Where do you love to do your work? Outdoors? Indoors? On the beach? In a tree? On a plane? In the kitchen? On a stage? In front of a camera? Or behind one? For me, it’s indoors. I thrive in a climate controlled environment. I also love do do my work while sitting at a…
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Kathy Magrino’s blog post The People we meet on Twitter… inspired me to post pictures of all the wonderful people I’ve met on Twitter and have had the opportunity to meet in person. This is Kathy and I last summer having lunch. We both live in New Jersey and finally found the time to meet…
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I have been offline for 2.5 days. I have been clearing underbrush, raking, planting and generally working my ass off outside. Today I can barely move. I’m stiff and sore. My joints ache and I have numerous cuts and scrapes. And, I’m not even halfway down. The vegetable garden needs to be planted, trees and…
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I am beginning to enjoy the process of art journaling. I no longer worry of I am doing it right. I just let myself create. I am finding I lose myself in the process and feel a sense of release and calm when I am done. So, here are a few pictures from my art…
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It took me almost six weeks to finish my vision / dream board. I am not sure if it normally takes that long, but this was my first time creating one and I didn’t want to rush it. My process…I collected images (pictures and words) throughout the week and then sat down one day a…
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In Monday’s post, “What do I Want? What do You Want?” I invited you to join me in creating an art journal/dream board. I have reflected and journaled on the question “what do I want?” for years and have a pretty solid understanding of what I want. But, after watching the movie “The Women” I…
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In the movie ”The Women”, Mary, played by Meg Ryan, discovers her husband is having an affair. Her world begins to fall apart. She then goes through a very interesting process to answer the question – “What do I want?” I love the way she processes this question. It reminds me of a vision board…
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With all that is happening on the home front I was a few days behind on my emails. Today I discovered an email from my friend Connie at Sandi Lei was 912) 1. Open your first photo folder. 2. Scroll to the 10th photo. 3. Post the photo on your blog and tell the story…
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Continuing with this weeks theme of ‘trying something new‘ and ‘firsts‘… In a post from April 21, 2009 titled “Another Idea…” I wrote about my desire to “ship gifts and packages all over the world, artfully wrapped in my self-designed paper, including a personal note written on a card from my own line and shipped…
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Sunday morning I did something I’ve never really done before, well not since kindergarten. I painted, well I attempted to anyway. It took me over a week to work up the courage to actually play with my new watercolors. This past Sunday for over two hours I played with the colors, tried to paint some…
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