A magical rainbow journey
We are all made of sunshine. Sunshine makes the plants grow, the water flow, and the wind blow. So now it is time to go on a magical journey through the rainbow.
Spring has arrived and I’m just loving the warmer temperatures along with budding trees, flowers, and sunny evenings. As the seasons change, the cardinal sign of Aries ignites the sky with fire - it's time to be outside and enjoy the sunshine! Let's take a magical journey through the rainbow and begin to know a little bit more about the magical world we call home.
Read MoreThe final weeks of winter are an indicator that spring is near! I have created a few new art classes to celebrate the warmer weather and longer days.
Read MoreI have been busy in the studio making magical creations never seen before! My intention is to create precious gifts for your loved ones - including jewelry, home decor, and more. All of my new creations are on my website and introducing a new section: Jewelry!
Read MoreArtist Grace Noel has rented Galleria Gigantica, created and built by Garrett Suydam Denver Art Society Underground Studio artist, to present and raise funds for the Toddler and Me class. The goal is to reduce the ticket price from $30 per student to FREE.
Read MoreArtist Grace Noel’s blog series recollecting the 2+ year process for creating the sculpture called: We’re All in This Together - a public art piece attached to the new Grand Lake Marquee, scheduled to be built in Summer 2022.
Read MoreArtist Grace Noel’s blog series recollecting the 2+ year process for creating the sculpture called: We’re All in This Together - a public art piece attached to the new Grand Lake Marquee, scheduled to be built in Summer 2022.
Read MoreWe Are All in This Together,” a public art sculpture that will decorate the Grand Lake Marquee sign in the the City of Grand Lake. Both the marquee and sculpture are in the planning phase of construction and are expected to be built simultaneously beginning on Earth Day 2022 (Apr 22, 2022).
Read MoreThe Mountain Record Series recycles a surface and uplifts it to a new creation! This series began with Grace creating artwork on vinyl records for Spectra Art Space’s “Record Artwork Show” which is an annual art show hosted by Spectra Art Space featuring original artwork on vinyl records. In 2020, the series grew to include wood panels and artwork Grace had made and either never sold in years or was sitting in storage waiting to be used. There are three styles of Mountain Records: 1. Created on recycled wood surface or vinyl record, gel medium basecoat, oil paint, encaustic (beeswax) paint, glitter and faux gold leaf or 2. Created on vinyl record, gel medium base, acrylic painted rainbows, gold acrylic paint pour, and a layer of acrylic painted mountains; The resin-glitter series has a final coat of resin and glitter to complete the artwork. 3. Recycled canvas edition in a repurposed frame.
Read MoreMy friend Sparks asked to write you a letter about healthy eating habits for Pehi, a movement towards bettering ourselves and others through happiness *PehiMVMNT*. In this letter, I will let you in on my daily habits and how they have formed over decades. Did I tell you that I kinda geek out on nutritional knowledge? Well I gained it over the passed 20 year being a vegetarian. Yeah... I'm 30 now April 2018, so how did a 10 year old decide to go vegetarian around a family of meat eaters? Well, growing up in Boulder, Colorado is the answer, all my friends and their mom's were doing it, literally! 10 year old Gracie thought, "I don't want to kill aminals to eat them!" I also agreed that testing on them wasn't nice either. So there you have it! My activism days start in fifth grade, primary target: cruelty towards animals, then later people and the planet.
It did take me a while to figure out how to eat right though. I usually ate the same thing, just, "without the meat please." One time my dad made fun of me, "you sure you don't want to leave off the salad too?" Well that's just it? What do I eat now and how DO I stay healthy? This brings us to the rainbow, don't ya know?!
To begin, follow the Ayurvedic Diet, which I learned from my yoga teacher trainings of 2014 at Konalani and Shononi Ashrams. First start with the sweetness of fruit red delicious, oranges, bananas. The fruit will inspire the digestive enzyme Amylase. Amylase will be so hopped up on sugar, she will go and tell the stomach and intestines, "nourishment is on the way!"
The stomach will then prepare an acid bath to take on the beets, meats, grains, and fats. The small intestine will take on breaking down food to tiny molecules over miles of digestive tissue. Leafy greens, blue berries, and leafy purple kale get the gall bladder going signaling the end of digestion and time to soak up some vitamins.
Of course, variety is key and a routine of desert first, delicious home made meal with sweet ginger tea, and salad will make the belly happy. Limit the dairy and carbs, they make it too easy. Probiotics: Kimchi, Kombucha, yogurt, supplements!
Finally, be mindful of the how everyone: the plants, animals, people, and mama Earth, all contributed to your meal and were their treated lovingly? Give thanks and give it often, it makes your inner light glow.
