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Take a Breath (day 16 blogging with Effy Wild)

4/16/2021

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For a long time now, my mantra has been: 
​Take a deep breath, and forgive yourself everything.
I'm not even sure where I found the image, but it still really resonates with me.
Now this doesn't mean forgiveness for some big mistake in your past (although that needs to be included).  To me, it means forgive yourself for all the things you think you are falling short in, or even for the thought thinking that you ARE falling short.  Forgive yourself for all those things you beat yourself up about all day long.  Because guess what?  Beating yourself up doesn't help.  All it does is keep you stuck.  Stuck in feeling like someone who deserves to be beaten up.  Would you do that to your friend!  Never! But you are your BEST friend and you treat you like SHIT!
Just like forgiveness for someone who wronged you is about freeing yourself, so is this.  You are doing it for you, so you can let go and move forward.  
So take a deep breath in.........
breathe in forgiveness.....
and blow out all the shit.  Let it all go.
ALL of it! You don't have to hold onto one single thing.  All you have to do is just be.
That's it. Be.
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April Showers day 15 blogging with Effy Wild

4/15/2021

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I sit here listening to the tires on wet pavement swishing by.  We have rain that will likely turn to snow later as it cools down and will continue in to Friday.  We always get snowstorms late in the spring, hopefully this is the last one. Chilly rain makes me want to snuggle up with a good book and a fluffy blanket.  It also makes me feel slower, more calm and a bit introspective.  I do love the sound of rain on the roof and the fresh scent after.  Of course this may be of the more frozen sort. Can you smell frozen?
I don't have much to say today. I had a fabulous post on Facebook saved to use as a prompt, only to find it "unavailable" any longer for reasons only known to the universe. 
  • I'm grateful the the moisture and knowing this will pass soon.
  • I'm grateful to be able to celebrate my oldest daughter's 33 birthday with her and her sister this weekend!
  • I'm beyond grateful to have found a compassionate creative community online
  • I'm grateful and continually amazed at the synchronicity between what my soul needed and what I created in paintings.
  • I'm grateful to realize I am a healer even if I don't know what that looks like yet.
  • I'm grateful for your eyes reading my words
holding compassionate space
​~deb♥ 
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I'm sorry, but it had to be pun (day 14 blogging with Effy Wild and probably my last ;)

4/14/2021

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I actually really love a bad Dad joke, but I love a bad pun even badder.
I don't purport to be any good at making one, but I can spot one a smile away.
Here are a few I found:
Sorry to start where it hurts, but this one really made me laugh:
  • What jokes are allowed during quarantine?    INSIDE jokes
  • Poop jokes aren't my favorite, but they are a solid number two!
A build up:
  • Honeydew you know how happy you make me?
  • I'm bananas for you, let's never split.
  • Ladies, if he can’t appreciate your fruit jokes, you need to let that mango.

  • Geology rocks but Geography is where it’s at!
  • Need an ark to save two of every animal? I noah guy.
  • I don’t trust stairs because they’re always up to something.
  • Why did the student get upset when the teacher called her average? It was a 'mean' thing to say.
  • Have you heard the one about the statistician? Probably.
  • Math jokes are a sine of a big problem.
  • I made a pun about the wind but it blows.

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I have no excuse, Wacky Wednesday?

​~deb♥
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Trying something new (day 13 blogging with Effy Wild)

4/13/2021

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Tuesday Bluesday, anyone else have more issues with Tuesday than they do with Mondays?
I don't know why, but Tuesday is the day I want to crawl in a hole and stay there.
Maybe Monday traumatized me.
  • Trying to focus on my business marketing. After the success of last weeks workshop, I'm trying to prepare myself for the let down this week is looking like it will be. Did I manifest that?
(Looking back at history, there's no rhyme or reason why some classes go and others fizzle. Indeed, there have been some I didn't really want to teach that were crazy popular, so I don't feel like alignment is at issue, unless it is the universe aligning in laughter at my expense....)
  • Wow, I'm just realizing how scattered I am feeling. (I mean in general, the Tuesday thing is just a given)
  • Another realization this week is that I am much better at doing for others than I am at doing for me.
  • I got a wild hair earlier in the year and bought an airbrush system planning on doing airbrush tattoos at festivals.  I was reminded early in my experiments why I didn't pursue airbrushing years ago.  1-I am not a patient person when there is a real learning curve to something and 2-even water based paints are PAIN in the ass to clean up in the airbrushes.  I have concerns
  • Anyone else feel like updating their website just sucks the life out of you?
  • I bought some spring bulbs that were already growing on Saturday.  Seriously, they were just little green sprigs.  Yesterday 2 of Irises had bloomed and the other Muscari (known as grape hyacinth) has grown 4 inches! I am humbled by natures possibilities!  We had sssoooo many irises around my house growing up and I really wanted that from my childhood. I did, however, find out that there are dwarf iris bulbs that differ from my experience and that is what I had purchased.
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  • today's overused word is "that"
  • I managed to recover 4 of the chairs from my art cooperative I am a member of, and they don't look terrible. Bonus, what I figured would cover 4.5 chairs will cover 5.25 (lol)
  • now I need to go do some HEAVY marketing and even HEAVIER hoping on my new painting challenge I am trying out (remember that title? no, me either, that was a long time ago, but yeah, this is the new thing I am trying out).  See what the crazy lady is talking about here: Emerge April Painting Challenge

  • have a fantastic day!
    ~deb
April painting challenge by Deb Montgomery
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A project (day 12 blogging with Effy Wild)

4/12/2021

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I'm stoked to be in a group of such creative people!
So I thought I would share a project I have tried to roll out as a painting workshop to less enthusiasm in my community.
I found some 3D barn quilt wood cutouts that just really sparked something in me.
I love the possibilities! 
​3D refers to the fact that there are 12 of the diamond shapes that can be added to the flat base, that already has the pattern laser etched into it.
So the grey one I actually painted, and used tissue paper for the patterned pieces.
The others I have designed digitally. I am in love the with idea I came up with on the sunflower quilt:
I filled the whole background with the image, then added the colored shapes on top.
Oh man! This is such a super fun idea! I so wish I had some interest from people!
I might end up just painting them all myself and trying to sell them as finished pieces.


A barn quilt, what the heck?
From what I can find on it: 20 years ago, Donna Sue Mills, of Ohio, decided to honor her mother by painting a quilt on her barn.
Neighbors loved the idea and it spread in rural communities to become a popular sight along "barn trails". Some are in honor of loved ones, others for decoration and community interest in adding to the barn trail.  If you ever visit Northeast Colorado, you will find some along US Highway 6!



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She rebuilds herself (day 11 blogging with Effy Wild)

4/11/2021

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Sneaky sneak sneakerson (day 10 blogging with Effy Wild, but really day 11)

4/11/2021

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Well, I start ALOT of texts, messages and sentences with that word.  I'm trying to break myself of the habit. Although, if I am honestly putting my thoughts down, yeah, that's how many start.  After a crazy rampage of OTHER thoughts...I can settle and start at well.
Betcha didn't need to know all that did ya? 
Oh! And there would be many more curse words.
MANY more.
so many more.
Which I guess brings me to todays subject.  Er, yesterdays topic, since I am a day behind as I was getting ready to state earlier, starting with "well".... Well, about 11:00 last night I realized I forgot to blog, and I was going to do it right then.  Snacking happened, then sleep happened. 
Fast forward to today.  We will call this day 11, part one, since I intend to get actual day 11 in later.
Where were we?  Oh yeah, my topic! That showed up amidst my ramblings.  
How much do we edit? Speaking for myself, I know I have at least 10 other thoughts related to the one sentence I actually get out.  And those are the coherent ones. Throw in the feelings and I am almost at overload.  Is that an introvert thing?
We edit cursing (to some extent), we edit harmful words (to some extent),
we edit shadow thoughts, we edit and edit and edit until one has to wonder.....does anyone ever really see our true selves?  Hell, do WE even see it?
How much harm does editing actually do?  What if we are robbing others by doing so? Robbing them of their full experience? And shorting ourselves.
Then I start thinking, what would that look like? Everyone just saying whatever.
My mind reacts in a kind of horror at the thought.  Imagine the battles what would ensue.  And why, over some words?  Do my words always reflect my intentions, my feelings? Not at all. I filter. I edit. And it gets further filtered when it comes to actions.
Sometimes I think it a lack in our language.  But in reflecting on it, I think it more likely that in our development we are taught language, we are taught action and reaction.  What I feel like we aren't taught, or what is taught right out of us, is compassion.
Through a filter of compassion, either upon leaving the brain or being received, I believe our communications would actually be more effective.  At present it doesn't allow for.........more. The true expansiveness that is the self.  
 

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Friday!! (day 9 blogging with Effy Wild)

4/9/2021

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Friday dance! Yas! YAASSS!!!  Even though it means I have a long day ahead of me since I have my painting workshop tonight!  And amazeballs I have 8 people! That's huge for me right now!
I've gone from having sometimes 20 people and doing 2 classes a week, to either canceling events or having one or 2 people. I've been SUPER frustrated. 
Something what frustrates me more is the dissonance between marketing and allowing.  I've struggled to lean into the belief that if you do something of value, the right people will be drawn to that. That you shouldn't have to kill yourself trying to attract your people.  
Marketing teaches you that you do have to work yourself, it feels like to death, posting twice a day, emailing once a week, replying to comments, creating new content, AND still feel like creating new art.
I firmly believe art is created for the sake of creating art, so creating so I have things to sell or things that WILL sell....they just don't fit. I find myself in that argument in my head quite often.
Still, I'm glad it's Friday!  I can chose to have gratitude for the super cool 8 people painting with me tonight.  Gratitude for the things on my "to do" list this weekend.
and gratitude for this outlet keeping me semi-sane.
Thanks everyone!
Holding compassionate space
​~deb
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My Monday (day 8 blogging with Effy Wild)

4/8/2021

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I'm back to work today after allowing myself 3 days off.  I wasn't stressing blogging today because it seems like I usually have more time at work.  Hahaha! Nope, it was catch up time.
But here I am.
While I've struggled for content, I've really enjoyed and been learning so much from everyone else's blogs!  I love the variety of people in our circle and yet the synchronicities are still found, further deepening my feeling of being held in the container.
I find myself itching to get back to Red Thread circles after shying away due to lack of interest.
I'm just going to have to do it.  Despite and because. Despite there being community interest and because there isn't community interest.  Because I firmly believe in the healing it has to offer. I understand being too busy to make time to literally slow down and just be.  I forget every damn day how much of a necessity it is. And it is one. 
so holding space, for you as much as myself, beloved creatives,
~deb♥
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The day that got away (day 7 blogging with Effy Wild)

4/7/2021

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My allergies have been off the hook!  And the day got away from me.
So for today's blog, I'm pulling out something I wrote about a year ago to share.
It still feels true.
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