–Carl Jung once said that “your vision will become clear only when you can look inside your heart. Who looks outside dreams; and who looks inside awakens” …as a woman of many words and ideas— I have been a dreamer and I have had moments of clarity and in this process have manifested the most…
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Three words come to mind for those that know me…community, connection and creativity! I call myself a multimedia artist who is inspired to create. And create I do whether its a business like The Martyn House or Ellijay Coffeehouse or projects like the pizza oven patio, culinary kinship kitchen, repurposed guesthouse, numerous outdoor living spaces including a botanical greenhouse for writing in. I can spin a pottery wheel, paint a picture, make soap or design furniture, but I believe my greatest gift is my ability to guide and inspire others by helping them to create lives of authenticity.
My studio was originally created for pottery production and and handmade bath products and then over the years it has slowly transformed into a wonderful artist studio. The studio overlooks a beautiful wildflower meadow and there still remains a room filled with canvas’s, a potters wheel, paints, scraps of stained glass or boxes full of all the fun elements one needs to create. Like all artists, there are always special creations that come along that are inspired by nature, the farm or just creative living. 080520110415-large The sculptures and interesting artistic expressions that are sprinkled all over the property attest to this creative inspiration that is so prominent at The Martyn House. I am an accomplished artist, designer and gardener with an admitted compulsion for natural intuitive healing and a spiritual connection with the earth. A lifelong serial entrepreneur, I have started and grown several successful businesses, including a mail order catalog/ home furnishings retail & wholesale and a successful home furnishings manufacturer’s representative organization. For 10 years, I was CEO of Eminence Style, a design & import firm specializing in European Country furniture and custom designed upholstery. I have an extensive visual merchandising background a gift with marketing and have won awards for both. I am also a small business consultant and on occasion give talks and lectures on how to be true to yourself and nurture a business and life that reflects that. In addition to my business experiences, I have led workshops on healing, personal growth and entrepreneurship. I am often described as energetic, creative and endlessly trusting in the power we all have within us. I will challenge and inspire you to live a more creative and fulfilling life both personally and in business.
My studio work included, but is never was limited, to pottery, a collection of aromatherapy body & home products, kitchen wear designs and a beautiful collection of luxury outdoor garden or event tents. Today I can be found most days making some of the best cups of coffee and telling the stories mine, yours and ours!
Are you Paying Attention?
Transition…is the process of change….the pain of not knowing….but knowing something must change….the idea of what is gonna happen.. but knowing that all things are possible….the darkness..the fear….rest quiet in the knowing of this- we are always right where we are suppose to be at any given time…. learning… growing… identifying… embracing… laughing…crying…. raging…being in…
Gratitude
Are you happy? Are we happy people? Do our circumstances determine our happiness? We tend to buy and buy or over achieve trying to fill this void of discontentment…. it is not things or accomplishments that make us truly happy… travels around the world have shown me that the poorest of people seem genuinely happier…
Great intentions…
Sometimes a day is over before I even knew it began..it starts with great intentions and sometimes a list~~proceeds to it’s already 2:00 and nothing is crossed off my list…the next thing I know its time to cook dinner and put the day to bed! And as I lie in bed all tucked in with…
The Perfect Dream
Life is FULL of surprises…..and right when you least expect it the world shifts and you find yourself on yet another journey….wandering down a road less traveled and looking at the world through new eyes! Obviously everything we have ever done in our lives began as an idea and then that idea begins to manifest…
a moment in time
I spend entirely too much time thinking about the big picture…. when right in front of me are so many moments in time that I might just miss if I blink! I admire daily the comings and goings of our customers…I have a chat here and there ~~ one is looking to build a house,…
‘Fireside Chats’
In our little town I see and feel a common thread of people getting out of the cities and finding a peace here… there is a way of life that is a bit slower and an urge to connect with nature and community. I happen to believe that the Cohutta Wilderness is one of…
…Distraction
…a coffee shop journal… It’s a bit hard to focus this morning since I am starring at a wall of pictures, which are all cockeyed (now there’s a word… right?). Ya see I want to get up and straighten them but i fear that it might lead to dusting or straightening the pictures on the…
There is no plain Jane..
…a coffee shop journal… There is something about that first brew of the day…..the shop fills with that sweet aroma that each and every customer craves that are coffee shop lovers at heart……even those that do not drink coffee are exhilarated by the aroma of fresh brewed coffee…for me my morning is not complete until…
Under the Weather
…a coffee shop journal… I am a bit under the weather today- I agreed to open the coffee shop so Shana could sleep in… I do believe it might be me that needs to sleep in. It started a few days ago that foggy feeling like something was shifting inside of me. You don’t want…
And it Begins
…a coffee shop journal… Every day now for months i have said “today is the day i will begin a committed effort to blog’–and so it went for almost all of 2015 ….until ….today… when i began. So many things fill my head these days..when you meet and talk to as many people as I…
Bah Humbug
…a coffee shop journal… Writing… I now realize just comes~ it cannot be planned, if it could I would have used the 50 or so theme titles with ideas of a story I wrote yesterday ~ I would be able to just wake up and write the title and tell the story and be done….
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