . I hope your all havin' a great week so far , being we're in the middle of it already . Todays question from Jamie Ridler's Wishcast Wednsday is , " What do you wish to take a break from ? Wow! That one is easy this week ,family drama ! Last weekend we had to deal with my brother n law coming back into all our lives , and he is mentally ill , been on drugs most his life and his mother doesn't help by giving everything he wants from money to places to live , but he always get forced out by the neighbors because he starts bangin on doors thinkin his ex-wife is next door havin' an affair .Yep! thats how bad it gets. Anyways he's on the street now but ends up on my mother n laws door step , she always wants my hubby to deal with his brother , but everytime he does , she ruins it by giving into what he wants , Oh! and did I mention she's mentally ill as well . So I would like to take a break from the crazy people family members , and thats exactly what I did , I bounced right back into my art and now my etsy is up and running ! Yay! I may not be able to change the family but I can make change in my life . Art journaling has helped in all this craziness , it has , and on that note I've decided to teach art journaling . So I have a deal right now that if you buy one of my art journals , I will invite you to join my e-course for free!

Its all about how to use your travellin' art journal , I show ya what easy simple supplies you need and simple techniques to do . You don't need to be a pro , its all fun easy learning , so I hope you will all join me .

Thanks for listening as always , check out my promo video for the travellin' art journals and free e-course and head over to my etsy shop today , I promise I make it fun in my videos , class starts on July 31st so you still have time !

Check out my deal , when you buy one of my travellin'

Art Journals ,you are invited to my e-course for free!

Wishcast Wednsday : what do you wish for this summer?

Hello wishcasters! How are you today ? Well we meet again for Jamie Ridlers Wishcast Wednsday , where she askes us ,what do we wish for this summer ? Wow! that question is just so big to me , don't you think ? A summer is for 3 months and thats a long time to me! But! Today that answer is easy .

I wish for my Art journals to sell in my etsy shop ! Yes! It is the grand opening of my etsy shop as promised ! Im so excited to sell my art journals to all of you and others out there who just need to get it all out in an art journal . Like I have said before , its great therapy , a form of meditation , and just so fun! Right now I am selling these quilted , comfy, cozy art journals that you can take anywhere , they're for the traveller so its perfect for the summer . Theres only two styles up right now , but I am making more as we speak , so theres more coming . This summer art journal your summer journey ! Especially with my quilted art journals .

So My wish for this summer is to sell lots of art journals to all of you and others out there !

Until next time , I love ya all ! Muah! Thanks as always for listening and art journal and if you think you don't know how , don't worry , when you buy one of my art journal you get free how to videos where I travel with my art journal , show you what kind of kit you need to make art journaling fun and easy , its really not hard to do , and no experience necessary .So mozy over to my etsy and pick up your art journal today!

Thanks again I luv ya a bunches!

Maryann k

Hello Wishcasters ! Wishcasting : What delights do you wish for?

Hello fellow wishcasters , I can't believe I got to do this 2 weeks in a row . That is a first in a very long time . How are all of you ? I wanna say that I read everyones wishcasts , well last week I took my laptop to the doctor's office thinking I was gonna be able to use their internet , and can you believe they didn't allow that , everywhere else I go they do , but at this clinic , they wouldn't let ya . I was so upset because I wanted to go to all the wishcasters and see what you all read , so Im deeply sorry I didn't get to go stop by your blog to see what you all had to say about your wishes . Im home all day today so I will definitely be at everyones blog today .

So! Today on Wishcast Wednsday by the beautiful Jamie Ridler ,she asks , " What delights do you wish for ? Wow! ok ...delights ay... well I want to say something like food LOL! and I wonder why Im a little chunky LOL! No but seriously , I would have to say...giving back and what I mean by that is I am a big fan of art journaling and I would like to spread the art journal love to the masses because to have life experience put out on a pretty book , of pretty art that a person creates is something they can look back at and remember they're journey of the good times and the bad , and remember how they did have good memories and they survived the bad ones .

So the answer to the question is, the delight I wish is to give back the art journal love by making these beautiful traveling art journals that you can take with you anywhere , whether it be to the park , the beach , or on your break at work that you can pull out and just draw a thought , or whats around you , just to brighten your day , or let out a bad day and turn it into a positive and after , realize you let it out in your art journal and it made you feel great! That would be a wonderful delight for me ! : )

I will have my etsy up next week with a video on the "Be Free Art journals" to show you how you can do it and how fun , easy , and great you can feel if you just art journal and set yourself free !

Thanks so much for stopping by , I enjoy all the Wishcasters your all just so real , and I love getting to know others , that just speak the truth and aren't afraid to be who they truly are , I feel that with you all !

Thanks for listening as always !

Muah! XOXO

Maryannk

Wishcast Wednsday:What do you wish to begin?

Greetings & Salutations fellow Wishcasters! I have missed doing this for about a month now , I have not done wishcasting , so miss reading all your posts , I hope to be wishcasting more often . So! today the beautiful Jamie Ridler asks us , what do you wish to begin ? Well I wish to begin thinking about myself . This whole time I have been dealing with my daughter being confussed about whether or not she wants to come back home for school or live where shes living right now which is about 45 minutes away . As parents we always want our children to know we will always be there for them , no matter what ,because we love them so much , but my daughter is so scared to stay focused and mean what she says , and my life ,goals,& dreams come to a hault everytime she says, " OK I really want to take my education seriously", then we started trying to prepare for her to move back , we have a guest appartment for her we just need to paint and get it ready but everytime we start ,she goes back to , " No ,I think Im gonna stay where Im at ." This has happened twice already . I love her dearly , but Im wasting my time and my deadline on my crafts to sell on my etsy and various craft shows have been neglected , because I stop everything because I want to help her. I have realized since the last Bi-polar incident ,that I have to stop doing that and it felt good to finally realize that I don't have time for procrastination anymore . I don't have time for confusion with others in my family . These kids have to figure it out and sometimes it means stepping away,leaving them be to do that . I on the other hand , know what I want . I want to begin being organized , and thats what I've done , I went & got these shelves and put them up & now my art studio is starting to have a focus even with it not done yet with putting stuff away , I feel the difference , I feel the new beginnings in their . Its funny that Jamie made this the question , and it so happened to be exactly what I was doing .

We as loving,hard working women have to start thinking about what we want in our lives . We need to stop being so worried about everything and everyone , because we deserve our dreams and goals too ladies! Really! We do so much for our families , this is the one thing we love to do is our art and we want to be able to share it to the masses , whether it be on etsy or at a fair,craftshow , we don't ask for much ,but this we can ask of our families .

So I wish to begin thinking of myself , my dreams and my goals :

This is a a art journal page I did sorry the lighting was bad so you can't really see what it says . It says, " Tired of worrying about everyone else time to think of ME !"

Since I've been thinking of me , my energy has been amazing,I've started to get out into my community and network , I feel really positive , I see everything coming together , now all my projects that Im working on are all laid out in front of me where now Im not lost in my projects anymore because its all organized in my art studio , this is the place to be, this is where I hope to stay.

Thanks for stopping by as always it means alot.

Until next time Muah! XOXO

Luv,

MaryAnnk

time to focus journal 2...

Greetings & Salutations ! How are all of you ? Yesterday was a good day , I have my grandbaby Zan over for the memorial day weekend so I have been having lots of fun catching up as grandma , I rarely see my sweet stuff , well I see her with her mom & dad most the time , this is the first time in a while that I have had one on one time with the little one , & its been really nice . I did some work in the art studio first thing in the morning , then went to lunch with Dave & Zan at one of our favorite thai joints out here in Canyon country called Siam Rice.

We had our lunch which was , as always! very yummy afterwards we always get our fortune cookies which at this resturant for some reason always seem kind of real , strange I know , I guess because we want to believe that it comes close to the truth . So Zan is a pro already opening up her fortune cookie , but her favorite part is eating the cookie LOL!

So then after , we head over to the market & what do we always do when Zan sees one of those put your quarters in for a ride thingies ? So we tell her you can go on that if you are a good girl in the market k ? and she says, " O.K." and she was so guess who got to go on the merry-go-round ? Yes you got it! The Zan !

What Im starting to do more often than what I did before is , to start reminding myself what means alot to me , what I have to always cherish , what I should be thankful for in my life .My little precious family I truly am thankful for . I only had one child in my life that I bore , my daughter Krystal Rose. She gave me a beautiful grandbaby Zan aka Athena Rose and Dave gave me both of them . I never thought I would be a mom let alone a good one LOL! But I can say I turned out alright , I did and my daughter is a pretty awesome girl that Im so glad I had her . She taught me alot about who I was . I know that I didn't know who I was before her . I was trying to figure it out before I had her but , I just wasn't figuring it out quite right. Now I see my daughter with her daughter and I know why Im on planet earth now, for my beautiful girls and my soulmate Dave.

These are the reasons for me to be thankful , and to remember what I do have , the love for my little family & how much they really need me , and how I need them too ! Thanks for listening and stoppin' by as always I love ya!

Muah! XOXO

Luv,

Maryannk

Time to focus ....

Greetings & Salutations ! How are all of you ? Well... I have been doing alot of thinking besides my working hard on my crafty bag line that seems so far away to get to , everytime I set a goal for myself to put it out there on my etsy , I swear! life gets in the way . I really believe that I have to get into my art studio when everyones sleeping because then I know that no one will bother me because their all sleeping LOL! I kid you not! I woke up today and its 7:30am & the minute the hubby knows Im up, its " We need to do..." I just loose it! I go, " you know what I have stuff to do". Its been really difficult to get into my art , because to him its having fun, not working. I have decided to just step back & find myself, so I will probably not be doing as many videos anymore until I get my stuff up & running . I hate this feeling of not succeeding in just " DOING IT" , I don't feel like Im being taken seriously by anyone ,most of all am I even taking myself seriously? Im tired of talkin' and not doin' the walkin' into my dreams & my art. I believe my talent is real , I think all artists should believe their talent is real to them and go for it, but for me , I can't seem to get through my personal life, push through it and do it! I have decided that Im not gonna post anything on facebook except a journal here on my blog telling you how Im getting through it and hopefully be able to show you how Im getting my art out there and helping others like the runaway girls that I am suppose to be starting an art journal club with them this summer. I love knowing you all and I thank you as always for stopping by and hearing my thoughts . I know that alot of us are very much alike and we just want to know that we're not the only ones going threw similar obstacles. If I could take an ecourse on getting it going like Jamie Ridlers sparkle course , I would but , I don't have that kind of money to afford to pay for the course , so that is a distant thought to do . I have great ideas , I see that they are sellable , but when will I finish something and be able to put it up and sell them ? These are all the things I need to figure out. Stepping away should be a good thing , and journaling it here , I think will be healthy for me and let you see how I get out of my rut . I will be on Twitter so you will hear from me there but the only thing is not on facebook, I will just post a blog to let ya know whats been going on . I hope that I will help you all in your rut , & some of you have helped me in my rut , with recommending books and thank you so much for that , again it means alot , when you all speak to me and give me advice , thanks for caring : )

So inconclusion to this revelation, I know in my heart that I have talent . Im not afraid to say anymore that I am an artist , because I believe so , I have always been!

Its realizing that belief and thats a big battle that I hope to break very soon. So here is the beginning of my Time to focus journals !

Thanks for listening I love ya ! : )

Muah! XOXO

luv,

MaryannK

Long time since I have blogged my thoughts....

Hello everyone ! Sorry I haven't been here in a while . I just feel like my life is so slow in coming out roses . LOL! You know how sometimes you just wake up one day and coincidentally it just happens to be the day of , " The End Of The World " , and I just realize what I've been doing in the last month when my Etsy shop should have been up , I can't even finish stuff because last minute its , " we gotta do this!" "we gotta do that", my life has been JUMP!JUMP! and I just don't question any of it and just GO!GO! without question all for people who don't know how to take charge and think straight and that includes me . I don't know how many of you read my blogs , I thank you for those who do ; those who can relate , it truly means alot . Honestly I have been trying so hard to get things going in my life , but I feel like everything around me is always in my way . Sometimes people in your life don't get it . They think that because they give you everything that you owe them a favor.When sometimes giving people everything isn't enough , its actually a control mechanism , to keep you where they want you to be . Its very minipulating , because they only give you just enough to survive,but you never get past that point. You just find yourself working all the time and never getting anymore ,so dreams go out the door.

My life has been so crazy , when I thought I found balance , the balance wasn't their, it was an illusion of balance . I find myself from one place to the next and at one point you just have to say I need to be home to get MY STUFF DONE!! nothing else matters . Today I had to say STOP! TAKE CHARGE! No one puts their lives in check. I go into these anxiety attacks more often than the norm because I just don't see our dreams getting done . We really have no excuses . I find all I ever do is clean this place or that place and then do more at my living place and it sucks!

I hope today I will accomplish something in its complete format today LOL! I feel like all I ever do is clean , and I never see the payback . Yes I have alot , I do see that as well , what I don't see is my house improving , what good are things if you can't do your music or your art , because your house is all packed in boxes waiting to be finished so you can put the stuff back up . What good is having another house on your property to fix as an art retreat , when you don't have the money to fix it up in the first place . These are the tests the Universe has put upon me to pass , and I feel like its the hardest test to pass without the cash. So I guess my question is , " What do I do to make the cash come in ? "

Thanks to those of you who stop by a listen it means alot...

Love,

Maryannk : )