JaynieLea
JaynieLea

JaynieLea

Passionate writer, artist, designer & foodie. Ever evolving, Realistically Inspired LOVER OF LIFE. Wine is my spirit animal. Inspiration is everywhere when you open your mind. Sometimes you need to colour outside the lines.


You cannot Draw Water from a Rock.

22 Jul 2025 2 minute read 0 comments JaynieLea

“It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.” - Paul Tourni...

The Beauty in your Details

21 Jul 2025 6 minute read 4 comments JaynieLea

Paintings are magical things really and though I have always loved art, I have developed a really deep and rich connection to it in the last few years, so I decided to use a close up photo of the oil paint strokes on a painting my late mom did for m...

Hot Potato - Cold Potato!

20 Jul 2025 3 minute read 0 comments JaynieLea

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato. - Laurie Colwin Pretty much everyone on my life says that I should have been Irish because of my unending love for potatoes! Like r...

Inspiration is EVERYWHERE when you open your MIND.

19 Jul 2025 2 minute read 0 comments JaynieLea

When Jude goes to soccer practice, I generally head out to the mall to go do some grocery shopping so that we don't have to see the shops again until his next practice. So, I popped into a local home and decor shop, took a stroll around the store, a...

Putting the shoe on the other foot.

18 Jul 2025 3 minute read 0 comments JaynieLea

If I go out into my garden right now, I could pick literally endless points and positions to go stand and every single one of them is going to offer me a completely different view. Angles, perspectives and sights that no other position will give me…...

Petrichor and my Inner Child

17 Jul 2025 2 minute read 0 comments JaynieLea

  Whenever it rains, and its earthy scent - the petrichor - hits my senses, memories come flashing and I go back in time. - Shon Mehta I love my garden after the rain. There is something absolutely magical about inhaling the smell of wet earth as...

Additions and Subtractions

16 Jul 2025 2 minute read 0 comments JaynieLea

  “You will have people walk out on you, walk over you, and walk away from you. If these things didn't happen, you wouldn't have such great people who walk with you, walk beside you, and walk into your life. Cherish the subtractions and you will be...

Mind over Matter & Stepping out of our Comfort Zones

23 Aug 2024 6 minute read 0 comments JaynieLea

“Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” - Roy T. Bennett Mind over Matter. A term most...

The Starving Artist

22 Aug 2024 4 minute read 0 comments JaynieLea

My whole life I watched my mom struggle as an artist. She would throw her heart and soul into her art, day after day as well as night after night as she not only painted for herself, but taught daytime and evening lessons. I would say that at the...

Jim Morrison was right, people are strange!

21 Aug 2024 3 minute read 1 comment JaynieLea

Jim Morrison was right, people are strange! What is it about humans that we seem to “want” to attract drama into our lives?! Feelings of animosity are never enjoyable so why on earth do we so often not only entertain them but willingly attract th...