The Ebook is Here! Limited Time Price ~ Behind The Scenes, Inspiration, Paintings, Quotes, Sentiments

A brand new 70-page e-book featuring motherhood art & writing by Katie m. Berggren ~ 

Grab YOUR copy here!

This e-book includes behind-the-scenes details, process photos, inspirational motherhood quotes, personal journal entries, blog posts and poignant sentiments for each of the 85 8x8 paintings created for The 85 8x8s for $85 Collection in 2009.

A collection of intimate and emotional motherhood paintings released weekly for 9 months by award-winning motherhood painter, Katie m. Berggren.

This is a PDF formatted e-book. Once payment has processed, I will email you a time-sensitive link where you may download your product. Pick up YOUR copy here!

The intro of the e-book shares my purpose for creating this compilation:

“Thank you for joining me in an effort to grab hold of the honest, emotional and intimate moments of motherhood. Because I want to not only introduce you to my work, my process, my reasoning, inspiration and motivation ~ but inspire you in your own creative endeavors, as well, I have organized this book in a rather fun way:

As you travel through this e-book, take note of how:

The blue text provides a whisper of inspiration for you ~ bits of the information I have collected throughout my journey.
The red text emphasizes quotes and shares entries from my own personal journal and the Painting Motherhood blog.”

...to show and share, but to also inspire...

Once you have YOUR copy, please do not give or sell this e-book to anyone else.

Alternatively, send your friends over to see me at ww.kmberggren.com where they can snag their own copy. Thank you!

Katie m. Berggren

85 8x8 Paintings: A Dance of Intention & Creation

All contents copyright ©2011 by Katie m. Berggren art & design

www.kmberggren.com
www.paintingmotherhood.blogspot.com

All rights reserved.

No part of this document may be reproduced, shared or transmitted in any form,

by any means without the prior written permission of the artist/writer.

cover image: Song In My Soul,# 16 of The 85 8x8s for $85 Collection, 2009. ©Katie m. Berggren
Learn more here: http://www.kmberggren.com

Thank You So Much for your Support during this BIG Project!

Let me know if you have any questions,
Love & Sincerely, Katie

Free Cards Friday ~ Holding Tight & Sunrise Sunset

Holding Tight ~ brand new 10x10 painting (sold)

Holding Tight: Because we are holding tight to our little ones as they grow, and to the memories of them as little ones, when they are big...

I was pleased to deliver this commissioned painting to Marci today ~ thank you Marci! Holding Tight will hang next to Sunrise Sunset, an earlier 10x10 painting, shown below.

"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath."

~ Emily Dickinson ~

It's Free Cards Friday! Add your note to this blog post (here at the blog or on the Facebook page) throughout the weekend and be in the running to win some cards ~ I'll choose the winner on Monday.

Have a wonderful day and a peaceful & meaningful weekend
Love & Sincerely ~ Katie

a quick inspiration from Jurgen Wolff

borrowed from Jurgen Wolff's newsletter: www.jurgenwolff.com

"Do you have a list of what you hope to achieve? One format that is a good model is what Kevin Roberts (Saatchi &Saatchi) calls his 100 Day Plans. These consist of ten items, each starting with a verb and containing no more than three words. Some examples: Reach 15% bodyfat; Organize office systems; Finish writing novel. They give you big targets you can then break down into smaller steps.

ACTION: To start with, why not come up with at least one "45 Day Plan"--something you want to achieve by the end of the year. What is one achievement that would make you feel good about ending 2010? Generate your three-word goal, then chunk it down into what you need to do each week. At the start of the new year, switch to one or more 100 Day Plans and keep the momentum going."

borrowed from: www.jurgenwolff.com

image: Go Where I Go

Jurgen Wolff is a writer and creativity and writing coach who divides his time between London and Southern California. He has taught at the University of Southern California, the Academy for Chief Executives, the University of Barcelona, the Pilots Project, and workshops around the world.

He has written nine books including “Creativity Now!” (Pearson, Oct. 09), “Marketing for Entrepreneurs” (Pearson 2009), “Focus: the power of targeted thinking” (Pearson 2008 – 2nd revised edition, April 2010), “Your Writing Coach” (Nicholas Brealey 2007)*, “Do Something Different” (Virgin – foreword by Sir Richard Branson – 2005).

He is a NeuroLinguistic Programming practitioner, a certified hypnotherapist, and has studied improvisation with The Groundlings in Los Angeles and Keith Johnstone in London.

His most recent program is “The Breakthrough Strategy,” a 60-day program for writers who want to set and achieve their writing goals with support from Jurgen and a group of fellow writers. It’s in it’s third session at the moment.

Have a great Thursday, Love & Sincerely, Katie

Free Cards Friday ~ having Faith & Patience...

Today left me thinking about having Faith & Patience...

Patience for what is coming ~ does wondering and twiddling the thumbs make what is bound to be happen any sooner? They say a watched pot never boils, and it's true.

And it starts with having Faith that if something is meant to happen it will. At the end of the day, does the undue anxiety change things? I think not.

Except maybe to make my forehead wrinkle deeper and my mood even lower :)

“My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life”

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”

Omar Khayyam

It's Free Cards Friday! Comment on this post (here at the blog or on the Facebook page) and be in the running to win some cards ~ I'll choose the winner on Monday.

Love & Sincerely ~ Katie

Free Cards Friday ~ 10x10 Paintings

Good Morning!


It is Do-It Day at my house again! I like these days and have an urge to get some indoor things finished so we can spend time outside in the yard this weekend :)




My littlest one and I planted about 30 bulbs on Wednesday, and the sight of their little sprouts sings Spring to me everytime I walk outside.




It's also Free Cards Friday! Comment on this post (here at the blog or on my Facebook page) and be in the running to win some cards ~ I'll choose the winner on Monday.








For fun, I'm posting all of the Available 10x10 Paintings here - it's so fun to see them as a happy bunch! For more information on these paintings, visit the online Forty Minis Portfolio or the Online Etsy Shop.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.-- Victor Hugo

A mother understands what a child does not say. -- Jewish proverb

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

10x10 Paintings from The Forty Minis Collection, top to bottom: Wist, After The Bath, Music, Attachment, Time Well Spent, Day Dream, Star Crossed.

Love & Sincerely ~ Katie

Vision Boards ~ an expanding experience

Recently, I visited with my friend Tia Ribary of Ribary & Associates and we talked a bit about her Vision Board, hanging in her office ~ I have always wanted to create one, but for some reason hadn't.

Talking with Tia lit a fire beneath me. Vision Boards are talked about in The Secret , as well as the SmARTist Telesummit 2008, and a myriad of other places including the Women Entrepreneurs Organization that I belong to in Vancouver, Washington.



Basically, a Vision Board (or Treasure Map) is a collage that contains images and words of what you want to be/do/have/experience in your life - your visions, your goals.

Kathie Nelson of Connectworks describes it this way: "When you’re caught up in the day-to-day of running your business and your life, it can be easy to lose sight of why you’re doing all of this and what you are trying to create. Treasure Mapping is a proven visioning process that harnesses the power of both sides of your brain to create your own “treasure map” to serve as a guide and reminder of what it is you really want to manifest in the coming year."

Kathie is offering a workshop in Portland, Oregon area in February (see the details and/or sign up on Kathie's website) where you can get together with a variety of other individuals for a map building/consulting session. This event comes highly recommended.




On Monday, while my big boy was in school, my little boy and I decided to start creating - he creating collages, me working on a Vision Board ~ information that I have read has suggested you create your board in one sitting, vs spreading the process out over days.

We worked happily for two hours, munching apples and chatting and it was such a soul-expanding experience for me! It felt right every step of the way and the images (but mostly words) that I pulled from my art and Real Simple magazines were amazingly insightful.

I now have a beautiful board to hang in my studio - where I can look at it each day ~ information that I have read and heard has suggested you spend around 30 minutes a day with your board.

"Energy Flows Where Attention Goes" right?!

In the above photos, my Vision Board is in the upper left, the creative mess takes over the rest of the space :)

“Creative vision is more than an interest in material things it is a commitment to a better future. Nothing will happen in your life that you do not inspire by your own initiative. Creative vision is the power which inspires that personal initiative.”

– Napoleon Hill

Have a wonderful and inspiring day!

Love & Sincerely ~ Katie

Zenana Spa Ad & Free Cards Winner

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary."

-Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Zenana Spa in Portland Oregon is a luxurious place where I am honored to have my paintings hanging - and their newest ad features Clarity, a painting that I have always been especially fond of.


Mark your calendars! October is the last month for 8x8 paintings - each Thursday two are released into the portfolio here


November will be the Month of Giclees! With a new painting being released each Thursday as a limited edition of high-quality archival giclees.


December will begin the new Mini Collection - more details to come!

"The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks."
~Carrie Latet

The Free Cards Winner for last week is Susan! Thank you for playing!

Have an inspired day!
Love & Sincerely,
Katie

Sixth Street Gallery Opening Reception

The opening reception at Sixth Street Gallery took place last night and was a packed house! Thank you to all who came and browsed, visited and took home artwork.

I look forward to the next show!

I enjoyed showing with Angelina Marino and Joel Heidel, whose work is full of joyful and thought-provoking movement. learn more about the work of Marino & Heidel

Thank you, also, to Jen Deale who livened up the show with her talented voice and lovely music ~ I like this blurry photo of Jen at work:

Jen is also a mother of 2, and I like that shared connection.

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.
~Mildred B. Vermont

This weekend, my goal is to spend more time reading and playing with my boys, more time walking and chatting, more time baking and resting - and some time each day painting and getting work done :)

Have an inspired weekend (long, I hope)

Thank You.

Love & Sincerely, Katie

Free Cards Friday - Moving Weekend! New Studio Finished!

As we speak, Igor, the wonderfully hard-working flooring installer is finishing up the floors in my new studio - moving starts now :)

It's Free Cards Friday, and since I'll be without a computer tomorrow - I'll give you through the rest of Friday and all of Saturday to get yourself into the running for Free Cards... weekend? :)

Comment on THIS post before midnight on Saturday and you could be randomly chosen to receive Free Cards via mail! Tons of happy winners so far, let's get some cards for you!

Here's a thought to get you going:

"Our mothers and grandmothers... some of them moving to music not yet written." ~ Alice Walker

Have a great weekend!

Love & Sincerely,

Katie

Above painting: Sprinkling Sunshine