Be Your Own Magic

05/31/2026

Before May closes out, I want to say thank you.

To the three artists we featured this month — my mom Bobbi K Samples Art, Rochelle Vega Shawn Crump - thank you.

Thank you for overcoming the self-doubt, again. For becoming vulnerable, again.

Because when you share your art, you're not just sharing a piece you put on canvas, paper, jewelry, furniture - you're sharing a little bit of your soul. A little bit of your voice. We see it all in the work itself. The art always tells on you - in the best way.

That kind of courage is the whole point of what we're doing here. Slowing down. Looking up. Making the thing anyway.

To everyone else - if something they made stopped you in your tracks this month — go tell them. Go follow them. Go buy something. Go just say "I see you."

Links to the two visual artists, their bodies of work, and how to reach them are in the comments below. When Shawn's book is published, we will be the first to announce it! There will also always be a link to all 3 in the Quiet Favorites section on the BYOM website.

Bobbi K Samples Art, Rochelle Vega, Shawn Crump — I'm so grateful. Thank you for trusting me with your magic. 🖤

05/30/2026

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05/30/2026

May is almost done.

The flowers are still blooming. The race is run. The artists are still making things in their studios and kitchens and garages and wherever it is that people go to make something true.

And you're still here.

That matters more than you know.

June is coming. We're going to do something a little different — I'll tell you more next week.

But for now: thank you for this month. For slowing down with me. For looking up.

Be your own magic. 🖤

05/29/2026

We all do this a little differently. Let me give you some options, cause depending on who you are and where you are, there are a few ways to say the same thing:

🧘 The Healer:
"Some chapters are over. My nervous system just hasn't received the memo yet."

☕ The Exhausted One:
"My nervous system would like to unsubscribe from events that occurred three business years ago."

😏 The Sarcastic One:
"I'd like to formally return several memories to sender."

🎖️ The Veteran:
"Conducting a tactical withdrawal from situations that ended years ago."

🧠 The Self-Aware One:
"My nervous system has been carrying expired emergency alerts for far too long."

❤️ The One Learning to Let Go:
"Survival mode was necessary then. It doesn't have to be permanent now."

Whatever version speaks to you today, may your mind, body, and spirit remember:

You survived it.

You don't have to keep living there.

As for me, the retired Army girl, I'm going with:

"Time for my nervous system to stop pulling security on abandoned FOBs. This s**t happened years ago. Mission complete. F off."

Who’s with me?!?!
Big release!👋🖤

05/29/2026

Bobbi K Samples Art May sale still going! Always loved the yellow one.

Today is the final day of the May Mood Boost sale. If "Color In Silence - Yellow" has stayed on your mind, you can still use code MAYMOOD26 for 20% off before the promotion wraps up.

https://www.bobbiksamples.art/warehouse-originals-limited-editions-standard-products/original_art_products/color-in-silence-yellow-vertical

05/28/2026

Stepping one more time into the world of Rochelle Vega

Don't forget to follow this artist on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/rochellevega.art/

05/28/2026

Art heals. Not in a metaphor way. In an actual, measurable, something-shifts-in-your-chest way.

When you make something — or even just sit with something someone else made — your nervous system slows down. Your breathing changes. The part of your brain that's been spinning all day finally has somewhere else to go.

That's not woo crap. That's biology.

This month I've been featuring artists — my mom Bobbi K Samples Art, Rochelle Vega, Shawn Crump — people who pick up a brush or a camera or a needle and thread, or a pen and paper, and make something out of nothing, or out of their own stories.

And every single one of them, when I asked, told me some version of the same thing:

*I make things because it's the only way I know how to process being alive.*

That's healing. Quiet, ordinary, unglamorous healing.

The kind that doesn't announce itself.

You don't have to be an artist to get the medicine. You just have to be willing to look. To really look. To let something land.

What piece of art — any kind, any medium — has actually healed something in you?

05/28/2026

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05/27/2026

We're almost at the end of May.

A month of slowing down. Of noticing. Of looking at flowers and racing and art and the voice that says *don't* — and doing it anyway.

Here's what I want to leave you with:

You don't have to be moving fast to be going somewhere.

You don't have to be loud to be making something.

You don't have to have it figured out to show up.

May taught me that. Again.

What has May taught you?

05/26/2026

Last one from my mom's collection this month.

This one is called Venice. I always wanted to go there. She did. Then she painted it. Then she made a bomber jacket out of it (I'm wearing it in this picture).

Mom — thank you for making things. For never needing permission. For showing me what that looks like. 🌸. Bobbi K Samples Art