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Artsy Bohemian Jewelry

I love creating and wearing beautiful artistic and bohemian jewelry.

Here are a few jewelry pieces I have created.

For more art inspiration check out my other website at www.artonthemoon.com

Refocusing my business and other fun things

Business Fun

Hello everyone! Well these past few weeks have been busy. I have been working on refocusing my business and really trying to figure out what I want to focus on. In 2013 I had a website that I kind of abandoned. I currently made the decision to redo the website and keep it current. So my business website is www.artonthemoon.com. Art on the moon will be my main website and I really want to focus on art, inspirations, journaling and eventually teaching art.
I originally started Lani Light to showcase my jewelry. Although I am not going to focus on making jewelry design a business ( but will sell jewelry on etsy), I will continue to update my Lani Light blog. I will post pics of new artwork, jewelry, artsy inspiration and peaks into my life.

In addition to working on my art business, I have been busy journaling. I have never been into journaling but lately have been pulled to start. I made my first journal made form watercolor paper and have been busy painting and creating visual stories. And I am having so much fun!! Journaling is extremely therapeutic and a great way to practice your art techniques and work on those creative juices.

Here is a peak into my journal pages:

For more inspiration visit my website: Art on the Moon

Reflection and Inspiration from Nature

 

 I was sitting on my comfy couch today with a glass of wine of course and reflecting. Reflecting on life, my non existent job, overall satisfaction, and my desire to grow my creative business. As I was thinking, I started to become aware that although I am very thankful for everything and satisfied with my life, I am unsatisfied with my career. Since I graduated college at the end of December 2010, I have not been able to obtain a descent job. This bothers me. I worked so hard (as most people do). I remember working 12 hour shifts at night at the Naval Hospital Portsmouth as a corpsman and then going to school during the day and back to work at night. There were days that I was up for 30 hours. All this while I was raising two young kids with my husband. Oh and I tried so hard to get really great grades. All A's an just one B. I thought that with my stellar grade point average and my Navy experience I would be sure to get a job. Well that was Wrong.

Anyway 3 years later and still no job. I have to confess, I stopped looking a while ago. It's just too discouraging. But during this time of hopeless searching, I started working on art more. I would like ultimately to make a living from my art. Right now I am still in the beginning stages but working really hard towards that goal.

When I get in a funk or feel down I like to go outside and experience the beauty of nature. I especially love to walk outside. Its sort of a walking meditation and it really clears my mind. Anyway since its too cold here in Kansas and dark outside, I started looking at images of nature. I took the images below a few years ago while taking a photography class. Nature was always one of my favorite subjects to photograph. Hope these inspire you too!!

Bohemian Interior Spaces

I love how the design of a space can ignite a specific mood. A long time ago, when I was oh so young and a new mother, I did a lot of daydreaming about what my ideal space would be like. The problem was that I did not have much money and I thought that it just wasn't possible to decorate a space without money. But now.....many years later, I realize that through the art of creativity a space can be transformed with little money. All one needs is some creativity and I do believe that everyone is creative.

Looking at magazines, Pinterest, design blogs or just being outside in nature gets my creative juices flowing.