About this Blog

Hi there. Welcome to EarthShaper Arts & Homestead

I’m Amber Nicole- artist, nurse, and budding homesteader with my hubby Steven and my two fun, sweet teens. I am so excited for you to join me on this journey of living a full, beautiful, more natural life. I have thought of a hundred ways to introduce myself but they all felt so unnatural.  You will learn more about me by reading my blog posts.  I am really here for you. By making myself vulnerable and available I hope to give others the courage to live non-conventional, creative and mindful lives. My life is messy and anything but perfect and I won't pretend it is here. But it is in our imperfections that we become authentic and our true selves. It where we learn to lean on each other and build a community. My hope is to build a community founded on a quest for a beautiful, holistic, and natural lifestyle full of grace and encouragement. This isn't the usual rule heavy, extreme fitness or health plan. This is about discovering your whole self and celebrating it while also improving it at your own pace. It's about the journey. 

But if you want to know more about me, 

here is a little list of the fun stuff...  

↠    I was an air force brat but I always imagined myself a gypsy for moving so much.

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My grandma was of Bohemian ancestry, a master gardener, and my inspiration to this day.

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My mother raised me to be an entrepreneur starting and running multiple successful business that she ran on her terms to suit her family's needs.

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I now have lived in southern Indiana more than half my life. So I official consider myself a Hoosier.

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I went to Indiana University for art education.

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I was a work at home mom and photographer for 8 years.

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I gave up my art to answer the calling of becoming a nurse only to find I could do both.

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I went into nursing after a existential crisis, heart broken at the pain and strife in the world. I felt the deep need to act and help ease the pain.

↠↣I have been a bedside hospital nurse for over 6 years.


Before nursing my family did not have insurance so we treated all our ails with herbs and homeopathy.

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We are now building our apothecary grown from our own garden or collected around our state.

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One of my life goals is to go on more mission trips. My favorite was my trip to Cambodia. Our next one is to the White Mountain Apache Reservation.

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I am still an artist working mainly in paint but I love all things creative. I will paint just about anything.

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My kids are both little artists too.

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I love to pull weeds. Ok that is a bit of an exaggeration. It's more of an addiction. I even do it in public flower beds.

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I am a procrastinator extraordinaire (working on that. ha)

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My husband teaches organic gardening classes at the parks and rec department.

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He is also the chef of the family. I just make ingredient request and fancy it up when he is done.

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I am in the early stages of RA

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I sing on the praise team at my church.

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I believe in happiness in the chaos not perfection for presentation's sake.

    

Email me to discuss commissioned works of art for the home or business at

EarthshaperArts

My style is Modern Bohemian

To be bohemian today is to embrace the truth of who you are and love the kaleidoscoping variety of those around you. To live independent of the trappings of this world and create a home within yourself that cannot be shaken by a fickle and critical society is the goal of the original Bohiems. Topics I will likely cover in this blog will be the arts of all kinds (of course) gardening, homesteading in suburbia, natural healing and holistic self-care, mental health awareness, genealogy perhaps, survivalism, conservation, authentic parenting, my spiritual walk and missions, public service projects, and inspirational people, places, words and experiences. I hope you will join me on this journey to become more truly ourselves as so many under the bohemian persuasion have done before us.