tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250790612024-03-13T12:15:27.138-04:00Creating Sparks...The Sparks and Musings of a Spirited Wife, Mother, Daughter, Artist, Teacher, Friend, Sister, Dancer, Dreamer, Wanna be Lounge Singer, forever student of life..Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-55236166226495379052014-01-12T21:20:00.002-05:002014-01-12T21:20:53.326-05:00Dinner Time Doodles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sit down family dinners are so rare and then the time together so fleeting! To prolong family interaction before everyone leaves the table try Dinner Doodles! Everyone starts a drawing and passes it around the table for each person to add to it!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtEQAf6bGuFK1KU5riLyP10UnCbeI-X3cwka9bpeegoH3t17px8JQOCb1qk-vBfhPNypISR8Wfsre_kkd4Rh6Gr5ZHgdRRQFnYyqJqssp8Xhbe5Nwu8wK2cCLQ5zfC8RhPUkOFcA/s1600/dinnerdoodles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtEQAf6bGuFK1KU5riLyP10UnCbeI-X3cwka9bpeegoH3t17px8JQOCb1qk-vBfhPNypISR8Wfsre_kkd4Rh6Gr5ZHgdRRQFnYyqJqssp8Xhbe5Nwu8wK2cCLQ5zfC8RhPUkOFcA/s320/dinnerdoodles.jpg" /></a></div>Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-76585233037356711882012-05-09T13:18:00.001-04:002012-05-09T13:18:45.848-04:0029 Faces Day 9 Do Not Fear the Journey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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She is a crazy mess<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Proud and Thankful for her life, yet RAW. Her vices ripped away, her hurts resurfacing, left broken open, pulsing with every heartbeat. They will not stay quiet. She sees the love and blessings and goodness around her yet she can't escape the aches, the emotions, refusing to be ignored any longer.
"I have not given you this knowledge and awareness for you not to DO something with it." he says. "Your old ways will not work any longer, you have let me lead you this far, but no farther?" "Do you not know the plans I have for you? Beauty and Love shining brighter than even what you see before you now, but you must release the darkness to let the Light in. You must grieve, to forgive yourself and others."
"Do you not know that they are only emotions? Why do you fear to feel them? They will not break you, I have built you stronger than that. They are only to mold you, to create in you a heart like HIS. You ask me to make you see life and others as I do, this is the way to learn to see. Do not fear the journey, open your heart, break down your walls, trust me, let ME lead you on."Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-32021915581452501422012-05-06T21:51:00.000-04:002012-05-06T21:51:04.317-04:0029 Faces Day 6<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here is a horrible quality, cropped version of today's face, due to both camera's and my cell phone all R.I.P!!
This is oil pastel on scrap wood. The message journaled with her face is:
May I see others with your eyes, May I hear your calling, May I speak your words and share your love, May I seek to grow more with you, May my journey show your Grace and Peace.
Selah.....
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Striving for making choices from my "True" Heart in order to have a "True" Mind, not one cluttered with outside influences, people pleasing, and self doubt. I find it interesting that when I step back and look at the face that I created while reflecting on this, she seems to have a studious, or concentrated look. That is all too fitting, since this is an action that takes great concentration and practice for me!Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-71177891430922179102012-05-02T13:41:00.000-04:002012-05-02T13:41:32.830-04:0029 Faces Numero Uno<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here it is, in all it's "raw-ness", my first face for my 29 Faces challenge! Ironically there is no face per se, I was painting for feeling, release of emotion and the emotion I was struggling with was one that I am sure most Mother's have, so I felt it appropriate that the face remain blank to symbolize all mothers. The emotion I wanted to acknowledge is the ache when your children ache, that unending desire to be a Force Field of protection for them. To protect our children from hurt, pain, loss etc. But the colors I chose were soothing and bright to represent my recent realization of how my children grow so beautifully through their struggles and pain and shine even brighter on the other side of them. It also symbolizes the beauty and "enough-ness" of me just floating beside them through their pain. Realizing that fixing things for them is not as meaningful as just walking along with them through the pain, feeling their pain with them and celebrating the beauty they gain on the other side.
This painting for me was a journal documentation of learning the important lesson of walking beside my children and not clearing the path for them.
Selah!
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Being a commit-a-phob I hate to even publish that I am going to try and do something, but this is so intriguing to me and heaven knows I need a kick in the pants! Lets see how I do, even if I do half of the 29 that is good for me! ;) I will probably be publishing all 29 faces on May 31st! That's how I roll!Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-57248364235084072952012-04-24T11:30:00.000-04:002012-04-24T13:44:28.770-04:00Doodle on!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am a firm believer in the power and theraputic value of doodling! Love what this TED talk has to say! Doodle on! Doodle On!Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-16260413270452594872012-04-17T15:29:00.000-04:002012-04-17T15:29:06.137-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc7u6yy2hweU7XHCUYPwshOTEXmbAhqXZgTL2WoIjoHk_s8L2DPkG0X9Jh70R3tNcgFz4qBBHBRMqmJzpuDzm2gwEu8oL3Q3rGYJbTYssDe2vglOPBf3AOpCddgeBFff-CLOue8A/s1600/IMAG0094.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="200" width="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc7u6yy2hweU7XHCUYPwshOTEXmbAhqXZgTL2WoIjoHk_s8L2DPkG0X9Jh70R3tNcgFz4qBBHBRMqmJzpuDzm2gwEu8oL3Q3rGYJbTYssDe2vglOPBf3AOpCddgeBFff-CLOue8A/s200/IMAG0094.jpg" /></a></div><br />
This is why I keep doing what I do! There is no greater reward than to find a message like this on my white board! JOY! JOY! JOY! Another Artist has found herself!Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-82172845962986475232012-04-10T18:37:00.001-04:002012-04-24T13:45:30.117-04:00Blooming into me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.onlinecollegecourses.com/2012/02/22/80-amazing-pinterest-pins-for-art-education/#.T1PTbeCzzmI.blogger">80 Amazing Pinterest Pins for Art Education - Online College Courses</a>Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-80625111663625163072012-03-04T12:52:00.000-05:002012-04-24T14:05:58.295-04:00Recycled fire pit art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisKgK5JWHYJNnIOtC1jfXESV0TYyFsJG2a7hq8YyTIpu7JBD5jDKXpc0uVv23fHdrEvbqYONWEijWiAOYYg77q1b2aI8bdbgZqhJ0L6XEuYiEs5sNuOUPBRHe6auEvZTq4cpKMuw/s1600/%253D%253Futf-8%253FB%253FSU1HMDEwMzMtMjAxMjAxMjgtMTIzNi5qcGc%253D%253F%253D-777900"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisKgK5JWHYJNnIOtC1jfXESV0TYyFsJG2a7hq8YyTIpu7JBD5jDKXpc0uVv23fHdrEvbqYONWEijWiAOYYg77q1b2aI8bdbgZqhJ0L6XEuYiEs5sNuOUPBRHe6auEvZTq4cpKMuw/s320/%253D%253Futf-8%253FB%253FSU1HMDEwMzMtMjAxMjAxMjgtMTIzNi5qcGc%253D%253F%253D-777900" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716095865452515858" /></a></p>This is the work bench my fabulous hubby made for my new art studio. (The right side still needs the work surface attached-but you get the idea!). I am not the only creative in the family! Love him!Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-85544662087895405922012-03-04T12:12:00.001-05:002012-04-24T13:58:39.349-04:00Honorary Award<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrjo6u8b6cU2OncjZcWurvLS0lYAZDxMYxmU6sOzf48GSlLVQgOT6juTZAzatOm0CKQs2UMdY1hw8uC446MrHd9v4JFZ0CH2KAsHRmXOS1LjDynqcbPoykBiNKRhDqBzVBdk555w/s1600/%253D%253Futf-8%253FB%253FSU1HMDEwNzEtMjAxMjAzMDEtMjEwMi5qcGc%253D%253F%253D-733806"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrjo6u8b6cU2OncjZcWurvLS0lYAZDxMYxmU6sOzf48GSlLVQgOT6juTZAzatOm0CKQs2UMdY1hw8uC446MrHd9v4JFZ0CH2KAsHRmXOS1LjDynqcbPoykBiNKRhDqBzVBdk555w/s320/%253D%253Futf-8%253FB%253FSU1HMDEwNzEtMjAxMjAzMDEtMjEwMi5qcGc%253D%253F%253D-733806" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716090946686309730" /></a></p>Here is a pic of the award I was presented with thursday night, March 1st. What an honor and what inspiration to DO MORE!!!<p>The best quote of the evening was from a deaf teenage artist named Laura: "Art is an Equalizer!" So true Laura, no greater truth!Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-81455089005110232022011-10-04T14:24:00.003-04:002011-10-06T12:48:11.526-04:00Artprize with Alyssia documentaryHere is a great documentation of the Artprize project I created with Alyssia Crook for this year! It has been a rewarding experience and has motivated me to want to focus more of my work with an Art Healing emphasis!<br />
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http://grcentral.wzzm13.com/news/news/62202-art-therapy-helps-alyssia-crook-healAngie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-83692888524946623332011-05-09T00:36:00.001-04:002012-04-24T14:01:07.981-04:0050 Creative Questions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Fabulous inpsiration and guidance in this article to get you past the critical thoughts and into the pure bliss of the process of art! Ole!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://tinybuddha.com/blog/50-creative-questions-to-create-the-life-you-really-want/">50 Creative Questions To Create The Life You Really Want</a>Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-31614952775257610512011-05-08T22:32:00.001-04:002012-04-24T14:09:47.939-04:00Healing power of Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am a creative , encouraging, enthusiatic and eccentric being that loves to learn and share knowledge.<br /><br />A being that loves creative and eccentric knowledge.<br /><br />I love to learn and share creative knowledge.<br /><br />Being creative and eccentric I love.<br /><br />Encouraging love to learn and share.<br /><br />Enthusiastic to learn and share creative love.Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-36343542041703081052010-11-02T10:45:00.002-04:002010-11-02T10:48:44.773-04:00Making a commitment to my Creativity! It is so appropriate that November is Art Everyday Month, as it is the month of my birthday and I believe that Scorpios are such passionate and creative people! I am not very good at commiting to doing anything everyday, but if anything should be easy for me to commit to, it should be my ART!!Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-87670649828203937452009-03-06T22:41:00.001-05:002012-04-24T14:15:39.264-04:00TED talk on Creativity-Ole'!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/ElizabethGilbert_2009-embed_high.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/ElizabethGilbert_2009.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=453" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/ElizabethGilbert_2009-embed_high.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/ElizabethGilbert_2009.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=453"></embed></object><br /><br />This is an AWESOME talk on creativity! OLE'!!!!Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-61161533563004343202009-03-04T21:08:00.001-05:002009-03-04T21:08:42.260-05:00Abstract Snow w/Flower B&W<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/17225242@N07/3329055553/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3389/3329055553_65cde260b9_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/17225242@N07/3329055553/">Abstract Snow w/Flower B&W</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/17225242@N07/">bellajoe</a></span><br clear="all" /><p>In a Creativity Challenge - we had to go to a park with our camera and "Create with Nature". Here is one of my many photos - I really enjoyed looking for Abstract Designs I liked in the melting snow!<br /><br />This may be inspiration for a painting............</p>Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-82484067223916991772009-03-04T21:05:00.001-05:002009-03-04T21:05:04.740-05:00FlickrThis is a test post from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/r/testpost"><img alt="flickr" src="http://www.flickr.com/images/flickr_logo_blog.gif" width="41" height="18" border="0" align="absmiddle" /></a>, a fancy photo sharing thing.Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-24122321487294762742009-02-03T11:13:00.001-05:002009-02-03T11:14:46.132-05:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV9sR_SJ8PXW4b1PX9KDnXsJ67yfWVNb_OuDSiAwwubLBZVF9hCftT9u1ILvaaiHAwSL-i85U4j8GHgRjKj6-z70gkR8JH1AQHoxDm3wuLZTqFO6eEles8oU3i3m-dm_31I86XxA/s1600-h/focus.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298605093477686066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV9sR_SJ8PXW4b1PX9KDnXsJ67yfWVNb_OuDSiAwwubLBZVF9hCftT9u1ILvaaiHAwSL-i85U4j8GHgRjKj6-z70gkR8JH1AQHoxDm3wuLZTqFO6eEles8oU3i3m-dm_31I86XxA/s200/focus.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>What is your focus? What should it be? What do you need to blackout around you to keep your focus?</div>Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-67240891151194993772009-01-20T09:13:00.000-05:002009-01-20T09:14:43.740-05:00How to CREATE in the middle of things……………………………..???<br /><br />As a wife, mother, teacher, artist, friend, entrepreneur, Girl Scout leader, PTC board member how do I manage to still create in the middle of things?<br />The question strikes me funny, because off the cuff my answer would be that I don’t. I don’t feel like I get to create as much as I like. I get frustrated that I have all these fabulously creative ideas in my head and not the time to focus my energies on them. I feel like the time that I do get to create is rushed and chaotic. In my email conversations with my Creativity Coach Susan, she has helped me realize the little moments that I create and to honor those even tiny accomplishments.<br />I CREATE when I am planning new lessons that will hopefully inspire my students, I CREATE when I plan the craft activity for Girl Scouts, I CREATE when I make a new dish for dinner, based on only what I have in the pantry, I CREATE when I come up with a new game to motivate my children to clean, I CREATE when I help my daughter learn her multiplication facts by giving her imagery to coincide with the answers, I CREATE when I come up with new marketing ideas for my art and jewelry………………<br />Now this realization did make me feel more successful about my creativity, but it did not cure the nagging ache to create the ideas that I wanted to focus on. I am not a naturally organized or structured person, so to force myself to schedule time to create what I wanted and how I wanted was and still is a chore for me. “Time Thieves” are lurking all around me that will easily eat up those precious free moments if I let them. I must be forceful and diligent about the importance for my creativity, treat it as a diabetic would value their insulin, because for me creating heals my body and mind as a medicine would. I have to engage the support of my husband to help me make sure that time happens and to hold me accountable if I start to put others needs in that time instead of mine, which I have a habit of doing. I also have to be willing to find a place other than home to create, to grab a sketch book and go to the book store or library, because there are too many distractions at home.<br />It would be great if I could have a gym type membership at an art studio, because it seems that when you pay money for something you are more likely to use it for fear of feeling like you have wasted your money,-- there another CREATIVE moment……….open a “Creativity Gym”, full of creative exercise equipment and supplies, Creativity Coaches and Personal Trainers……..see all the ideas I can come up with if I just take a few moments for my own creativity!Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25079061.post-64842675055785909042009-01-12T00:56:00.001-05:002009-01-12T00:56:35.122-05:00Indiepublic<script type="text/javascript" src="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/483ec89d3823f260/496adb91a9092743/483ec89d28fd4e4c/f1fdd9f/widget.js"></script>Angie Briggs Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03291602999574760340noreply@blogger.com0