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A Little Peek Around Joyful Pause Cottage (video)

From the raised bed gardens to the corner herb garden on my deck everything is planted making it feel so alive around Joyful Pause Cottage, our home, and our property. It feels so magical!

I’ve even begun picking a few of the blossoms and have them drying in my flower press for future art projects to add to my Esty shop! I hope you enjoy the little (video) peek around my little corner of the world!

Click here or below to travel along via this short video…

XO

Barb

                  

The Art of the Pause

Mid-summer I began dabbling in mixed media collage. It’s a whole new way for me to embrace pausing in yet a different way. Like writing, when I’m in the flow, nothing else can enter my brain. I’m finding when choosing different layers to collage (papers, paint, and images) I’m not really thinking of anything, but just being with what is.

Yesterday I finished this collage on canvas to support the fact I recently renamed my writing cottage to Joyful Pause Cottage. This 10 x 12 space — a ‘room of my own’ and separate from my house —sits off the southeast corner of our deck. It was built in 2009 as a labor of love by my hubby as a place I could come to as I began my journey of writing two children’s books, three memoirs, and I don’t know how many blog posts I’ve written to date. But let’s just say LOTS!

But it’s become so much more than where I write, that I had been feeling this inner nudge to change its name for quite some time. Joyful pause is also about the joyful paws that have been part of my tribe in helping me evolve over the years — especially three special needs dachshunds. And if you look at the bottom of the collage you’ll see a paw print image to represent each one of them — Frankie, Joie, and Gidget. All three of their sweet and loving spirits remain here in this space with me.

Joyful Pause is now the space in which I collage, write, provide oracle readings via Zoom with clients and for my Youtube channel, meditate, dream of possibilities, and take joyful pause moments to glance out my windows to be inspired by my gardens or connect with the birds, bunnies, turkey, deer, or squirrels that I’ve been blessed to see here in my yard often.

xo,

Barbara

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Joyful Pause Moment Outside My Cottage. Plus Last Call for a Free Ticket to Animal Wisdom World Summit.

In case you missed it and a recent video I did…
 
I recently renamed this place of my own from my Writing Cottage to Joyful Pause Cottage. While it began as a space (outside my house) to support my writing adventure that began in 2007, it has evolved into supporting me in an abundance of many other ways, which of recent has included exploring mixed media art more. So hence the change in name as this captures it all and what this space means to me.
 
We are at peak color here in Wisconsin and my eyes are on a happy overload sensory of such beauty!
 
Also, last call to get your free ticket for the 2020 Animal Wisdom World Summit! This is a two-day event that begins Monday, October 12th. It features experts in the world of animals that host Dr. Cara Gubbins has brought together with a variety of topics from soul contracts with our animals, letting animals lead, partnering with nature, and my talk about healing with our pets, plus so much more!
 
 
Hope to see you there and hear from you in the private Facebook group that Dr. Cara has created where we can all connect.
 
                    
 
xo,
Barbara
 
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