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October 2024 Contributor ListOctober 2024 Contributor List
Jen Cushman
Soul Stir Magic
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Soul Stirring Retreat
Jen Cushman is a multi-passionate entrepreneur focused on the pursuit of Art + Spirit, which means she spends her days joyfully creating what sets her heart on fire. She juggles her skills as an energy practitioner, an empathic intuitive, a mixed-media artist and instructor, a creativity coach and a maker on the MadeTV network. She’s also the founder of Soul Stirring Retreats in the South of France where she invites adventurous women to join world-class guest artist instructors on retreats that fuel their enthusiastic maker hearts. Boredom is the one word that Jen’s deleted from her vocabulary. Her purpose is to empower women to find peace, clarity, happiness, and healing in their own lives, which she knows is possible because she lives it every single day.
Follow along with Jen’s adventures via her website at soulstirmagic.com! Be sure to follow her social media on YouTube @SoulStirMagic, her Instagram @JenCushman & @Soul_Stir_Magic, and her Facebook pages, Jen Cushman Artist and Soul Stir Magic. To learn about her retreats in the South of France visit soulstirringretreats.com
Betty Franks
Independent Artist
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Betty Franks was born in Toronto, Canada, and raised in San Jose, California. She is a self-taught abstract artist who started painting when she turned 50. Although it seemed late in life to take up painting, the timing was just right for her. After a long career in customer service management, she was ready to unleash her creative side. Follow Betty on Instragram @Betty.Franks.Art and visit her website BettyFranksArt.com to learn more about upcoming courses.
Erin Schlarb
Hidden Hemlock (Flowers)
Hemlock Strategy + Design (Website Design)
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Alongside a flock of chickens and a dog named Lucy, Erin Schlarb and her family grow dahlias, cosmos, zinnias, sunflowers, and just about anything else that will bloom at Hidden Hemlock, their cut flower farm in Copley, Ohio. Follow Erin online @HiddenHemlock and visit her website, HiddenHemlock.com, to see what’s blooming!
Nancy Erickson Dutmer
Nancy Erickson Dutmer’s theatrical and artistic upbringing heavily influenced her creative path through life. Most of her adulthood was spent singing, acting, directing and choreographing in the theatre, including a costuming and choreography stint at the Kodak Theatre in LA with Christopher Lloyd, John Goodman and Jane Leeves. In addition to performing on stage, she has sewed alongside costumers in various theatres. Nancy has costumed, built props, and sets for many theatrical productions, so naturally when it came to creating her art persona, Scarlet Lake, she strived for flamboyance.
As a child, she longed to be a fashion designer. Encouraged by her Mother, an artist, Nancy would design clothing and her Mother would sew it for her. Later Nancy made all of her own clothing, often taking apart thrift store items to create her one-of-a-kind look. This passion for altering clothing continues today where Nancy even incorporates her own paintings into various fashions.
Along with wearable art, Nancy paints with oils and fabric paints, and has a passion for bead embroidery creating award winning Circus themes, nudes, portraits and animals, all with a decidedly vintage and theatrical flair about them. She was recently featured in the Fall edition of Where Women Create magazine with her dog, Chiwi, showcasing various spots in her artistically eclectic house where she creates her art.
Follow Nancy’s creative journey online @ScarletLakeHouse on Instagram and visit her website nancyericksondutmer.net to find her latest projects.
Nancy would like to credit photographer Bruce Marsh of Chetek, WI, for the images featured in her article.
Debi Pfrimmer
Elsie Lane Boutique
Debi Pfrimmer is a furniture artist based in Spokane Valley, Washington. Debi creates unique one-of-a-kind furniture art and has been painting furniture for over 10 years. In November 2017, she opened Elsie Lane Art Garage, which she named after her granddaughter. Her charming little shop is a perfect fit for the services she provides. After working in the public sector in administration for nearly 20 years Debi and her husband Rob decided to leave the corporate world to open their own furniture business. Learn more on Debi’s website, ElsieLaneBoutique.com, and follow her @Elsie_Lane_Boutique on Instagram.
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