Hola gorgeous goddesses!!!

Tis the season to be dreaming… setting our intentions for the year ahead using the 2012 Creating your Goddess Year workbook.

As part of our 2012 Dream Extravaganza, I wanted to invite some gorgeous friends to share some of their filled out pages from the workbook & what they were dreaming of for 2012. I get SO inspired hearing other people’s dreams + plans!

Today’s dreaming is by Leah Piken Kolidas of Creative Every Day fame.

She also happens to be one of my favourite watersign sisters, and she makes like RIDUNKULOUSLY cute babies called Annabelle. LOOK AT THE CUTENESS. No really. LOOK. That’s just wild cute. Explosion of ovaries cute. #leonielikestoinstagramstalkannabelle

She is also a mixed-media artist and creative guide living near Boston, Massachusetts with her husband, their daughter and their four fuzzy cats. She loves doing the hokey-pokey with her daughter, laughing loudly, getting messy with paint, and sleep, when she can get it.

Dreams of the Creative Every Day Goddess!

The angels of inspiration have come calling,
and it’s time to share!

It’s mid-January.

I’d love to invite you on a personal inspiration date with me…

Feel like the seeds of your dreams have yet to take root?
Still not quite clear on what to set as your intention for the year?
Or want to know what to do to supercharge your efforts + make your intentions come true?

Have no fear, the free seminar is here!

I’ll be sharing my five biggest jewels of wisdom + powerful tools on:

• how to get clear on your dreams
• how to actually make them happen
• how to make 2012 your most incredible year yet. Wahooooosicles!!!

The seminar will go for about an hour + will be packed full with gigglesnorts, good vibes, smartnesses + happy. It’ll leave you feeling juiced up + ready to fly into your day and your exquisite year.
There is also the potential for Australian swear-bearage. Fair warning possum pies! Tee hee!

Save the date ::

USA

Pacific :: 2pm Saturday 28 January
Eastern :: 5pm Saturday 28 January

UK

London :: 10pm Saturday 38 January

AUSTRALIA

Queensland :: 8am Sunday 29 January
Sydney + Melbourne :: 9am Sunday 29 January

How to sign up!

Call is totally FREE!!!

Just jump on my VIP Goddess mailing list below + you’ll get the emails closer to the day with your call-in details!

This is going to be SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!! Can’t wait!!!!

love love love,

P.S. Mark in on your calendar, say it is “Hot Date With Goddess Leonie + the ripe juicy Goddess that is me!” Tee hee!

P.P.S. Please do share the seminar along with your dear friends + family who may need an extra surge of delight in their year right now. This will help give them so much more clarity, goodness + juju! YAY!

Start DIVING into your 2012 workbooks!!!!

Usually, I’m a-posting like a blogging goddess during celebration season… this year though, my hands have given up working & taken a holiday of their own. (Bless our bodies… they always take us where we need to go!)

Usually I’m posting about my own process of working through the 2012 Creating your Goddess Year workbook (just like I did last year. And the year before.)

But this time around, all me & my hands have been doing is reading a whole lot of refuelling, restoring & recharging :: in the form of chick lit novels, romantic comedy movies & a whole lotta sweet family time with our lil family of five.

I have been seeing other goddesses blogging & instagramming about it though… I know I’ve missed a bucketload, but here’s some:

• Heather Eats Almond Butter
• Cup of Creativi-Tea
• Simple Productivity
• Ruth Writes
• MargieMark
• playcrane
• kreativenotions
• Lady Myer’s Wordsmithing

I feel like I’ve needed all this time just to replenish my energy and gather my source again…

ready to blaze a beautiful trail in 2012.

Some of my gorgeous girlfriends are planning a soiree of intention setting together :: mango frappes, foot massages & doing our workbooks together.

(N.B. If you are wanting to come along, let me know! It will be in Cannonvale in the next week or two! <3)

I’m such a HUGE believer in these workbooks…

I totally believe & know what happens when you dream your big dreams, write them down & make them happen!!!

It’s definitely changed my life in so very many ways…

If you’re on the fence about grabbing a workbook…

Over the last three years, thousands of women have used this workbook with the most amazing results. It’s the best planning tool available to help you make 2012 an absolutely incredible year!

It’s filled with over 100 pages of worksheets & a printable calendar to help you dream, manifest, set your intentions, plan & cultivate your amazing new year. The workbook has been lovingly handwritten & rainbow illustrated… perfect for you to print out, soak up the rainbow colours of & get thoroughly inspired by!

You’ll get clarity on what you need 2012 to be. What you want to create during it. And most importantly, how to make it happen.

Dream, plan & create your incredible 2012…

Hola gorgeous goddess!!!

A special treat for you today!

How to make your own magical wall hanging in just 17 steps!

WEE!

LET’S PLAY!

1. Fall in love with the old war time saying:

KEEP

CALM

AND

CARRY

ON

2. Make it you & your love’s motto for getting through the shittiest year of your lives.

3. Consider buying a crappy, overpriced, kinda-blah tin wall hanging of it to adorn your space & remind you.

4. Decide to make it yourself.

5. Scavenge for a piece of crappy plywood found in the prehistoric relics in the Creative Caravan.

6. Take baby out in yard & gesso it in about 3.7 seconds flat, artfully making sure baby a.) has fun & makes art whilst b.) not ingesting said gesso.

7. Consider repainting to make a bright bold colour (or at least fill in the crappy paint job). Decide instead to leave it and call it shabby chic. WOO!

8. Think about painting on the letters. With adorable baby & exploring fingers, this would mean certain death of a.) my zen and b.) a somewhat readable sign work.

9. Instead, go the easy & happy option. This is always the best option for mamas.

10. Gather up scrapbooking paper & scraps of paper that me & Star Baby have painted all over.

10.5. Decide inspiration is less muted-hipster-vintage colours & more Eric Carle colours.

11. Cut letters out (quickly) while Star Baby takes every scrap of spare paper, shoves & unshoves them into an envelope, sprinkles them on the floor, wants to get onto the floor to play with scraps, wants to get back on chair to get to envelope again, crawls over table to procure marker to write all over self, crawls onto me to get back onto floor again, wants a boobfeed, attempts to procure the scissors, goes searching for the dogs & leaves a trail of scrap paper wherever she goes.

12. Attempting to do anything with lil kids is an exercise in becoming a bodhisattva.

13. Wait till baby is asleep & I have finished watching Youtube to start glueing letters into place.

14. Use wood glue PVA kinda stuff. Just incase you were wondering.

15. Handsome husband watches & takes photos & looks cute & reads a book & tells me about the latest psychology research on how reading novels develops the brain. He’s hot.

16. FINISHED! HAPPY!

17. Now residing in kitchen. Looking adorable.

YAY!

WE DID IT!!!! WE MADE OUR OWN AWESOME KEEP CALM WALL HANGING!!! HIGH FIVE SELF!!!!

As we dive into this celebration season… why not spend some time creating?
LOVE! COLOURS! MAKING ART! HAPPY DAYS!

If you LOVED this post, you’ll probably really freakin’ adore:

• Creating with Kids mini workshop
• Creative Goddess e-course

Hola gorgeous goddesses!

Let’s make this Christmas season filled with all the good things in life:

joy
magic
delicious food
homemade delights
and
ART!

Here’s 5 ideas to get your creative juices flowing…

Dress your Christmas tree with loads of gorgeous, unique, creative accessories. Try out this post of 7 Creative Christmas Tree Decorations I did a couple of years ago!

If you did the 2011 Creating your Goddess Year workbook + planner, go back through it. See what happened, see what didn’t. And make a painted to do list of gorgeous things you can make happen before the clock strikes 2012! My mission is going gorgeously, by ze way! 4 down, 2 to go!

Decorate your own stockings… keep it simple, fun & doable! (Here’s when I did ours… and I LOVE that we have used them every year since… and that I’m sitting under them to type this! I LOVE that Ostara’s was made when I was pregnant with her… and it simply says “Merbaby”)

Why not try a totally new recipe & include some radiantly raw foods into your December? This is my favourite Rainbow Salad recipe which comes from the Radiant Goddess e-coursemenu plan! (For those who’ve been asking, a round of the Radiant Goddess e-course is starting in the Goddess Circle on January 1 for goddesses who want to start the new year with a gorgeous, revitalising body + soul cleanse.)

Why don’t you give presents with heart this year? What about handmade wax angel paintings?

Make miracles + magic wherever you go dearest heart! Let’s have a gorgeous Creative Christmas!

If you like this, you’ll definitely adore:

• the Creative Goddess e-course

Hola gorgeous goddesses!

It’s been a massive, magical year here at Goddess HQ.

Let’s celebrate the holy dinger out of 2011.

I’ve so adored being able to bring snippets of wisdom, inspiration & joy to your days with Goddess TV!

(with the occasional song)

Here’s my Top 5 Goddess TV episodes…

To spend a few joyful hours moseying through all 70+ Goddess TV episodes, click here.

I’m SO excited to create even more miracles with you over the next year!

I wonder what dreams will come true…

love, love, LOVE!

Hola my darling hearts!

SO! My darling bestie Sone emailed me this morning, telling me a new wave is sweeping the nation…

there was an episode of Better Homes & Gardens last night where they took a very old run down 1970s caravan (just like ours!) and transformed it into a backyard sanctuary (just like ours!) painted bright blue (just like ours!)

It’s MEGA inspiring to watch… and I love that it’s somehow become a new trend! WOO HOO!

More delicious renovated caravans everywhere, pretty please!

Click to watch the video here!

And of course the posts documenting our own Creative Caravan restoration are here!

(And thanks Sone for always thinking of me!)

looooooove and turquoise caravans!!!

Hola darling hearts,

I’m always so inspired by how goddesses take the 2012 Creating your Goddess Year workbook & planner and turn it into their own. They imbue it with their own essence, gifts, creative energy & sparkle. Each one turns out so different, imprinted with our own spirit.

I love love LOVE this video of Goddess Amanda Pearl‘s.

Utterly inspiring & it made me cry too.

LOVE HER.

Perfect inspiration if you’re dreaming up ideas for your own 2012 workbook.

love love love,

If you like this post you’ll probably LOVE:

• the 2012 Creating your Goddess Year workbook
• the Creative Goddess e-course

Hola gorgeous goddess!!!

Once upon a time in an enchanted land, I shared the beginning of a dream come true that went on to become Project Creative Caravan.

And it’s time for the project update.

Are you as excited as I am? I KNOW RIGHT ME TOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Let’s Recap!

We began just over two weeks ago with this:

Which after a whole lot of cleaning up turned into these before & after shots:

When we last left off, my Dad had just delivered the pressure washer/aquablaster and I’d cleaned off most of the van.

Next up? Finish off the cleaning!

What have we done since then?

Answer: LOTS.

Even when it doesn’t feel like it!

Day 6

We had a 5:30 am start with Ostara, so by 6:30, I was bored. “Can I go do some aquablasting honey?” I ask my love. “Really? At 6:30am on a Saturday morning? The neighbours want a sleepin hon!”

“Ummm hon, we live on a street where everyone has kids & wakes up early. Sleepins aren’t happening. Everyone will be up doing Saturday renovations soon anyway!”

(Our next door neighbours & directly across from us are both working on their houses too.)

“Still” he said. “Don’t be the first one.”

15 minutes later, the powerdrills started up next door. And I was out the door for a couple of hours of aquablasting. WOO!

This, by the way, are the long instructions for how to turn the aquablaster on & off. Holy DINGER it’s a process!

My Dad is a total auditory learner. He has one of those amazing farmer brains. Like he was able to recognise on sight which cow was which – even when we had over 2000. And he’d remember which had bred with which bull, which cow had “bad teats”, which one had charged him last. So he can remember stuff like instructions on how to start an aqua blaster. And he tries telling me, and I go COMPLETELY BLANK. I’m not an auditory learner. I’m totally visual. So I forced him to sit with me as I drew instructions for myself on how to do it. It totally made me realise why we’d both get frustrated mustering cattle together when I was a kid. I don’t understand things until I see them written down and visually documented. And he’s all “OMG WHY DON’T YOU KNOW THE COMPLETE GENETIC HISTORY OF EVERY COW THAT HAS SNEEZED?”

Anyhwesiwatsit.

So that’s a wee bit of ancient history AND aqua blasting knowledge for you!

Project Creative Caravan knows no bounds!

This was my final wall to aquablast. Obviously, this is the before shot.

And the before shot of the roof. The dirt & mould was CAKED on in thick layers on the roof.

And yay! After shot! All nicely cleansed & cleared!

Sooooo smooooth & clllleeeeeeean.

A few hours later, Ostara had an early nap. I did some work, then I thought to myself “ya know, I should really do a test patch of that paint on the caravan and see how it goes.”

As you can tell, I am a very neat painter.

Chris came outside to find me doing this. Took me bugger all time to paint a whole wall. And OMG! SCRUMPTIOUS! TURQUOISE!!!! eEEEEEE!!!!

Then Ostara was up. Wasn’t quite finished painting yet, so want to know how I painted AND did mama-ing? We played FETCH. It was awesome.

The finished blue paint. EEEEEE SOOOO PRETTTTTY!!!!

A few hours later, I got bored again, so I thought I’d whip out some purple.

And some more purple. How gorgeous does it look?

Answer: SO GORGEOUS.

Can you imagine? What a beautiful thing this caravan is shaping up to be… just with a little love, cleansing & colour!!!!

Look at me! I’m the owner of a dreamy caravan! As if by magic!

Day 7!!!

OMG look what we found on our favourite beach this morning!!!!!

The most amazing huge piece of timber from a boat… Amazingly heavy… I have literally NO idea how it managed to wash ashore….

Cannonvale Beach gets bugger all driftwood or waves…

and yet when we turned up, there was this huge wooden desk top waiting for us. UMMM WHAT. It’s just so magical.

The most beautiful piece of wood… a gift from the sea… I think we’ll make it into my studio desk in the Caravan… wow. Just amazed.

My mermaid ocean desk.

Look at this beautiful timber!!! What a gift from the sea. I wonder where it is from… What tree it is made from… How old it is… What boat it is from?

It feels like sacred synchronicity is at play in my life.

Everytime I lose the faith, I get a sign… THE sign that this Caravan is meant for me, and that the universe is conspiring to shower me with blessings.

And after the hardest year of my life, when I felt like blessings were so hard to come by… this kind of sweetness, of knowing that all is well, and that I am blessed… is even more deeply felt and loved.

I got inspired to do more painting today. Looking more delicious!!!!

Finished painting the other long side. I am in love with this colour.

Painted the front (while boobfeeding a wriggly toddler, gawd I am a champ!)

I LOVE seeing the van’s new colours peeking out everywhere.

And tomorrow? My angel sissy has said she’ll come help me for the morning. WOO HOO!!! What a champ… that will be SO awesome… two people working on it at once! WOAH!

In other news, see how the left side is hitting the ground? That’s taken up a huge amount of brain power today… we’ve worked out half the caravan shell has totally detached from the floor. So we’re looking up Youtube clips to work out how to build a wooden frame for support inside, and reattach the shell to the floor.

It’s another learning stretch for us, so I was feeling a bit overwhelmed, and afraid that Chris would decide the whole project is tip-worthy. But then we started googling van restoration and finding these incredible projects of vans from the 1930s being restored – and they were in much worse condition than ours.

Yup, it’s going to take time & new skills… but we really can do it. It just takes a little love and faith.

Day 8!

We decided it was time to buy safety equipment. You know, just so we felt prepared.

Trying out all our new safety equipment. Totes important, of course.

More from the Completely Necessay Photoshoot of Safety Equipment.

Now that I have adequate eye & ear protection, I can cuddle you to my heart’s content.

Oh, and just so you know? This photoshoot? It’s the only time we’ve used the safety equipment as yet.

But you know, worth it. Lucky it was only an $8 kit from Bunnings!

My sissy rocked up & volunteered to help me do work for the WHOLE DAY. It was huuuuge and so full on & we got so much done!

We started with clearing out all the excess stuff out of the caravan, and sledgehammering old cupboards. Sledgehammering is FUN.

Sledgehammering & van clearing is sweaty work. At least we have cowgirl hats.

The stuff we pulled out of the van.

All the wood we salvaged out of the van that we’ll use on more projects!

Look! You can see the floor!

And then we found what we thought were termites, which resulted in two trips up town to find stuff to fix.

And then more sledgehammering.

And then after all that… we struck our next problem. Lots of structural issues, struts missing & the shell of the caravan totally detached from the floor. Me, Chris & Bek tried to work out what to do, and it was decided we’d consult some expert advice. So while Starry napped & Chris stayed with her, me & Bek went for a road trip to a hardware store to talk to our friend’s hubby (who we got the caravan from). He gave us wise dude advice, then we drove home. With Chinese pork buns.

We proceeded to sit around on the grass at home and try and work out the structural problems.

This sounded a lot like this:

“Well what do we do then?”

“I don’t know! I’m not a builder!”

“Me neither! I just want it finished!”

“So do I!”

“So what are we going to do then?”

We decided to ignore the structural issues until we can get the van pulled by tractor into our backyard, and put it up on Besser blocks. So we spent the rest of the afternoon finishing the painting & doing the trim work.

FYI, Ostara rocks.

Best painter helper EVER.

Masking the trim with painters tape. Best stuff in the worrrrrld.

Bek & ze door that she’s super proud of!

I decided to do the door not just one colour, but *three* – purple, fuchsia & turquoise trim.

It turned out OM NOM NOM NOM NOM.

More trim. I would have done the window trim a different colour, but I had a pretty serious case of CBF’s (Can’t Be Fairy-ed) by that point. We discovered that it was only the Dulux Weatherproof paint that adhered brilliantly on the first paint – and we only had that in the turquoise.

So turquoise it was!

Eventually when I overcome my painting CBF syndrome, it will get more deliciousness painted on it. But by that particular afternoon, I just wanted all the base coat paint DONE.

Just so I could say it was finished ya know? I LOVE things being finished. They take way less energy & brain space!

Bek working on painting the other window’s trim.

Painters tape – for those who don’t know yet – is really low-stick sticky tape – you use it to make your trims look a lot cleaner.

Really, really useful stuff. It saves a whole lot of messy corners!

Removing the painters tape.

And with painters tape removed! Yay! So sparkly & clean!

Starry really, REALLY liked collecting all ze painters tape that was all used up.

I painted some of the wood trim inside dark blue. And then decided I didn’t really like it, so put purple streaks all over it too. WOO!

This is where my desk will eventually be, I think!

We got bored and painted some random board inside the van blue too. We were paint-tastic.

Oh and you know how I said that whenever I’d get discouraged, I’d get another MASSIVE sign that this caravan and I were destined to be together?

My sis found this wind whirlywig dangly thingy in the draws of Vladamir the Nudist’s stuff. And I thought “Oh that’s cute! I’ll actually keep that! It’s blue! It’s hippy! It’s got a star on it!

And I posted this pic on Facebook, and one of my dear soul sisters Leigh commented immediately from 4000 kilometres away (she’s a New Zealander)… saying she had the EXACT same windchime.

And I totes didn’t believe her – what’s the possibility of her having the same strange nudist dangly thing as me?

So she posted some proof:

So I’m sitting here right now looking at my blue windchime, knowing one of my dearests who has ALWAYS believed in me – who was one of the very first to start reading this blog seven years ago – has exactly the same one in her home, and she might just be looking at it too.

It’s DESTINY my friends!!!

I told you synchronicity was at work here in this van!

AND THE FINISHED PAINT JOB!!!!!

Bex & Starlight surveying the finished paintjob!

Knackered at the end of a big day!

Obviously, we had appropriate work footwear on. BAHAHAHAA. I love Queenslanders!

And why not round up with a very stylish “Outfit of the Day Fashion Blogger” photo?

This is how I roll.

***

SO!

after that mammoth day, I took a 5 day break from doing anything more on the caravan.

I was instead heavily ensconced in birthing this baby into the world:

We were also waiting on two *really* big parts of the puzzle to fall into place:

Before we could work on the structural issues, we needed to:

1. Get a huge old termite-ridden mango tree stump out of the garden to make room for the caravan.
2. Work out HOW to get it into the yard.

We originally planned on enlisting my Daddy-o to bring his Man Stuff (aka bobcat, tractor, backhoe & chainsaw in) so we could make a frenzied attack on the stump & see if we could shave it down to the ground.

This was not an easy task – the mango stump was over 2 metres high & a metre in diameter. It used to be a huge old mango tree that covered most of the yard when my gorgeous grandmother lived here. It needed cutting down for various reasons – but when they cut it down, they left the big ole stump there. We’ve been wanting to remove it fully since we bought the house, but didn’t have the impetus to.

Needing a place for the Creative Caravan to live created that impetus.

So we were hanging out waiting for my Daddy-o to not be so crazy busy with work. But his timeline kept getting pushed out by new jobs, and as synchronicity would once again have it, we were saved in another direction.

When we were painting the van, a group of men arrived to cut down some old mango trees in the yard behind us. And I coerced my sis to go ask them if they’d wangle over the fence and do ours at the same time. So she did (because she’s awesome). And they did. And $200 later, we had a pile of woodchip.

It took them about an hour all up. I’m pretty sure it would have taken us most of the day. So really – totally worth the dobleros!

I didn’t take any photos so let me describe for you:

Before: Stump. Huge. Black. Kinda caving in on itself.
During: Large tattooed men with machinery going “nyarrrw! nyarrrw!”
After: Pile of woodchips.

WOO! WOODCHIPS!

So the next part of the puzzle was working out HOW to get the caravan into our backyard.

It no longer had an attachment up the front for towing (it has long ago rusted off). It got delivered on the back of a tip truck and was deposited onto its current resting place in our car space. And its tires were totally deflated.

My Daddy-o loaned us a mini compressor to get the tires all pumped again – and to our surprise, they stayed up. WOO! LIVING THE DREAM!

Our original plan for moving the van was again to wait for Daddy-o to not be busy so he could bring his tractor into town to do it.

But again, the whole being-run-over-with-work was putting a dampener on our plans.

So I called my sissy to ask for strategic advice on how I could gently coerce him with chocolate into doing it for me like YESTERDAY.

(If you’ve ever wondered why I get so many things done, it’s because I’m like a bull at the gate for getting stuff finished. Fun for me, probably not as amusing for the people around me.)

Anywaysies, sissy suggested I coerce instead my uncle to do it for me. He only lives a couple of kilometres from me, and I figured the enticement of beer and chocolates might bring him running.

So I had a new plan!

I called my Uncle John. Exact conversation follows

“UNCLE JOHN!!!!! IT’S YOUR FAVOURITE NIECE IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD!!!!!!”

“Really? It is?”

“YES! IT’S LEONIE!!!!!”

“You’re funny!”

“I KNOW!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOO HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING, HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE PAID IN BEER AND CHOCOLATES AND HELP ME MOVE A NUDIST COLONY CARAVAN INTO MY YARD? YOU CAN’T REFUSE THIS OFFER!”

He laughs.

“How about I finish my lunch and I’ll be there soon?”

So I hang up the phone and did my usual Victory Dance around the house.

This consists of me singing rather loudly & raucously this song & doing my best Rocky impression.

Chris LOVES when I do this. I’m pretty sure. Irregardless, I can safely say that man is NEVER bored.

Anyhewslewhatsit, the Best Uncle Ever arrived soon after.

Oh, and relocate our large collection of caravan crap to the side fence for when we have space to use our skip bag.

We watered the ground thoroughly, and pulled the fence out by hand this morning. Also had to cut out some trees & transplant them into water containers until we try & replant them.

Here’s all the room we made for the caravan to get pulled through.

Our dwarf mango plant. Fingers crossed she survives the deplant & replant!

Chris putting our tow ball on. This will be the first time we’ve used it since we bought the car four years. EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!

Incase you’re wondering, this is us.
L-R: Angel, Chris, Starry, me & Charlie!

Since the fence is down, the puppies are locked up inside for the day. They are kinda excited to be out watching us instead.

And the car all moved into place, ready to haul some caravan! Now we’re just waiting for my Uncle John to arrive to help EEEEE!!!! EXCITING!!!! WE ARE ON THE MOVE!!!!

Here he is! Man to the rescue! YAY BEST UNCLE EVER!!!!

Incase you’re wondering, Uncle John is a sugar cane farmer. And he breeds beautiful varieties of birds too. And has the most incredible greenhouses filled with orchid flowers. Oh and he handmakes these hollowed out tree bird houses for his birds. Dude is a renaissance man!

Dude stuff & chains. This is where I zoned out coz it was all taken care of. YAY!

Me & Starry watching the haul. Incase you’re wondering, my Uncle John called it “skull dragging” the caravan – we were dragging it with the front dragging along the ground. He said it’s called skull dragging coz it’s all cave man style.

I AM LEARNING SO MUCH STUFF.

WOO!

It’s in!

WOO!

FYI: The back of my house? Does NOT usually have all that crap around it. Again, we are waiting for space for the skip bag to be resurrected.

But while we are at it, let’s talk about my big schemes for the area! I’m planning on shovelling out a heal of the dirt around the door & turning it into an extended patio with more sails. Oh and beautiful stones leading to the Creative Caravan. I can see it already!

Van in place!

I took a video of us dragging it into place, but WOW THAT WAS BORING VIDEO.

Just imagine this:

Chains around tow ball and hitched underneath caravan to chassis.

And dragging the caravan backwards slowly.

Until someone says “stop!”

*snore*

For something that’s taken up SO MUCH of our brain power & thoughts over the last couple of weeks, it was surprisingly un-epic.

Then the husband put the fence back into place. Lucky it’s only wire fence – it only takes a few moments to pull in and out once you’ve got the hang of it!

Hot husbando and fence. Plus all the caravan stuff that is unsalvagable & will be put in the skip bag for collection.

Oh, and wondering why we have a really high fence and shipping containers beside us?

We live next door to a mower shop. Here in this lil town, we live just a block from the Main Street – so our street is a blend of old cottages & shops. It’s pretty cute. Except when they are trying all their mower engines out and I am recording World’s Biggest Summit interviews. Then it’s not as cute. But you know: cute!

The view from our back door. I LOVE!!!!

Ostara is SUPER excited to have the van in ze yard.

Today?

It’s my first day working in the creative caravan.

Don’t get me wrong, there is STILL SO MUCH TO DO in here. And I’m trying to encourage a huge wasp to please fukeeoffkudasai (that’s “Please Leave My Premises” in Japanese. Kinda.) But I couldn’t wait any longer. This goddess needs a sanctuary to do her work in.

So this morning I hauled one of our 1970′s vintage armchairs and an old white side table in, and decorated the place with all the ornaments and decorations I gathered on Day 3, paintings propped over atrocious walls, candles to disguise the smell, crystals & fairy lights to feel at home, and freshly picked golden hibiscus flowers from the garden.

It doesn’t take much for a goddess to start claiming a (super run down, wonky & broken-floored) space as her own.

This morning’s first order of business was to call the IRS so I can register an employer ID for my book royalties.

This afternoon, Charlie joined me in the caravan for the first time. Oh now it feels like home. A studio isn’t a studio without my darling studio buddy. Just like old times.

What next?

There is still so much to do.

It needs to be stumped into the ground. Its structural issues need fixing. I have no idea how to do either of these things. But if there is one thing I’ve learned from this project – I’ll either learn the skills myself, or someone will come into my life as if by magic.

And once those things are done, I’ll be able to really kit this place out into my little studio.

I’m also thinking at some point I’ll invite some goddesses around & we’ll add some beautiful art to the outside!

In the meantime though ~

I’ll be sitting in my armchair,
in my wonky little dream come true.

Marvelling at how it all happened,
and how a goddess’ space was born.

I want to celebrate the holy dinger out of what’s been created
from a sweet old rundown green nudist colony van living out its final days in a rainforest
to a turquoise creating sanctuary
fit for a goddess.

It’s amazing what a little bit of
vision
faith
arm grease
heart
action
paint
& love
can do.

You + me were meant to be.

love, miracles and gratitude,

P.S. Like this post?

You’ll probably LOVE the Creative Goddess e-course. Starts Dec 1.

Super important announcement that’s been on my to do list forevers & hasn’t been done, thus why now almost way-late.

The Creative Goddess e-course is being run as a group course in the Goddess Circle beginning December 1.

If you’ve been wanting to dive deeper into your creativity & soul before Christmas, this could be the perfect time.

And to save you time working out if this is for you or not,

read this if you:

• are deeply craving more creativity in your life
• have been feeling blocked
• or want to start feeling like a goddess but don’t know how…

I’m very proud of this e-course of mine. It was my very first e-course, and I remember pouring all of myself into it. It is a mammoth course, packed full with tools & wisdom & guidance. It’s been so immensely popular over these last four years. I remember when I released it, hoping and praying I’d get at least 10 goddesses sign up for it, just so I wouldn’t feel like our group was tooooo ridunkulously tiny to work in forums. And it absolutely blew me away when over 150 goddesses signed up for it! That was like the same amount that I actually had on my mailing list! And ever since then, it’s been the course that makes miracles happen for every woman who says yes and dives in deep. I think over 3000 goddesses have taken this course now, and the feedback I get from women is just amazing.

There’s just something about this course that makes women’s souls open up… new big gifts be revealed… old tender wounds healed…. and a wild creative spirit is reborn.

It’s my honour & my joy to do this work, and share it with you. It’s changed my life & I hope it does the same for you my love.

Take it away, beautiful Creative Goddess e-course!

Introduction to the Creative Goddess eCourse from Goddess Leonie on Vimeo.

The Creative Goddess e-course is a six week journey that teaches you how to create in a way you’ve never experienced before. Creating because it makes your spirit fly. Creating because it shows the colours of your soul. Creating in a way that frees you, uplifts you and reminds you what an amazing Goddess you are.

Art isn’t just a place of joy and paint-on-the fingers-glee (though that too is utterly delicious).

Creativity can be a place for you of healing, transformation, awareness and miracles.

Most importantly, it’s a pathway to discovering the Goddess in You – your wisdom, your story and your beauty.

The Creative Goddess eCourse is a journey that is powerful, sacred, connected, inspired, healing, transformative and shining. You’ll finish the e-course with a whole new rush of inspiration & energy in your life & art. You’ll discover the wise, creative, joyful Goddess in you, and remember the spirited, rainbow-paint-on-hands artist you are.

It’s totally wonderful if you don’t feel like you are The Bestest Artist Who Has Ever Lived.

(Who needs to draw stick figures anyway?)

It’s utterly perfect if you are still working out your style, your voice, how your camera and paints work and what you want to share in this world.

(Right where you are is just so beautiful.)

What’s really important is this: If you were born, you are an artist. If you are a woman, you are a Goddess.

And if you are both of those things, then the Creative Goddess e-course is for you.

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“I would really like to express my appreciation to you for the 6-week Creative Goddess Course. I think it is one of the most wonderful things I have allowed myself to do in many years. The course released so many things in me, and I am so pleased and grateful that I actually followed through on it for the duration. Your meditations are so beautiful, and I listen to them often, usually before I go to sleep. And watching you in your videos not only helped creatively, but inspired me in the sense of a “way of being” that I had clamped down within myself for a very long time. So to you and all the beautiful creative goddess-sisters I have met in circle, thank you so much.”
- Goddess Donna

“Dearest Goddess Leonie
Wow! I can’t thank you enough! I have been stuck in a creative rut for a long long time…..and that made me feel quite sad like a part of me was missing. Your meditations were wonderful and I loved the videos too it was like your best friend holding your hand and nudging you forward. I felt so much better, more alive and I believe in myself a bit more. I can do my art just for me something sacred, something meaningful and learning all the time. I have discovered that I need to honour the Goddess in me by keeping on being creative. I sooo love being called a Goddess how perfectly wonderful is that!
Huge hugs and Blessings, what an amazing gift you have given us all and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
- Goddess Liz

“Today I did project one from week one of the Creative Goddess e-course. I just wanted to let you know that I am in love with what I created, and I feel as if I have already gotten my money’s worth! You are an amazing teacher, and filled my heart with happiness and peace the second you started talking.”
- Goddess Katrina A

“I will always be so thankful for your Creative Goddess course, it really did change my life – it set my creative spirit free.”
- Goddess Milena

“I dont even know if I can put words to what the experience has been for me – it was life changing! During the space of the workshop I saw my energy shifting and my soul shining. It unlocked a deep sacred knowledge that I found most profound. I was reminded of how much I love to paint. I was reminded of how much I love connecting with other women in sacred space. I was reminded of how much I love the land. I reconnected with the true me! You are Wise Woman. Healer. Guide. Sacred Teacher. All of this and more. Thank you for allowing me to participate in this experience.” – Goddess Sonya F.

“This workshop has been a battery/soul/spirit recharge. Its been rejuvenating, loving, relaxing, and enriching. An opportunity to let go of the negatives (pain, self doubt, and criticsim etc). Its been many things but above all it has cleared my head and reconnected me again with nature, with energy and with inner peace” – Goddess Patricia M.

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Here’s what gorgeous things you can expect from the Creative Goddess ecourse…

Every week you will be assigned Creative Goddess projects to do for the week in a range of creative mediums ~ you will be exploring new ways of creating and connecting with the gorgeous soul, wisdom & beauty inside you.

You’ll also receive throughout the course:

• Six hand-drawn, illustrated and painted ebooks and three sets of worksheets guiding you on creating art as a sacred practice, how to find healing on your journey, walking through your stucknesses, how to create sacred space and discovering the Goddess in you.
• Six videos each week from me and Charlie the Happy Healer Dog guiding you on the next part of your Creative Goddess journey.
• Six guided 30 minute MP3 goddess meditations by me to work with for each part of the course. These are incredibly powerful resources, and are worth the price of the course alone.

What this translates into?

You will:

• feel more empowered, inspired & courageous in your creating
• discover the amazing, wise, creative, joyful Goddess in you
• be meditating and creating and having an all round amazing time
• be connecting with other Goddess sisters on the journey
• creating like you’ve never created before
• discovering your beauty, wisdom & soul story
• feel blissed out, inspired & much more like a Goddess!

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* People who wish to create but don’t know how or don’t feel like they are an artist

* People who want to deepen their experience of art from fun to sacred

* Creative types {including photographers, artists, writers & scrapbookers} who are looking to experience art in a whole new way and have a whole new rush of inspiration

* Frustrated creative souls who don’t feel like they’ve got time to create right now, and are longing to reconnect with that gorgeous, shining part of themselves again

* Gorgeous souls who want to find out more about and experience the Goddess tradition

* Goddesses who want to experience more of their goddess wisdom through art!

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Here’s what some of the goddesses have said about the Creative Goddess eCourse:

“Goddess Leonie lovingly and intuitively holds sacred space for enormous healing work.. much deeper and more powerful than I expected. Her work, if you’re willing to surrender to it, delivers you to the heart of your creative blocks and empowers you to dissolve them. All the while having fun, kicking back with my sisters in the circle and getting paint on my hands!”

- Goddess Sara soularchitect

Goddess Leonie’s Creative Goddess e-course have given me the time and space to really FEEL creative inspiration. It has been such a gift to have some dedicated time to fill my creative well. I especially appreciate Goddess Leonie’s warm, magical, supportive and playful energy as she guides us on amazing Goddess journeys!

- Goddess Silky Hart

“A beautiful sisterhood and support network as well as a wonderful teacher for your journey to bring out your creative Goddess inside. This course has enabled me to truly “come out” to the wonderful goddess that I really am and to heal destructive images of myself. There are now days that I can actually say ‘I LOVE ME!”

- Goddess Kel

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I’ve been asked a few questions about the course… and incase you’re wondering the same questions, here’s some FAQs for Creative Goddesses.

1. How will the course be run?

Every week I will send out by email all the course materials for the week. You’ll be able to listen to the MP3 meditations, read the ebooks, watch the videos and do the Creative Goddess projects at whatever time is delicious for you.

2. What creative medium will we be creating in?

The Creative Goddess eCourse will include projects in a range of creative mediums, including collage, painting, journalling, drawing, scrapbooking and sculpture. You can also elect to do some extra creating including dance and photography. Basically – it’s about getting you to unleash your Creative Goddess in all kinds of creative ways, and trying out new mediums you might not have tried before. If you’ve got any special requests for mediums, just ask, and I’ll see if I can include. And please don’t worry about requiring lots of equipment or materials for this course – you can adapt the mediums to work for you. This course is less about creating one specific thing in one specific way, and more about discovery, sacred exploring, soulful creating and going where your Creative Goddess energy is calling you!

3. Is there an minimum age limit for Goddesses to enrol?

No there’s not. I’ve had 13 year old goddesses already take the Creative Goddess ecourse. In the workshops I run here in Canberra, I regularly have little Goddesses involved. Children & teens are already gifted at creativity, living in the moment, being present & being open hearted, so they are such a beautiful part of courses!

4. I’m not an artist. I can’t even draw a stick person. What would I get out of this?

So so much, darlin! This is about creating in a way you’ve never experienced before. Creating because it makes your spirit fly. Creating because it shows the colours of your soul. Creating in a way that frees you, uplifts you and reminds you what an amazing Goddess you are. If you were born, you are an artist. If you are a woman, you are a Goddess. I’d so love for you to join this amazing, creative and inspiring time and see what blooms in your life. You might also like to check out the Creative Fears Soul Spa series.

5. I’m already a painter/dancer/writer. Would I get anything out of this?

I truly, truly think so. This e-course is intended to deepen your experience of both your art & life. We will be creating in all kinds of creative mediums as a chance for you to explore new ways of expressing your wild creative goddess self. And most importantly, we will be creating as a sacred practice, making art a space to hear your soul’s story and connect with the divine in you. You’ll finish the e-course with a whole new rush of inspiration & energy in your life & art. I’m really excited about what miracles will unfold during the e-course!

Home study course

You’ll get the e-course for you to do at your own pace, without a circle

Price: US$89

The Goddess Circle package

You’ll get the Creative Goddess e-course

PLUS
access to the Goddess Circle forums (where you can work through the e-course in a mentored group)
AND you’ll get over $900 worth of my other products – including the 2012 Creating your Goddess Year workbook, ALL my other e-courses & meditation kits.

Only $10 more!
Price: $99 a year

Any questions? I’d love to answer them! How can we help?

Email me at support@goddessguidebook.com.

Until we circle as Creative Goddesses…

I am so looking forward to sharing an exquisite experience with you…

With paint on our hands, shining souls & joy at sharing this amazing experience with you ~~~

I so hope you can join us in circle!

Love,