all i did was listen

valentinest

2012-01-30T04:00:00.007-06:00

she too dances in my shop as prints/cards if you'd like http://rachelawes.etsy.com/

sending out lovelovelove xo

(also! i'll be teaching an online course in february called "art affirmations for your whole self" through wish studios...creating artful affirmations for yourself from infancy forward...just click on the blue wish studio button to the right of this post to learn more!)

her hallways were daisies + breath, rainbows

2012-01-23T04:00:00.007-06:00

it is always the best thing to surrender to our true nature, don't you think? what does yours look like? how can you embrace it in your hallways? lovelove to all these places.

etsy added w/love http://rachelawes.etsy.com

such an arch

2012-01-16T04:00:00.002-06:00

upon contemplation of the st. louis arch

(a commission piece)

... how i adore all that points us to possibility. xox

a friend found in a fox

2012-01-09T04:00:00.004-06:00

inspired by visions from a brilliant life named emily...(she said she couldn't get the picture out of her mind of me running, w/red hair + red fox..bless her heart!)
etsy added w/love xo http://rachelawes.etsy.com/

happy new year

2012-01-02T04:00:00.002-06:00

happy new year to each dear one of you.

etsy added (as cards) with love xox (http://rachelawes.etsy.com/)

happy holidays

2011-12-26T04:00:00.003-06:00

happy holidays w/love to each of you~into the heart of your christmas, your hanukkah, your life. (etsy added w/love http://rachelawes.etsy.com/)

i am free to love what i love

2011-12-19T04:00:00.006-06:00

this thought dropped in as i was sampling colors in an art store.
etsy added with love xox (http://rachelawes.etsy.com/)

+ here's another colorful thing i just found + love:

(http://artsyville.blogspot.com/2011/12/put-your-color-on.html)

all that delights

2011-12-12T04:00:00.006-06:00

just sharing a lil' bit of fun. picked up a fabric marker at a local art store + a $2.99 skirt at the good will + stitched parts of my bandanas into a tree + wa la, a new ware :) sending out love + celebration to all that delights you. xox

a harmonica evolution

2011-12-05T04:00:00.001-06:00

my dear friend, karen, was pondering how she may want to play in the next part of her life. one thing became clear. learning the harmonica was calling. this is a photo of her hands + new treasure. i just found it all beautiful. sending out lovely notes to each of you. xox

***

(+ speaking of girlfriends, please take a peek at my monthly column at girlfriendology. this one is about holiday gift ideas http://girlfriendology.com/blog/4685/holiday-gift-ideas-for-special-friend-girlfriend-guru-rachel-awes/)

i trust what rises up from my heart

2011-11-28T04:00:00.009-06:00

((hope you all had a lovely thanksgiving week. xox))

i created this as a kiss between a painting + a drawing/thus refrained from adding color.

original 11 X 14 added with love to my shop (http://rachelawes.etsy.com/)

inspired by film

2011-11-21T04:00:00.005-06:00

these are the last of (holiday) cards/prints ~ inspired from the animated film "the prince of egypt". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG0a9WFkgzU both can be found at http://rachelawes.etsy.com/.

***

also! in other news~ all i did was listen is the featured artist in a new online magazine called sprout/please come visit! http://tinyurl.com/sproutmagazine

xox

lit together

2011-11-14T04:00:00.000-06:00

etsy added w/love. xox (http://rachelawes.etsy.com/)

bles*sings

2011-11-07T04:00:00.000-06:00

holiday cards (+ prints) are growing (http://rachelawes.etsy.com/). bles*sings to you. xox

be still + know

2011-10-31T04:00:00.001-05:00

i have been working on art for the holidays. my next few posts will be sharing these new prints (they can all also be cards), which will be available in my shop (http://rachelawes.etsy.com/). xox

happy halloween time

2011-10-26T06:58:00.000-05:00

the monsters looked so cute on our son's pj pants & so i was moved to try some on myself.

(i was going to post this on halloween, but realized if anyone wanted it as a card or print from my shop, i'd better add it nowwww! :) http://rachelawes.etsy.com) boo love! xox

dancing in the middle

2011-10-24T04:00:00.003-05:00

she insisted on spilling out of me & being here with you. xox

i invite the wind to refresh the garments of my heart

2011-10-17T04:00:00.001-05:00

been hanging out these garments + also contemplating girlfriend love letters (come see here!)http://girlfriendology.com/blog/4427/girlfriend-love-letters-advice-from-girlfriend-guru-and-artist-rachel-awes/ xox

crows

2011-10-10T04:00:00.004-05:00

loving such glimpses..xox

(& also! i've been having trouble leaving comments on some blogs. i was told, for my own, to go to "settings"-"comments"-"comment form placement" & then change to "pop-up window" & that's seemed to help with people being more free to comment here. hope that helps!)

things i wonder

2011-10-03T04:00:00.010-05:00

i saw this while running recently. it wasn't all the way light out & i almost ran into this cocoon. i saw myself in it, my bravest self, right away. how is it such little creatures can be such big teachers? sending out love to all your becomings xox

BIG

2011-09-26T04:00:00.001-05:00

*****
find pages of all i did was listen in the first issue of this gorgeous magazine!
http://bigkidsmagazine.com/purchase.html
(+ this lil' peacock can also be seen flying through here http://rachelawes.etsy.com)
always with love. feathers. light in the dim. xo

praying in purple

2011-09-19T04:00:00.006-05:00

these words dropped into my heart & i trust them. thank you for hearing them. xo

etsy added w/love. http://rachelawes.etsy.com/

i guess i'll just be strong then

2011-09-12T04:00:00.013-05:00

i ran my first race this weekend. a 10K. the preparation for it has been both difficult & invigorating. i love to run outside. especially in the early morning. the world here is then filled with bunnies + birds + pregnant quiet + starry skies turning sometimes into bright pink cover. aNd also roads going up up up at various turns. one morning i realized that is just the deal. & it was time for me to trust that there was a gift in the terrain. & that this was like all of my life. both beautiful & difficult. & i would keep running. & i would be strong. & how this is like all our lives. (etsy added w/love http://rachelawes.etsy.com/) xo**in it with you**ox, rachel

notes from class

2011-09-05T04:00:00.001-05:00

yes affirmations xox

hug

2011-08-29T04:00:00.000-05:00

sometimes we all just need one.

whooshing one out.

bunnies

2011-08-22T04:00:00.002-05:00

etsy added w/love http://rachelawes.etsy.com

inspiration all around

2011-08-15T04:00:00.002-05:00

lovely mia (www.fourdaysaweek.com) shared these words with me from her recent writing immersion in tuscany! now sharing with hope that inspiration keeps spreading! xox

i belong

2011-08-08T04:00:00.004-05:00

dear carissa (http://www.carissapaige.blogspot.com/) shared this inspiration with me from a song. & etsy added (http://rachelawes.etsy.com) with

la la love

peeking out

2011-08-01T04:00:00.000-05:00

hello, dear hearts. xox

memories

2011-07-25T04:00:00.001-05:00

aimee spins stew into gold

2011-07-24T13:50:00.000-05:00

this is a quote from aimee (www.artsyville.blogspot.com) & she brilliantly spins the pieces of our lives into gold. lovelovelove to ALL of our recipes, our breath, our gold. xox

painting our living room wall

2011-07-18T04:30:00.000-05:00

i painted on our living room wall last weekend...beginning with the paint color "toothpaste"
& i loved finding the "wonder brush"

i felt drawn to draw on a bigger scale for a while & it felt so good to show-up.

xox

playing with mugs

2011-07-11T04:00:00.004-05:00

it's been so fun to play with mugs! the first two are now available in my shop

http://rachelawes.etsy.com

the third one i did for me/entitled messiness inside...

it was my first drawing as i began this creative venture a few years ago.

& by the way! if there are particular drawings i've done that you would like on a mug, please let me know... it would be such helpful feedback! xo

face in a fish

2011-07-04T04:00:00.001-05:00

more mugs available! (http://rachelawes.etsy.com/)

always swimming love 2 u. xo

wild sister magazine

2011-06-29T04:00:00.006-05:00

just wanting to share about this new amazing on-line magazine

(can be found through http://wildsister.com/)

& please visit my art & writing amidst its' pages!

(also/i'll be putting these up on etsy: http://rachelawes.etsy.com/)

xox

painted on my faces

2011-06-27T04:00:00.003-05:00

butterfly wings

2011-06-20T04:00:00.003-05:00

...an excerpt from a recent conversation.

mug, anyone?

2011-06-17T20:04:00.004-05:00

http://rachelawes.etsy.com (looking for a home!) xox

want to play?

2011-06-13T04:00:00.005-05:00

sometimes this is where i am at. want to play? xo

elevator

2011-06-06T04:00:00.008-05:00

(please click on the image to make larger if that adds ease to the reading). xo

just you, just me

2011-05-30T04:00:00.014-05:00

my heart

overflows

when i take in

how we

find

& care for

one another.

sending love

to just you,

from just me. xo

such blooms

2011-05-22T04:00:00.008-05:00

here's a flower i scribbled out as an adult

& here's some i did from childhood. i share such blooms with you as i celebrate another year of my life.

i am so thankful for what's in all our gardens & how IN IT ALL, we rise, rise, rise. xox

blessings are real

2011-05-16T04:00:00.001-05:00

i made this for someone

who blessed me

with kindness & dearness

greatly.

i was moved

by the realness in it.

xox

space for your words

2011-05-09T05:05:00.002-05:00

the post below

has no space

for your

comments...

ironically,

it's a

mailbox!

so here's

additional

post

for

comments.

oopsa

daisy.

xox

adding some color

2011-05-09T04:00:00.003-05:00

it's been so fun

to add color

to our white mailbox

& to the feet of the

guys in this house!

wishing whooshes of crayola

to your door. xox

i am not alone

2011-05-02T04:00:00.000-05:00

this picture is a scene

from one of my dreams.

how i love this wolf.

happy may.
(etsy added w/love)

xox

a change of scenery

2011-04-25T04:00:00.011-05:00

sometimes a little change of scenery

helps to thaw my winter bones

& spring into creativity.

(photos from last weekend).

love to you all. xox

added a bunch

2011-04-21T08:45:00.000-05:00

i just wanted to share

that i've added a bunch to my etsy shop

(50 items!).

pleeeease come visit me! xo

http://rachelawes.etsy.com

magical carpet

2011-04-18T04:00:00.002-05:00

this was inspired by hearing

of a child who

dressed up as a

magic carpet for halloween.

i heard this while knitting/being/chatting

with lovely women at a retreat.

ohhhh, the magic of needles clicking

& imaginations traveling.

xox

(& congratulations to kristina/winner of greeting cards)

card giveaway

2011-04-13T08:30:00.002-05:00

as a fun way to reach 400 followers,

if you become a NEW follower

(between #393 & 400)

one name will be randomly chosen (1/7 chance)

to win three free greeting cards. please come play! xo

spring

2011-04-11T04:00:00.004-05:00

to celebrate spring, i am re-posting this quote from our son abe,

who said this as he walked in the door after school about a year ago.

i loooove spring both inside & outside!

xox

climb toward the light

2011-04-04T04:00:00.002-05:00

"and how do the roots know

they must climb toward the light?

and then greet the air

with so many flowers and colors?"

pablo neruda/the book of questions.

*****

spring love to you. xo

still life

2011-03-28T04:00:00.003-05:00

____________________________________________________

a couple versions of still life.

prettiest peace wishes to yours. xo

***

(& congratulations to the winner of the giveaway: mary ann from "firstborn"!)

giveaway

2011-03-21T04:00:00.000-05:00

please look through drawings i've posted on this blog over time

& peek at my etsy shop http://rachelawes.etsy.com/

& let me know your favorite

& enter to win a free print!

**entries**

one entry by sharing your fav via a comment here

additional entries by:

following my blog

following me on facebook

writing about the giveaway on your facebook page

following me on twitter

(3 entries if purchase something from my etsy shop)

entries will be closed march 27 & winner will be announced march 28/

w/name pulled out of a hat by our children!

please include your email address.

thank you for playing with me.

your encouragement is a dream come true for me every single time.

xoxox

i twist my wavy hair

2011-03-14T04:00:00.000-05:00

feels so good

2011-03-07T04:00:00.003-06:00

yesyesyes to all your aliveness!

***

& i want to share with you that

out of increasing self-care & re-distributing where i place

my creative time, i will be changing my posts to once a week.

your encouraging/kind/gorgeous words you share here

with me & others will simply hold double the joy-wow for me.

oh how i thank you each so.

xox!

what running feels like

2011-03-03T04:00:00.001-06:00

i began running for the first time last summer/fall

& have stopped for the winter (w/a plan to resume again in spring).

i found running to also be metaphorical/a live journal of sorts.

love to each of your depths. xo

nourish & flourish

2011-02-28T04:00:00.004-06:00

i was recently asked if i would draw something

about learning to love ourselves...

& because it seems

we are all in this same soup

together,

i lept forward with

a bounty of !yes!

xox

a candle-lit table

2011-02-24T04:00:00.004-06:00

here is a vision that recently whispered itself into my heart

as i spoke of my dream to begin another book...

i am deep sea grateful for such a table.

i will go out of town this weekend

for a bit of solitude & pull up a chair.

i now reach out my heart & hand

to reflect the same affirmation to you...

xox

dream living

2011-02-21T04:00:00.003-06:00

i'm participating in the author SARK's dream boogie offering

& this is part of my internal experience along the way.

with love from my dreams to yours. xox

yarn store whispers

2011-02-17T04:00:00.002-06:00

whispering in blossoming love you can feel

xox

love is all ya need

2011-02-14T04:00:00.000-06:00

isn't a good hug something to savor? extending a dear one out to each of you. xo!

light & loving

2011-02-10T06:00:00.001-06:00

(etsy added w/love)

every single beat

2011-02-07T04:00:00.001-06:00

xox

dearest hope

2011-02-03T04:00:00.001-06:00

i balance on flowers

2011-01-31T04:00:00.000-06:00

these just seemed fitting to hold me up.

flower xox love

bath time

2011-01-27T04:00:00.000-06:00

real feels

2011-01-24T05:00:00.000-06:00

be my real self. love real big. feel my real feelings. speak real & true.

(bracelet from http://wellofcreations.blogspot.com/)

love to YOUR real. xox

fireflies

2011-01-20T04:00:00.002-06:00

i was inspired from a dear friend's comment on one of my posts about this!

(lovely jennifer at http://ripplespeak.blogspot.com/!)

love to all your shinings!

story time

2011-01-17T04:00:00.005-06:00

i was magnificently gifted with this story

from a friend

& included now is my illustration...

the text reads as follows:

a blue bird came to me this morning.

wake up, wake up was his song.

go away, go away, i don't want to start my day.

but the day is beautiful.

i don't care...

the blue bird kept nagging & begging,

get up, go out, the sun will warm you.

leave me alone...

the blue bird flew away,

up high into the sky.

it came back with a ray from the sun

& laid it on my face.

i got up & went out.

it was a beautiful day...

(blue bird love to each of YOU today. xox)

seeing through these eyes

2011-01-13T04:00:00.000-06:00

our 12 year old, sam, told me he was thinking about something he knew i'd like but wasn't so sure about telling me. i said pleeeeeeeeease tell me & bribed him with a back scratch.

it worked & i wrote it alongside this drawing.

i made the hair on this illustration curly & full in honor of him...but i still can't help but draw figures mostly in the female form!
love to all you see & hear & are. xo

i can do magic anywhere

2011-01-10T04:00:00.002-06:00

our 14 year old son, abe, had really gotten into

magic card tricks

& said this one morning

when he slipped the deck into his robe pocket.

(hmmm ** maybe we all can, maybe we all can).

see anew

2011-01-06T04:00:00.008-06:00

sometimes going somewhere else

(in my case recently, northern mn woods)

helps me to see anew

& this began w/the encouragement to

slow down

& look up

& all around me

& always within~
sharing now
such branches
w/you
& love
to what filters through
your eyes.

playing with thread

2011-01-03T04:00:00.006-06:00

over our december holiday time away,

tucked in the north woods of mn,

i played with thread & stitched words into my clothes,

like, love finds me...

& free,

& a butterfly even came to visit :)

i'll include a couple photos of these woods soon,
& extend their branches to you.
all w/love. xox

live into the fullness

2010-12-30T06:00:00.002-06:00

a fullness moment captured of our 14 yr. old son's full living

at an outdoor august wedding reception ~

as the sky filled with

rain & luminous light & rainbow

(& photo complete w/a biffy even! oi vey!)

happy new year.

may it be filled with all of you.

xoxox.

cape(able)

2010-12-27T04:00:00.003-06:00

butterflies in winter?

so it seems, so it seems

& more to come

(etsy added with love) xox

inhabit the earth

2010-12-22T04:00:00.000-06:00

" inhabit the earth & all her wonders."

(etsy added w/love)

***

merry christmas. happy hanukah.

la hiem!

willow

2010-12-20T04:00:00.003-06:00

sending love to all the places you find yourself in.

(etsy added w/love as always)

hand over heart

2010-12-16T04:00:00.000-06:00

i am so grateful for heart connections!

winds blew

2010-12-13T04:00:00.000-06:00

(etsy added w/love)

peacock whisperer

2010-12-09T04:00:00.000-06:00

anything's possible if we listen deep & bravely follow, right?

(etsy added w/love. always w/love.)

woodland of my heart

2010-12-06T04:00:00.006-06:00

(etsy added w/love)

free ingree dients

2010-12-02T04:00:00.005-06:00

some messiness is needed

in order to be free on the other side

i plan to stitch this

into my clothing & life.

love to all these threads in you.

xox

freedom of possibility

2010-11-29T04:00:00.005-06:00

here is a quote

of someone saying what she loves,

now into color,

from last week's listening offering.

thank you all for sharing your loves.

xox

born into color

2010-11-24T08:00:00.000-06:00

happy thanksgiving

(etsy added w/love)

monday manuscript baking

2010-11-22T06:00:00.009-06:00

(background for this given in september twenty post)

here is a page from later in the manuscript.

it is my final peek.

please now hold this process in *light* as i hope

for the pages to go forward & lovelovelove people.

xox

the art of us/part two of two & a listening offering

2010-11-18T04:00:00.002-06:00

here is the rest, continued from my november 11 post.

***

also, i want to extend a listening offering,

inspired by the suggestion of lisa from http://joytoyouandme.blogspot.com/.

if you would like to either send me an email (rachelawes@gmail.com)

or leave a comment here about what YOU love,

i will choose something that moves me to draw

& post it here anonymously toward the end of november

(i'll let that person know through email)

& as for the rest, i will simply send you light & love from my heart,

(as always). yes. xo

monday manuscript baking

2010-11-15T05:30:00.000-06:00

(background for this given in september twenty post).

our needs are sooooo worth our heart-drum beat attention!!

xox

the art of us/part one of two

2010-11-11T04:00:00.000-06:00

during a recent art retreat, i sat with each person to listen to what they love.

it was then dreamy to choose something they each said & translate it into art,

as they are, as we all are.

i'll post them in two parts. here's the first.

xox

monday manuscript baking

2010-11-08T04:00:00.000-06:00

(background for this given in september twenty post).

sending love to your deeps, with all that is swishing in there. xo

rosemary flower butter pumpkin

2010-11-04T05:00:00.000-05:00

a friend (dear tim p!) shared w/me that his sister named herself this as a child.

brilliance!

any other names out there?!

monday manuscript baking

2010-11-01T04:00:00.000-05:00

(background for this given in september twenty post).

words under her arms read

"& that same evening she said this,

she rode in her car with music up & windows down & felt free!"

~~sending out refreshing winds like spring*ness~~

a golden art bloggers retreat on mn's lake superior/north shore

2010-10-27T05:00:00.001-05:00

http://carissapaige.blogspot.com/
http://artsyville.blogspot.com/
http://choosingbeauty.com/
http://happinessthroughart.blogspot.com/
http://heartwingsisters.blogspot.com/
http://innertoddler.blogspot.com/
http://paintedfishstudio.com/

http://allididwaslisten.blogspot.com/

& also treasured here/couldn't make it this time...
http://chrissygardner.blogspot.com/
http://valentinaramos.blogspot.com/

we are ALL spun in gold.

all we have to do is listen.

xox

monday manuscript baking

2010-10-25T06:00:00.004-05:00

(background for this given in september twenty post).

aren't we all in this together? xo

bare selves

2010-10-21T06:00:00.002-05:00

i was playing with patterns for possible collaging & it made me happy to look at them just for the sake of their bare selves. just like you & me, dearhearts!

monday manuscript baking

2010-10-18T06:00:00.002-05:00

(background for this given in september twenty post).

what are your most important things? xo

gorgeous

2010-10-14T06:00:00.000-05:00

aren't we all gorgeous?!

hugs to you,

each & every one.

monday manuscript baking

2010-10-11T06:00:00.002-05:00

(background for this given in september twenty post).

shining out huge encouragement to your living intos, w/love. xo

she always loved love letters...

2010-10-07T06:00:00.002-05:00

"she would tuck them all into shoeboxes & into her dresser drawer & into secret jean jacket pockets & she knew that there would always be room for papers such as these."
xo

monday manuscript baking

2010-10-04T06:00:00.005-05:00

(background for this given in sept. twenty post).

sending laughter across the waters~~~w/love.

a soul conversation

2010-09-30T06:00:00.008-05:00

i rejoice,

with you,

in how

across

the seeming distance,

we find

& touch

one another.

(etsy added w/love)