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Thursday - Story/Testimony
Drawing from healing journey experience from my own perspective or through ancestors stories. Possible reflections on resilience.


Following The Thread…
There are pieces that are planned… and then there are pieces that arrive through prayer. This one came slowly. Thread by thread, like a quiet knowing unfolding beneath my hands. A womb. A holding. A sacred space of becoming. Within it lives our story ~ myself, my husband, and the five lives we were entrusted to nurture and carry forward. Not perfectly formed, not neatly contained ~ but woven together in love, in faith, in all that has shaped us. This next chapter of the studi

Lisa Raie
2 days ago1 min read


Aspire to live quietly
“Aspire to live quietly…” That line alone feels like an inheritance, doesn’t it? Not a loud legacy, not one written in grand gestures, but one stitched, worked, and lived through hands that kept going. Through days that looked ordinary from the outside, yet carried immense weight, perseverance, and devotion within them. It makes sense that it feels like it’s been delivered to me. Because in many ways, it has. https://youtu.be/RY9lyFyFB_A?si=qSlKwYZkrsy0h6bD Somewhere along th

Lisa Raie
Mar 192 min read


Opening The Doors ~ Shoppe Kre’at
For quite some time my little studio has been a quiet place of making. Paint has found its way onto paper. Threads have been pulled through cloth. Words have been written slowly between the spaces of prayer, journaling, and the ordinary rhythm of living. Many of you have walked alongside me in this way of creating ~ encouraging me, reflecting back your own stories, and reminding me that art has a mysterious way of reaching the places words alone cannot. All of this creativit

Lisa Raie
Mar 112 min read


Contemplation: A Pillar of Resilience That Brings Many Benefits…
In the quiet moments, when the world slows down and the noise fades, I find myself drawn to contemplation. It is a gentle refuge, a soft place where resilience begins to take root. When health hardships weigh heavily, contemplation offers a way to breathe, to feel, and to heal. It is not just a pause but a profound act of nurturing the soul. It is something that I have found has been inherited from some special women that have come before me. Contemplation is more than just t

Lisa Raie
Feb 194 min read


The Practices That Keep the Lamp Lit
You may or may not have seen my “Word of The Year” blog! That of course announced my word of the year as “lamp” . Here it is now, in case you missed it https://www.studiokreat.com/post/2026-with-the-lamp This week I wanted to share is a quiet misunderstanding about light ~ that it must be bright to be meaningful, or dramatic to be real. But a lamp teaches otherwise. A lamp is not sustained by intensity. It is sustained by practice. This year, as I learn to live and work by la

Lisa Raie
Jan 153 min read


I Am Being Led
“…these red dirt roads are not where faith is tested, but where faith is taught.”

Lisa Raie
Dec 18, 20251 min read


The Faith I Inherited
“…faith doesn’t always arrive as certainty, sometimes it arrives as inheritance…”

Lisa Raie
Dec 11, 20252 min read


Slowly Becoming….
I have such big plans for Studio Kre’at and so it is that I am letting December be slow and intentional allowing me to make room for what has been and what will become. And so I sit and reflect, I see how this year has taught me to rest ~ not in what I cannot do, but in what I have been given to do. To bring hope. To carry light. I invite you to sit now with me on my back lawn as the whispers of 2025 and 2026 have found me.

Lisa Raie
Dec 4, 20251 min read


The Wisdom of Vocation
It’s the moments on waking this morning, that have me back in the journal. And after a number of days off, simply to go inwards in a deeper way ~ I know that I am not a content machine. I am a woman simply listening for light. That knowledge allows me wisdom on a grander scale and that slower rhythm wandered honours that wisdom of the vocation I have. This slower rhythm does three sacred things all at once: Protects my interior life Keeps this studio visible Prepares hear

Lisa Raie
Nov 27, 20251 min read


Story: Becoming Mother at Eleven – A Letter of Forgiveness to Myself
Today’s journal page opens up my personal story in a letter penned to myself younger eleven year old self with so much love and...

Lisa Raie
Sep 18, 20252 min read
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