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The Sacred Space of Home

October 6, 2021 by Heather Filed Under: Art & Design, Home, Inspiration & Education, Organize, Wellness & Mindset 2 Comments

This is the time of year that I find myself craving the sacred space of home. How about you? Even while the weather can not make up it’s mind which seasion it wants to be, my attention begins to turn inward. I’m happy for rainy cooler weather when I can stay inside, wrapped up with a blanket and a book, knitting and a movie or cooking in my kitchen. 

Lets dive into cultivate the practice of creating the sacred space of home. 

Each of us needs to define what makes a place home. I invite you to explore all of your senses.

How does home feel? Cool, warm, dry, soft, cozy, clear, cluttered, bohemian, calm, energetic, loving, nurturing etc…

SACRED SPACE OF HOME

What does home look like? Is it colorful, minimalist, bright and sunny, eclectic, sentimental?

What are the smells of home? Fresh, like baking or cooking, do you use aromatherapy, candles, what scents do you love?

SACRED SPACE OF HOME

What do you hear? Children playing, birds singing, trains, pets talking, traffic, sirens, the school nearby, filled with music, stop and notice.

What do you taste? Does home mean homecooked meals and nurturing food or are you happy to have coffee and grab something elsewhere.

SACRED SPACE OF HOME

Each of our senses invite us to explore what makes home meaningful for us.

Through the journey of our senses we come to notice the objects, the light, the people, the smells, the memories that we create and evoke when we cultivate home as a sacred space. 

When our homes are overly cluttered, overflowing with so much stimulation that we begin to feel crowded out and confused, we need to re-connect with how we want our homes to feel. I invite you to take some time before the holiday season to get clear about what defines the sacred space of home for you. Spend some time clearing out or at least packing away what no longer feels sacred. Life can become so busy and overwhelmed with obligations, we frequently turn away or ignore things that no longer serve our lives.

The popular books The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up and Spark Joy by Marie Kondo have become quite popular over the last several years. I personally think it is because Marie hit on this idea of sacred space and sacred objects in our home. She invites us to hold and gather our objects to determine if they “Spark Joy”. At the root of what she is cultivating is the process of reconnecting with our life as sacred!

The things we invite into our home and our lives should express who we truly want to be but so often we settle for less. 

How sad is that? Having spent so much time in our homes over the past year and a half, have you created a sacred space for yourself and family? Have you cleared out clutter and celebrated the sacred through objects that have meaning? Special mementos and objects carry energy and I certainly want to be cultivating a practice of surrounding myself with what feels sacred, meaningful, has the least impact on our planet…things that are well designed and function beautifully!

What does Creating Sacred Space of Home mean for you?

Take some time to envision and intentionally edit out and create this space for yourself and your family to nurture you in everything you do.

I’m here to support you if your feeling overwhelmed, having a hard time envisioning your home as a sacred space or just need a fresh perspective and helping hands. If so, please let me know how I can help. We all deserve to feel supported and nurtured in our homes. 

Got a Vision?

December 16, 2020 by Heather Filed Under: Art & Design, Creative process, Inspiration & Education, Planning & Goals, Productivity, Wellness & Mindset Leave a Comment

It’s been a challenging year and allowing ourselves to plan for the future still doesn’t quite feel natural. So for those of us use to planning, this state of uncertainty feels uncomfortable and possibly even scary. Yet, there are a lot of different ways to plan for the unknown. One way is to envision where you are headed. This type of planning is less rigid than sitting down with a calendar and deciding on goals, penciling in when you want to achieve them, and mapping out how to get there. A vision board is a wholly different kind of map. 

Over the past five years, I’ve led quite a few vision board workshops at conferences, meetings, and art studio’s, one thing they always have in common, they are so much fun and unexpectedly powerful! Everyone from Oprah and Ellen to life coaches and artists uses vision boards as a creative tool to help gain clarity on setting intentions and goals. Have you created a vision board before?

When I create a vision board and lead a workshop I begin with helping you get clear about what you want to see happen in your life. Our imagination gets lazy and when that happens we sell our-self short of amazing possibilities! Imagine bigger, brighter, easier outcomes that are more joyful! Imagination is a muscle that requires regular exercise.

Think of making a vision board as a fun workout for your imagination!

The process of creating a vision board is a powerful tool for setting our intention and creatively visualizing that outcome. For some of us, these might be “goals.” For others, it might be an “intention” or a “feeling.” Through words and images, we can map our vision. This process helps us find clarity about what we are creating in our day-to-day lives through the choices we make. Our vision boards become a powerful touchstone to bring us back to our intentions when we feel we are off course or unclear.

When we get stuck or overwhelmed in the process of working through change in our lives, it can be refreshing to get out of our thinking mind and into our creative body. By asking ourselves what we want things to look like and how we want to feel, we embrace and tap into our creative connection with the universe, god, whatever that might mean to each of us.

So I am offering an online vision board workshop on Sunday, December 27th from 1-5 pm EST. It’s a pay what you can and I am inviting the first 12 people who sign up (here) to join me. If you can pay something (suggested $26), great but it’s not required. I want to see more powerful positivity manifested in 2021, this is my small contribution.

vision board

Even if you can’t join this time, I will offer the workshop again online soon. For those of you who want to do this on your own, the following instructions will get you going!

STEP 1: Gather : Flip through magazines and cut images and words that “speak to you”. Collect anything that delights or calls to you and have fun with the process.

STEP 2: Sort : If you run out of magazines or feel like you have “enough” begin to sort through setting things aside into three piles:

KEEP/LOVE!-These images and words feel right, bring you joy, you feel connected and they make your “heart sing”- trust your intuition. 

MAYBE-These have an element that has attracted you but don’t quite excite you as others. 

DISCARD- on second thought, something doesn’t feel quite right about these, it’s okay to put them away for later.

STEP 3: Arrange : Group images and words together as you begin to place them on your board. As you do this, you’ll get a sense of how the board should be laid out. You can follow a more aesthetic look or go about this in a random manner, there’s no right or wrong!

STEP 4: Attach : After you’ve arranged all the items in a way that works for you, paste everything onto the board. Take your time, attach smaller pieces to larger, think in layers.

STEP 5: Display : Hang your Vision Board in a prominent place where you’ll see it regularly, like the laundry room a closet, or inside a door.

The vision board process can help us find clarity and communicate our ideas in an effortless and creative way by tapping into our intentiohns, dreams, and envisioning them. The process doesn’t have to be exact or precise to work either! We can manifest how we want to feel, where we want to live or what we want our days to include. Vision boards can work in many areas of our life. I keep a small sketchbook that I create two-page spreads based on categories I dream about such as love relationships, home, travel (on hold for now;) and more.

Please give this a try and share your results with me if you like! Email me photo’s of your vision board or share via social media with #hkpscreativevisioning

Pursuing My Life’s Work

March 16, 2020 by Heather Filed Under: Art, Art & Design, Creative process, Inspiration & Education, Uncategorized 3 Comments

In pursuing my MA, I’ve come to understand that the work I am doing is my life’s work! It’s exciting to be in a place and time when you realize that all paths have led you to this moment, with the perfect experiences and guidance that will help you pursue your vision and dream. That is genuinely how I feel about this process, and I want to share the blurb that was included in a recent school newsletter, highlighting myself and one of my cohorts. Since I am only 1 1/2 semesters into my master’s, I don’t yet have my thesis declared, but think of it like this diagram: a three-legged stool, with my research focused on each of the ‘legs’.

My research stems from observing and interacting with artists as they craft a space known as the studio. In this space, the work of making crafted objects takes place through a universal and personal creative cycle of order and chaos. History and contemporary culture have much to say about the mess and order of the creative process. Having spent nearly ten years evaluating and co-producing these spaces to identify and construct systems that support organization of material culture and productivity, my curiosity led me to interview over fifty artists about how they construct these spaces, their habitus, their process of setting up their studio and their interaction with objects and materials in their space.

I am curious to learn more about the legacy of objects and spaces left behind by artists. How can individuals and institutions support craftspeople in establishing helpful working guidelines for maintaining legacies of material knowledge and material culture? By drawing upon research in the domestic and workspace design fields, I hope to gain a better understanding of how our identities are defined by the spaces we craft, in both domestic and public artists’ studios.

All lanes have converged, leading me to this moment, of understanding my life’s work through space, materials, people, memories, and craft making.

Homing

February 15, 2020 by Heather Filed Under: Art, Handmade, Home, Inspiration & Education, Uncategorized Leave a Comment

Homing-an act of resistance in a fast-paced world.

What is home?

It a place where we can set our own pace.

What is home?

Homebodies make time and space to create a home through their senses.

What is home?

Home is the objects we carry with us.

What is home?

Ritual creates home-home is a relationship between bodies, spaces, and objects.

A collaborative video project between Heather K Powers & Sarah Kelly, created January 2020, Asheville NC during the MA Critical Craft Residency.

Envision Epic Achievements

February 8, 2020 by Heather Filed Under: Art & Design, Inspiration & Education, Organize, Organizing Projects, Wellness & Mindset

As we embark on a month focused on Self Care I want to share a fun tool I use to set my intention and get going on the right footing for the new year (or at the start of new projects) to help me envision epic achievements! Anytime I get to pull out scissors, magazines etc it takes me back to my days as a designer. In both my Art classes and in my industry job I often found it helpful if not essential to create “mood boards” or gather creative ideas on paper (sketchbook or boards). If you’ve never done this, don’t worry…there is no wrong time or wrong way to create a vision board!

Envision Your Epic Achievements

As we head into the next month, I will be shifting focus towards spring cleaning, purging, de-cluttering, simplifying. This can be a great time to create a vision board for how you want your home to look and feel.  You might consider giving your vision board a boost by working with a word of the year.  It’s not essential to the process of creating a vision board but it can give you some guidance and focus. Your vision board can be as broad or as specific as you like.

Creating an Vision Board is something I started doing back in 2011. It’s one of the annual planning tools I have the most fun with!  Some people call these Vision Boards others call them Action boards (for those that feel the word “Vision” is to woo-woo).

Some people like to do a digital vision board, others prefer to use all images but I love to sit down with all these fonts, colors, words and phrases and just start allowing them to come together and create a flow of juxtaposition.  So much magic happens when I sit down to create my vision board…and the magic just keeps happening throughout the year.

Envision Epic Achievements

Vision boards can take a good bit of time. Give yourself a total of 3-8 hours to complete yours, from gathering ideas and supplies to getting everything in place. How much time it takes you will depend on how large your board is and how detailed you want to be.

  • Select a type of vision board (personal, creative, images, words, a hybrid of both) that will be a touchstone and inspiration for creative progress throughout 2017. Your focus can be on home life, creative life, career, pets, family etc-whatever is important to you and where you may want more guidance and support.
  • Gather a supply of magazines/resources to select from to embody your personal expression. This can include books, printed images, catalogs, scraps of paper or fabric, stickers, embellishments or anything else you like.
  • Gather other supplies, including poster board or foam core (my personal favorite is the kind with one sticky side!), scissors, a glue stick and tape. You may also want markers.
  • Set your intention for this board, you’ve decided on your “type” and your intention is a more focused way of deciding what you want to include or not. You may want to list words or images you would like to include.
  • Flip through your resources and tear or cut out images and words. You can do this while listening to music, watching movies, listening to podcasts, anytime really. At this stage you are looking for words and images that capture how you want to feel.
  • Start to lay out your images and words on your board. There’s no right way here but I’ve found that starting with the larger elements first can help. As you sort through everything you have cut out, be sure to include your most important ideas, set them aside and allow other ideas that don’t seem to fit to fall away. Deciding what NOT to include can be just as important as what you add.
  • Once you are happy with your arrangement overall (still not glued down-just loose), snap a picture with your phone and then start to remove each area and glue things down. You can work one area at a time or in layers. Having a picture to refer back to can be fun because it’s never going to be exactly the same but it give you a little “map” to follow for your puzzle.

There is really something incredibly powerful about “visioning” a rich and creative year (or anything) to come! It can be fun to do a quick vision on a small sheet to brainstorm smaller projects or time frames too!

Envision Epic Achievements

Finally, you may be asking how does this help you get organized?  If you feel there are areas in which you would like a different outcome in your life try creating a vision board to activate and attract what you want to accomplish and how you envision it in your ideal reality.  Use images and words that feel the way you want to feel about your space and your life.

However you want to create your board and whatever you call it, just know that by being very clear about what you want to manifest in your life and putting it down in a concrete way you are more likely to draw attention to theses aspects of yourself (actions, thoughts, etc).  It’s all about the law of attraction.  When I look back at the last years vision boards I’m truly amazed at the ways in which the specific wishes, desires, dreams and actions have been attracted into my life!

How do you envision the next quarter, year, project, career or home?  What do you want to attract and are you creating any type of vision board to activate the process? If so, please please share it with me on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook  with the hashtag #powervision17!

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