Catch UP!

Greetings, from My Joyful Art Studio!  Hope this day finds you well.  I am doing much, much better!  It's been a year since I posted and honestly had been worn down because of my pain level due to a torn hip laberal.  Talk about fighting for my JOY!

Life can do that to a person especially when you are in pain 24 hours 7 days a week.  I went through physical therapy for months to follow protocol of the insurance company and the doctors to rule things out or perhaps to give my body time to heal.   After having x-rays, cortisone shots, physical therapy, and a misdiagnosis of bursitis, an MRI showed a minor tear.  During surgery the doctor discovered the tear was worse than they thought.  It took 4 sutures, plus they had to cut a muscle to release the tension over that area. 

Ouch is right.  Any who, I am post-surgery almost 5 months and doing very well.  Still healing, still walking it out! I am walking with no limp too!!!  Yay ME!  (thank you Lord!)

In December I became a Mimi to a little girl, who I call Sunshine!  She is a little darling.  So I have two grand kids now.  Can't believe I am old enough to be a Mimi. I flew by myself for the first time to Canada to meet her in late January, boy was it brutally cold.  Had a great time with my son and his beautiful wife and grand kids. 

Watercolors have been my favorite medium for the last 4-5 years.  I started a  little watercolor workshop at a local coffee shop in Corydon, Indiana called Kent Java Coffee Bar. I love their Caramel Latte-so delicious.  If you are in town you should check the schedule and stop by and paint with me.  Check out www.kentjavabar.com in Corydon, Indiana.  Did you know that Corydon, Indiana was our states first capitol?  Check out www.thisisindiana.org to find out more about this wonderful community.

Good things and good times are happening around here!  Creating classes, teaching co-op and homeschooling the boys.  I never, ever  have a dull moment!

I am Scripture Writing this year too. I love reading my Bible and writing or ART journaling in the early morning before my boys wake up.  My quiet time in the morning is my favorite part of the day.  I call it, "Coffee with Jesus."  It's in the quiet morning I get ready for the day ahead and feel so much better putting God first. It's in this time I am able to focus and know who gives me strength, and who gives joy for this journey in life.  "...for the joy of the Lord is your strength." Nehemiah 8:10

Joy is a state of mind and an orientation from the heart.  Joy isn't just a smile or a laugh.  Joy is something that is deep within.  Joy is not the absence of suffering, Joy is the presence of God.

May you find Joy today in every area of your life.  

Seeking Joy Always-

Meagan

"100 Days of Change"

May 17th I started a "100 Days of Change"...change as in drinking more water, making good choices in what I eat and how I spend my time.  I have found change does not come easy.  They say it takes 21 days to form a habit, so that means by the end of my 100 days, I should have many new healthy habits.  One of my new habits is drinking more water.  Crisp, clean, water, with sliced lemon...totally refreshing and totally good for you.  Lemons have great benefits like,vitamin C, it helps the body fight off infections and is low in calories too.

Something else I am doing for me is consciously setting aside time to be creative in My Joyful Art Studio.  I sneak away from all the other "stuff" like my "To Do List",  and sit down with my paper and pen, my bible, a journaling book, my media of choice, which  lately has been, watercolors and writing pen's and pencils  This is a time for me to "be still'" write, think on paper, and dream, and pray.  

   I have been wanting to create "How To" video's for awhile now.  One night this past week, I got an unction to create a video, so I Meagan, rigged it the best way I could...now that would be a sight to post...haha.  But I won't for now.  But, yes the video turned out okay.  I will show it to you here: 

I really enjoyed creating a journal page "off the cuff" so to speak.  I didn't really plan on anything elaborate, it just happened.  I know this is the first of many video's to come.  So keep checking back to see what will be next.   

Something else I love to do, and never thought I was very good at, was writing.  I love to write.  I've never been one, (so I thought) who had many words to share, and if I did, didn't know if anyone would want to read them.  So out of boredom, maybe, I don't know how a wife, mom, artist, homeschooler, christian, busy momma could be bored, but I was, so I decided to create a BLOG.  I had ideas to share, words to speak and write, and my faith in Jesus Christ to share.   Yippee!  I love it.  I love to be able to go share with the world all that I am learning on my journey in life.  There is so much to learn, the world to see, things to create and people who need to know that there really is a God who cares about us.  There is a world out there that needs to know God's Not Dead, and that people like you and me, need a Savior, and can live and breath in this world, knowing God is with us and wants a relationship with you and me.  I want to encourage people all over who love the Lord, and those who are seeking Him to be encouraged through my blogging site.  Practicing the Presence of God, has changed my life.  I recognize that He is with me everyday, whether it's me doing the dishes, and housework or teaching my boys, or creating in my studio, God is with me.  I talk out loud to Him, saying things like,

"Lord I know you are with me..."

and thanking Him for my life and family...and sometimes, I say that out loud, and just feel Him near.  My relationship with the Lord, is most important in my life.  That is why I saved the BEST part for last.  

Hope you enjoyed this blog, be looking for new video's and new creative ideas, and journaling techniques.  I want God to be glorified in all that I do.  I am on a journey with Him, won't you join me in Practicing His Presence?

Joyfully His-

Meagan Boone

The Art of Wild Abandonment...Blog HOP 2012

Blog Hop-2012

Greetings Ladies-Hope you will enjoy my journey in the workshop THE ART OF WILD ABANDONMENT...


I am so excited to a part of my very first BLOG HOP.  I am sitting here writing during a thunderstorm in Southern Indiana.  We have a metal roof and the rain is just pounding down on us right now.  I do believe if this carries on, we will not be getting much sleep tonight! 

The Home Schooled Radishes

I must say I have LOVED this class with Junelle Jacobsen and Christy Tomlinson So MUCH.  It has opened my mind to sketch the darndest things...Radishes...REALEE...I laughed my booty off when I found out, we were going to be sketching radishes!  I would take my sketch book, pencils and my water color crayons with me everywhere I would go, just in case I had a down moment that I could sneak a sketch.  Oh yes, then, I'd be all giddy inside as I pulled out my baggy of radishes.  My boys think I've lost my mind somewhere, as they would catch meLAUGHING for no apparent reason!  I had no idea, that sketching radishes would become such a wonderful, rewarding, engaging...way of gathering my thoughts or ideas, and it started in the garden with a RADISH!!!  This makes my heart H A P P Y....as I am swinging from the chandelier singing...hahaha, just kidding about the swinging from the chandalier...but you get the idea.