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Celebrating Mira!

Celebrating Mira!

It was nine years ago today when a grumpy little stick figure girl popped out of my pen and made me laugh, my life wouldn’t be the same without her…

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You can Now Pre-order

You can Now Pre-order

MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart is now available for pre-order at your favorite online book store! The release date is March 20th, yay!

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The Three Stages of Surrendering

The Three Stages of Surrendering

Here’s my Love note to It’s Not Your Money by Tosha Silver. I loved that book! Reading and going through the process in eight weeks made me relax into…

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A Forgiveness Soap Recipe

A Forgiveness Soap Recipe

My A Course in Miracles Workbook studies have become colorful this year! Here’s something I found in my notes from 2014 for today’s lesson (Lesson 62) – A Forgiveness Soap Recipe! I decided to illustrate it, so I can dive deeper into the lesson…

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Power of Your Thoughts

Power of Your Thoughts

Sometimes it feels like the events in your life are like a lightning bolt hitting you… I’m having fun digging in the archives for old doodles to accompany me on my fourth ACIM Workbook study journey…

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A New Year at Patreon!

A New Year at Patreon!

Here we go again, a new year and some big plans! Yet I feel a bit scattered in between releasing 2022 and moving forward…

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An Enchanting Christmas

An Enchanting Christmas

Listen to the beauty of silence. Snow has sucked in all the noise. If all you hear is your own heartbeat, what…

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On Sheila’s Podcast

On Sheila’s Podcast

I had a chat with Sheila Botelho about my book The Four Phases of Creativity and dived deeper into my story as an artist, mother and student of A Course in Miracles…

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Tarinatädin värityskuvat – end of story

Tarinatädin värityskuvat – end of story

A warm welcome to all who found their way here from my Tarinatädin värityskuvat website. Now that I ended the story with that branch of my art, I wanted to acknowledge and celebrate the great journey I had…

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Doodle Notes for Doodle #42

Doodle Notes for Doodle #42

In this series of blog posts I’ll dive deeper into the world of my doodles. In this post we’ll take a closer look at doodle #42 in MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart…

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MIRA Is Published!

MIRA Is Published!

Today is the happy day when MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart is launched! A collection of Mira(cle)Doodles finally in between covers, ahhh, I’ve waited for this day, because…

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Early Birds A-hoy!

Early Birds A-hoy!

Here’s my pre-order offering for
MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart! It’ll be published on Monday, wohoo! Have you ordered your copy yet?

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Glimpses of Life…

Glimpses of Life…

Mira(cle)Doodles are glimpses of life, sneak peeks into a life that yearns to evolve into a more and more loving one—but which fails to do so ever so often. Mira gets caught up in the swirls of the ego’s demands and forgets to listen to the whispers from her heart…

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Doodle Notes for Doodle #13

Doodle Notes for Doodle #13

In this series of blog posts I’ll dive deeper into the world of my doodles. In this post we’ll take a closer look at doodle #13 in MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart…

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A Surprise!

A Surprise!

Watch a video with a little story – I included this doodle also in MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart. But How!? Get your copy and find out…

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#Inktober2022 Notes

#Inktober2022 Notes

It’s time for another round of Inktober!! Here you’ll find my notes & daily #Inktober2022 doodles in October. The newest drawing on the top (almost) daily …

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Doodle Notes for Doodle #7

Doodle Notes for Doodle #7

In this series of blog posts I’ll dive deeper into the world of my doodles. In this post we’ll take a closer look at doodle #7 in MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart…

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This Doodle Didn’t Make it…

This Doodle Didn’t Make it…

While editing you get all these great ideas for doodles that you wanted to include in the book, until… You realize that you wouldn’t like to…

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Doodle notes for Doodle #34

Doodle notes for Doodle #34

In this series of blog posts I’ll dive deeper into the world of my doodles. In this post we’ll take a closer look at doodle #34 in MIRA – Glimpses of Life & Whispers from the Heart…

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MIRA is Here!

MIRA is Here!

Whoop whoop! MIRA is here! Still all wrapped up in plastic, fresh from print. I ordered a box of books, to have them ready to ship on the publication date, on October 10th, and now they are here—So well in advance! Yay!

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Evolving with editing…

Evolving with editing…

Writing a book, illustrating it, editing, killing your darlings, sketching more and editing some more… It’s a messy process to create a book—Here’s a couple of pages from MIRA and how they evolved in the process…

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Friday Evening at an event…

Friday Evening at an event…

The Four Phases of Creativity visited an event with me and had fun on its own little corner of the table next to my friend’s ceramics…

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