Wrapping up gifts for those that I love is half of the fun of giving. This year I am wrapping gifts in vintage French linens but you could also use yardage of any fabric you have on hand or use vintage linens. Vintage napkins are very generous in size and will be large enough for most small to medium sized gifts. I wanted to share my sources for the gift wrap materials I used in our latest Holiday …
Shop Our Home | Favorites From Our Holiday Home Tour!
We loved sharing our home dressed up for Christmas and your feedback is always the sweetest. We always get so many questions about our home, how we decorate and how to create a home that looks modern but feels cozy at the same time. I think creating home is a gradual and beautiful process but I think there are some key elements that bring that cozy and modern feeling together. We have gathered some of our favorite things from …
New Interview with Jamie Ridler Studios | All About Creativity, business and home!
I recently had the honor of being interviewed by Jamie Ridler of Jamie Ridler Studios. We talked business, creativity and home. Jamie Ridler: You teach many art classes and also run a beautiful hub rich with inspirational creative classes. In your experience, what’s the greatest hump people have to get over to fully embrace their creative gifts? Jeanne Oliver: I love that you are asking this because the whole purpose of our creative network is to make it easier for people …
2019 Holiday Housewalk
I have been fortunate enough to be a part of Jen Rizzo’s Holiday Housewalk almost as long as I have been blogging. It is the sweetest honor to be asked again to share our home along with so many incredible design and DIY bloggers! I am an artist, business owner and homeschool mom so I am usually capturing our home with my phone. I dusted off the real camera for this post and I can’t wait to check out …
Live Tomorrow! Less is More | Watercolor Animals with Lexi Grenzer
A life that is lived is what I saw when I was first introduced to Lexi Grenzer. I saw an artist capturing her day to day life through watercolors, a teacher finding ways to make painting and creativity approachable, a woman connecting always with her family and the world around her through good foods, home and gathering. Her love of life is what first captured my attention about her. I am so thankful that Lexi said yes and that we …
Live Tomorrow! Show Up and Shut Up: Strategies of an Insecure Artist with Carolina Della Valle
I am so honored to once again share with you an artist creating an online course with us that has never offered an online workshop before anywhere! It is one of my greatest joys to get to collaborate with an artist doing something new and fresh! I love that this brand new workshop with Carolina Della Valle is all about working through our insecurities as creatives and by showing up we quiet those voices! This is a lesson that I could …
All Home Online Courses On Sale | Just In Time For The Holidays
Thanksgiving is almost here and for many this is the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season. The day after Thanksgiving we go as a family to get our tree and each year the decorations get simpler and the meaning of the holiday becomes more known. We open our home more than every before and we are learning that gathering others is one of the sweetest ways to love others around us. We would like to offer you 40% off …
Guest Basket | Your Guests Will Feel Loved On!
Opening our doors and loving on those in our lives is such a sweet gift. The more I gather the more I learn how important it is and that so many just want to be invited. Invited into community and authentic relationship and the joy that comes from that. The holidays are right around the corner and one thing we do in our home for company is to place a guest basket in the room where they are …
New Free Art Video: Woodland Girl Ornament with Jeanne Oliver
We have just added another free video to our creative network! Today we have released Woodland Girl Ornament with Jeanne Oliver. This video is one of the first things Jeanne ever taught online and it is such a fun project. This is an oldie but goodie and we hope you love it. This free video gives you a taste of the course, Woodland Girls {and other natural curiosities} and we hope you will join us for the full class! …
Early Registration Ending! Less is More | Watercolor Animals with Lexi Grenzer
A life that is lived is what I saw when I was first introduced to Lexi Grenzer. I saw an artist capturing her day to day life through watercolors, a teacher finding ways to make painting and creativity approachable, a woman connecting always with her family and the world around her through good foods, home and gathering. Her love of life is what first captured my attention about her. I am so thankful that Lexi said yes and that we …
A Brand New Facebook Creative Community | It Will Be More Beautiful With YOU!
We just created one place on Facebook for you to share your work from any class or what you are working on yourself, travel, favorite exhibits from around the world, the best live workshop you just attended, the book you are reading you HAVE to share or an article that you know other creatives will want to read too! We hope this a place where all things creative get shared! Come on over and join our Facebook Creative …
Last Day For Early Registration Pricing | Creatively Made Business Online Workshop
*Early registration pricing is ending TONIGHT! The price will then go to the full price of $595.* Are you building a business that is aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Knowing this answer changes everything. Building a business that isn’t aligned with your life takes as much time, energy and resources as building one that is. You’re not just building a business, you’re building a life. …
New Free Art Video: I am Enough with Brittany Soucy
We have just added another free video to our creative network! Today we have released I am Enough with Brittany Soucy. Join Brittany Soucy as she helps us discover the beauty within ourselves using gratitude and our art journals. This free video gives you a taste of the course, Art Journal it Out and we hope you will join us for the full class! Come on over and enjoy the free art video I am Enough with Brittany Soucy. This video is …
Live on Friday! Stitch Your Stash with Charlotte Lyons
When I travel here in the US or abroad I am always looking for vintage fabrics, small metal tins, vintage papers and bits and bobbles to include in a new creation. For years I have watched the beautiful and unique ways Charlotte Lyons has used old elements to create something fresh and modern but now with a story. Gather your old fabrics because with stamping, stitching and repurposing you are about to create beautiful items to keep or give. Stitch …
Creatively Made Business | Do You Have Blind Spots?
This is the perfect time to re-evaluate your business, your creativity and see if you have any blind spots you have been ignoring. Looking at your business through fresh eyes should happen on a monthly basis but more in detail at least quarterly. Our day-to-day lives running a business can mean mixing home, business, creativity and if we aren’t careful we can miss the signs that we are off track. So, do you have any blind spots that you …
Online Workshop Creatively Made Business | Early Registration Pricing Ending!
*Early registration pricing is ending in 7 days! The price will then go to full price.* Are you building a business that is aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Knowing this answer changes everything. Building a business that isn’t aligned with your life takes as much time, energy and resources as building one that is. You’re not just building a business, you’re building a life. …
Live on Monday! Papillons with Angela Kennedy
As you look at Angela’s beautiful work you will find yourself looking again and again and finding more details each time. Through sketching, paint and mixed media techniques Angela brings portraits to life in such sweet ways. Let her work draw you in through those eyes, flowing hair and attention to details. Papillons with Angela Kennedy is Live on Monday! Registration is $52 and the course will go live on Monday, November 4th. The course is 4+ Hours of Content. …
Live on Monday! An Artful Advent with Kelly Hoernig
Come and create a beautiful altered advent book this holiday season! Bring focus and intention into the beauty of the holidays and create a keepsake for years to come! Join Kelly Hoernig on this creative journey and she will guide you beautifully like she always does! An Artful Advent with Kelly Hoernig is Live on Monday with Instant Access! Registration is $52 and the course will go live on November 4th. The course is 4+ Hours of Content. Come and …
City Farmhouse | California and Montauk Collection (swoon)
It is not often that you have an up-close and intimate look at the journey of a person, business and brand. We often watch things from afar and wonder what brought them to a place or we stand in awe of what they have accomplished without knowing the backstory. Thirteen years ago I lived in the same neighborhood as Jen O’Brien of City Farmhouse. This is the time when blogging was huge and we were both getting our feet wet …
New Free Art Video: A Portrait Study with Michelle Wooderson
We have just added another free video to our creative network! Today we have released A Portrait Study with Michelle Wooderson. Join Michelle Wooderson as she brings to life the portrait of Berthe Morisot. Focusing on the use of black that was so popular in the impressionist era, Michelle recreates the depth and focus of Berthe’s features. This free video gives you a taste of the course, Studying Under Berthe Morisot and we hope you will join us for …
Creatively Made Business | The Three C’s To a Stronger Business
The year is winding down but for small business owners, our hearts and heads are spinning with ideas of how to grow our business and what we want to bring to life in the new year. Creating an authentic and loyal following takes time. Knowing your brand, being focused and delivering high-quality goods of any form takes intentional decision making throughout the whole year. A large part of our business is walking beside other small business owners and helping them …
Begins Tomorrow! Art Under Resin | Alcohol Ink in Abstract with Noelle Mena
Noelle Mena brings passion and excitement to anything she is exploring and creating whole heartedly. Join Noelle for her newest passion in Art Under Resin. Her love of the process and her heart for you as an artist will rub off on you and before you know it you will have the rules under your belt and you will be breaking them to find your own creative process. Learn Noelle’s process through mixed media techniques to create small and large …
New Free Art Video: Abstract Journaling with Tiffany Goff Smith
We have just added another free video to our creative network! Today we have released Free Art Video: Abstract Journaling with Tiffany Goff Smith. This free video gives you a taste of the course, Soul Food and we hope you will join us for the full class! Come on over and enjoy the free art video Abstract Journaling. This video is free but you still need to be logged into your account on jeanneoliver.com to access the video. If you have …
The Gift of Gathering | Bre Doucette of Rooms for Rent Blog
We have had our business for 12 years now and for most of these years I have been able to share home through blogging and also the blogs of others that I admire. Our home and gathering was never the main focus of our business but I believe with my whole heart that because I have such a deep LOVE of home and gathering that the Lord has used that to also bless our business in ways I couldn’t …
Early Registration Ending! Show Up and Shut Up: Strategies of an Insecure Artist with Carolina Della Valle
I am so honored to once again share with you an artist creating an online course with us that has never offered an online workshop before anywhere! It is one of my greatest joys to get to collaborate with an artist doing something new and fresh! I love that this brand new workshop with Carolina Della Valle is all about working through our insecurities as creatives and by showing up we quiet those voices! This is a lesson that I could …