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August 30, 2017

Wild & Free (Be Like Frida)

For this week’s Life Book lesson I created a painting inspired by the inspiring Frida Kahlo. My lesson focuses on ‘transforming limiting beliefs into liberating beliefs’ and I find Frida such an amazing example of someone who defied societal expectations and -I assume- she also confronted her internal limiting beliefs looking at how she approached life Read More

July 30, 2017

My Fav Art Supplies – Updated! :)

Hey there fabulous friends! :) I was just checking up on my ‘favourite art supplies post’ from a while back and realised it’s dreadfully out of the date (read with dramatic voice!). So I felt called to do an updated ‘My Favourite Art Supplies’ post just for you, because I love you and you smell Read More

June 07, 2017

Some Vulnerable Sharing.

Ola from Spain dear friends. The world feels like it’s going up in flames while I calmly and peacefully listen to my children’s laughter (like bells ringing) as they splash around in a beautiful pool filled with fresh sparkly water. How can peaceful joy and abject devastating terror be present in the world at the Read More

June 02, 2017

Book Launch – Pre-order – I Wrote a Book You Guys! :D

I Wrote a Book You Guys! :D Hello most amazing friends! I wrote a book! I wrote a book!!! :D Can you believe it?! Let me tell you preabout how it happened! So, people have asked me for years if I would write a book, and I used to be reluctant as I’d seen many Read More

May 17, 2017

Winners Ever After Give Away and Registration now Open! :)

Ok you guys!! I’m totally ‘fairy-taled up’!! I’m currently eating, sleeping and breathing fairy tales, haha! :) Totally over excited teehee!! I dressed up as a fairy princess this weekend to do some filming for the promotional video for Ever After and now I’m ‘glittering up’ pretty much every day! :D  Anyhoo, you may already Read More

May 09, 2017

Tea and Cake with Gracie featuring Whitney Freya

Hi Guys! Welcome to a series we run on the blog called: Tea & Cake with Gracie :) My awesome friend and colleague Gracie Howle interviews inspiring artists and posts the interviews (including some free offers not published elsewhere before) here on the blog every 2 months or so. I love to create art and Read More

May 02, 2017

Ever After 2017 – Blog Hop & Give Away – Yippee!

Abracadabra ziggidy zoo, ala kazam, bippity boppity BOO; iiiiiit’s BLOG HOP & Give Away Tiiiiime! :) Weeeee! :) Soooo, not long to go until Ever After 2017, my newest collaborative fairy-tale course will go on sale (17th May)! But before it does, we like to basically throw a mahoosive give-away arty blog hop party! :D Read More

March 20, 2017

Instagram Round Up: Flower Girls

Instagram round up of Flower Girls! :) (Follow me in on Instagram HERE).  These flower girls keep turning up in my journal, I’m thinking of making them into a class, what do you think? There will be a heavy focus on working with Tombows and inks. :) 

March 07, 2017

Tea and Cake with Gracie featuring Violette Clark

Hi Guys! Welcome to a series we run on the blog called: Tea & Cake with Gracie :) My awesome friend and colleague Gracie Howle interviews inspiring artists and posts the interviews (including some free offers not published elsewhere before) here on the blog every 2 months or so. I love to create art and Read More

February 21, 2017

Artist Spotlight: Mahe Zehra Husain & a Give-Away!

Hi lovely readers! Gracie here from Willowing – hello! :) For our Artist Spotlight (a new feature we are running on the blog!) this month we are featuring Mahe Zehra Husain with a bit of an interview and she’s also giving away a copy of the BRAND NEW book ‘Around the World with 80 Artists’ which is Read More

February 14, 2017

Free Valentine’s Gift for You!

Hello beautiful you’s. :)       Here is a special message to YOU on this Valentine’s Day. :) On V-day each year I like to change the focus a little bit from the love for and of “other” to the love for and of your beautiful glorious self.  I like to invite you this year Read More