Voice lessons!

With six students now in my studio, I am excited to announce that we are going to be having a winter recital! I have students from age seven to seventeen and enjoy teaching each and every one of them.

We work on pieces including: Sebben crudele, Silent Noon and even Zipah dee doo dah! Is that even spelt correctly?

Voice lessons include not only repetoire learning and technique building that suits the age of the student but also Italian, French or German diction that the student chooses to focus on and even vocabulary learning. Music theory reviews always start our lessons so that the student don't only learn their new songs with their ears but also by discovering how to read music if they don't already. For my begginner students I have now start teaching elementary piano and music appreciation to help expand the student's overall music knowledge.

If your child is interested in having music lessons in your home or in my studio in that Atlanta, Ga area, please email me. Lessons are most commonly an hour and cost $40, although depending on schedules and the student's needs, thirty minute lessons are also available for $20. We do not sing the entire time because I do not want to stress the voice, remember that ten or twenty minutes of the lesson is dedicated to music and language education.

I am excited to discuss your and your child's goals in starting to study music or continuing your music education together!

Mention my blog post and recieve $10 off a full lesson!

Brava to all of my current talented students: Lena, Gwen, Julia, Laura, Larissa and Nell

New love and new walks

This Saturday is the next NAMI walk I will be participating in. NAMI Georgia at Tribble Mill Park in Lawrenceville, Ga better watch out for the Lexicon of Love team. We have over ten members of our team walking including women from Atlanta Young Ladies, the meetup group that I now am the main organizer of. My family and my new beau will be there as well holding my hand and walking step by step stomping out stigma.

Who is this new beau you ask? OH well he is amazing. Matt is a musician, a director for a non profit of Georgia, a romantic, a traveller, ambitious and he supports me in my battle against clinical depression. I could go on but I'll let you save your gag factors. We are happy together and that is what is so important. I feel very lucky to have found him.

Come one come all!

I have two markets coming up within the next two weeks!

Atlantic Station is this Thursday where they are playing Mary Poppins on their big screen.

Then the next weekend I'll be at the Woodstock Market selling for THREE days! That is September 6-8th.

Hope to see you there!

Crazy

One of the most important things to me these days revolves around that word...crazy. Define crazy. I love that.

That word I use a lot, like "Oh you're crazy for spending that much." But do I realize what that REALLY means?

Bring Change 2 Mind along with Glenn Close and Ron Howard are teaming up with NAMI, the National Alliance of Mental Illnesses, to stop this stigma and you know what? I agree.

I pledge to stop using the word crazy. It is insulting and overused. I have been called it, you have been called it whether it be condescending in connotation or joking.

Enough is enough. We the people of mental illness say, no more!

View the video at Bring Change 2 Mind and speak up for yourself, it's worth it.

My part in this journet to de-stigmatize mental illness and for me specifically, clinical depression, is to educate and own my illness. It is to stay away from those unwilling to learn and surrounding myself with loving understanding friends and family. It is to step up and walk for the NAMI Walks and start my teams to pledge money and raise it for NAMI organizations across the country.

Last May my team raised over $100 for NAMI Maryland. This September I am at it again and pledge to walk NAMI Georgia and raise money for them to host classes and workshops for free to those who deserve the help, which is everyone and anyone.

Educate yourself!

If you'd like more information or to donate to my walk I would be so thankful!

Craft shows

Wow what a week! I've gotten two notifications that my submissions were acccepted into not one but TWO markets happening in the next two months.

Georgia Farm Girls Market: July 24th
Woodstock Outdoor Market: August 6-8th

At these markets I'm also inviting my meetup group: Atlanta Young Crafters, to join me in booth around me to sell their handmade goodies as well.

Also, now you can buy cards DIRECTLY from my webpage. It's so easy a caveman could do it.

Today I am going off to art expressions therapy and then an individual session with the counselor. She just spent a month with the Dalai Lama.....no joke.

Ready for inspiration, yes!

No longer Sex and the City

Young women these days want more than sex and the city. We grow with each generation because of oppurtunities and leaps in culture and society, thank god. We have EVOLVED! We do not sit around and long for Big or do the reverse and exploit sex and say "I'm in love with myself more than you."

The books I've dived into this summer are Add More -Ing to your Life by Gabrielle Bernstein and Tranquilista by Kimberly Wilson. Even on the back of the first book mentioned it says how this generation of twenty something young women are ready for something better, something new. And I am latching onto that idea like it's my job.

I'm a tranquilista- I am an entreprenuer in sassy heels yet I am down to earth, flexible and gently caring with my practice of yoga and meditation, finding peace and slowing down but ambitious to become even more productive than those around me.

A tranquilista to me, she is tranquil like the name implies but with the kick of is the -ista. The diva side. I am both smart and insightful to my inner needs and harmony among the things around me but am also outspoken and confident, knowing how to get those things I need and now.

I radically accept. I am mindful. I live in the moment.

How do you think you've evolved as part of this new radical generation change?

It's happening. This is not just some random girl's blog post. Read into it and you'll see, we are changing as a whole culture these days, we want better.

We deserve better.

I am not just Sex and the City anymore I am Love and the World.

Setting up shop- opera singer turned creative tranquilista

It's here!

Now you can shop online for my homemade greeting cards and original art:

http://www.shophandmade.com/Store/Lexiconoflove

Keep checking it for updates, I have over 30 original one of a kind cards as of today and am looking forward to breaking 50 by the end of the week. It takes a little while to get them up on the site so bear with me.

Cards will be $2 and up and shipping will only by 99cents to get to you anywhere in the country so you can personalize and send to a loved one.

Very excited y'all.