Studio Updates

I love color.  Like I absolutely, truly love color.  There is something about it…I can catch a flash of color out of the corner of my eye.  I can spot the greatest color combos in the most oddest settings.  I drink color.  Seriously–that’s why I love fresh juicing and smoothies so much–it’s the beautiful color I want to digest more then anything.  I wear my colorful head wraps almost daily, and I love to wear brightly colored toe polish!  Color! Color! Color!!! Ahhhh color.   The thing is, do we ever think about it?  Do we make an effort to invite color…

That’s me….actually smiling…at the end of the day at work!! All a part of the Creative Juicy Life! This is the second time I am attempting to write this post. The first time, I went on to bore you with details of some of the silly, asinine things being imposed on us teachers at school. I know that if you read it, you would have joined me in hee-hawin’ about how ridiculous things are. But…you see that smile above….that is purely the result of staying true to my mission to live a Creative Juicy Life. Instead of creating stories around…

It’s the first week back at school and with my older kids, we have been busy creating something super cool that only my newsletter friends got to hear about (wink wink!!). But my little kids–kindergarten to second grade…we’ve been reading books about friends and being a good friend. Then, we sit together in small groups of new friends on the floor with a HUGE piece of paper. I asked them to brainstorm what is the ultimate summer break…then working together, they create their ideas into a HUGE-MAMA drawing (my exact words!). I love to sit back during this whole process…