Jenna Bruns
Silver Linings (or "the good things that happened because everything was cancelled!")
2020 will go down in history as a year unlike any other. In the US, especially, we have had more than our share of troubles; from the...
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Jenna Bruns
- Oct 4, 2020
- 2 min
Reflections on Inspiration
Oftentimes, inspiration comes in the darkest hour of night. That's exactly what happened with "Winters Rose", the art quilt pictured...
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Jenna Bruns
- Aug 24, 2020
- 1 min
A Visual Interpretation of Sacred Space (part 3-Putting it All Together)
The past couple of months, I have defined Sacred Space and talked about the mission of the visual artist within that space. Now it's...
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Jenna Bruns
- Aug 2, 2020
- 2 min
A Visual Interpretation of Sacred Space (part 2-Mission of the Visual Artist)
Art within a Sacred Space is not simply "art for art's sake", nor is it merely decoration. The artist that creates Sacred art has a...
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Jenna Bruns
- Jul 20, 2020
- 2 min
A Visual Interpretation of Sacred Space (part 1-Sacred Space defined)
Sacred Space does three things: It focuses attention on objects and symbols and enlightens us to their religious significance. The...
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Jenna Bruns
- May 12, 2020
- 2 min
Gifts from God
It has been my experience that God gives us not one, but several gifts. As we journey along the path He has set for us, these gifts are...
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Jenna Bruns
- Apr 20, 2020
- 1 min
So much more...
Never would I have imagined this. Last week, the last of my events for 2020 was canceled. I sat and watched most of my revenue for 2020...
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Jenna Bruns
- Feb 21, 2020
- 1 min
African Beauty
African Kente Cloth has a history as colorful as the cloth itself. It originated with the Ashanti people of Ghana some 375 years ago. ...
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Jenna Bruns
- Sep 3, 2018
- 1 min
It all begins with a conversation...
Custom work is the heart and soul of Cottonpatch Designs, and it all begins with a conversation about enhancing the worship experience...
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Jenna Bruns
- Jul 14, 2017
- 1 min
A Sure and Steadfast Anchor of the Soul (Secret Symbols of the Early Christians)
"We have this hope, a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters the inner shrine behind the curtain, where Jesus, a...
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Jenna Bruns
- Jun 21, 2017
- 1 min
Land of the Seminole
In 1832, President Andrew Jackson ordered all Indian tribes along the southeast coast to travel to the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). ...
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Jenna Bruns
- May 22, 2017
- 1 min
What's Old is New Again
A client contacted me a few months ago and asked if I could take her husband's clergy stoles and make three wall hangings for her...
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Jenna Bruns
- Apr 29, 2017
- 1 min
Viet Nam Velveteen
My dear friend, Pastor Cheryl, recently asked if I would be able to transform a scarlet velveteen Altar cloth into a stole for Holy Week....
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