Hello, and welcome to my corner of this portal of light we call the Internet. My name is Effy ‘Bird’ Wild, (she/her, INFJ, Libra with Libra rising and a Cap moon, soul number 9, in case you were curious) and I am an artist, writer, and teacher who plays around in the realms of mixed media art, book binding, art journaling, and creativity as a spiritual portal. I believe I was put on this earth to hold space for the part of you that yearns to be creative, and through creativity, come into alignment with what best serves your soul.
I’m a survivor of childhood and domestic abuse, a trauma warrior in recovery for C-PTSD, a drop out, a late bloomer, and a force to be reckoned with.
I write about all of the above right here, share whatever is alive in me over here, and spam you with photos of my art, furbabes, and food over here. If you want to know where I’m currently teaching, you can find that out over here.
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It’s Friday! I’m In Love
If you're a regular reader, you know that I just had an intense few days hanging out with my son, known affectionately in my community as GG, and getting him ready to move to the far North (Rankin Inlet for those who are curious about how far North). I made sure he...
Art For Me
If you read my last post, you may have noticed a sneak peek of a painting in progress. It was just a drawing in black paint with black hair at that point. Here it is again in case you missed it. I had a couple of classes to attend the day after (thankfully with camera...
Unalive* Your Darlings?
I don't know who said the thing about "unaliving* your darlings" - but I do know it's been advice given to new writers for an eon about how ruthless a writer must be when they edit, and while I agree with that (I'm also a writer), it doesn't transfer well to mixed...
Autism. Trauma. INFJ. The Hermit.
One of our first activities in Moonshine 2023 this year was to engage in some preliminary work in preparation for the little spells that my Wing Witch, Sarah Trumpp will be providing us with all year long. She instructed us in finding our "soul number" and our "year...
The Gift Of Time
Mercury FINALLY went direct and I appreciated the glut of emails that flooded my inbox telling me so because this year has been such a crock pot so far - everything simmering low and slow. My energy for most things has been pretty meh except for the stuff I've been...
Mercury In Gatorade
Mercury is in Gatorade again, that fucker, and you may scoff, but it's doing my head in - especially with Moonchild being all "poke poke poke" in my tender places. My mama heart is a fucking disaster over some stuff that my kids are going through - three in crisis all...
Gentle Start
I'm off to an incredibly gentle start. There is no hoopla happening around here - no "New Year, New Me" mania. Just me and the furbabes and my paints and the Art Witches in Moonshine (my main focus this year, alongside Prayers To The Moon on Youtube and A Year Of...
It’s Friday, I’m In Love
x-posted to my newsletter + my on line community Do you know this song? It's definitely one of my favourites, and even though I'm not *actually* in the love in the romantic sense, I love how perfectly it expresses what a roller coaster ride our emotional lives can be...
Come Make A Calendar With Me Tomorrow
We made it through Christmas! WOO HOO! Okay, so maybe we're not quite on the other side of the holidays just yet. We still have to get through this weird liminal time between now and Jan 1 but thankfully, I have a lot of work to do so I will be avoiding the loose ends...
We Need To Talk!!
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! So, in case you're not aware, I live alone. I live alone AND I have trouble feeding myself regularly because executive dysfunction + hyperfocusing on work = oh shit! I forgot to eat again today! I usually have this face-palm moment when I'm...
Proof Of Life
The last few days have been awesome. Let me show you. On Sunday, I hopped into Kimi's car and we went on a road trip to Kitchener so she could visit her parental units and I could visit one of my kiddos. ...
Permission To Suck
This is a repost from 2013 but I wanted to dust it off because a LOT of you are just beginning your journey or are renewing your commitment to mixed media art or art journaling, so VOILA! Read On Hello, lovely fresh, new, green-as-grass...
It’s Like Cutting Your Hair
On December 14th, 2022 I got over myself entirely, came in here, and deleted ten years worth of posts. I hesitated, of course, because that's a lot of content - a lot of really *personal* content. The virtual diary of a decade in which I gained almost everything, lost...
Releasing & Receiving
Look at me go! Two days in a row! I'm super excited about this, loves, so pardon my breathlessness and the inevitability of run on sentences!! Look! LOOK! It's been a little minute since I hosted one of these thanks to everything I mentioned in the previous post, but...
Surfacing
Hello, Interwebs. It's been a while, yes? I am not here to apologize for that, though. I'm here to declare that I am surfacing. Let me explain. If you've followed me on the socials or taken classes with me for any length of time, you're aware that the last few years...