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The Artist's Way Week 8 Recap

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Week 8 of The Artist’s Way covers how to face creative obstacles. The obstacles range from best ways to handle anxiety and procrastination, handling failures, and using those failures to turn it into a positive learning experience. I felt this …

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The Artist's Way Week 7 Recap

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Week 7 of The Artist’s Way encourages us to shift our attitude towards creativity by overcoming the typical blocks. On our creative journey, we may often get caught up with perfectionism, jealousy, aversion to taking risks, and/or failing to …

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The Artist's Way Week 6 Recap

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It didn’t occur to me until I concluded the last Artist’s Way recap meetup that this course is already halfway complete! Six more of these to go. I’m mostly shocked at how fast these past six weeks sped by. Since starting this …

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The Artist's Way Week 5 Recap

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Well it feels like if you can make it through week 5 of this course, then you’re in it for the long haul. Actually…possibly sooner than that, depends on how your own personal experience goes. Time has been flying by fast and this course …

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The Artist's Way Week 4 Recap

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This week I wanted to celebrate the milestone of hitting one full month of The Artist’s Way course! Wow that was fast, but definitely worth the hard work. I partly owe it to my Artist’s Way group for keeping me accountable each week to go …

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The Artist's Way Week 3 Recap

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Week 3 of The Artist’s Way course has come and gone with this week’s chapter highlighting how to handle anger, criticism, and that nagging feeling of shame related to exploring our creativity. Anger is good because it drives us to create …

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The Artist's Way Week 2 Recap

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Week 2 of The Artist’s Way course highlights moving into your own personal identity by drawing boundaries, brainstorming what you love to do, and pausing to recognize self doubt. When completing the weekly check-in exercises, I couldn’t …

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The Artist's Way Week 1 Recap

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Have any of you heard of that book The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron? It covers a 12 week course designed to completely turn your creative life around by listening to that inner artist’s voice we usually kicked to the curb years ago in …

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Uploading My First Pattern Swatch to Spoonflower

Today I ordered my first set of sample swatches from Spoonflower. I had a lot of fun creating the patterns while attempting to make them into an interesting repeatable design without appearing too “matchy” and without negative space gutters. I …

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All About Hannah

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Hey friends, it’s Leslie, the gal who runs Happy Hannah Art! You may be wondering, who is Hannah? Besides being a dog with a spicy persona, Hannah was the inspiration behind my business name, Happy Hannah Art.

It all started when I began a free …

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