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alllinesarebeautiful · 2 months

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Hearts! All-over print long sleeve midi dress

Gathering some of my Heart photography to create for you my first Heart dress!

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alllinesarebeautiful · 1 year

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Day 308 art meditation, 2/20/23 I just read about the opera singer Limmie Pulliam, who for ten years gave up his dream to become a professional singer because of body shaming. Michelle Obama wrote the most beautiful post about the full story of his comeback.

Any time I read a book, or watch a film about someone who quit working towards their dreams, my throat instantly tightens up with tears. There is always a reason to quit. Limmie didn’t give up! I’m so thrilled for him, and moved by his story.

Also noteworthy is that he stayed in alignment with people who inspire him, and with people who have the potential of Seeing him for all of who he is. When he worked as a field organizer for Barack Obama’s campaign, giving Limmie a spontaneous chance to sing the national anthem, he was boosted back into believing in his art again.

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I want to post about the ways that I am going to commit to All Lines Are Beautiful this year. As always, I have to focus on what I CAN do, what is within me.

◎ I am again posting my logo - aka my Heart Centerpiece. This is the symbol of continuing belief in myself.

◉ I am re-committing to designing Heart Art Bundles for clients. This is a collaborative challenge of NEW art merging with NEW words that creates beautiful new things, which is a core message of All lines are beautiful. I just Believe in this idea.

◎ This year I will finish the first draft of my art memoir.

⦿ Finalize the new artwork for my Love Letter to Senga Nengudi. I will figure out how to get it published.

◎ I will try to make contact with Senga as a new layer of my self esteem.

◉ I am holding a space for myself for future Love Letters, and really feeling these ideas out Inwardly, before I start the actual work.

◎ I am launching a Print Store with my art and photography designs.

⦿ I am going to print art postcards of my artwork. As I write love postcards to my friends and family I discovered there is a lack of art-postcards out there. If I’m going to go whole-hog with being a professional Love Letter writer, of course postcards need to be part of it.

◎ I continue to tune into artists who inspire me. One of my design heroes is the Finnish company Marimekko, and I love how the bold textile designs expanded out into tableware and FINNAIR aircrafts. Follow the Joy, and joy for me is definitely seeing Marimekko art on an airplane!

◉ I continue living in deep and still gratitude, and how far I have come so far. I am so grateful for the art meditation I started in September 2021, which helps me stay connected to my dreams every day. I am grateful for the 100 Day Art Challenge I did in 2019, and the journaling and letters I’ve written since I was little.

So this is me, walking in the direction of my goals, towards my better self, working on transmitting my fears into excitement and enthusiasm - thank you Michael B. Beckwith.

Love,

Anne

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alllinesarebeautiful · 11 months

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May 18, 2023

Day 328 Art Meditation

I really do love believing in something that has not been fully formed yet - my Heart-Art Bundles with other people. The union between two people in a Kindred-Spirit kind of way is always beautiful. This shouldn’t be left to just marriages, or friendships - and I love this idea I have to create a Kindred-Spirit space with my Heart-Art Bundles.

Today my heart is so FULL, which isn’t because my life is perfect. I think it’s connected to the amazing volunteer experience I had this week. I spoke to an old gentleman and during the conversation he had difficulty speaking, and …. I have to say, as I experienced his struggle, my heart got bigger and more open. Read full post here on website!

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alllinesarebeautiful · 3 days

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Day 380 Art Meditation, April 23, 2024

I just spent a week’s worth of mornings writing my essay for my May Art Drop Video - for all of 4 pages. It was one of the most vulnerable, mentally exhausting things I’ve ever done. I feel like I came through something and it was worth it. I feel lighter now. So does G.

My art print for today is “Be Vulnerable”, by which I mean the Vulnerability of building our heart-spaces. I try to do this with my art meditations. To find that fulfillment, I have to spend time getting grounded into my words and art.

Also, for our Heart-spaces: “Confuse your logical mind. (That’s your Heart-Space). Then use both.”

I love the writings of Anne Lamott because she has Jesus qualities, in a way that Jesus might never have healing for me. In Anne Lamott’s book ‘Bird by Bird’, she explains:

“Annie Dillard has said that day by day you have to give the work before you all the best stuff you have, not saving it up for later projects. If you give freely, there will always be more…

… You are going to have to give and give and give, or there’s no reason to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward.”

I know I’m not the only person for whom ‘Giving’ is something I really only know how to do for other people, and I do it so well. I also love doing it. I don’t think I have plans to give it up, just for now while I commit to my creative plans …What her ‘Giving’ section unearthed for me is to reject the judgment against me that my journey is selfish in a bad way. That I am giving TO my writing and art. To write 4 pages over the course of 7 days, meant to go into my heart over and over again, deeper and deeper.

I love my beloved former life coach’s words to me when we first started years ago, “Yes. It IS all about you. You have no idea yet how much it IS all about you.”

I’ve added Anne Lamott onto my parent team, making it 6, although I am aware that she is yet another imaginary, one-sided relationship in my life. I am aware of this and working on it… Her parental superpower is that she loves that I am writing an art memoir.

I’m late for Earth Day, but sending photos of my walks and the driving I do for work: the ocean, breezes, flowers, sand, teal and green waters, and blue blue blue sky. All of which I will use for my photography art.

Check out my online annehunsicker.com SHOP - photography art, Advent calendar and Cookie-of-the-Month.

O, one more thing, what I love (!) about my clunky phrasing for my art, I imagine the little toddler-me trying to help the world. Children come up with better ideas than adults do sometimes, cutting to the chase - “why don’t we all just love each other?” I somehow feel like I’m tapping into that little-girl-me when I write these messages.

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Love,

Anne

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alllinesarebeautiful · 12 days

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Day 379 Art Meditation, April 15, 2024

Sharing a tiny preview of part of my May 1st art drop …

As I work with this art, I've been observing my mind … If I don’t do my list of things that keeps me balanced and tending my creative, true heart-space, how much more cruel my mind (ego-space) gets. I continue to notice that after a big wave of JOY from my art and writing, I can easily go down into despair for days, which is teaching me how to stay strong enough to stay in my Heart-space, and not to let my Ego kick me around so much. I recognize that I am changing my life and my ego is throwing a hissy fit. (Ego-spaces-identities will do anything to stay alive.)

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“Feel it Out More”, S. always asked of me …. At some point I started calling this inner ‘true space’ my ‘heart-space’. This is my intuition, but learning how to use this space for every part of my life has been a challenge. Can we re-raise ourselves in a short 11 years? Can we achieve full self trust and deep self esteem in 11 years - which has been how long this All-lines-are-beautiful journey has gone ... Integrating every part of my life with the new…

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Here is where I am with my heart-space:

-Calm and anxiety/depression-free for longer stretches.

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-Being gentle mentally with my curvy body vs. memories of being body-shamed. Just like art, I have loved learning about the subjectivity of physical beauty, and that for me, feeling your and my Soul is the Beauty.

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-Slowly making this new art series and letting it just become vs. trying to serve it to ‘get’ something (the old way I know of being a graphic designer). It’s my having the inner strength to put art out there and allow others to Feel into it, intuitively. (Which, by the way, builds your heart-space, a much needed activity).

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-Making a new paper sculpture and feeling the tiny playfulness of that vs. having answers or a definitive plan upfront. This playfulness also builds my heart-space…

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People are asking me how much I have sold at this point and I can feel their lack of support. This is new because the old me would have taken their asking as “supportive”.

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This new awareness becomes such a great opportunity for me to pick my focus - instead of the negativity, to feel the tiny amounts of wholehearted support. The sales I’ve made are supportive, they feel right and sweet.

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I sold my first Advent calendar! It’s headed to Germany (via Pennsylvania). I sold a large art print and I feel honored that M. even got it framed for her art studio! 2 more cookies-of-the-month were purchased this month, and one more membership making two. JOY.

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The world seems to be lost, Heart-space wise … We need more art, a relationship to art, and the love and interesting beauty that pours out of this. If we could only connect this way more …

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I’m MAKING something out of nothing, as small as a paper curl for my paper sculpture, and as large as my life. When my heart is full like this, I don’t notice that I’m the underdog. I am aware that there are a lot of people out there making something when their hearts are not full like this. :-(

Please check out my living website annehunsicker.com for more art, goodies and inspiration.

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alllinesarebeautiful · 22 days

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Day 377 Art Meditation, April 4, 2024

April’s Cookie-of-the-Month! “Cocoa Dream with White Chocolate Heart Sugar Cookies Hugs in Dough Form”.

The cookie is two cookie recipes - White-Chocolate Sugar Cookies & Cocoa-Chocolate Sugar Cookies combined into one adorable heart cookie. What makes this cookie extra delicious are the two flavors into one bite. Cookies taste best after a long swim, or long walk. :)

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I love being in my dream-space when I bake. It’s hours of meditation that fills me up with love, art and design … It takes me into my happy inner bubble where I feel a bigger love & purpose, even if my purpose is vague, as maybe heart-journeys are...

My cookies are also about supporting my All-lines-are-beautiful spiritual art and writing journey.

I received 2 more surprise Yes’s in my in-box recently, and although I have not broken through into the hearts of perfect strangers yet, I am always still surprised at new Membership or the order from my online store. It’s a pretty amazing kind of Joy, this dreaming something up and being supported for it.

It’s a bumpy growth curve for me to learn about Real Love, who in my life is supporting the All lines are beautiful parts of me, which is a new version of me. It’s not so much judging, as much as observing, and feeling out what feels good.

That’s my next goal to break through to the hearts of strangers with my cookies, merch and art prints. Quoting a dear friend, “Of course you should expect that there are people who care about what you create!”. But that’s the new part for me.

Mindset, mindset, mindset.

Much love,

Anne

Limited supply - Ship to California only.

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alllinesarebeautiful · 22 days

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Day 376 Art Meditation, April 3, 2024

I was SO CLOSE to being able to launch my April 1st Art Drop, but then my computer exploded, and it took 10 days to get repaired (thank god for Apple Care). After getting my computer back, in the PUSH to make my April 1st deadline, I got sick, so everything stopped.

There is always the reminder of this thing called “divine timing”. I obviously can’t control everything. And in my push, maybe I was forcing, instead of going with the flow ….

There’s also this element of the more I step up into living my dreams, the more my head plays games with me, and creates the most amazing blocks and sense of Overwhelm.

But I keep going. I am learning how to ride the waves.

With the computer down time, it was a perfect time to start my paper wall sculpture and find joy.

I made the decision that as long as I have a ¾ time job, realistically I can only do a big Art Drop every other month.

I’m also trying to ask for help, figure out, HOW to get my Art Memoir published. One inch at a time!

Meanwhile I’m learning how many details and time is involved with loading art prints onto my store.

It was SO good for me to create a new ART series and to FEEL the joy of that. I made a little video of that moment, I’ll load it here ….

Meanwhile I take Gratitude Walks. Sending photos of sunsets, beautiful sidewalk art patterns, clouds, views of the Pacific ocean, and just truly being grateful for every single moment.

I am on track for my May 1st Art Drop! 😀

Much love,

Anne

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alllinesarebeautiful · 22 days

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Day 375 Art Meditation, March 14, 2024

Cookie of the month!

“Orange Shortbread Cookie with Chocolate”.

I still don’t have the perfect timing down (the 1st of the month), but this is all still new.

I try to find a cookie I have never baked before, and these are much more delicious than I thought they would be. It’s the orange zest, butter and chocolate combined. Perfect for dipping into tea or coffee.

One serving 5-large, 5-medium, 5 small.

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alllinesarebeautiful · 2 months

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Day 374 Art Meditation, March 8, 2024

One of my all time favorite movies is “The Color Purple”. I carry these fictional characters in my heart as a way to find healing, and what it looks like to stand up for yourself, and against all odds … to heal.

Also there is a subplot of a minister’s daughter, ‘Shug’, the sinner, who reconciles with her father, and somehow I have it in my mind that I can complete this reconciliation with my own father once I finish my art-memoir …

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alllinesarebeautiful · 2 months

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Day 373 Art Meditation, March 5, 2024 I have a new text for my Membership page, because this is a living website, reflecting my living brand, so things are constantly changing as I try to listen to my Heart and Intuition.

“This may be about supporting my Heart Journey but the truth is all our Hearts are joined whether we know it or not. The deepest message I am trying to grow is how just an inch of Awareness can dispel a piece of ego - Ego runs on things like dominance, immediate answers, lies, being in control, and confusion. A Heart-Space is gentle, patient, true, love, trusting and clear. We all have both on a sliding scale.The ways of the Intuitive Heart are brought forth by especially (but not only) by Art. (Abstract art tends to annoy the logical and ‘critiquing’ mind more, and so helps push us into our Heart-Spaces. But our minds are able to go into that ‘critiquing’ space about anything and everything.)

One of my biggest dreams is that humans learn how to feel more into Art [see my Heart-Art Brand Bundles and my Artist Statement] and allow art to guide us into new ways of being intuitive and bring forth new pieces of Awareness always strengthening and widening our fragile inner heart-space into new beautiful life solutions.I know one thing for sure: if all humans lived from their Heart-Spaces there would be peace on earth.”

My main piece of art is “Who Are You Empowering? Empower Heart-People.” Since today is Super Tuesday Election Day. Everybody please go and vote, your single Vote matters. And also ask yourself if you are empowering Heart people or bullies? And think about what you are shaping, and what is ultimately Love and what can bring our Hearts together more.

Vote.org

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Sending more love,

Anne

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alllinesarebeautiful · 2 months

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Day 372 Art Meditation, February 28, 2024

Today the art piece is me and Mother Nature’s Scotch’s Broom, which links me back to my beloved years growing up in Northern Germany. When I see these gorgeous yellow bushes everywhere here in Northern California, my soul instantly connects to my Northern German family, and includes my American Dad who loves Germany and the nature in Germany as much as my family does.

My life is a work-in-progress, but my new powers of awareness are only 10 years old, it still feels bumpy. Cutting myself some slack with this eternal feeling that I’m not doing it right …

I got a little derailed recently by walking into negativity, and it somehow makes sense that my body decided to have a fever and stomach ache. It’s good material for my future art memoir however. Writing and making art seem to be a good way I land into my peaceful heart-space.

On a Happy note #1: I have my first paying Member on my website! Gratitude.

My member space is a mutually safe space, a good intention. And now I need to level up, while at the same time working through that I don’t have to prove my worth - that I just AM worthy.

I’m grateful to have created the exercise to open up more and SPEAK - not just writing and editing until it’s perfect. So for my 1 member - I’m sending out a new personal video. 🙂 I know I’m still hiding some, but I’m still growing.

There is a key point here too about women’s rights: my mother has 1,000 talents and never was paid for a single one of them. It would be so much easier for me to slip into that role, and not bring my entrepreneurial role to fruition. But considering where we are as women today, with more and more rights being taken away, it only makes sense for me to step into my power. My heart space, and hope more of us do.

Happy note #2: I sold my first 2 dresses, which I am over-the-MOON excited about, and I’m trying to figure out how to get us all together for a photoshoot.

It’s a new kind of love for me. I asked my friends how they think they support my vision and my art. This is not something I can ask my family. I’m trying to step out of the traditional people-pleasing-Pastor’s kid-girl role of being supportive, nurturing and nice - and ignore the fact that it isn’t mutual. I still am those nice things, I’m just trying to integrate and align, even if it’s bumpy…

I am so ridiculously pleased about this All-lines-are-beauitful interactions, because this is something I dreamed of, asked for, beat myself up for = bad idea, but I didn’t delete it, and then when I get the “yes’s”, I think ‘this is what love and belonging feels like’.

And creating a whole new space … Because the more we all are in our Heart-spaces, the more new beautiful stuff comes out …

Wholeheartedly,

Anne

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alllinesarebeautiful · 2 months

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Day 371 Art Meditation, February 22, 2024

I am completely behind on my monthly plans beginning February 1st: one new writing piece, 1 new art series, photography art piece, paper sculpture, paper dress - all to go into an art video, plus new merch. But every day my heart-intuition speaks to me in new terrifying ways, and I apparently need to be able to have the time to listen, feel strength from it, move it over to my personal yes-bucket, and build up the courage to do it.

Some of you have been following me long enough to remember a few years ago, on this All-lines-are-beautiful journey, I had an online store that only carried my photography prints. I was SO excited at the time to figure out that I could DO something with ALL the photos I took, which came from ALL the walks I took in the middle of the day on weekdays, while I was dealing with ALL the job rejections over the course of 10 years.

When I set out to “follow my Heart” 10 years ago, I thought that meant having another normal (happy) design job, live in the city I love (SF), and be creative on the side. I had no idea that following your heart is the hardest thing to do, and it isn’t just 2 things.

Now I see that time I had as a gift. Now I take walks as much as I can, and I always take photos, and make art from it. Just not as fast as I would like. I would never have done this if I had not had the last ten years of my life, or gotten the full time job I thought I wanted.

The key thing is making and doing what I CAN control and let go of the things I can’t control. I have a computer, I love being a graphic designer, so use it.

Now I have things in my store that come from my Heart. The more we are aware of our Heart-spaces, the more we can be aware of our ego-space. Awareness is the only tiny thing we need to shift into our hearts … MORE.

More recently, I discovered I can include my photography art as wrapping paper for my online store. AND - my first photography heart-themed DRESS.

See store link here!… Which includes baked goods for my California people, ‘Lemon Goldies with Chocolate Hats’ and ‘Heart Cookies with Rosehip’.

Wholeheartedly,

Anne

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alllinesarebeautiful · 2 months

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Day 370 Art Meditation, February 15, 2024

Every day, even after all these years, I continue to learn what Inner growth feels like. For example, I was good with yesterday's post, and was at peace with it. Sure, I could have spent more time editing. Then the rest of the day I second guessed it, painfully. I took that squishy uncomfortable feeling with me into the night. Where do I fit in? When will I ever fit in? Am I meant to fit in? What does fitting in FEEL like on a heart level, not ego level. Am I sure I know what the difference is?

At some point in the middle of the night the meta point came to me - I’m continuing to do something that makes me uncomfortable and staying WITH it, and that is what inner growth is.

Then this morning a friend sent me the perfect quote by Louise Hay - “Every experience I have is perfect for my growth.” Key word being “every”, not just the ones we want or make me comfortable. And that’s exactly what I needed to hear. It’s okay to sometimes get outside information … especially if it lines up with my inner information ….

I continue to sense that when we operate on a heart and soul level, it’s very different from an ego level. Full self-acceptance (I’m not there yet) means I don’t rate myself based on followers, or interaction, or approval, or being discovered by some big fish in the world.

I just AM. I get to just BE as I am. The sun just flooded my room with bright light ☀️. Having the whole morning to be creative is my favorite part of the day.

I can see my own growth. Of course I love coming THROUGH a growth-portal that was hard, more than being IN one, (ha ha). I also know that every word I write is TRUE. Not the best, or biggest, but true to my experience.

Isn't the truth of the heart just a beautiful relief?

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Here’s more of my truth-merchandise, 🤗, for the theme, “On my in-breath I smile, on my out-breath I smile.” 🌿

9 colors of hoodies, 14 colors of t-shirts, a dress, wrapping paper 😍, and an Art-prints.

See store link here!

Much much love, Anne

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alllinesarebeautiful · 2 months

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Day 369 Art Meditation, February 14, 2024

I think every day should be Valentine’s Day. Which is probably why my inner facial expression and body language is this - of my 5 year old little girl me. I’m always wishing we could all be MORE in our Heart-spaces all the time with each other, especially politically. But then I have my edges too.

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I’ve been WRITING. I feel such pressure to get my art memoir done while my parents are living, and they both have health issues. Maybe I unearthed the critical piece last night while swimming. It had been a block and reason not to write the book. I solved how to write about my mother in a way that I think she (and my family and all the congregation members and all the UCC people and then all the German UCC people and German family) will be able to read. If they do. Read full post in link. xo Anne

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alllinesarebeautiful · 3 months

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My cookie-of-the-month is a Lemon Goldies with Chocolate Hats. Soul food! The combination of fresh lemon with soft chocolate is heavenly. Lemon Goldies are delicious frozen or room temperature. My personal preference is eating the chocolate at room temperature, with the lemon goldies either cold or frozen. 1 order includes 5 large teardrop shaped lemon goldies with a tiny chocolate hat on top. Like hats, if there is wind (shipping them!), our hats might fall off, so you may have to put the hat back onto the Goldie once you receive them. The cookies will be shipped frozen. Limited Supply. Available through February 29th, since I posted these in late January.

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alllinesarebeautiful · 3 months

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Day 368 Art Meditation, January 31, 2024

It’s the last day of January and I am launching my January Cookie of the Month - Lemon Goldies with Chocolate Hats. Soul food!

The combination of fresh lemon with soft chocolate is heavenly. Lemon Goldies are delicious frozen or room temperature. My personal preference is eating the chocolate at room temperature, with the lemon goldies either cold or frozen.

1 order includes 5 large teardrop shaped Lemon Goldies with a tiny chocolate hats on top. Like hats, if there is wind (shipping them!), our hats might fall off, so you may have to put the hat back onto the Goldie once you receive them.

Limited Supply. Shipping to California residents only. (Hopefully by next year I can ship nationwide!)

Just a word about my having a bake shop “not making sense”, when my business is mostly about art. That I should stick to one thing, or whatever the rule is. When we are in our heart spaces doing what we love, following our intuitions - there are no rules.

Baking makes me so happy. It’s part of my love of making care packages, and it’s part of the love language of giving gifts. I love connecting with people this way. It becomes a way for me to meditate. As I am baking, I get little whispers of intuition and creativity. … Like adding on the chocolate balls, which didn’t come with the recipe.

… Like finally using my cantaloupe baller for the chocolate for the first time in 40 years.

… Like creating this peacock-shape with the Goldies and photographing it in the sunlight.

… Like designing INTO this photography! Which goes onto my to-do list, and I’m so excited about this.

I also just LOVE the idea of putting things that I LOVE out into the world, and have complete Trust in the Universe and God, that my life is aligning more and more as I go. I also feel incredibly determined to stay on the path of heart-alignment, functioning from our Hearts, functioning from what brings us joy. I think this is a change we all crave … And I hope that my courage inspires others to have heart-courage.

Link to store here.

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Much much love, Anne

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