Thanks for visiting my website. I am so sorry for your loss. Please accept my sincere condolences. Grief is a very personal experience and is painful as you miss your loved one with all your senses.

Creative expression is a powerful source of emotional healing, bringing hope and light back into our lives after tough times. Visual arts, mixed media, and mosaic tile art can be valuable and engaging ways to make meaning out of circumstances that sometimes make no sense. When we feel grief, despair, loss, confusion, depression, or sorrow, we often feel better just by making something with our hands.

I hope this class will help heal and strengthen your heart and soul.

Drop me an email or call me at 757-430-9008. I look forward to teaching you the art of mosaic tile.

Get into a meditative or relaxed state. Turn off your phone or TV. Get present.

Ask yourself these questions and let your heart and mind speak to you. Anything that comes up during this meditation can be used in a physical form in your artwork that you will be creating. Write these items down.

Who are you missing - Person or Furry Loved One?

People often come in and out of our lives and missing them can be very hard. Take a moment to think about someone you miss. Maybe it’s someone who comes and goes or maybe it’s someone who is no longer living.

How does it make you feel to think of this person?

As you think of this person or pet, remember that it’s OK to have strong feelings - all feelings are welcome.

What special moments, trips, words, colors, experiences, hobbies that reminds you of your loved one?

• Photograph(s).

• Object(s) that they gave to you or they loved.

• Pieces of clothing, jewelry or items they wore or loved. Favorite colors?
  
  
• Favorites sports teams or activities they were involved in.

• Their occupation, vocation or purpose in life.

• What was your special connection to this person/pet? Use ideas, symbols, concepts from a story, or anything that is significant to you.
  
  
• What was their smell (cologne, perfume, bone, play toy, dog bed, etc.)?After the class, you can spray it on your piece to enhance your emotion or feeling of connection.

The goal of your finished artwork is to have it as a reminder of the connection you have with your loved one.