birth

Creating art has been such a healing activity for me again and again. Mingling intuition and intention, the painting below feels like a healing touch for body, heart, and spirit. Maybe it will touch you as well. It was inspired … Read More

* Note: This blog post was written before moving from the Loving Rd domain/website to Thrive True for technical reasons and before adopting the pen name Julia Ostara (which is just 2 letters different than my married name and sounds … Read More

Sharing the story (and hence, part of my story) of one of my paintings from the Bloom True class.  I’m calling this painting “Love Within”.  It’s not quite done, but the last official class lesson was today and the assignment … Read More

Happy Birthday to me, and to you, too!  May all your wishes come true.  Here’s a little story I’d like to tell… about birthday wishes coming true. 🙂  What a year it has been!  Living the dream, finally! 🙂  Thanks to … Read More

Do you have the song in your head now, too? 😉 Little fireworks have been going off in my head and heart this morning!  This is not the blog post I intended to write next, but this is what is … Read More

While reading an art journaling magazine last night (full of beautiful pages by other people), I found myself thinking about my scrapbooking experience. I confess that I fell in love with the “idea” of scrapbooking. I had even made photo … Read More