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Gratitude for a year of growth

What a year! 2008 was an amazing year of risks that made a great entry into 2009. Would've never guessed how healing this year turned out to be. I have been spending many a year creating and assisting with opportunities for others, specifically students of all grade levels in my immediate community. Only after seeing the joy through their eyes did I start to notice my own inner yearnings for the same. Through that door I found much healing and openness I did not know I was missing before. I am ever so thankful for the new experiences brought on with ArtFest and then JournalFest. I still vow to live a full life but boy, blog following is quite addicting. This is a second attempt at a blog of sharing and I think I've done fairly well at keeping it up. I have continued to spread myself in new directions and look forward to sharing more art, life and love with all. For now, I am celebrating life with a boatload of teenagers, RockBand, Apples to Apples, Scattergories and serious foodie snacks. Life is good. I wish the same for you this very happy New Years Eve.

Art Infusion

Looking forward to the holidays and all the precious time spent with my little family. Not looking forward to the chaos brought on by including twenty more on the big day. I will forever look within to inspire change in that place but also realize it must be wanted by all. This is how I've developed a very refined sense of humor so you must be thankful for the little things.

I could not be prouder of the young man we have raised and prepare to send off into the world on his own in only a year and a half from now. He's beautiful inside and out. And, he makes everyone laugh and feel at home.

Pause for reflection and you will realize now is just as good as time as any for a little art infusion. Time, you'll never have more of that so jump in and feel the healing. I am looking at many a class right now and need something even if found online until the magic month of March filled with ArtFest joy! Looking at LK's class, Misty's and DJ's but really dig just the assignments that Carla is giving out. Any ideas out there? Tell me more.

Have a very merry Christmas to all my art friends!

Meaning

I remember looking for it as a teen.

I remember looking yesterday.

Breathe in the life. I forget.

Breathe in the life. I keep swimming.

Creating, nurturing, loving and a dose of red wine.

So much thinking, too much doing of the unneccesaries.

The promise continues.

What follows is just some of what I've been working on and in. Good, bad or ugly. It is what it is. So I just keep going to the gym and to my art room when I make the time.

Creative Flow

Recovering from some minor issues that stopped me from being my superwoman self. It's always a good reality check to have something stop you in your tracks and remind you to take care of the physical you. I normally try to eat as local and organic as possible, exercise regularly and do a pretty good job of taking care of myself so I bounce back quickly. It is the one thing I have seen and learned early on, that is, to take care of my physical self and now I am doing that and nurturing my creative self. I hope I continue to have the wisdom to listen to others' and my own voice as it is speaking to me.

I am enjoying giving back and journaling as I go. This visual journaling thing is really opening me up and I wish it upon all others out there. What would the world be like if we all were required to walk more, pay attention to ourselves and to find time to do whatever it is that each and every soul out there does creatively? I can just imagine but I've been told I have a pretty overactive imagination.

Working on some lovely pieces and looking at cameras too. I hope to post some work with you soon and look forward to my next creative journey.

Ahhhhh.....

Feet up. Truck unloaded. First craft fair ever...ever, complete. Check that off my list of things I need to do.

Loads of work. Inspiration found. Creative juices flowing fast but tired feet won't follow. (Say that 10 times fast.)

My camera is still broke but my dryer was returned to Costco and replaced with a new one so I guess I can't write a country song just yet.

Made $48. Spent $105.50 on two pot scrubbers, a spankin' new book on the KP, a hot dog for lil' r-boom, a stunning colored pencil sketch from the amazing artist at the booth next to mine and two marshmallow rockets. Don't even make me explain the last choice.

Still...I did it. big xoxo to my super fantabulous friend Denise for pushing me to just do it.

Now, all I wanna do is sign up for more, offload more old crafting notions and some seriously amazing photographs so that I can spend gobs more money on new artful lovin' stuffiz.

Canvas, paint pens, oil pastel sticks, journal fodder, oh my!

Peace out lovelies and as Anahata's love interest says, "love the life you live to live the life you love". God he's smart. Gonna keep repeating that for a looooooooonnnnnnnngggggggg time.

Pause

Back from Journalfest, thinking of Artfest in March already, I find myself wanting to lock myself up in a quiet place to do some reflective work in my journal and play a bit with some art supplies. Enter life. Life has a way of changing your plans in a nothing more than an instant. Such is the case with my very own. Thankfully I have a very good sense of humor and a pending craft fair coming up this weekend I need to prep and create for. As of yesterday, my camera and dryer broke and even with all the other events reminding me that it is just the stuff of life, I simply must have a dryer and I feel like a half a woman without a camera. So, to celebrate or to stew in my juices, I am creating all day today and hoping to find some deals online or at least, some good tidbits on what to buy and when for major appliances and maybe a new SLR. Such a major decision though. I'm an amateur with professional taste and desire. Any replies or comments would be much appreciated.