That’s right, folks.  We’ve got a lot going on over here at {peace.love.free} today.

1. Go Now and Live and Circle Of Women Art Prints and Canvases are now available in a rainbow of six fantabulastic colors.

Visit the shop to order your favorite {right now pink is winning as most popular – which is your fave}?

2. The utterly divine and magical Liz Lamoreaux {whose soul inspiring jewelry was featured in our Creatrix Gift Guide} recently featured our prints at one of her amazing retreats.

Liz is currently hosting a giveaway for one of our Circle Of Women Fine Art Prints.  Head over to her blog and leave a comment for your chance to win.

3. A Sale!  A Sale!  We’re having  sale!   In honor of Liz’s giveway I decided to place all of our art prints on sale until 4/24 – so if you’ve been considering making a purchase, now is the time.

Both sizes are a full $10 off the regular price, which makes 12×12 only $40 and 8×8 prints only $25.  You know you want one!

More exciting developments coming soon – stay tuned!

How can I possibly respond to the gift you all have given me.  18 women.  18 stories.   18 gifts of trust and love and faith.

Truth.  Secrets.  Tears.  Heartache. Joy.  Loss.  Love.  Birth.  Death.   

Our stories hold all of these things, often in the very same moment.  They live on our skin and beat in our hearts and if you look close enough, you can see every single one reflected in the shining light of our eyes.

And you trusted me with yours.   I am humbled and awed.  I hold your words close and I set them free to live and breath and exist in a world that needs them desperately.  

Today after school the girls sat down to help me draw a name to choose the winner.  They took it quite seriously – numbering the list and copying it down in brightly colored markers.   At the last minute we decided –  I had two helpers, it would only be fair if we drew two names.  

 And the winners are……….

Christine and Christy!

Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you all.  I hope that I can continue to be a home for your words, your stories, your truths.   Give your stories life, I will honor and hold them as the treasure that they are.

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AND….because I’m on such a high from your words, and because i’m in charge around here – All Go Now And Live Fine Art Prints will be on sale for $35 ($15 off)* until the end of the month!

Because I am head over heels in love with your words.
Because you are so brave and true and good.
Because I know the longing to be seen and heard.
Because my pain is your pain is the world’s pain.
Because in speaking our heart we can give voice to our truths.
Because you honor and humble me with your trust.
Because your voice is strong and wise and powerful.
And just because I want to.

The first “Tell Me Your Stories” Giveaway deadline has been extended until Wednesday night. Please continue to open your heart and send me your stories. I accept them in gratitude and love.

“To survive, you must tell stories.”

— Umberto Eco

Tell me your story. Your truth. Your truest true thing. The story that changed you. The words you are afraid to say. The moment that was your undoing. The beating heart of life that lives within you.

Tell me your story.

Here in the comments. On the {peace.love.free} Facebook page. Send me an email. Use our contact form.   Make a voice memo.  Sing me a song. Whisper it on the wind and send it my way, however you choose.

{Everyone who sends in a story before Monday morning Wednesday night will be entered into a drawing for a free 12×12 Go Now and Live Fine Art Print.}

I will read your words, listen to your voice.  I will honor your story, your truth, your wisdom.

Our stories bring us together, keep us from feeling alone. They are as necessary as the air we breathe. Please, tell me yours.

Whew.  It’s been a busy few weeks, chicklets. A rush of photo sessions (Arizonans trying to get their portrait sessions in before the 115 degree heat forces us inside for the summer), Long lost BFF’s in town.   A completely impromptu trip to NYC (three hours to pack, people! and only room for two pairs of shoes!) to snap some images for the kick off of my friend Maya Stein’s amazing Type Rider Journey (a vintage turquoise typewriter in Times Square at midnight – sometimes my life is so magical I really do have to pinch myself).  

Somewhere in this crazy mix of events I updated the Go Now and Live Shop with some new products, but forgot to tell you all about it. In addition to the signed Fine Art Prints, we’ve added Canvas prints, Notecards (available individually and in sets of five) and t-shirts.  Check ‘em out!

After several requests I’ve also started selling a Fine Art Print and Canvas Print of the ‘Circle of Women’ quote.  Just as with the original Go Now and Live piece, I had no idea when I wrote these words (in my 100 things in 2011 series) that they would resonate so deeply, with so many.  When I posted it on facebook and twitter the sharing quickly began and the comments that followed made me once again humbled and grateful for this path.  I can’t quite explain how that feels, except to say that I know it means I’ve written the truth, connected with the root of something deeply felt or desired – and for that I can only feel grateful.

This year, my circle has been a source of profound transformation.  Truly, these words belong to the women who have walked with me, buoyed me up, encouraged my own reluctant tears and helped me tease away the layers that keep me from fully stepping into myself.   These witches and wild women, overflowing with creatrix power and goddess wisdom, have held and nurtured me through the worst, celebrated with me during the best, witnessed my path and been vulnerable enough to allow me to witness theirs.   They see me in a way I sometimes have trouble seeing myself.  They allow me the freedom and space to finally get naked, and when I did I felt nothing but love and acceptance (I may have heard a whistle or two, but I’m not telling).

This weekend several of my circle are gathering again in the desert.  As I circle with Jena, Mani, Georgia, Erin (I finally get to meet Erin and Claire!!!!! and also !!!), Leigh, Marybeth,  Jessamyn, Jenica and the others and luxuriate in the gifts of their light and love I want to do my first giveaway.

Write to me about your circle, the one you have or the one you deeply wish was yours.  Tell me what you have given and recieved, what it is that you need and cannot find.  Tell me how you’ve laughed and cried and gotten naked with your truth.  Write a poem about it.  Send a picture.  Lists are lovely.  However you do it, please just share with me your stories about the power of circling with women.   One participant -chosen randomly – will receive a signed copy of the Circle Of Women Fine Art Print.

You can write me personally at contact@peacelovefree.com, leave a comment, share on facebook and tag the {peace.love.free} facebook page or give a twitter shout out with a link to the writing on your own site.   However you share, make sure I have your full name + email address to connect with you and let me know if you are open to me sharing your story here on {peace.love.free}.

Blessings, Jeanette