The Art of Building Shadow Boxes to Honor Your Loved One
September 15 @ 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
With Angela Craig
Sunday, September 15, 1:00 – 3:30pm
A workshop using mementos and your inner creativity to build a shadow box to honor your loved one who has passed.
The combination of art and creativity using special items that connect you so personally and uniquely to your loved one, offers a type of cathartic healing in and of itself. The goal is to help ease grief through the process of celebrating a loved one’s life.
Expressing love & gratitude helps heal our heart.
To prepare for the workshop:
Gather a variety of special small items that connect you to your loved one in spirit. You may not use all of them in this box but it is helpful to have a selection to choose from. These items honor your shared experiences and they bring out the essence of your loved one…..while telling about your story together.
It is an exercise for you to express your love and your continued connection with this person. It allows you to feel both the sadness and the joy of that connection which ultimately promotes healing. I will tell a short personal story of how I came to this exercise. I will briefly describe the building of my three boxes. It was one of the most important exercises I did to help me feel less un-tethered, more grounded, closer to the spirit of my husband. I continue to feel uplifted and comforted whenever I look at the boxes. (to this day!)
Angela used: photos, ticket stubs, jewelry, notes, replicas, mementos, miniatures, pictures from magazines or ones printed by you.
All other materials provided. No art experience needed.
Angela is a retired innkeeper by trade and a seeker of all things magical, metaphysical, and spiritual. She is a philosopher at heart. Newport, RI, has been her home for the past 20 years. She has always been drawn to and interested in what lies beyond our physical world. After realizing she wanted to share some of the practices that had helped her move from grief to grace, she created the Spiritual Care Package with many of these tools. www.spiritualcarepackage.net One of the first exercises, recommended to me by a grief therapist ultimately led me to offer this workshop entitled
“The Art of Building Shadow Boxes to Honor Your Loved One.”