Category Archives: Creativity + Inspiration

Painting #4: Oregon

Can you believe I’ve already finished my fourth painting? Me either, but since it was my first self-directed watercolor, I chose an easy one. Painting is self-care for me, something I try to do it frequently. This painting was inspired by a photo taken by my friend, Mike, a coxswain at Oregon State. You can […]

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Painting #3: Water Lily

Did you know that I take watercolor painting lessons? Yep, I do, from Guy Magallanes in San Carlos. A few months back, I shared my first painting from those sessions, a pansy, and now, here is my third: a water lily. What do you think? I’m pretty happy with it, given it’s my third painting […]

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Shipyard Artists’ Spring Open Studio

Over the weekend, Brian and I attended the Spring Open Studio for the Hunters Point Shipyard Artists. In addition to visiting our friends Pernilla and Mauricia, we wandered Building 101 and discovered a variety of exciting artists. Some of my favorites were: Mirang Wonne, who does amazing torch work on stainless steel mesh. In her artist’s […]

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The Inspired Way Interview

Ariane and I were interviewed about The Inspired Way by productivity maven Tara Rodden Robinson recently. Tara was in our Playing Big cohort and is a lovely lady and coach. Over about 20 minutes, we all chatted about how we met, Ariane’s and my experience curating an inspiring guide by 20 amazing women, and our future hopes […]

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Admiration Week

A friend of mine, Bliss lady Chrystal Bougon, posted the following on Facebook today: “What if we started our OWN Facebook movement and called this Admiration and Appreciation week and we just each picked one person for the next 5 days and posted something on their wall telling them how much we admire and appreciate them? […]

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