You are so very appreciated! Thank you for sharing this vlog with us! Was crying with you at the end… your words were the beauty that found me on this day. Thank you Christina 🤍🤍🤍
This channel is such a real and positive energy. I loved the poem. The imagery of the fall season was a beautiful foil to reading. Look forward to seeing the bedroom plans develop. Thank you. 😘
My heart melted a little listening to all of this. What a treat to hear you read your beautiful poem, thank you for sharing, what a brave thing to be so vulnerable. Big congrats on selling your heartwork, errr art work! Looking forward to the bedroom cozifying and loved all your inspiration photos, very intriguing process. God has blessed you with many gifts for sure.❤
Oh my goodness. My heart skipped a beat listening to your poem. Beauty certainly found me today. Your talent in so may areas is truly remarkable. Thankyou for sharing. ♥
Oh Christina, you can´t imagine, how much I love your channel! You are such a warm and inspiring personality - and the vibes of your wonderful poem spread from New York to Hamburg ;-)
I would love to say thank you so so much for these educational design videos!!! I have searched for so long to find something like this. I love all your work, from Art to interiors to poetry. There is no one that I know that is so truly talented willing to share their design knowledge with such class and beautiful content. I am a new fan, but here for all of your work. Thank you again for your time and inspiration. Michelle
Michelle!! Thank you dear 🥰 I am so happy you’re here and I will continue to share art, design, poetry-whatever inspiring beauty I can find. It’s always my hope to inspire you and share the beauty of the world with you 😘
Black lampshades would be fabulous for the cozy, sexy, vibe. Maybe not for your room but I am a fan and have slowly added more and more in my house. 🎉 Congrats on moving to your house full time! I love where you are going with your room. Black and brown are my favorite colors. Can't wait to watch ❤ 2 videos a month is good. We all understand and will be excited for the new ones.
Hi CD! I love those two colors so much! Black, brown, white are my faves! Actually I’m wearing black and brown right now 😂 PS I love the black lampshade suggestion.
Love hearing that you are taking time to find balance. As a Libra I understand the perfectionist, not wanting to disappoint/ exclude those we encounter. The evolution of your channel will be great, putting your teaching into practice twice a month will be awesome natural progression. I’m super excited to see what’s in store. The poem and fall foliage is beautiful. Thanks for sharing ❤ Also, I just snagged the tote bag! If you are able to sign it I wouldn’t be opposed 😊. Looking forward to the day when I’m bragging on being in the first bunch of those to have your merch❤
Ohmygosh amazing! It’s coming from the supplier (print on demand) but I’ll find a way to make it up to you! I’ll look up your order and get your details 😘 Such a Libra trait to want to be and do everything for others. We have so much to give-and want to do it beautifully 🥰 PS I cannot wait to share all the new home stuff with you!
Congratulations on the sale of your art! Now others will be able to share your beautiful creations. Keep up the good work in the many areas you are gifted in! I enjoy your content.
Beauty found you, Christina. Your life is all the more beautiful because of your past and the journey from it to your present. I thank you for sharing beauty, yourself, and your emotion with us.❤ I am looking forward to watching you go through the design process in your bedroom. You are right, there's only so much to teach....now it's time to see it in action!
Hello sweetie. Thank you 🥹 My eyes are getting watery all over again reading these comments ❤️ So forever grateful that you are here and sharing your perspective. Yes, the past makes this future all the more wonderful. So much to be appreciative of, including you 🤗
You are so gifted, I am so sorry for your sadness from the past. Everyone has tragic experiences & we remember them although put them in the back of our minds. So incredibly happy that you will relocate upstate soon. It will be magical. Your talents are amazing 💙
Wow! Your poem speaks.., I always thought of myself as a spiritual seeker, have read and journaled my whole adult life. Just this week I had a ah ha moment when I heard and wrote these words; “Seeking is simply a belief that it is where it cannot be found.” You can imagine my delight with your beautiful words, “beauty finds you.” Peace finds you, joy finds you, love finds you, I just may have had it the wrong way around. Thank you 🙏🏼
Awwwww THAT is so very lovely, Jennifer 🥰 I love what you wrote too. Your beautiful soul shines though 🤍 Everything we are seeking out there in the world is already within us. We just have to connect to that inner voice of wisdom. You ste what you seek afterall 🤍 I looked outside for so long only to find the answers within. PS A book that changed my perspective on this was the Alchemist. Such a beautiful message from another beautiful soul.
I loved your poem Christina. You are a person I'm going to enjoy getting to know through this channel. I'm so grateful that TH-cam sent you to me. Beauty does find you! How marvelous!
Hi June! Thank you my dear for watching the whole video to get to the poem. It was a longer one for me but I enjoyed it because I feel there’s a deeper connection. So happy beauty found you 🥰
What a wonderful video Christina. Your heart and soul shine in everything you do. It’ll be wonderful to watch the progress of your bedroom. Love the book that gave you the inspiration to create your own style for your room. I was in tears hearing your poem, so beautiful. Love you Christina!🤎
Aww! Beauty found me today watching, and listening to you. I found beauty in all those rich autumn colors, that gorgeous art book, and your beautiful and sensitive heart. I’m so happy to hear that you and Jerry will be moving full time to your home in the country. Your beautiful home and property will envelop you with a nourishing hug everyday. Take time to rest and refresh for all the exciting ideas that will be forthcoming. I will be here waiting to enjoy ❤. Congrats dear luv on all the followers 🎉. Xo
Oh Christina, thank you for your passion and your compassion. Your ever wondrous candor. Your beauty finds us. I definitely teared up during your poem. How timely. 🤍 With all that closes in on us, you breathe a heartbeat within it, and carry us to our next breathe. Thank you for your bravery, courage, transparency. 💜 I have missed your content for a few. The heartbreak of the storms flooded me. After preparing for Helene, I found out after a few days that my best friend in Swannanoa made it through alive with her husband. How heart wrenching those few days were 😞 Then, preparing again for Milton to creep up to our shores, and sweep the rest of our sanity away, if not all our belongings. I feel fortunate to have not lost any of our home, and remained safe. I also feel guilty I survived and did not lose anything except my sanity. Yet I feel frozen to help those who need it. It's a confusing feeling. Thank you for sharing your heartwarming poetry. I feel reflected, touched. So hello again. I'm sure others feel more so overwhelmed in concern for their loved ones amidst the rubble. I pray for all to find hope and peace again...the beauty you reflected to us in your writing. 💜 Sorry, so lengthy, just feeling so much these days. Btw, that fabric you showed...I like the stand out one as well, feels like it has more depth. And I look forward to seeing how you moodify your room. 🤗
I can see your heart in these words, Tascha ❤️ It truly pains me to imagine what people must be going through; however, there is no way I could ever imagine the devastation they have experienced-and continue to experience. There is so much loss. It makes things like picking out home decor feel so trivial. Yet we are given an opportunity to look around and really witness our blessings. It makes us realize that basic shelter is a necessity to our life-it’s something to never take for granted, but to be honored and cherished ❤️
Your videos are so inspiring! I can’t say it enough! I actually use your videos part of my self care. Thanks for continuing to put yourself out there. Stay Blessed 💕
I look forward to every one of your videos. I love your art, design, and passion. You’ve ignited a creativity in me that was dormant. I take your comments and see my home in a new light. The comment you’ve shared “bloom where you are” resonates with me. I have found your videos to have value and depth. Thank you, Christina.
Hi Babe!🤗 I loved every bit of this video, all the things you shared, and I was also tearing up at the end of your poem... It was really heart catching for me, oh! I will definitely miss a new creation from you each week here, but self care is so so important, so I'm happy you're taking time for yourself 💖 You're such a beautiful person, I wish I could get to know you also in real life, dear soul sis 😻 Sending much love and happiness from the old continent ❤
Hi Kamelia 🤗 I know! I wish I could meet our community in person. Who knows maybe someday! I actually met a viewer in NYC. She was working in Jerry’s office building! Can you believe that? So we never know ❤️ I’m going to figure out ways to be around even on my off weekend. Maybe doing more lives or shorts. Now I can explore those too.
Beauty found YOU!! What a beautiful and touching poem. Thank you for sharing. With the craziness of the world around us and this election I’ve been in my feelings with everything and I don’t like it. You are so inspiring and your vlogs are amazing…it brings me joy. Stay with it. 🙂
Hi Evelyn dear 🤗 big hug babe! Thank you so much! Yes a lot of emotional energy all around us right now. Protect your peace but keep an open heart. Sending you love 😘
Hi beautiful Christina, it was so lovely to see this video - so much to say... congratulations on selling the NYC condo. Being a sentimental soul like you I find it hard to let go of things, but it is absolutely necessary. A tree does not grieve for its leaves in Autumn (Fall) - it knows it will get fresh new leaves at a later date, and the "rubble and the ruin" act as fertiliser for its (our) growth. Letting go cleanly is absolutely possible (and is revelatory). It's wonderful about you designing a new cave-like environment in your bedroom - I love the 'flashy' fabric (inspired by your artwork, I think), and the textural orange rug looks great too. I realised this weekend that my 'accent style' (similar to accent colour) is 'British Colonial'. Also, when you said you'll now do 2 videos per month, I thought, 'Yesss' - yesss for you and Jerry (reclaiming your 'you' time)... it's a labour of love, but a time-consuming labour nonetheless to make the videos that can cut into too much of our time (setting healthy boundaries for self). There are only so many hours in the day we have, no matter where in the world we are. Happy for you, my sweet. And thank you for the beautiful poem... sending extra big hugs to your 17-year-old self. Hear yah, love yah. 💓
Joanna you are an angel and I am so grateful for having met you here. Always a beautiful beam of light and love, you consistently make me smile and feel seen. I will give 17-year old Christina a lot of love today. I sometimes forget how strong she was, when really she should have just been out having fun ❤️ PS I love the tree leaves analogy. Pure poetry and wise. I’m sending my babies out into the would to be seen and loved 🥰 There will always be more to create and share. Thank you for this. Big hug to you sweet one 🤗
A beautiful poem ✨️ Thank you for reading it to us, you are such a sweet soul ❤ Really enjoyed this video and looking forward to seeing the progress of your bedroom. Take care 😊
Hey Christina! You have been so inspiring and helpful in sharing your truth about your journey. I really feel you are growing beautifully and take great pride in getting to know you. I have been working on my own journey and haven't been as active online after some minor setbacks. But, you gave me some inspiration about how to approach my new path in design and how I may be able to showcase my personal art, and build new opportunities for myself. As for the naysayers, like you I tend to have a perfectionist behavior of not wanting to let go of somethings that I feel deeply about. That also includes past hurts, and it's okay to go within - like a hermit, so long as you remember to shine your beautiful light on your way out of the cave! Stay blessed! Leo-Sun in 6H, Pisces-Moon in 1H, and Venus in Virgo 7H.
I see we both feel things deeply! Victoria luv, thank you for being here. I feel honored to inspire you and hope to continue to do so. There are so many possibilities to express your creativity and turn your passion into something sustainable. Going online is a whole other way of doing business but wow, the lovely people you can meet in the process is incredible. They provide a support that perhaps those closest to you may not know how to share. Also taking a break from it is okay. So many of us struggle with this but I can say I’m over letting an algorithm push me to over perform. I am a believer in listening to our hearts and when we need to slow down into some self love, so be it ❤️ That’s the one piece of advice that my mom gave me when I was a kid. “What does your heart want?” My ego thought differently for a long time but thankfully I know how to work with that part of myself now. The ego can be a huge help actually! Sending you so much love today, and every day forward.
Love your vlogs! I will miss your videos each week but taking back your time is invaluable. It will make the two videos a month more sweet! Congratulations on being able to let go of your art! So excited for you!
Hi Lisa dear 😘 Thank you and thank you! I’ll make longer videos and plan to have more to them-also maybe now I can make more shorts and do more Lives???! Those take little time so I think I’ll be even more on YT breaking it up like this. We’ll see! 🤗 Big hug to you!
Hi Christina! That is exactly the art I am going for in my condo! Those colors. I'm really taking my time collecting pieces and it's turning out beautiful. Congrats on your first sponser!
Christina!!!! You have me in tears! Your poem is meaningful! I will support and tune in whenever you make a video. You will always have my love and support. Im ordering my tote right now! Love you, soul sister!
Thank you Nicole ❤️ I’m so happy the poem touched your heart. Also, I appreciate your support each week and showing up for me. A big hug to you and the fam 🤗 PS enjoy the tote!!!
Such a beautiful episode... I really enjoyed that! Personally I don't mind videos only twice a month, but that are of longer time, higher quality, and good energy because it's not draining you so much. You seem like a very beautiful human being, and it is quite clear that you are very creative, open, and accepting of people coming from various perspectives and backgrounds. I think it's important in these times to have a respite, a place to go to, in order to shelter from the turbulence of what's going on in the world (at least for a moment). I agree that you should leave politics out of this channel, because it is a very polarizing subject- it divides. This channel is about coming together... exploring and harnessing the creativity that resides in us all. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful, moving and very inspirational poem ~ xx from one of your regular viewers :)
Yes you are! I recognize you from the beginning. I definitely pay attention and so grateful for you and those that show up here. You make my day 😘 I actually loved making a longer video. It was more natural and while I still had to edit, it felt more real. Not sure if that makes sense! Yes you are right-this channel really is about acceptance to create, to express and to be YOU. I put love into each episode. Remember the Aesthete video? I think of myself as Mrs. Strong, my grade school art teacher. She lifted me up and encouraged my creativity. I want to be that for anyone here who will listen. This is what matters most here for me. Thank you for being here, luv 😘❤️🥰 I appreciate you dearly!
Thank you for your beautiful poem. Keep on doing the good work! Also like your design ideas, not really sure how to make it work for me personally, because I’m having all this stuff…Married for 40 years lol. Those colours are so beautiful and timeless, like nature..
I hear you! Jerry is my toughest client and so I can’t do ALL the things I want to do since it’s for us both ❤️❤️ Always fun just to indulge in the imagery 😍
What a beautiful poem. I am so happy to have found this space. Thank you for sharing a part of your world with us. You come to us with an open heart and I for one can feel every beat. Take care🩷
Wow, you gave a lot this time my dear. It’s nice to get to know you better. Huge congrats on your art sale. That’s so HUGE! I’m glad you’re figuring out some boundaries with how much you can afford to give where. You’re such a giving person, you really must do that. In this very rocky world, it’s so nice to know there IS good stuff and good people out there. We will look forward to your next vlog. Xoxo
I would love to! I’ve thought about it with the big paintings for sure. A funny story; I roll up my paintings to carry from my studio (in NYC) to my apartment 10 mins away. Once the doorman asked me, “Why are you carrying rugs to your apartment all the time?” 😂 I of course explained that they are paintings and I suppose this is where I got the idea. It’s definitely on my to-do list but I have no idea how to go about it. I worked with a designer years ago. He had a custom rug made (woven) in India from a vector file I created. Perhaps a bit of googling is in order 🤔
Christina, congratulations on all your endeavors. God bless you always. I'm so blessed I've met you in person, thank you Jerry!!! I'm looking forward to your book, future paintings and home makeovers. Wishing you all the best always. Side note; I have similar bedroom lamps, and I like your living curtains. I'm also wearing your tote bag tomorrow..yay. God bless you Jerry always. 🌞
Thanks Christina, you opened up beautifully. I watched. the video in the night, because I couldn't sleep. Thanks for sharing some of the deeper layers in you. Although we differ spiritually, I experience a lot of similarities of values in life. I think love is the important common thread. You share a lot of love. You say in your beautiful poem that beauty will find you, so true. To me it reads like love will find you (for me that is God). That for me is the truth in everything, also in beauty, also in being able to build a life and identity despite of a difficult past (like you and everyone I've had my share, thank you for sharing!). All of what you share makes the concept of home as you give to us in your video's, authentic and sincere. That said, I look forward to the make-over of your bedroom. Lovely images. It will be a lovely retreat in your further also nurturing home. So glad for you and Jerry that you will be living there permanently. Being an artist and a poet myself, and having my own published book with art and poetry, I can relate to how you feel right now. Good luck! Concerning the inspiration for your bedroom, when you showed the bag with the two shades of brown, I had to think of a variation on the theme: once I was inspired by the color of a pillow that Arvin Olano showed us, as the color I was looking for for part of my website. So home can inspire other area's of creativity. But you know that. I can imagine your decision to go to 2 video's a month. I hope to be here. You know what is best for you. I once wrote a little blog about art on Instagram every week and after 8 months I just stopped. It was just the time to move forward. You also grow, I taste that in your video's, like this vlog. So find a rhythm in your life that works for you and Jerry. Have a blessed week.
Thank you Grady 🤗 Yes the common theme is love indeed ❤️ and you are so right about inspiration comes in all forms. It’s one of my favorite and most exciting things. It’s like a little gift from above 🤍 I’m sure I’ll back to regular weekly videos at some point in the new year. Just a lot going on in many different directions-all good things just require more time right now. Hope you hit some sleep ❤️
Sorry to hear that you will do vlogs only 2x monthly. I look forward to seeing you on Sundays! However I understand it’s hard work. You really showed a raw painful sensitive artist in you today. You are a treasure ❤
Thank you, lovely 🤍 and thank you for understanding. Just need to slow down right now but I anticipate having more free time after winter/the new year. You stayed for the poem 🥰
Is there a possibility that you can share a little bit of how you make decisions about fabrics when you go to the designer fabric store in NY or have you already done that there?
I've been here since the very beginning, (thanks TH-cam algorithm!); and even though I rarely comment, I'm always waiting for them. That said, I don't watch the vlogs. HOWEVER, you should make your videos for YOU. Nevermind your audience, your numbers, etc. In the late 90s to the mid 2000's, I had a quilting/textile art blog, where I shared what I was working on. I had a nice following - not huge, but enough that sponsors were interested. After awhile, I became incredibly stressed out about making "content" every week; and forgot about the joy I had in creating. One day, with no warning, I just deleted the blog. 🤷🏾♀️ I was much healthier mentally, and I learned how to enjoy creating again for its own sake. So, what I'm saying is, never mind us. Make these videos for you, in your own way, in a way that gives you joy. You'll lose some people, perhaps; but eventually, *your* people will find you. Live in joy, girl! P.S. I was an emancipated teen at 15, so we probably have similar stories. ❤
Thank you my dear! 100% I love it! You are so right, my people will find me. The right people always seem to find each other ❤️ Are you still making textile art? I love textiles. One of my favorite mediums. Yes it can be stressful making content. It’s like 90% is amazing and gratifying, this is the end result, but there’s a lot of work to reach that place! PS Did you change your profile pic? I just noticed a new hairstyle-love it 😍
@ChristinaDiStefanoStudio haha thanks, yes, I cut my hair off as a 60th birthday present to myself. Decades in braids plus general aging, was making my hair really thin. I love it this way and wish I had done it sooner! And yes, I stopped making quilts about 10 years ago, but still make textile art, and have even had a couple of shows. 😉
People who make mean comments are simply trolls who have an ugly life, so they try to spread their unhappiness. I pity them. Please don't feel badly for anything that anyone says. If we are watching this channel, it's because we love your style and what you bring to your wonderful channel and this awesome community that you are building. This community is amazing. I used to bring perfection to the plate and after having two heart attacks and a mini stroke last year, I let go of my perfectionism. It is exhausting, unhealthy, and no one is perfect, so why would anyone expect you to be? I relate even less to people who act perfect because I can't relate to them.They make me feel like if I haven't baked gluten free bread with my own two hands and dispensed groceries into mason jars and have a floor that people can eat off of, then I am a failure. People like that are fake anyways. They have all of their junk piled up in the corner, out of the camera shot, or in a spare room. I have been here since the beginning of your channel because you are real, vulnerable , extremely talented, artistic and sweet.And I can tell that you really love your followers as much as we all love you.
Big hug to you my dear 🤗 yes you mean so very much to me 🤍 I truly hope that we can all meet someday. How fun would that be? The perfectionism is an old program for sure and how I was raised. Many generations of this-my mom comes from a from a military family. I know it comes from insecurity and not feeling good enough. I also know that the overworking is a sign of that too. It’s something I’ve worked in my whole life. This channel feels like a safe space and we have created that together. I don’t pay the trolls any mind (anymore), but as a sensitive person (and proud of it), it did hurt in the beginning-maybe more shocking??? I realized recently I have a hard time not working in something-in other words-relaxing. I feel like a have a long list of things I want to do, exciting things, but there are never enough hours in the day. But I hear you. Life is far too special and wonderful to loose sight of just that! It’s to enjoy and savor. Jerry and I have been working on that more and more. Leaving NYC (everyone is always rushing here), will help us to relax. To let go and simply enjoy.
Christina , your beautiful soul always shines through. Love all that you do. Thank you. 💗
Wow thank you, luv 🤗 big hug ❤️
Beautiful paintings, beautiful property, beautiful poetry, and a beautiful person inside and out. Thank you, Christina, for the Sunday inspiration!
Hi Heidi! Thank you darling! So happy you were inspired. Sending love 😘
Thank you ❤ What ever you decide to share, I am here for it. Loved your poem 🥰
Thank you dear! I appreciate you being here and listening to the poem 😘❤️🤗
You are so very appreciated! Thank you for sharing this vlog with us! Was crying with you at the end… your words were the beauty that found me on this day. Thank you Christina 🤍🤍🤍
Cheyenne my dear ❤️ thank you so much. My eyes are watering again! Love these messages 🥹 Thank you for always being here with me on the channel 😘
This channel is such a real and positive energy. I loved the poem. The imagery of the fall season was a beautiful foil to reading. Look forward to seeing the bedroom plans develop. Thank you. 😘
Thank you sweet, Deborah ❤️
My heart melted a little listening to all of this. What a treat to hear you read your beautiful poem, thank you for sharing, what a brave thing to be so vulnerable. Big congrats on selling your heartwork, errr art work! Looking forward to the bedroom cozifying and loved all your inspiration photos, very intriguing process. God has blessed you with many gifts for sure.❤
Awwww I love that ❤️ “heartwork.”
You are speaking my language 😘
Oh my goodness. My heart skipped a beat listening to your poem. Beauty certainly found me today. Your talent in so may areas is truly remarkable. Thankyou for sharing. ♥
Jody, thank you ❤️ You just made my heart sing. Beauty found you and me too!
Thank you Christina❤ you are loved and appreciated!
Thank YOU Lydia for seeing me ❤️
Oh Christina, you can´t imagine, how much I love your channel! You are such a warm and inspiring personality - and the vibes of your wonderful poem spread from New York to Hamburg ;-)
Awwwwwwwwwwwww my heart is so full 🥰 Thank you darling. Sending all the love to you in Hamburg 💌
I would love to say thank you so so much for these educational design videos!!! I have searched for so long to find something like this. I love all your work, from Art to interiors to poetry. There is no one that I know that is so truly talented willing
to share their design knowledge with such class and beautiful content. I am a new fan, but here for all of your work. Thank you again for your time and inspiration. Michelle
Michelle!! Thank you dear 🥰 I am so happy you’re here and I will continue to share art, design, poetry-whatever inspiring beauty I can find. It’s always my hope to inspire you and share the beauty of the world with you 😘
Christina, what a beautiful soul you are. Your light shines through on every single video. Thank you for your positivity and love for nature.
Awwwww big hug, Janet. Thank you lovely.
Black lampshades would be fabulous for the cozy, sexy, vibe. Maybe not for your room but I am a fan and have slowly added more and more in my house. 🎉 Congrats on moving to your house full time! I love where you are going with your room. Black and brown are my favorite colors. Can't wait to watch ❤ 2 videos a month is good. We all understand and will be excited for the new ones.
Hi CD! I love those two colors so much! Black, brown, white are my faves!
Actually I’m wearing black and brown right now 😂
PS I love the black lampshade suggestion.
Christina, you are beautiful inside and out! Wonderful Vlog and beautiful poem!💕 You are truly such an inspiration!❤️
Thank you Laney 😘 I’m so happy to inspire you!
Thank you Christina for the beautiful video. The last 3 minutes touched my heart 🤍
Teresa my dear, thank you from my heart to yours 😘❤️🥰
Love hearing that you are taking time to find balance. As a Libra I understand the perfectionist, not wanting to disappoint/ exclude those we encounter. The evolution of your channel will be great, putting your teaching into practice twice a month will be awesome natural progression. I’m super excited to see what’s in store. The poem and fall foliage is beautiful. Thanks for sharing ❤
Also, I just snagged the tote bag! If you are able to sign it I wouldn’t be opposed 😊. Looking forward to the day when I’m bragging on being in the first bunch of those to have your merch❤
Ohmygosh amazing! It’s coming from the supplier (print on demand) but I’ll find a way to make it up to you! I’ll look up your order and get your details 😘
Such a Libra trait to want to be and do everything for others. We have so much to give-and want to do it beautifully 🥰
PS I cannot wait to share all the new home stuff with you!
Found you!!! Stay turned babe 😘
You enriched my day. Despair to hope….. Don’t stop what you are doing. You have the capacity to see and appreciate. Thank you for sharing,
Congratulations on the sale of your art! Now others will be able to share your beautiful creations. Keep up the good work in the many areas you are gifted in! I enjoy your content.
🤗 Thank you Kathy ❤️ I will keep doing what I’m doing. I appreciate the love over here!
Beauty found you, Christina. Your life is all the more beautiful because of your past and the journey from it to your present. I thank you for sharing beauty, yourself, and your emotion with us.❤
I am looking forward to watching you go through the design process in your bedroom. You are right, there's only so much to teach....now it's time to see it in action!
Hello sweetie. Thank you 🥹 My eyes are getting watery all over again reading these comments ❤️ So forever grateful that you are here and sharing your perspective. Yes, the past makes this future all the more wonderful. So much to be appreciative of, including you 🤗
You are so gifted, I am so sorry for your sadness from the past.
Everyone has tragic experiences & we remember them although put them in the back of our minds. So incredibly happy that you will relocate upstate soon. It will be magical. Your talents are amazing 💙
Thank you Janice. Yes we put it behind us but it will always be a part of our past.
We’re so close to bring here full time. I love it up here ❤️
Wow! Your poem speaks.., I always thought of myself as a spiritual seeker, have read and journaled my whole adult life. Just this week I had a ah ha moment when I heard and wrote these words; “Seeking is simply a belief that it is where it cannot be found.” You can imagine my delight with your beautiful words, “beauty finds you.” Peace finds you, joy finds you, love finds you, I just may have had it the wrong way around. Thank you 🙏🏼
Awwwww THAT is so very lovely, Jennifer 🥰 I love what you wrote too. Your beautiful soul shines though 🤍
Everything we are seeking out there in the world is already within us. We just have to connect to that inner voice of wisdom.
You ste what you seek afterall 🤍
I looked outside for so long only to find the answers within.
PS A book that changed my perspective on this was the Alchemist. Such a beautiful message from another beautiful soul.
Oh you brought me to tears beautiful person. ❤
❤️ Hearts are full of love 🥰 Thank you for being here dear one ❤️
I loved your poem Christina. You are a person I'm going to enjoy getting to know through this channel. I'm so grateful that TH-cam sent you to me. Beauty does find you! How marvelous!
Hi June! Thank you my dear for watching the whole video to get to the poem. It was a longer one for me but I enjoyed it because I feel there’s a deeper connection. So happy beauty found you 🥰
What a wonderful video Christina. Your heart and soul shine in everything you do. It’ll be wonderful to watch the progress of your bedroom. Love the book that gave you the inspiration to create your own style for your room.
I was in tears hearing your poem, so beautiful. Love you Christina!🤎
Awwww we were crying together, filming our hearts with love 💗 PS I can’t wait to share the process of the room with you! Interior design in practice 😉
Aww! Beauty found me today watching, and listening to you. I found beauty in all those rich autumn colors, that gorgeous art book, and your beautiful and sensitive heart. I’m so happy to hear that you and Jerry will be moving full time to your home in the country. Your beautiful home and property will envelop you with a nourishing hug everyday. Take time to rest and refresh for all the exciting ideas that will be forthcoming. I will be here waiting to enjoy ❤. Congrats dear luv on all the followers 🎉. Xo
Thank you lovely!! I’m so happy that beauty found you 🥰 I look forward to sharing more and more beauty with you ❤️ PS Those autumn colors 🍂🍁🧡😍
thank you so much for being so brave sharing your poem on camera! Your poem and presentation are beautiful. I feel really moved and inspired.
You’re welcome darling 😘❤️🥰 I’m happy you enjoyed the poem 🤍
Oh Christina, thank you for your passion and your compassion. Your ever wondrous candor. Your beauty finds us. I definitely teared up during your poem. How timely. 🤍 With all that closes in on us, you breathe a heartbeat within it, and carry us to our next breathe. Thank you for your bravery, courage, transparency. 💜 I have missed your content for a few. The heartbreak of the storms flooded me. After preparing for Helene, I found out after a few days that my best friend in Swannanoa made it through alive with her husband. How heart wrenching those few days were 😞 Then, preparing again for Milton to creep up to our shores, and sweep the rest of our sanity away, if not all our belongings. I feel fortunate to have not lost any of our home, and remained safe. I also feel guilty I survived and did not lose anything except my sanity. Yet I feel frozen to help those who need it. It's a confusing feeling. Thank you for sharing your heartwarming poetry. I feel reflected, touched. So hello again. I'm sure others feel more so overwhelmed in concern for their loved ones amidst the rubble. I pray for all to find hope and peace again...the beauty you reflected to us in your writing. 💜 Sorry, so lengthy, just feeling so much these days.
Btw, that fabric you showed...I like the stand out one as well, feels like it has more depth. And I look forward to seeing how you moodify your room. 🤗
I can see your heart in these words, Tascha ❤️ It truly pains me to imagine what people must be going through; however, there is no way I could ever imagine the devastation they have experienced-and continue to experience. There is so much loss.
It makes things like picking out home decor feel so trivial. Yet we are given an opportunity to look around and really witness our blessings. It makes us realize that basic shelter is a necessity to our life-it’s something to never take for granted, but to be honored and cherished ❤️
Your videos are so inspiring! I can’t say it enough! I actually use your videos part of my self care. Thanks for continuing to put yourself out there. Stay Blessed 💕
Medina I love this idea and wow, I am so honored to be part of your self care practice 🥰
I look forward to every one of your videos. I love your art, design, and passion. You’ve ignited a creativity in me that was dormant. I take your comments and see my home in a new light. The comment you’ve shared “bloom where you are” resonates with me. I have found your videos to have value and depth. Thank you, Christina.
Wow this is what I show up for Kay-to inspire you and cheer you on ❤️ Thank you for letting me know! Big hug 🤗
Oh!! What a beautiful poem! Brought me to tears! You are an amazing soul! Thank you❤
Marie 🥰 thank you for staying for the poem. It means so much to me-I am SO happy it touched your heart ❤️
Hi Babe!🤗 I loved every bit of this video, all the things you shared, and I was also tearing up at the end of your poem... It was really heart catching for me, oh! I will definitely miss a new creation from you each week here, but self care is so so important, so I'm happy you're taking time for yourself 💖 You're such a beautiful person, I wish I could get to know you also in real life, dear soul sis 😻 Sending much love and happiness from the old continent ❤
Hi Kamelia 🤗 I know! I wish I could meet our community in person. Who knows maybe someday! I actually met a viewer in NYC. She was working in Jerry’s office building! Can you believe that? So we never know ❤️
I’m going to figure out ways to be around even on my off weekend. Maybe doing more lives or shorts. Now I can explore those too.
Beauty found YOU!! What a beautiful and touching poem. Thank you for sharing. With the craziness of the world around us and this election I’ve been in my feelings with everything and I don’t like it. You are so inspiring and your vlogs are amazing…it brings me joy. Stay with it. 🙂
Hi Evelyn dear 🤗 big hug babe! Thank you so much!
Yes a lot of emotional energy all around us right now. Protect your peace but keep an open heart.
Sending you love 😘
Thank you for sharing yourself so deeply....it truly is inspiring....
You are so welcome, Carol 🤗 I’m happy to inspire you today! ✨🤍
Hi beautiful Christina, it was so lovely to see this video - so much to say... congratulations on selling the NYC condo. Being a sentimental soul like you I find it hard to let go of things, but it is absolutely necessary. A tree does not grieve for its leaves in Autumn (Fall) - it knows it will get fresh new leaves at a later date, and the "rubble and the ruin" act as fertiliser for its (our) growth. Letting go cleanly is absolutely possible (and is revelatory). It's wonderful about you designing a new cave-like environment in your bedroom - I love the 'flashy' fabric (inspired by your artwork, I think), and the textural orange rug looks great too. I realised this weekend that my 'accent style' (similar to accent colour) is 'British Colonial'. Also, when you said you'll now do 2 videos per month, I thought, 'Yesss' - yesss for you and Jerry (reclaiming your 'you' time)... it's a labour of love, but a time-consuming labour nonetheless to make the videos that can cut into too much of our time (setting healthy boundaries for self). There are only so many hours in the day we have, no matter where in the world we are. Happy for you, my sweet. And thank you for the beautiful poem... sending extra big hugs to your 17-year-old self. Hear yah, love yah. 💓
Joanna you are an angel and I am so grateful for having met you here. Always a beautiful beam of light and love, you consistently make me smile and feel seen.
I will give 17-year old Christina a lot of love today. I sometimes forget how strong she was, when really she should have just been out having fun ❤️
PS I love the tree leaves analogy. Pure poetry and wise. I’m sending my babies out into the would to be seen and loved 🥰 There will always be more to create and share. Thank you for this. Big hug to you sweet one 🤗
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A beautiful poem ✨️
Thank you for reading it to us, you are such a sweet soul ❤
Really enjoyed this video and looking forward to seeing the progress of your bedroom.
Take care 😊
Thank you Clare ❤️ Looking forward to sharing the rooms progress and also the steps involved. I’m so happy you’re here for it 🤗
Hey Christina! You have been so inspiring and helpful in sharing your truth about your journey. I really feel you are growing beautifully and take great pride in getting to know you. I have been working on my own journey and haven't been as active online after some minor setbacks. But, you gave me some inspiration about how to approach my new path in design and how I may be able to showcase my personal art, and build new opportunities for myself. As for the naysayers, like you I tend to have a perfectionist behavior of not wanting to let go of somethings that I feel deeply about. That also includes past hurts, and it's okay to go within - like a hermit, so long as you remember to shine your beautiful light on your way out of the cave! Stay blessed! Leo-Sun in 6H, Pisces-Moon in 1H, and Venus in Virgo 7H.
I see we both feel things deeply! Victoria luv, thank you for being here. I feel honored to inspire you and hope to continue to do so.
There are so many possibilities to express your creativity and turn your passion into something sustainable.
Going online is a whole other way of doing business but wow, the lovely people you can meet in the process is incredible. They provide a support that perhaps those closest to you may not know how to share.
Also taking a break from it is okay. So many of us struggle with this but I can say I’m over letting an algorithm push me to over perform.
I am a believer in listening to our hearts and when we need to slow down into some self love, so be it ❤️ That’s the one piece of advice that my mom gave me when I was a kid. “What does your heart want?” My ego thought differently for a long time but thankfully I know how to work with that part of myself now. The ego can be a huge help actually!
Sending you so much love today, and every day forward.
I love your art;congratulations!
I love that your work and videos have a spiritual aspect.
Do you deliver to Canada?
Thank you so much🙏🏻
Hi Marie! Yes I do!!!! 😘
Love your vlogs! I will miss your videos each week but taking back your time is invaluable. It will make the two videos a month more sweet! Congratulations on being able to let go of your art! So excited for you!
Hi Lisa dear 😘 Thank you and thank you! I’ll make longer videos and plan to have more to them-also maybe now I can make more shorts and do more Lives???! Those take little time so I think I’ll be even more on YT breaking it up like this. We’ll see! 🤗 Big hug to you!
Congratulations for the 12k! you deserve that and so much more, your content is great!
Thank you babe! I appreciate you saying that 🥰 and for being here ❤️
Hi Christina! That is exactly the art I am going for in my condo! Those colors. I'm really taking my time collecting pieces and it's turning out beautiful.
Congrats on your first sponser!
Linda amazing babe! I can’t wait to see!!!! 🤩
Christina!!!! You have me in tears! Your poem is meaningful! I will support and tune in whenever you make a video. You will always have my love and support. Im ordering my tote right now! Love you, soul sister!
Thank you Nicole ❤️ I’m so happy the poem touched your heart.
Also, I appreciate your support each week and showing up for me. A big hug to you and the fam 🤗 PS enjoy the tote!!!
Such a beautiful episode... I really enjoyed that! Personally I don't mind videos only twice a month, but that are of longer time, higher quality, and good energy because it's not draining you so much. You seem like a very beautiful human being, and it is quite clear that you are very creative, open, and accepting of people coming from various perspectives and backgrounds. I think it's important in these times to have a respite, a place to go to, in order to shelter from the turbulence of what's going on in the world (at least for a moment). I agree that you should leave politics out of this channel, because it is a very polarizing subject- it divides. This channel is about coming together... exploring and harnessing the creativity that resides in us all. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful, moving and very inspirational poem ~ xx from one of your regular viewers :)
Yes you are! I recognize you from the beginning. I definitely pay attention and so grateful for you and those that show up here. You make my day 😘
I actually loved making a longer video. It was more natural and while I still had to edit, it felt more real. Not sure if that makes sense!
Yes you are right-this channel really is about acceptance to create, to express and to be YOU. I put love into each episode. Remember the Aesthete video? I think of myself as Mrs. Strong, my grade school art teacher. She lifted me up and encouraged my creativity. I want to be that for anyone here who will listen. This is what matters most here for me.
Thank you for being here, luv 😘❤️🥰 I appreciate you dearly!
Great workshop, I am one of those who watch all your videos and looking forward to more practice based videos ❤
Great! I can do that and so excited to share 😘
Hi girlfriend, thank you for your inspiration …. I enjoyed this so much. Congrats🎉on the 12k!Sending you tons of sunshine from LA. 🤗Mimi
Hi Mimi thank you darling 😘 PS I’ll take that sunshine 🌞
Thank you for your beautiful poem. Keep on doing the good work! Also like your design ideas, not really sure how to make it work for me personally, because I’m having all this stuff…Married for 40 years lol. Those colours are so beautiful and timeless, like nature..
I hear you! Jerry is my toughest client and so I can’t do ALL the things I want to do since it’s for us both ❤️❤️ Always fun just to indulge in the imagery 😍
What a beautiful poem. I am so happy to have found this space. Thank you for sharing a part of your world with us. You come to us with an open heart and I for one can feel every beat. Take care🩷
Wow, you gave a lot this time my dear. It’s nice to get to know you better. Huge congrats on your art sale. That’s so HUGE! I’m glad you’re figuring out some boundaries with how much you can afford to give where. You’re such a giving person, you really must do that. In this very rocky world, it’s so nice to know there IS good stuff and good people out there. We will look forward to your next vlog. Xoxo
Yes!!!! Awww I’m so happy you are here 💗
Have you considered creating area rugs from the design of your art? Seems they could also be used as tapestry
I would love to! I’ve thought about it with the big paintings for sure.
A funny story; I roll up my paintings to carry from my studio (in NYC) to my apartment 10 mins away. Once the doorman asked me, “Why are you carrying rugs to your apartment all the time?” 😂 I of course explained that they are paintings and I suppose this is where I got the idea.
It’s definitely on my to-do list but I have no idea how to go about it. I worked with a designer years ago. He had a custom rug made (woven) in India from a vector file I created. Perhaps a bit of googling is in order 🤔
Christina, congratulations on all your endeavors. God bless you always. I'm so blessed I've met you in person, thank you Jerry!!!
I'm looking forward to your book, future paintings and home makeovers. Wishing you all the best always.
Side note; I have similar bedroom lamps, and I like your living curtains.
I'm also wearing your tote bag tomorrow..yay.
God bless you Jerry always. 🌞
Yeah!!!! I used mine today! We’re twinning out there in NYC 😘 PS I’ll tell Jerry you said hi!
Thanks Christina, you opened up beautifully. I watched. the video in the night, because I couldn't sleep. Thanks for sharing some of the deeper layers in you. Although we differ spiritually, I experience a lot of similarities of values in life. I think love is the important common thread. You share a lot of love. You say in your beautiful poem that beauty will find you, so true. To me it reads like love will find you (for me that is God). That for me is the truth in everything, also in beauty, also in being able to build a life and identity despite of a difficult past (like you and everyone I've had my share, thank you for sharing!). All of what you share makes the concept of home as you give to us in your video's, authentic and sincere. That said, I look forward to the make-over of your bedroom. Lovely images. It will be a lovely retreat in your further also nurturing home. So glad for you and Jerry that you will be living there permanently.
Being an artist and a poet myself, and having my own published book with art and poetry, I can relate to how you feel right now. Good luck! Concerning the inspiration for your bedroom, when you showed the bag with the two shades of brown, I had to think of a variation on the theme: once I was inspired by the color of a pillow that Arvin Olano showed us, as the color I was looking for for part of my website. So home can inspire other area's of creativity. But you know that.
I can imagine your decision to go to 2 video's a month. I hope to be here. You know what is best for you. I once wrote a little blog about art on Instagram every week and after 8 months I just stopped. It was just the time to move forward. You also grow, I taste that in your video's, like this vlog. So find a rhythm in your life that works for you and Jerry. Have a blessed week.
Thank you Grady 🤗 Yes the common theme is love indeed ❤️ and you are so right about inspiration comes in all forms. It’s one of my favorite and most exciting things. It’s like a little gift from above 🤍
I’m sure I’ll back to regular weekly videos at some point in the new year. Just a lot going on in many different directions-all good things just require more time right now.
Hope you hit some sleep ❤️
Sorry to hear that you will do vlogs only 2x monthly. I look forward to seeing you on Sundays! However I understand it’s hard work. You really showed a raw painful sensitive artist in you today. You are a treasure ❤
Thank you, lovely 🤍 and thank you for understanding. Just need to slow down right now but I anticipate having more free time after winter/the new year. You stayed for the poem 🥰
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Is there a possibility that you can share a little bit of how you make decisions about fabrics when you go to the designer fabric store in NY or have you already done that there?
Absolutely! I plan to record this coverage for a future video. Stay tuned, luv 😘
I watched all the way to the end. This is a wonderful video. Thank you.
Thank you so much. It was a long one full of love. I’m so happy you enjoyed it 😘
I've been here since the very beginning, (thanks TH-cam algorithm!); and even though I rarely comment, I'm always waiting for them.
That said, I don't watch the vlogs. HOWEVER, you should make your videos for YOU. Nevermind your audience, your numbers, etc.
In the late 90s to the mid 2000's, I had a quilting/textile art blog, where I shared what I was working on. I had a nice following - not huge, but enough that sponsors were interested. After awhile, I became incredibly stressed out about making "content" every week; and forgot about the joy I had in creating.
One day, with no warning, I just deleted the blog. 🤷🏾♀️
I was much healthier mentally, and I learned how to enjoy creating again for its own sake.
So, what I'm saying is, never mind us. Make these videos for you, in your own way, in a way that gives you joy. You'll lose some people, perhaps; but eventually, *your* people will find you.
Live in joy, girl!
P.S. I was an emancipated teen at 15, so we probably have similar stories. ❤
Thank you my dear! 100% I love it! You are so right, my people will find me. The right people always seem to find each other ❤️
Are you still making textile art? I love textiles. One of my favorite mediums.
Yes it can be stressful making content. It’s like 90% is amazing and gratifying, this is the end result, but there’s a lot of work to reach that place!
PS Did you change your profile pic? I just noticed a new hairstyle-love it 😍
Thank you. Italy will wait for you ❤
@@carollorac8034 Grazie bella 😘😘😘
@ChristinaDiStefanoStudio haha thanks, yes, I cut my hair off as a 60th birthday present to myself. Decades in braids plus general aging, was making my hair really thin. I love it this way and wish I had done it sooner!
And yes, I stopped making quilts about 10 years ago, but still make textile art, and have even had a couple of shows. 😉
I love it! All of it! Your gorgeous new style and the shows. Congrats!!!
Oh, and the beauty of Jerry's handiwork alongside your poem was .....I can't find the word...destined? 💜
I love how you felt it. That is exactly what I wanted to express 🤍💜
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39:57-40:02: You're a kind-hearted person
Thank you darling xoxoxo
People who make mean comments are simply trolls who have an ugly life, so they try to spread their unhappiness. I pity them. Please don't feel badly for anything that anyone says. If we are watching this channel, it's because we love your style and what you bring to your wonderful channel and this awesome community that you are building. This community is amazing. I used to bring perfection to the plate and after having two heart attacks and a mini stroke last year, I let go of my perfectionism. It is exhausting, unhealthy, and no one is perfect, so why would anyone expect you to be? I relate even less to people who act perfect because I can't relate to them.They make me feel like if I haven't baked gluten free bread with my own two hands and dispensed groceries into mason jars and have a floor that people can eat off of, then I am a failure. People like that are fake anyways. They have all of their junk piled up in the corner, out of the camera shot, or in a spare room. I have been here since the beginning of your channel because you are real, vulnerable , extremely talented, artistic and sweet.And I can tell that you really love your followers as much as we all love you.
Big hug to you my dear 🤗 yes you mean so very much to me 🤍 I truly hope that we can all meet someday. How fun would that be?
The perfectionism is an old program for sure and how I was raised. Many generations of this-my mom comes from a from a military family.
I know it comes from insecurity and not feeling good enough. I also know that the overworking is a sign of that too. It’s something I’ve worked in my whole life.
This channel feels like a safe space and we have created that together. I don’t pay the trolls any mind (anymore), but as a sensitive person (and proud of it), it did hurt in the beginning-maybe more shocking???
I realized recently I have a hard time not working in something-in other words-relaxing.
I feel like a have a long list of things I want to do, exciting things, but there are never enough hours in the day.
But I hear you. Life is far too special and wonderful to loose sight of just that! It’s to enjoy and savor. Jerry and I have been working on that more and more. Leaving NYC (everyone is always rushing here), will help us to relax. To let go and simply enjoy.
Hurrah ,,,,❤❤🎉
I know, right! 🤍🤍🤍🤍
I've been on hold for over a year, I understand the vulnerability and I see you, I'll still be looking forward to your videos.
Thank you, luv. It’s so good to be seen 🥰
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your videos! That's it. That is my comment. 😁🤭😄
Awwww I love it! Thanks darling 😘
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Big hug sweetie!
Beautiful human ❤
🙏 thank you Kraichelle ❤️ it takes one to know one 😘
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I think I know the kind of person you are. ❤
Hi Alicia 🥰 I bet you do!!
so sweet so special....
Thank you Donna 😘