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| Aimee, Susie, Liv, Rachel, Carissa and Kolleen |
Sigh. That seems to be all I can do today.
Happy contented sighs.
I just returned from an art retreat on lake superior with 7 amazing women. My cup is overflowing with so much gratitude, inspiration and love that I can hardly put it all into words.
Happy contented sighs.
I just returned from an art retreat on lake superior with 7 amazing women. My cup is overflowing with so much gratitude, inspiration and love that I can hardly put it all into words.
Carissa and I on the train tracks. I ADORE her and her sweet art. She's so cute I want to put her in my pocket and carry her around with me.
Susie and Rachel. Aww. LOVE them. Susie is even more funny in person than on her hilarious blog. She's also brilliant and sweet. Rachel turns out to be one of the most present people I have ever met in my life. Just being around her fills me with an overwhelming sense of peace.
Saturday we spent the entire day spontaneously making art. Then Jen taught us bookmaking. It was fantastic! I have a whole new appreciation and respect for book makers. Thank you Jen.
Kolleen, my roomie, is wild, funny and gorgeous, spiritual and wise. My cheeks still hurt from laughing so hard with her.
Our love jars filled with sweet notes to each other (I KNOW, awesome.) Or as Susie would say, rad.
Liv from Choosing Beauty. I think we look like real sisters here, right? I am hoping some of Liv rubbed off on me. It is hard to explain, but she just glows with positive light and energy. Makes you want what she has.
Sweet Aimee making her inky tags. How cute is she in that hat? Her amazing raw talent seriously blows me away.
I do believe something magical happens in circles of women.
The connecting, talking, laughing, creating, sharing, eating, listening, caring...
I am forever changed from this long weekend with these beautiful women. Probably in more ways than I even realize today.
What a precious gift.
24 comments:
yay! it was like re-living the weekend all over again! awesome pics - i had so much fun with you girls! yes, i wanted to tuck carissa in my pocket too - instead, i wound up tucking my skirt...
Lori;
Your post was beautiful...I am so glad you had a good time. I was having the same experience at Squam by the Sea...you are right magic happens when women get together to create. Thanks for sharing, loved your photos!
Lori you are so rad in every way. I'll be thinking about our weekend together for a long long time.
Oh, Lori. This post gave me goosebumps. Ahhh...I'm so glad you got to experiece such beauty & sweetness with these amazing women, sounds so perfectly beautiful & expansive.
Thank you for sharing these photos, they captured so much of the goodness & made me feel like I was there, side by side with all of you.
Big sighs from me on this rainy, rainy October morning...
OK, this looks amazing!! I find my self wish wish wishing that I were there! What fun you had, and what a joy to connect in person with such amazing spirits! xo
Looks like you had such a fabulous time! So happy that you were all able to connect! Your weekend seems like it was filled with magic :)
xo welcome home!
ohhhhhhhhh lori.
i adore your post.
each picture & word.
each art piece & peace.
the full moon
outside & inside us.
& that wind, for us all.
i love you so. xoxox
Lori,
This post touched me so deeply--to see the beautiful photos of you and these beautiful women in the act of creating and loving--what it is all about. I feel it stirring something within me. Thank you for showing the love and the possibility of what can be in this world that is looking more and more beautiful each day, because of people like you!
you knock my socks off. you make me want to wear bracelets and glow up a storm. i whole-heartedly adore you and your magic stew, sweet one. sigh.
love you so much and miss you my sweet, adorable, i want to put you in my pocket roomie of mine!!!
you are all i imagined you would be and more and more and more!!
i love this post.
your photos
your reflections
YOU!
oxoxo
until we are roomies again...
k
wow...seems so fun and it sounds like the connects run deep when you create art together. i so wanna go to an art retreat!!
how awesome- glad your cup runneth over.
and aimee's hat IS so cute! :)
it was so wonderful to finally meet you! you are beautiful and amazing. xo
Oh wow sweet Lori, such a wonderful and amazing retreat! This post made me smile and so glad that all of you lovely ladies had such a wonderful time. I am LOVING the idea of those love jars!! :) Have a lovely merry happy day and love to you!
how beautiful!! thank you for sharing these great memories with us.
Next time, put ME in your pocket and take me with you!!! Loved sharing this through your post - was thinking about you much while you were gone. WONDERFUL!
Oh wow....looks like it was an amazing time...congrats Lori.
Oh Lori, how wonderful!!
I had a great "bonding" experience with the ladies i traveled with in Tuscany in May. Would love to do a "creative" weekend like yours!
So happy for you!
what a precious gift indeed.
thank you so much for your beautiful chapter of this tale. i have been bouncing around from page to page reading each perspective and they all boil down to wonderful women loving and supporting and enjoying. i look forward to the day we can meet in person.
you are such a doll and i just LOVE you!
get your boots out this weekend girl!
xo
chrissy
looks like such a wonderful weekend!
wow, this looks so wonderful! what a great retreat, so much happiness!
I missed you too!
These pictures are sooo beautiful. Tearing a lit bit right now, but its ok, I know we'll meet sooner o later!
LOVE OVERFLOW indeed!!!! i am still overflowing, tipping over, never thinking i'll ever dry up! i won't. i'm forever filled. and i could live forever in your pocket. pleasantly plump if you'll just feed me your delicious soups! and teary from yogi music! lol
LOVE YOU dearly tearily,
carissa
I love this post so much, and I think it's because I like imagining me being in that group picture, too. It just makes me smile and I can actually feel it in my heart, like a little happy pang. I'd love to go to this retreat. It just sounds amazing.
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