Learn to Use the Power of Intention & Intuition
to Create a Dreamboard!

Whether you call it a dream board, a vision board or an inspiration board, the magic is the same. When you bring together images with intention and intuition, you invite in the power of your dreams!

I have been working with dreamboards forever, starting with sitting around the coffee table in my Mom’s apartment and dreaming with my siblings! For years, I’ve been hosting an online dreamboard circle every month and since January, I’ve been leading a small group of magical dreamers through an entire year of dreaming, connecting with the power of the moon’s cycles.

What I know about Dreamboards for sure…

• Dreamboards connect you to your soul.
• Dreamboards are a powerful invitation to your dreams.
• Dreamboards are creative and fun to make.

How do you make a dreamboard?

That’s exactly what I’m going to teach you. In this free online workshop, you’ll learn my magic formula for dreamboard creation. It changes everything!

Creative Living Workshop: How to Make a Dreamboard

• We’ll spend 60 minutes together, live online!
• You’ll learn how to make a dreamboard with intention and intuition.
• You’ll have the opportunity to ask me your dreamboard questions!
• I’m offering the workshop at two different times: Thursday, July 28th at 2:00 pm EST (NOW FULL) and Saturday, July 30th at 11:00 am EST.
• It is absolutely FREE!
• In fact, during this workshop you’ll get a special price if you’d like to join in for the Year of Dreams!

Registration is FREE! And there are two dates available.

Registration is REOPENED!. (I have been approved for an official Livestream channel and that lifted the cap of viewers!)

Click here to Register for How to Make a Dreamboard on Saturday, July 30th at 11:00 am EST.

I look forward to dreaming together!
Oh, and yes, if you want to sign up for both, you absolutely can.

Register for the Saturday July 30th workshop here:

I’m so excited to share the magic of dreamboards with you. Just fill out this form below and you’ll get all the details plus my Creative Living Newsletter!

I’m so excited to share the magic of dreamboards with you. Just fill out this form and you’ll get all the details plus my Creative Living Newsletter!

When I launched the Sparkles e-course this year, my intention was that these little tidbits of creative joy would open up possibilities and start the creative juices flowing for everyone who stepped in and decided to sparkle. I was just delighted when I heard the experience of these two sparkling sisters and I just knew I had to share their story with you. Enjoy! Jamie

Featured Sparkles Clients Margie Kardash and Kath Stewart

Website: Souers du Jour

Tell us a bit about yourselves and what you’re creating in the world.

We are sisters, Margie Kardash and Kath Stewart. We live 600 km apart but for most of our lives we lived in each other’s pockets, spending hours together and at one point, even working in the same office. Seven years ago, Kath moved away and we had to find a new way to connect. Our blog started with a Sunday morning phone call and the usual lament of missing each other, being apart meant we were always saying, “I wish you were here!” “I wish I was there!” We had each purchased our cameras and the creation of our soeurs du jour blog (loosely translated to a sister a day!) was a place for us to share what we were learning with each other. It was fabulous, finally we could see what the other was doing, our photographs became the focus of our posts. We had created a virtual kitchen table where we could sit and share our stories and photos. We never expected that when we joined together in a virtual way that we were also joining an amazing community of women who would become a huge part of our creative lives. We dabble in crafts, decorating and art, we are both definitely photographers at heart but also love writing. We love to cook and entertain, we don’t blog about that much, maybe we should!

What inspired you to sign up for Sparkles?

An internet friend told me I should like your Facebook page, there were lots of fun things happening there. Margie and I had participated in the 12 steps for highly creative women book club with you and really enjoyed it. So we joined and shortly thereafter you announced Sparkles! We like to take e-courses at the same time because it is a way for us to connect and share an experience in a virtual way when we are so far apart. We email, talk on the phone, Skype and send photos of our work back and forth. We motivate each other, “Did you do your homework?” “No, I’m stuck!” “Try this!” It always works. Our one downfall is that life gets in the way and sometimes we don’t follow through with completion of the courses, so when you said Sparkles was only five minutes a day, we were in! Surely to goodness we could finish a course that only took five minutes a day!

What’s been the impact of going through the Sparkles e-course?

We both suffer from resistance and have trouble starting projects, we spend lots of time dreaming and talking but to actually haul out the paints, the camera, the canvas can be a bit of a challenge. Both of us created art pieces during the Sparkles e-course and loved how free we felt to just do something and not worry about perfection. Magically that five minutes a day opened us up a bit at a time and allowed the creative juices to flow.

What have you discovered?

We agreed (we were together last week on a mini-vacation at Kath’s house – yay!) that the most important thing is to choose to do something manageable, something that fits into your life. If you sign up for an eight week intense discovery course at the busiest time of the year chances are you are going to struggle. If you think you’re going to take this weekend and edit all 10,000 photos in your collection, you are likely setting up for disappointment. Sparkles taught us that a wee bit can be enough. (And sometimes it is hard to stop – we don’t want to give anything away but both of us found some of the assignments so much fun that we’ve incorporated them into our routines) Sparkles gave us a chance to try something new each day.

Is there anything else you would like to add?

We liked it so much, we’ve already given the e-course as a gift to a family member who we knew would love it as much as we did.

What would you like to celebrate?

Sisterhood of course! We are so lucky to have each other and all the other women we’ve met in our lives who buoy us up, make us laugh, share our tears and fill us with wonder at the strength and creativity that brims within us all, just waiting to spill out if we let it!

Thanks Jamie for letting us tell our story, you are an inspiration indeed!

Registration for Sparkles is always open. To find out more or to start your own sparkling journey, click here.

Sometimes you come face to face with your limiting beliefs. That requires some serious cloudbusting.

Recently I’ve been plugging away at creating a bigger, stronger, wider, deeper, shinier vision for Jamie Ridler Studios. I wish I could tell you this involved kicking back, looking at the clouds and letting my imagination run wild or sitting in a hip coffee shop, filling a journal with images, drawings and inspiring words but truthfully, it’s been a whole lot grumpier. There’s been angsting. There’s been obsessing. There’s been a whole lot of struggling to see beyond what I know and to imagine more than I have ever imagined of. (Lol, I’m not endorsing this approach. There are much better ways!)

This desire to s–t–r–e–t–c–h my dreaming began in a business class I’m taking with Laura West. We’ve been discussing money and Laura offered an illuminating exercise: create, in great detail, your good budget, your great budget and your heaven budget. Instead of picking a dollar amount and figuring out how to spend it, I began with listing my good-level needs (a roof over my head, food, public transit),  my awesome-level (Nia every week, regular haircuts, yearly travel) and then my heaven-level (monthly spa visits, a kick-ass wardrobe, a home I adore). Then I priced it out. Know what I discovered? My highest heaven budget came out to precisely the most money I’ve ever made! Precisely. That opened my eyes.

The good news: with a proven attainable income, I feel heavenly!

The weirdness: in no uncertain terms, I know where my inner money barometer is set.

It’s like discovering what I thought was a wide open field is actually fenced in! And you know how this freedom-lover feels about fences! Right away I start thinking, how can I bust through? The answer? Create a CRAZY WILD ASS BUDGET. (Even that language is a stretch!)

A crazy wild ass budget is designed to stretch you. It’s full of things that delight, even if they are blatantly outrageous! It’s filled with things that make you gasp, giggle or both! This has nothing to do with practicality and everything to do with freeing your mind through stretching your imagination. I’ve just started mine but I can tell you it includes a personal driver, a masseuse and retreat-worthy properties both in a beach-centered locale and in Europe.

Try it with me. What would be on your crazy wild ass budget? A writer’s garret in the south of France? Studying at the Cordon Bleu? Having Bob and Jillian as your personal trainers? (Does anyone else watch The Biggest Loser?) Going to Cannes? Renting a stadium for your birthday party? Owning a ranch? What delights you?

Put your CRAZY WILD ASS BUDGET in the comments! Let’s inspire each other to s-t-r-e-t-c-h!

PS I know that we’re all delighted by simple pleasures too. As I write this I have a white lilac from my garden sitting in a water glass: heaven. But this stretch helps us go places we’ve never imagined, just like stepping into a movie or a novel or a dream. Come and play.

It’s been an incredible week! On Sunday I led my Year of Dreams circle as we connected to and created from the desires and dreams in our hearts. Then wishBIG ecamp began and it has been a delight to see the Vision Cards that participants have made in my workshop! Then Sparkles launched – glittering trails of creative magic heading around the world! Amazing. Just amazing.

And so I’m turning to one of my own Vision Cards, one of my favourites, one that I’ve carried forward from last year and that I bet I’ll carry forward again, as a reminder that now it’s time to rest. It’s time to sink into the joy of all that’s been shared, all that’s been started and let it breathe. There’s still lots to do. (There’s always lots to do) Enthusiastic Sparklers are stepping into the class.  I have some writing projects I’m excited to get to.

But after every creative project, after every dream sent out into the world, after every leap, there must also be time for a nap, for a stretch, for a cup of tea, for a walk in the park. And that’s what I’ll be doing today.

No matter how big the dreams or how big the project, an essential part of the plan is to rest.

Registration opens tomorrow!

Don’t miss the Launch Party at Find Your Sparkle.ca!
There will be prizes!

What is Sparkles…

Sparkles is a creative e-course. For 31 days, you’ll go on an adventure designed to awaken your creative spirit and fill you and your days with sparkle. Each day, you’ll receive a quick-to-read, quick-to-do inspiring creative exercise in your inbox. Lessons come from an amazing array of creative guides from a wide range of disciplines (e.g. photography, writing, painting, sound, dance – even food!) They’ll show you how to get creative, even when you feel like you have no time at all!

How the Sparkles e-course works…

• Register whenever you are ready to begin.
• You won’t need any super-special supplies. Just something to write on, something to write with, some way to play music and a camera. So, with a journal, some markers, pens and crayons, an MP3 player and a camera, you’re all set.
• Within a couple of days of registration, you will start receiving a Sparkles lesson in your inbox every day for 31 days. Each sparkle is a creative prompt (an invitation to dance, write, scribble, imagine etc.), a quick and easy exercise to awaken your creative spirit in 5 minutes or less.
• Dive into each new sparkle and let the magic begin!

And the magic doesn’t end when the course is over. With Sparkles, not only will you infuse your month with creativity but you’ll also walk away with fresh tools in your creative toolkit. You’ll be able to come back to your favourite sparkles again and again and continue to fill your life with creative joy.

The world opens up when you sparkle!