Project Home and Healing

As a new mama, I’ve been spending a lot more time at home, most of it feeding my little boy in a favorite armchair by the fire. In one way, I have all this time on my hands, but most of it is spent holding this 11 pound cutie for feedings and naps.

Normally I am one to cram 26 hours of activities and projects into a single day. Since the baby’s arrival, I’ve had to reframe the pace of life in my mind. I decided to embrace this reality and I call it deliciously slow. I capture these moments with photos and share them on Instagram. It’s a daily meditation and reminder to slow down that helps me stay connected and grounded.

When I came across a new offering from my friend Renee Tougas of the lovely blog FIMBY, I knew it would be perfect for this new mama. It’s called Project Home & Healing: The Kitchen Table. It’s a “creative homemaker’s journey to health and happiness.”

Why have I joined Renee’s Kitchen Table? For tea and conversation. It’s a virtual living room, a place to meet other women and mamas. It’s a community table where we can circle and connect. Or as Renee describes it…

The Kitchen Table is a group of women interested in connecting and learning from each other around the themes of homemaking, personal growth, and wellbeing.

Each month Renee will be sending an essay to those of us with seats at the table into our email inboxes. She’s working on a way for us to all connect so we can share ideas with one another inspired by the monthly essay.

I love that each month will have a theme related to heart and home. Knowing Renee, I am confident they will be gentle and thoughtful prompts for self-reflection. She chose her themes to help breathe more joy and confidence into her daily life and I am excited to join her along that journey.

Project Home and Healing “ is a group open to women of all ages and stages, though you’ll probably identify most if home is part of your heartbeat.”

This lovely community project is a gift from Renee with no cost to its members. If you’d like to join the Kitchen Table with us, you can visit Renee’s website to sign up.

If you do, please leave a comment here so we can connect around the table!

A Dreamy Spring Giveaway!

Today I am so excited to offer a giveaway for…

a spot in Mama Scout’s upcoming Dream Lab

Dream Lab is a 10 day explosion of information where I share everything I know about getting things done. Making things happen. And staying open to all possibilities.

We will talk about how to collect your ideas, how to map your past for clues and connections, how to open up and talk to strangers, how to expand time, think bigger, share your ideas, ask for what you want, and create a consistent creative practice.

Each day, for 10 days, starting on April 14 you will receive and email with a provocative and juicy essay, writing prompts and creative projects that will help you manifest those ideas knocking around in your head. There will also be music, movie and book recommendations as well as a few little surprises (hint: sign up early to get one of them in the mail!)

The most exciting part is that we will turn our group into a true lab of alchemic passion. We will pull from our collective knowledge, creativity and resources to help each other get closer to each of our dreams. When we help others we propel ourselves along our path too. I have seen this in my other labs over and over. Connections, deep connections are made as soul mates and friends from around the world are found.

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Having participated in Amy’s courses over the years I can tell you that she offers a wonderful, encouraging, and insightful course. And that bit about the group turning into a lab of “alchemic passion?” Well, it’s true. Because connecting with others is one of the very best ways to make your dreams come true.

Now, how can you enter to win?

To win your space just leave a comment below telling us… what are you dreaming of creating this Spring?

Enter today by leaving your comment and I will randomly pick a winner this Friday, on April 11th!
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PS – Amy is hosting a giveaway spot for season’s eatings on her blog as well…click here to pop over and enter for a second chance to win!

FulFILL Your Year Giveaway!

Today I am delighted to be offering a giveaway on the Skill It blog!

If you joined Skill It for Season’s Eatings in the Fall, you were introduced to Kelly Weed Dahl of Perched to Fly.

Kelly is a mama, wife, and life coach who considers creativity, intuition, and love as her daily guides.

Now the holidays are behind us and a beautiful New Year lies ahead, it’s a beautiful time to be thinking about what we will create in 2013. To help us with this, Kelly has created on online course, “FulFILL Your Year,” starting on January 14^th.

Guided by Kelly, participants in the course will spend four weeks to mindfully create a clear vision for a fulfilling year.

The course offers journal prompts, videos and creative exercises designed to help you uncover what you want out of the new year and shows you how to make it happen. It is all delivered straight to your email inbox with a whole lot of love.

In the same way that we love creating community here at Skill It, one of the benefits of this experience will be sharing it with a group of women all working to make 2013 their best year yet. The course has a private Facebook group where you can make these connections.

Kelly has gifted us with a spot in the course to giveaway to a Skill It reader! To enter the contest, please leave a comment below with one word or one thing you’d like to create in 2013.

You can enter through Thursday, January 10^th at midnight and we’ll announce the winner on Friday, January 11^th!