A Paint Party, a Promise, and Four Women Who Showed Up to Create 📍 Story Moment: A Saturday evening in the studio — brushes in hand, blue paint on the palette, and something sacred quietly filling the room. There's something that happens when women gather around a table with paintbrushes in their hands. The walls go quiet. The busyness falls away. Somewhere between the first brushstroke and the last — something opens. Last Saturday, four of us gathered for a "Hope Anchors My

How Nine Women, One Year Ago, Left the Plan Behind — and Found Something More Beautiful 📍 Story Moment: Trixi's Creations' Studio, 29 March 2025 — nine women arrived with brushes in hand, a sunflower to paint, and a canvas full of possibility. There's something holy about a blank canvas. It stands waiting — white, wide, and full of promise — like an unopened morning, like a held breath before the first word of a song. Nine canvases lined the table in Trixi's Creations'

How paint, prayer, and honest conversation became a sanctuary for every woman in the room 📍 Story Moment: A sunny Saturday morning in Auckland, 28 March 2026 — women gathering in a studio that holds more than paint, discovering they're holding more than brushes. 📖 "We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." — Ephesians 2:10 (NKJV) My studio is a sanctuary. I don't use that word lightly. It's t

A Celebration of Colour, Connection, and Grace Our final Healing 💔heARTs💖 Community Paint Party for 2025 at Mairangi Bay Community Church As this beautiful year draws to a close, I’d love to invite you to join me for one last creative gathering before we pause for the summer — a Community Paint Party filled with laughter, colour, and connection. 🗓 Date: Saturday, 22 November 2025 🕓 Time: 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm 📍 Location: Mairangi Bay Community Church This month’s paintin

This week I realised just how easily we get tempted to revert back to our old sinful responses when familiar feelings are triggered & we feel crushed. As I've been processing Tuesday's meltdown, I realised it's not so much what happens to us, but how it makes us feel that trips us up & causes us to revert back to what worked before to help self-medicate the pain. I don't think it was a coincidence that Ouboet shared those painful memories I had buried, with me earlier that mo

This month's community paint party drew less than a hand ful of people but we had loads of fun nevertheless.

This weekend we had another community paint party at our church. 7 people arrived, most of which haven't painted in years. Once again we...

I was born in Germany raised in SA. Having been conceived after an illegitimate brother and an aborted brother as well as being unplanned, I felt mom's guilt, shame & "Oh NO" in the womb resulting in my feeling unwanted & "I shouldn't be here" from my earliest moments. The spirit of death had wrapped around me in the womb & I spent a lifetime struggling with anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts & social anxiety because of the many foundational lies that I had come to believ

This week we start up our weekly paint parties again. There will be one in the morning with a virtual link up for those who would like to join from the comfort of their own homes.

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A choir buddy asked me to host a Mother's Day paint party for the moms & tots at the kindy where she works... Together with 1 of the...

This weekend we had our Mason Jar paint party. I was only expecting 1 friend but had a surprise show-up. Susan had never painted before....

This weekend's paint party was small & has made me realise, that even if I have only 1 signup, it is still worth the time & effort to...

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This week I celebrated 2 years victory over a lifelong struggle with anxiety & depression. I'm excited to have been able to celebrate...

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Last weekend I hosted my final paint party for this year. I had a full table for my Christmas paint party. It was a tight squeeze but fun...

On Friday evening I had a small but seemingly successful paint party. We spent about 3 hours painting & testing techniques to create all...

With thanksgiving coming up soon I figured this grateful pumpkin would make a great idea for a paint party. I did my practice painting on...