Art Of Tracy Verdugo Blog

 Hello, hello!! I cant believe its the end of my thirty days of gratitude blogging. Not that the feeling ever ends.....so much to be grateful for in this world. I hope you've enjoyed reading along with me...... Things are ramping up in the countdown to my departure on Saturday and I'll be away from home for 9 weeks, teaching 10 workshops across the U.S You can imagine the frenzy I am in right now!  I've been busy painting these little 3x3" canvases inspired by the newly sprung Spring!! I'll be taking them with me along with prints, cards and CD's to sell at my workshops....but one of them will be going out to the lucky winner of my Gratitude giveaway which I will draw on Friday before I leave. That gives you a few more days to spread the word and comment on as many of my gratitude posts as you like, each comment = 1 chance to win! If you share a link to me blog and let me know that is another chance.. Good luck everyone!!  I'm also grat...

A big family weekend these past few days so I didn't get to blog yesterday but its never hard to catch up with things to be grateful for.... waking up this morning to dolphins playing and this beautiful view from the home of some of our closest friends Graeme, Danielle, Aidan and Ave...... who celebrated the birthday of our gorgeous Santana Luz who turned 20 yesterday. She was sooooo excited to not be a teenager anymore! On the drive down to meet them last night Marco surprised us both by pulling into Milton Hospital, where she was born, and telling her how the moment she came into this world twenty years ago was the best of his life at that point....... He has such a tender heart this man of mine and we are all so grateful to have him... Happy fathers day mi amor! I know you often feel overwhelmed by the dominant feminine energy in our household( 1 wife, 2 daughters, 2 female felines) but I want you to know that it is your love and guidance that has ...

 Grateful today for song and musicals. Remembering a magical night with my friend Louise Gale at a piano bar in New York and thought I'd share a few of my favourite things..... sunrise on flowers and beach walks for hours...  lime margaritas and home made rellenos  long lazy lunches with family and friends these are a few of my favourite things..... oh my....feeling a little peckish after all that! Time to cook dinner... until tomorrow! Make sure you leave me a comment with some of your favourite things..only 4 days left to get in the gratitude giveaway draw!  lots of love Tracy♥xoxo

Yep that's my baby girl in the pic.......all glorious 16 years of her,  with her latest fitness love Pole Dancing! That's right pole dancing...and she had so much fun after completing a term that she has convinced big sister Santana to take it up too, and I was so impressed with their moves that I caved in and bought a pole for them which Marco, like a good dad, put up for them in prime position in the living room! So today I'm grateful for  flexibility! both in physical and thought form I love that the girls are doing something together that keeps them strong, fit and empowered as young women and I love that along the path of parenthood Marco and I have learnt flexibility in the ways in which we see the world both through our own eyes and through theirs. Maybe I might even give it a whirl...... hasta manana much love Tracy xox

Hi beautiful people!  Well, I missed a few days so have some catching up to do.  Life sometimes gets in the way of blogging but never in the way of gratitude!  Come on!  Lets take a walk in the garden...Spring has officially spring here in Australia and I am always grateful to welcome my favourite season :)  still lots of oranges, limes and grapefruits on the trees and I'm grateful for this bounty and the fresh juice Marco makes most mornings....  the daisies are growing wild and beautiful...just like you!  Vitamin C and Vitamin D all in one pic!  Little seedlings of coriander (cilantro) emerge from the mulch all by themselves, self seeded from last years crop..... seaside daisies front and back!  the front garden..an oasis of green :)  welcome Spring! Come on in!  a riot of azaleas on the front deck....  beams of sunlight making the plants and me smile :) ...

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” ― Mother Teresa Grateful today for spending the day with 18 amazing, unique, beautiful creative women and for realising more, each time I teach, how intertwined we are, how connected we are, how complex, how similar and how different. The gifts that come from such diversity are incredibly powerful when we open ourselves to receive them. Grateful also that even though sometimes I forget, each small stone I cast has ripples I will never see.  Looking forward to day two of Paint Mojo Avalon tomorrow :) xoxo   “I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.” ― Ani DiFranco

Its been a pretty amazing week, and I have been truly grateful for some pretty profound signs from the Universe, including one that stopped me in my tracks on the way to Avalon today to teach Paint Mojo this weekend. For some reason my phone does not want to upload the pic that would explain my cryptic ramblings to my laptop so will have to wait until I get home on Monday to explain, suffice to say that I am in the process of reassessing what personality means, how we come to think of ourselves the way we do and how we can reframe who we "think" we are. BIG stuff. Cant wait to share more when I get home and super g rateful for signs that make me "know" I'm heading in the right direction :)) lots of love...will check in tomorrow after Paint Mojo Avalon!   we're going to do a bit of this  a little of that...  a touch of that and a whole lot of this! Be sure to leave a little note below to be in the draw to win a painting this m...