Juicy Soul Retreat - January 29, 2012

Juicy Soul Retreat
Sunday, January 29 2012

The Juicy Soul Retreat is an afternoon of journaling and creative play. We will be teaching you how to live and create in your journals as your own personal studio for creative expression.  You can begin a new journal or you can continue to build in one of your existing journals. The choice is yours. Our intention is that you spend time in your journal with paints, textures and words and revisit the bliss of journaling through art.  You will learn techniques for creating backgrounds, color pages, and share your experiences in the pages of your journal.

RETREAT SCHEDULE:

Juicy Journaling Techniques

with Andrea Chebeleu

Big tables, tons of art supplies...What could be more fun! You will learn some amazing techniques to turn flat blank journals in to juicy journals for your words, poetry, collage, photos, lists, mantras, ideas, songs, prayers, intentions, stories, notes, and dreams. Bring a journal of your choosing.

Living in Your Journals:

Spilling open and celebrating your life through journaling

With Julie Valentine

In this workshop you will discover the wonderful world of fonts, journal page frames, images and story windows. You will be guided through the journaling process to begin to design a focus for your journal. You will explore the variety of tools available to you to support you in journaling your ideas, dreams, stories, experiences when the creative muse appears in your path. We will explore the variety of fonts, letters and methods of capturing words on a page. We will also give you a chance to  journey with words, frames for your words and given journaling prompts and ideas for topics you might explore in your journal pages. Bring a journal of your choosing.

Juicy Journaling Studio

Self Guided time to experiment and play with Andrea Chebeleu & Julie Valentine

We will act as muses for your creative process and offer the space you have been craving to create on big tables with tons of art supplies and friends to play with...What could be more fun! Spend time in community turning your flat blank journals in to juicy journals for your words, poetry, collage, photos, lists, mantras, ideas, songs, prayers, intentions, stories, notes, and dreams. You will not be given instructions. This is your time to use all the techniques you've learned in previous classes to create your journal, experiment with colors and try different supplies.Bring a journal of your choosing.

Registration: $115  for all 3 sessions, After 1/22/2012: $125

Juicy Soul Retreat - March 11, 2012

Juicy Soul Retreat
Sunday, March 11 2012

The Juicy Soul Retreat is an afternoon of journaling and creative play. We will be teaching you how to live and create in your journals as your own personal studio for creative expression.  You can begin a new journal or you can continue to build in one of your existing journals. The choice is yours. Our intention is that you spend time in your journal with paints, textures and words and revisit the bliss of journaling through art.  You will learn techniques for creating backgrounds, color pages, and share your experiences in the pages of your journal.

RETREAT SCHEDULE:

Juicy Journaling Techniques

with Andrea Chebeleu

Big tables, tons of art supplies...What could be more fun! You will learn some amazing techniques to turn flat blank journals in to juicy journals for your words, poetry, collage, photos, lists, mantras, ideas, songs, prayers, intentions, stories, notes, and dreams. Bring a journal of your choosing.

Living in Your Journals:

Spilling open and celebrating your life through journaling

With Julie Valentine

In this workshop you will discover the wonderful world of fonts, journal page frames, images and story windows. You will be guided through the journaling process to begin to design a focus for your journal. You will explore the variety of tools available to you to support you in journaling your ideas, dreams, stories, experiences when the creative muse appears in your path. We will explore the variety of fonts, letters and methods of capturing words on a page. We will also give you a chance to  journey with words, frames for your words and given journaling prompts and ideas for topics you might explore in your journal pages. Bring a journal of your choosing.

Juicy Journaling Studio

Self Guided time to experiment and play with Andrea Chebeleu & Julie Valentine

We will act as muses for your creative process and offer the space you have been craving to create on big tables with tons of art supplies and friends to play with...What could be more fun! Spend time in community turning your flat blank journals in to juicy journals for your words, poetry, collage, photos, lists, mantras, ideas, songs, prayers, intentions, stories, notes, and dreams. You will not be given instructions. This is your time to use all the techniques you've learned in previous classes to create your journal, experiment with colors and try different supplies.Bring a journal of your choosing.

Registration: $115  for all 3 sessions, After 3/04/2012: $125

Juicy Soul Retreat - June 10, 2012

Juicy Soul Retreat
Sunday, June 10 2012

The Juicy Soul Retreat is an afternoon of journaling and creative play. We will be teaching you how to live and create in your journals as your own personal studio for creative expression.  You can begin a new journal or you can continue to build in one of your existing journals. The choice is yours. Our intention is that you spend time in your journal with paints, textures and words and revisit the bliss of journaling through art.  You will learn techniques for creating backgrounds, color pages, and share your experiences in the pages of your journal.

RETREAT SCHEDULE:

Juicy Journaling Techniques

with Andrea Chebeleu

Big tables, tons of art supplies...What could be more fun! You will learn some amazing techniques to turn flat blank journals in to juicy journals for your words, poetry, collage, photos, lists, mantras, ideas, songs, prayers, intentions, stories, notes, and dreams. Bring a journal of your choosing.

Living in Your Journals:

Spilling open and celebrating your life through journaling

With Julie Valentine

In this workshop you will discover the wonderful world of fonts, journal page frames, images and story windows. You will be guided through the journaling process to begin to design a focus for your journal. You will explore the variety of tools available to you to support you in journaling your ideas, dreams, stories, experiences when the creative muse appears in your path. We will explore the variety of fonts, letters and methods of capturing words on a page. We will also give you a chance to  journey with words, frames for your words and given journaling prompts and ideas for topics you might explore in your journal pages. Bring a journal of your choosing.

Juicy Journaling Studio

Self Guided time to experiment and play with Andrea Chebeleu & Julie Valentine

We will act as muses for your creative process and offer the space you have been craving to create on big tables with tons of art supplies and friends to play with...What could be more fun! Spend time in community turning your flat blank journals in to juicy journals for your words, poetry, collage, photos, lists, mantras, ideas, songs, prayers, intentions, stories, notes, and dreams. You will not be given instructions. This is your time to use all the techniques you've learned in previous classes to create your journal, experiment with colors and try different supplies.Bring a journal of your choosing.

Registration: $115  for all 3 sessions, After 6/03/2012: $125

Juicy Soul Retreat - Sept 9, 2012

Juicy Soul Retreat
Sunday, Sept 9 2012

The Juicy Soul Retreat is an afternoon of journaling and creative play. We will be teaching you how to live and create in your journals as your own personal studio for creative expression.  You can begin a new journal or you can continue to build in one of your existing journals. The choice is yours. Our intention is that you spend time in your journal with paints, textures and words and revisit the bliss of journaling through art.  You will learn techniques for creating backgrounds, color pages, and share your experiences in the pages of your journal.

RETREAT SCHEDULE:

Juicy Journaling Techniques

with Andrea Chebeleu

Big tables, tons of art supplies...What could be more fun! You will learn some amazing techniques to turn flat blank journals in to juicy journals for your words, poetry, collage, photos, lists, mantras, ideas, songs, prayers, intentions, stories, notes, and dreams. Bring a journal of your choosing.

Living in Your Journals:

Spilling open and celebrating your life through journaling

With Julie Valentine

In this workshop you will discover the wonderful world of fonts, journal page frames, images and story windows. You will be guided through the journaling process to begin to design a focus for your journal. You will explore the variety of tools available to you to support you in journaling your ideas, dreams, stories, experiences when the creative muse appears in your path. We will explore the variety of fonts, letters and methods of capturing words on a page. We will also give you a chance to  journey with words, frames for your words and given journaling prompts and ideas for topics you might explore in your journal pages. Bring a journal of your choosing.

Juicy Journaling Studio

Self Guided time to experiment and play with Andrea Chebeleu & Julie Valentine

We will act as muses for your creative process and offer the space you have been craving to create on big tables with tons of art supplies and friends to play with...What could be more fun! Spend time in community turning your flat blank journals in to juicy journals for your words, poetry, collage, photos, lists, mantras, ideas, songs, prayers, intentions, stories, notes, and dreams. You will not be given instructions. This is your time to use all the techniques you've learned in previous classes to create your journal, experiment with colors and try different supplies.Bring a journal of your choosing.

Registration: $115  for all 3 sessions, After 9/02/2012: $125

Create Your Best Life Project

Create Your Best Life

The Create Your Best Life project is as community project I started in 2002.  I wanted a tool to help me reflect on my accomplishments and create the next step in my journey.  It started as a few key questions in a few different documents from many of the questions I gathered from workshops and questions that sprung up from my journaling practice. I ended up with so many questions I soon found the need to create an online tool. I shared the tool with friends and family and within a few months I  took the plunge to make it available to a broader audience on my website.  Since then 1000+ participants have completed this questionaire from around the world.  
 
Here is the most recent comment

 "I really thought that the process was easy once I got started. It made me take a look at my life and put things into perspective. I loved the read-back from the answers that I put in. I found this to be very helpful"


Echo, New York, NY

Create Your Best Life Questions 

Vision Boards and Idea Catchers Workshop - Jan 15 2012

Vision Boards and Idea Catchers

Date: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Time: 11:00 am - 1:30pm
Cost: $65/person ($75 after 1/11/2012)
Location: A Work of Heart,
2196 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125
408.266.1005

About the workshop

This workshop will provide a peaceful space to create your vision board for 2011. We will explore the role of vision boards in goal setting and discuss how journaling can support you in the process! I will guide you through a series of steps that I have learned over years of creating vision boards of my own.  You will be given time select images and create a vision board of your own.

I will also give you the opportunity to practice a valuable journaling process to help you capture any inspired ideas that might lead you to your goal. I call this process "Idea catching" and I will share with you the process of capturing your inspired actions in an "Idea Cather" or Idea journal.  This journal is unique in that it holds every wild idea, clue, phone number, map, quote that will lead you to your goal. These journals have been extremely powerful in capturing inspired actions that result from focusing on my vision boards and has lead me to solutions and surprising results.

With your Vision Board and Idea Catcher, you will have everything you need to creative fabulous year!

What to Bring?
Images (optional)
You will have time to pull images during the workshop, but for some people it takes time to find the right images. Feel free to collect images from magazines on your own and bring them to the workshop. Look for images that represent what you want to experience this year.

An Image of YOU
For the vision board you will need a photograph of you or an image of something that represents you for the collage. I suggest that you make a color copy of any images since we will be using them in the vision board.

Magazines to Share (optional)
Magazines will be provided for you to rip and tear. If you would like to bring magazines to share, please do!

Vision Boards and Idea Catchers - May 20, 2012

Vision Boards and Idea Catchers

Date: Sunday, May 20, 2012
Time: 11:00 am - 1:30pm
Cost: $65/person ($75 after 5/16/2012)
Location: A Work of Heart,
2196 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125
408.266.1005

About the workshop

This workshop will provide a peaceful space to create your vision board for 2011. We will explore the role of vision boards in goal setting and discuss how journaling can support you in the process! I will guide you through a series of steps that I have learned over years of creating vision boards of my own.  You will be given time select images and create a vision board of your own.

I will also give you the opportunity to practice a valuable journaling process to help you capture any inspired ideas that might lead you to your goal. I call this process "Idea catching" and I will share with you the process of capturing your inspired actions in an "Idea Cather" or Idea journal.  This journal is unique in that it holds every wild idea, clue, phone number, map, quote that will lead you to your goal. These journals have been extremely powerful in capturing inspired actions that result from focusing on my vision boards and has lead me to solutions and surprising results.

With your Vision Board and Idea Catcher, you will have everything you need to creative fabulous year!

What to Bring?
Images (optional)
You will have time to pull images during the workshop, but for some people it takes time to find the right images. Feel free to collect images from magazines on your own and bring them to the workshop. Look for images that represent what you want to experience this year.

An Image of YOU
For the vision board you will need a photograph of you or an image of something that represents you for the collage. I suggest that you make a color copy of any images since we will be using them in the vision board.

Magazines to Share (optional)
Magazines will be provided for you to rip and tear. If you would like to bring magazines to share, please do!

Vision Boards and Idea Catchers - July 22, 2012

Vision Boards and Idea Catchers

Date: Sunday, July 29, 2012
Time: 11:00 am - 1:30pm
Cost: $65/person ($75 after 7/18/2012)
Location: A Work of Heart,
2196 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125
408.266.1005

About the workshop

This workshop will provide a peaceful space to create your vision board for 2011. We will explore the role of vision boards in goal setting and discuss how journaling can support you in the process! I will guide you through a series of steps that I have learned over years of creating vision boards of my own.  You will be given time select images and create a vision board of your own.

I will also give you the opportunity to practice a valuable journaling process to help you capture any inspired ideas that might lead you to your goal. I call this process "Idea catching" and I will share with you the process of capturing your inspired actions in an "Idea Cather" or Idea journal.  This journal is unique in that it holds every wild idea, clue, phone number, map, quote that will lead you to your goal. These journals have been extremely powerful in capturing inspired actions that result from focusing on my vision boards and has lead me to solutions and surprising results.

With your Vision Board and Idea Catcher, you will have everything you need to creative fabulous year!

What to Bring?
Images (optional)
You will have time to pull images during the workshop, but for some people it takes time to find the right images. Feel free to collect images from magazines on your own and bring them to the workshop. Look for images that represent what you want to experience this year.

An Image of YOU
For the vision board you will need a photograph of you or an image of something that represents you for the collage. I suggest that you make a color copy of any images since we will be using them in the vision board.

Magazines to Share (optional)
Magazines will be provided for you to rip and tear. If you would like to bring magazines to share, please do!

Journal Art in Action: Journaled Canvas

Journal Art in Action: Journaled Canvas

In our workshops we teach a number of techniques that can be used in your journal or on canvas. You might have seen many of our layering techniques in the art you see in local stores. You can always purchase something for your home but what if you created something original using the techniques you've learned with us.

Above is something you might find in a store.  Below is my version inspired by the painting above.

Take some time this week to see images and break them down into manageable parts and recreate your own version on canvas.

Art Supply Haul: Diaso

ART SUPPLY  HAUL
If you have attended any of our Juicy Soul Retreats you might have heard us mention our favorite store for art supplies.. DIASO. It's a Japanese dollar store and they carry lots of fun things including art supplies. A few weeks ago I went to one of their largest locations in the area near San Francisco and purchased a basket full of fun things.

Here's what I got and how I plan on using it...

Plastic Lace Place Mat
I found this amazing plastic lace place mat (green) that I use to spray through with watered down acrylic paint for pattern on my journal pages. Spray inks work great with this too. Some of the ink gets captured on the plastic so I used the run of on other pages. The pattern looks great. I show some pictures later.

Liquid Chalk Pens
The big pens in the middle are liquid chalk pens which are great for creating lettering on dark painted backgrounds. These need to be covered with a gel medium after it drys to set the ink. If I don't cover it with something clear the chalk flakes and moves around. That actually might be fun to play with and see what happens.

Acrylic Paint
I found a variety of acrylic paints to cover my journal pages. They came in some amazing colors...very rich and vivid. When I use them more I'll show you some results.

Mini Index Cards
I found this mini index cards they are the exact size of business cards. I had this idea of using them to write on and slip into envelops in my journal. They might also be fun to create one of a kind business cards.

I found a few You Tube videos about art supply hauls. Its fun to see what other people find and use in their art.

Thrift Store Art Haul  Video

Art & Crafts Supply Haul Video