Vickie, just shoot an email to malary@bravegirlsclub.com with your shipping information and we will get your Chip Art stamps sent out to you right away!
Thank you for participating, everyone… Check back for another Pin it to Win it next week. Have a beautiful day.
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Gooooood morning, world! Who’s ready for another giveaway?!
A few weeks ago, we did a Pin it to Win it and 20% off a few Chip Art alphabets. And this week, we’re doing the same thing, but with beautiful flowery Chip Art stamp sets. Rose, Daisy, and Vintage Floral.
Chip Art is our absolute favorite at Brave Girls Club and we even have a whole room in the Art Barn named “The Chip Art Room.” Their possibilities are so limitless… use them to add beautiful, debossed designs to chip board, leather, leather bracelets, clay, hardcover books, soft metals, canvas panels… the list goes on. These tools are a lifetime investment… and we know you’ll be addicted the second you touch them!
If you’re curiosity is yearning for more, we have a couple videos that will tell you ALL ABOUT it:
So now that you know a little bit more… take an online trip to the shoppe to check out the rest of the Chip Art supplies if you’d like! Our warehouse is flowing with an abundance of this stuff and it’ll be gone before we know it. But FIRST, pin your favorite flower stamps to Pinterest and perhaps you will win a set!
To enter the giveaway, just follow the usual ‘Pin it to Win it’ steps… here are the instructions if you haven’t done this before.
Choose your favorite image from this post and ‘pin’ it to Pinterest.
To make it super easy, there’s a little button at the top and bottom of each post that says “Pin It”, so just click that button and select the image you want to pin.
If you don’t have a Pinterest account yet, you will be guided through setting up a free account when you click on the “Pin It” icon. Or go to this link to join Pinterest.
Then come back to this post and comment, saying which Chip Art stamp set you pinned… and let us know something brave you did this weekend!
At noon on Tuesday (MDST) we’ll randomly choose a winner from the comments, verify the Pins over at Pinterest, and post the name of the winner right here in this post.
And don’t forget, if you don’t get lucky this time… These stamps are 20% off for the rest of the week only!
This morning I was walking out back and saw this mother with her babies…..I love the way they just follow her….the way that motherhood is so part of life…
I first want you to know that I am and have always been a very unconventional mother….a free sprit mother with free spirit children….sometimes that has made me feel and look like a freak….and often….it has made me feel like I am not doing it right. There have been so many things that have happened in our life that have made it necessary to adapt to situations….situations that made us fall outside of the ‘norm’….not so much where I have ever belonged anyway….but still…being a mom is hard and you never really feel like you are doing it right.
What I have learned is that NONE of us ever feel like we are doing it just right…..but that every one of us really is doing our very best.
I have always seen my children as big souls who are simply in much tinier bodies than ours….and that my job as a mother is to help them to grow into the exact soul that they were born to be…and already are. I have tried from the time I became a mother to just listen listen listen for what they individually need….being a mother is the hardest job I have ever had…the most precious, amazing difficult job. It is not always fun and there is so much that I flat out stink at…….but I want more than anything for my children to learn to use their own wings. I want them to have an amazing life. I have often felt like my children were wiser, better, smarter souls than I am……and if you ever spent a day with my children…you would understand what I mean. (just like I would feel about YOUR children if I spent a day with them) Motherhood has been this giant honor to me all along….a terrifying one……a scary one that so many days I wonder how I was ever given the right, the honor and the stewardship to carry out. I have been a mother for 21 years now…and still….it scares me every day to know that I am sort of in charge here.
My biggest fear in life is that I will mess up my kids. Truly…this is my very biggest fear.
So I have 5 amazing, funny, smart children who are free spirits with strong minds and wills and with their own dreams and their own goals….I am very very very close to all of my children. Marq and I have loved (not always ‘liked’ especially between the ages of 13-17) being parents to them from the very day in 1991 when I was 19 and he was 23 and we had ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE WHAT WE WERE DOING and our little dimple-cheeked son came into the world with a mass of black hair and sparkling eyes.
I don’t talk much about my children because I never want to cross the line with THEIR OWN story….ya know? I want them to live it out and be able to tell it on their own when they are ready to do that. I have learned the hard way to keep sacred things sacred…and my children are sacred to me. Please just know that my life is completely wrapped up in our 3 children who still live here at home with us…and the oldest two who are now living on their own but are still here just about every day. We are together every day…we eat together, work together, play together, dream together….we help each other…we all fiercely love and protect each other.
But there was a time, not so long ago, that I completely dreaded mother’s day….every single year that it came along. This is not because I dreaded being a mother….it is because every year….after the breakfast in bed from my sweet kids and the tender written words and special treatment by my husband…….we would head to church or flip on the television and hear a whole program about mothers….about motherhood….(often about perfect mothers, about the ideal image of motherhood) ….. and then the television shows, the commercials……the greeting cards………
…and I would start to feel little daggers being driven into my heart over all of my inadequacies as a mother….
…especially when my children were small and motherhood was in the “boot camp” stage….diapers and bottles and colic and croup and too many car seats to buckle to take a 10 minute trip to the store (so you just stay home, isolated, all the time and make due) …..during those years on mother’s day, during the nonstop tributes to mothers, I always felt myself withering a little more, a little more, a little more……….and I always wished we could just skip mother’s day because all it did was point out all of the things I was not good at and not doing and all of the ways that my children must somehow be missing out……ya know?
We have always sort of gone against the current with our parenting…..and I’m not going to give you many details of what I mean because one of the things that I think can make us very miserable on mother’s day and any OTHER day as a mother is when we look at how others are parenting and compare ourselves. What I will tell you is that I am an intuitive mother……and we are intuitive parents. We do what we feel is best for our children and our family……and very very very often that is very different than what is going on around us…what everyone else is doing………and so when I make the huge mistake of comparing….that’s when I am miserable and feel wobbly, shaky, clumsy and uncertain….just like everything else in life. Our life is 100% different from the life of any other family….we have had different experiences…we have 7 completely different personalities….we have 7 different life missions….we have 7 different sets of strengths and weaknesses…..so the only way to survive (and even thrive) as a mother is to do it from my own heart…and listen listen listen to the gift of intuition that I know FOR SURE that we are all blessed with.
Just like everything else that we EVER do in life….especially if we are trying to do big scary things that have a lot of risks attached…….people have opinions.
Opinions are especially hurtful, even cruel when they are about the way we mother….or the way we parent……especially when they are directed at us personally…..OR WHEN WE TAKE THEM PERSONALLY.
In this age of over-information and beautiful blogs and facebook and pinterest and every other imaginable way to very beautifully and artistically be able to compare ourselves with everyone’s very very very best of everything………….please don’t ever ever ever do this when it comes to being a mother.
So….the way to be miserable on this very special, sacred and fragile day is to seek out every tribute to every mother (or any tribute to any other mother) and look at all of the ways that you don’t measure up to those tributes. Please don’t choose to spend this day in this way. So much is left out of those stories….so much….and if EVERYTHING was included…..those tributes would end up looking exactly like your life. ok? You are a mother worth writing a tribute about because motherhood is hard stuff that doesn’t really have big rewards that are easy to see every day….and often the rewards are many decades away from the time the work has been put in….with years and years of heartache, exhaustion and weariness in between.
Want to have a good day on mother’s day? First……give yourself some grace…..believe it when your children tell you that they love and you and they they are so happy that YOU are their mother. Believe it if they DON’T TELL YOU TOO…..because let’s be honest….there are stages in a child/teen/young-adult’s life when they are fantastically self-centered and believe that mothers will just show up every day just like the sun does every morning…and then they never think another thing about it. Someday……someday someday someday you will see that the love all really did sink in…..and that it was worth it. YOU KNOW that if you had it to do over again….you would have done ALL of that stuff that you never got thanked for. It was worth it.
Think hard about all of the ways that you have loved your children the VERY BEST WAY THAT YOU KNOW HOW TO LOVE THEM….and that YOU have just flat out done THE VERY BEST THAT YOU COULD DO……..and that you continue to do that every day.
…even if you can look back now and see that there are things that you would have done differently….because now you know better. You always did the best you could do…
And finally….the very very very best way to have a fantastic mother’s day is to look around at all of your friends…all of your family….all of the women in your life…..and please please please tell them that they are doing a great job. (because every one of them is doing the very best that they can do right now)
There is not a more beautiful, comforting and healing compliment that you can get about being a mother than one from another mother.
Tell the other mothers in your life that they are doing a great job….an mean it.
What we DO NOT NEED is to be judged….or to judge…..we don’t really need opinions about what we should have done, or should be doing……NO ONE KNOWS what is going on in any family that is being so carefully thought-through, agonized over and dealt with in the very best way that the mother (and father) knows how to do it.
Let’s be good to each other as mothers. Let’s not judge OURSELVES against each other…and let’s not judge each other. …and let’s all take a guilt-free nap….knowing that we really are pretty much exactly like every other mother alive out there….whether she is the mother being talked about in the tributes, or the one being gossiped about because of her out-of-the-box ways……let’s all just give each other grace enough to know that we are all doing the very best we can do………and that we all need a hug and a nap and some kindness to keep us going.
And…let’s remember that whether we have children or not…we all have mother hearts…and there are so many ways to mother……so be sure to reach out to those who have mothered you in any way…….sometimes the ones who mother us best are those who do not even have children of their own.
UPDATE! WE HAVE OUR WINNERS!!!! If one of the following four names is YOUR name, just send an email to malary@bravegirlsclub.com and we will get your pretty art sent to you right away! Thanks for participating this week, everyone! xoxoxoxo
1. Susan Anderson-Sintz
2. Cyndy Smith
3. Kelly Ruder
4. Jacqueline Reed
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Good morning and HAPPY MONDAY! Who’s ready for another Pin it to Win it??? We are! This week, we have a few gorgeous art prints for 20% off in the Brave Girls Shoppe… and those prints are what we’ll be giving away in this Pin it to Win it drawing. I’m feeling extra good and happy today, so I think we’ll draw four winners instead of only one… just because.
These prints are seriously stunning! The amazing printer gets every single little detail and texture… and the colors are super rich and beautiful. Once we get your art printed out, we take it to Melody and she personally signs it just for you!
When you go to the shoppe, just click on the image that looks exactly like the one above and it will take you to a page with those three art prints. Choose your favorite one(s), then select the size you want and add it to your cart… the 20% off will not show until you have added it to your cart!
To enter the giveaway, just follow the usual ‘Pin it to Win it’ steps… here are the instructions if you haven’t done this before.
Choose your favorite image from this post and ‘pin’ it to Pinterest.
To make it super easy, there’s a little button at the top and bottom of each post that says “Pin It”, so just click that button and select the image you want to pin.
If you don’t have a Pinterest account yet, you will be guided through setting up a free account when you click on the “Pin It” icon. Or go to this link to join Pinterest.
Then come back to this post and comment, saying which art print you pinned… and let us know what is making you happy today!
At noon on Tuesday (MDST) we’ll randomly choose ten winners from the comments, verify the Pins over at Pinterest, and post the names of the winners right here in this post. Then we’ll get you all signed up for the class and you’ll be good to go!
Have fun pinning!
Remember, we’ll draw four winners tomorrow at noon and we’ll post the names RIGHT HERE on this post!
Happy Friday, braves! It’s a happy, happy, happy day over here today… it’s warm and sunshiny, and everyone is smily, and the whole world feels so fresh. Brave Girl Camp is in a few days and we’re just workin away, preparing for our sweet girls to arrive!
If I gave this post a title other than “Behind the Scenes: This Week at Brave Girls Club”, it would be something like– The Week of Piles and Stacks… and Flowers, too. Because that’s really what it was! The whole week before camp, everything is just in piles and stacks all over the place. And as I was taking pictures of all the piles and stacks of things, the plainness of it became so amazing to me. Each pile and stack is made up of individual things that will each go to one special soul… and that one thing will mean so much more as ONE than it means when it is in a pile with a bunch of others. So right now, the stacks which are laying all around are just stacks… But next week, they will become so valuable! The piles and stacks of gorgeous decorations that we put away in boxes don’t look at ALL the same as when they are hung and placed beautifully throughout the house. It is such a cool transformation to see all these piles and stacks become what we call… Brave Girl Camp!
Here are all the decorations to be put up… just in piles right now, but just wait until you see next week’s pictures!
Today I will fill these tote bags with goodness so Amy can give them to the girls as soon as they hop on the bus!
Carrie does an amazing job sewing these adorable pom pom flowers to pin to the tote bags… she spent some time at the Art Barn doing that this week…
And while she sewed, Kathy and Patrice crafted these beautiful name tags for the campers…we get super excited when we start putting their names on everything!!!
Good thing this week consisted of flowers, too… because piles and stacks can get pretty boring to look at. My mom (Melody) and dad went on a fun shopping spree with Patrice and Michael for tons and tons of pretty flowers to put the finishing touches on the Ranch. I’m certain that they all had a blast together that day!
Then our awesome team came over to plant and deadhead and water and move stuff and groom stuff… and let me tell you, it looks SO AMAZING out there.
Now we just have to finish getting ready and impatiently wait until Tuesday when our nineteen guests get here!!! We’re not excited or anything.
And I’m off to do some camp shopping… Have a wonderful, WONDERFUL weekend… We love you so much!
It is a common and very debilitating malady in our society to feel “NOT GOOD ENOUGH” .
Well…guess what, gorgeous soul? There is never a question of whether or not you are good enough. YOU ARE GOODNESS.
You were born good, you were born to BE good, you are made of goodness. YOU ARE GOOD. YOU ARE GOOD ALREADY….YOU WILL ALWAYS BE GOOD. We live through experiences that chip away at the truth of this….a truth that is immutable. Tough, learning experiences do not change our goodness. They teach us….making us WISE AND GOOD.
Never forget that you are not only good enough…….you are just plain good.
You might remember Kallie…an original Brave Girl and a great blogger who has written many incredible posts for us. She also happens to be my oldest daughter! If you’ve wondered where she disappeared to, this beautiful piece she recently wrote will fill in some of those blanks. She wrote it last week as she was struggling through her 4th pregnancy…with a lap full of little ones and a very painful blood clot in her leg that, although harmless, had caused weeks of suffering with no relief in site. In the middle of all of that, she wrote this beautiful piece. I hope it makes you feel as good as it made me feel.
I love my beautiful body. It has done many miraculous things in its short 30 years, and will yet do marvelous things throughout my life and until it takes its last breath.
This body has taken me to incredible places…on hikes, on walks, on runs…to the mountains, oceans, rivers and rolling hills of this world….to the north, south, east and west where I’ve seen incredible things and met people whose love I hold in my heart.
This body has hugged the ones I love most. It has cleaned and cooked and cared for my family. It has experienced pregnancy and born our beautiful, kind, wonderful children. It has allowed me to experience things and express things that I wouldn’t otherwise be able to experience or express.
I love, honor and cherish my body for the priceless gift it is – a gift from God, given with weaknesses and frailties….opportunities for me to learn and grow.
I show my body I love it by speaking and thinking good words and thoughts about it. I love it, so I dress it well, groom it well and treat it the way I treat others that I love.
I honor my body by feeding it only the best food I have to offer it. I honor my body by listening to it, and trusting it when it asks me to stay away from certain foods and experiences. I honor it by giving it all the rest it requires – real, restful, deep sleep. I honor it by not expecting it to be able to do things that are beyond its capacity.
I show my body that I cherish it by treating it with compassion and mercy…by acknowledging its strengths and by gently, patiently, lovingly helping it overcome its weaknesses.
I love my hands for all the things they do before I even think to ask them.
I love my arms for the things they’ve allowed me to hold and carry….for holding my loved ones near to me…for cradling my babies.
I love my shoulders for the burdens they gracefully bear – burdens which are sometimes much bigger and heavier than it seems they should be asked to carry.
I love my neck for all that it lovingly supports…for all the coming and going it oversees – new blood in, old blood out, fresh air in, dead air out.
I love my head – my ears, my eyes, my nose, my mouth – through those tiny and under appreciated parts of me I experience the world…sweet conversations, laughter, the way the mountains look when the sun is just coming up, blue sky with giant puffy clouds, my babies’ first moments of life and every moment after that, Jeff’s blue, blue eyes and all the newness each year brings to his face, warm sunshine, flowers in spring, bird songs, wind and all the loveliness that home, family and life offer me.
I love my brain for the memories it tenderly holds. For reasoning through my greatest troubles, for guarding and controlling my complicated body systems.
I love my chest for all its years of breath in and breath out. I love it for holding my heart and for feeling fully all of the highs and lows myself and those I love have been through.
I love my abdomen for all it tightly holds. For carefully taking what my body needs from the food I give it…for the cleansing and purifying and detoxifying that happens there. For cradling each baby for 9 long months – providing everything they need and protecting them from harm. For stubbornly clinging to stretch marks – evidence that babies have grown there.
I love my hips for allowing me to freely move and bend. I love my bum for giving me a place to comfortably sit. I love my legs for holding me upright and for carrying me wherever I want to go.
I love my knees for holding me so often at toddler height. For providing a place for me to go for my most important conversations. For easily bending and unbending, allowing me to move freely.
I love my feet for all the places they’ve taken me. For the fun things we’ve done – jumping, walking, running, playing, swimming, long hours of cooking and baking. I even love my tiny little toes.
This body is the most magnificent blessing I have received or will ever receive. It is the starting place for all other blessings in my life. I will do my best today and every day to show my gratitude, love and appreciation for all the things this beautiful body does for me.
Hey, friends! I’m reposting Malary’s Behind the Scenes post from Friday because a big ole stinky goof by our web host made all the amazing pictures she included disappear. We’re on our way to resolving the hosting problems (not at the end of the road, but getting closer)…but I thought you might enjoy seeing what we were up to last week around here. We love you and we appreciate your patience when we have these little growing pains. XOXO kathy
Hello, gorgeous! We are so happy you’re here to check out this week’s happenings at BG Headquarters. Sit back, relax for a moment, and enjoy peeking behind our big red curtain!
This is a wonderful Friday… because in just one more Friday, we’ll be only a few days from Brave Girl Camp. And who doesn’t love Brave Girl Camp?! Our hope is that YOU will be able to come to camp one day if you haven’t already. Since it will be here before we know it, we started making a few preparations this week. Here is some of the beautiful fabric that Kathy picked out for one of the things that our guests get when they come. She also made the most darling name tags to go on this project, sewn on with little yellow french knots. They will be stitched up and ready just in time for camp!
Remember that fort that we built a couple weeks ago? Well, it was fun while it lasted! And then it started making an unpleasant mess in the Clubhouse as more shipments came in, and we all knew it… But Amy was the one to take initiative and collapse all the boxes. Thank goodness for Amy! She also worked a LOT this week with camp guests, getting all the last details lined out so that everything stays nice and organized. We can’t WAIT for them to get here!
I’m wondering how many pictures we’ll have of the team sitting with their computers by the end of the year… Sabrina busted through tons and tons of support tickets and bookkeeping this week. She’s the main girl to help all of you whenever you have a question, and she does a darn good job!
And Brock worked on editing videos for the last week of Art School – The Wings Session… He often stays up into the wee hours of the morning to meet his deadlines. He’s so incredible at what he does… all of us are super excited to see what other awesome things he might do with videography!
Jeff was ecstatic to work on taxes this week… someone’s gotta do it, right? He kept things exciting by playing some foosball with Brock a couple times a day.
I went over to Brave River Ranch a few times this week to see what my Mom (Melody) was up to and to help her out a little bit. She has been creating some absolutely beautiful new art… I seriously sat and looked at all of this for ten straight minutes, it’s so gorgeous! Surprise, surprise… I don’t think she even knows how to many anything that’s not gorgeous.
And while I was there, I stood in the living room talking to her, and I stopped right in the middle of my sentence when I noticed what it looked like outside. “Hey mom, I brought this box of— OH MY GOSH, IT’S BEAUTIFUL OUT THERE!”
Dad (Marq) and the boys have been working their heinies off to get this place looking good again after the crazy winter. He’s up with the sun every single day to get every possible hour of work in… And that’s why it looks so amazing. The picture below is what we call “the grove”, it’s where we set up a huge circle of pretty lawn furniture with blankets in the middle… and we all sit there at camp during Mom’s lessons. We listen to the river rushing and the birds tweeting and Kathy singing… and occasionally we’re interrupted by a chicken laying her egg.
The only thing Dad didn’t do was plant flowers in the dozens of pots around the property, that’s a job for us girls! The pots are waiting patiently to be beautified with bursts of color next week… one of our favorite things to do.
The chickens think that the Ranch is looking good this week, too. I don’t blame ‘em!
Mom packed up her dear boots from the Dahlia House auction so we can send them off today…
She didn’t want her boots to be lonely on their long trip, so she threw in some extra Brave Girl Gear to keep them company.
I think Brave Girl Boots, a Brave Girl Messenger Bag, and an A Little Bird Told Me book are a great trio. Here’s Mom writing a message in the book… the package is just about ready to be shipped! We are so thankful for the miracles that these boots brought to our sisters in Manila.
The very, very, very best thing that happened this week was the arrival of our brave-girl-soul-sister, Patrice and her sweet husband, Michael. They have lived in California for their whole lives and they just took a huge leap and moved up here to Idaho with their Airstream, their little dog, and their birdie. We are beyond happy to have them here with us!!!
And……………Uhhhh…………… I don’t remember everything I did this week because all I can think about at the moment is this:
Just kidding… I know exactly what I did, but this was by far the most exciting thing! I was long boarding and just had a simple little slip up. My ankle grew about three times the size of that picture, however, I guess I was in too much pain to think of snapping a photo of my ginormous swelling body part. I was having fun and I can’t wait for it to heal so I can have more fun!
Have the most wonderful Friday… And stay tuned for a really amazing, touching blog post coming soon!
(please send an email to malary@bravegirlsclub.com to redeem your gift)
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Well, we said we were going to draw 10 winners, but we just got too excited and couldn’t stop… so here are 20 winners! For those who did not leave a last name, I am including the first part of your comment so that you know it is you.
Jen Poulsen
Vanessa Lozada
Diane – “I would like to win this for my daughter – to find her worth and joy again.”
Sara Windsor
Jessica B
Sally- “My life has seen some significant changes in the last six years. I started a new career and got married. My husband and I tried to start our family, only to be heartbroken to learn we would not be able to conceive on our own…..”
Amanda Milne
Wendy Fairie Robinson
Shauna Bradley
Doris Lynn White
Julia- “I know what I want to do…I can’t explain it. Something that has been in me since I was a young child…..”
Rach Rogers
Marsha- “My life… my soul, desperately needs to be restored to the woman… the daughter, the wife, the mother, the grandmother, the family member, and the friend that I am meant to be……”
Cindy Atkins
Jen- “My 25th wedding anniversary is May12th. My husband packed up and left on April 6th while I was at a funeral. I am believing God will restore our marriage but first He has to restore us as individuals…..”
Melita- “I am a mess. Right now, my life feels out of control, spinning on its own axis while I sit back watching, confused, overwhelmed, and barely keeping my head above water……”
Denny C
Mikell- “Life has been just so difficult for some time. I’ve lost my father and my beloved son. I am heatbroken, stuck in a dark place…..”
Katie W.
Dawn Anderson
We are so thankful for the overwhelming participation! You are all amazing and so important to us… and we really, really hope that if you did not win this time, that you will still look into taking this incredible, life changing class.
Sending love to you! xoxo
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We typically do our Pin it to Win it giveaway on Mondays, but we’re going to give this one a head start and keep it going over the weekend… because it’s extra special!
Mother nature teaches us so many lessons, and it seems that our lives often line up with the seasons and the earth’s natural cycles. After a rough winter, the world literally restores its life… it’s the most beautiful and amazing thing. Springtime is in full bloom here in Idaho; everything is turning greener and fuller and more ALIVE as each day goes by. So this spring, what if you could give yourself your own life restoration? Sometimes we don’t even realize that we have been stuck in a cold, dark winter for so long… life is down there somewhere, it’s not gone forever… your most beautiful self and your truest dreams and desires are there… it all just needs a ‘springtime’ to come and restore your life to its prime.
And I’ll tell you what– we have got a springtime for YOU! Life Restoration (our incredible online class, formerly known as Soul Restoration 2) is starting on Tuesday, April 30th and we are going to give away TEN tuitions. This class will help you figure out the exact life you want to live, why you are not living it right now, and what you need to do each day to get there. We would love to have you come restore your life with us. Take a look at this video to see if it speaks to your heart:
So, what do you think? Is your life ready for its own spring? Are you ready to create the life you were meant to live?! Are you ready to live a life you LOVE? Through art and projects, you will be making tools that will help you identify your goals, commit to your goals and break your goals down into bit sized chunks. And before you know it, you will be doing all of the things you’ve always wanted to do. Life Restoration is a phenomenally fun, artsy, soulful, insightful, POWERFUL experience. It really is, and we wish every single one of you could win. But if you don’t, our wish is that you will think about signing up so you can be ALIVE again.
Here are some beautiful words from women who have taken Life Restoration:
My art journal from Life Restoration is something I treasure. It is filled with my “working papers” …where I worked out and figured out what my strengths are, what my weaknesses are, what I enjoy doing, what I don’t enjoy doing, people I want to be around, things I want to learn about, places I’d like to go…I realized that one of the things my soul was craving was music….I need more soul-stirring music in my life…I needed to listen to it and make it…I made GOALS, and Melody taught me how easy it could be to make plans to achieve those goals…Through the videos, Melody taught me to identify the things that had kept me from reaching my goals in the past… she called it my “Landmine Map”, and taught me to see those things happening in my life and get past them before they stopped me… My Life Restoration book is so important to me. I feel like a different person than I was a year ago. I was hidden from myself for a while…I was confused about who I should be, and now I feel like I have truly been restored to who I always was. It feels good to live this way…” – Kallie
I would have to say this is easily one of the best classes I have ever taken. Ever. One of the ones I learned the most in and grew the most in. I am the kind of person who pays attention. I would say I am aware. I listen to myself. I watch and observe and try to learn and grow. And, still, I learned so very much about myself in this class, it’s almost impossible to explain how much. I had revelation after revelation. – K. G.
It is amazing how this whole restoring process has made an impact on me in such a little time. – M
The message that you are communicating to all of us that we are important – the work is important – and our journey is important – not just to us but to you as well. What a precious gift to us all and how fortunate we are that you are in our lives guiding and cheering for us – as we are with you. My heart is filled with gratitude each time I engage in this work – for the gift you give us each week. So…thanks again. — S. C
I am so excited about my life!! This class has been WONDERFUL!!! Finding Brave Girls is helping me create and live the life I never thought possible. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!! This workshop changed my life! I am more aware of who I am, of what makes me happy, sad, tired, frustrated, joyful, peace-filled…and I know what I can do about it now!! This is one class I would recommend to everyone!!! – L.A.
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To enter the giveaway, just follow the usual ‘Pin it to Win it’ steps… but since this one is extraspecial, there’s one extra step at the end!
Choose your favorite image from this post and ‘pin’ it to Pinterest
To make it super easy, there’s a little button at the top and bottom of each post that says “Pin It”, so just click that button and select the image you want to pin.
If you don’t have a Pinterest account yet, you will be guided through setting up a free account when you click on the “Pin It” icon. Or go to this link to join Pinterest.
Then come back to this post and answer this question: Why would Life Restoration be perfect for YOUR life right now?
At noon on Tuesday (MDST) we’ll randomly choose ten winners from the comments, verify the Pins over at Pinterest, and post the names of the winners right here in this post. Then we’ll get you all signed up for the class and you’ll be good to go!
If you’re still yearning to read more about Life Restoration, look at this post from last year.
You have the whole weekend to enter and to tell all the women you love about this very special Pin it to Win it giveaway…
Hope you have a beautiful weekend, we love you so much.
I am really excited about being a featured artist for BIG SKY CARVERS, a company owned by DEMDACO that specializes in art and gifts with a western and outdoor flair….as you know…with my love for cowboy boots, cowboy hats….a certain cowboy-ish husband and all things country……………I can see how my new Brave Girl line would be a perfect fit to partner with Big Sky Carvers. I wanted to tell you that if you have a man in your life who loves all things outdoorsy….or an outdoors-y western country lovin’ girl (including you!) there are a lot of cool gifts to be found on the Big Sky Carvers site…….and they are now carrying all of the fashion accessories, jewelry and bags from my new line….and have FREE SHIPPING on all of it til May 5th……I know we have this stuff in our store, too……but it’s a great time to look at what they have to offer, and take advantage of the free shipping all at the same time!
Just in case you forgot what they look like…..here’s some of my new bags…and you’ll be able to find these and a whole lot more now at BIG SKY CARVERS!
and here are a few cool things to be found on the Big Sky Carvers site!
Have a beautiful day.
Here are all the decorations to be put up… just in piles right now, but just wait until you see next week’s pictures!
