Milk Can's

I have been frantically painting these cans ......

for Christmas

Whew............ I finally got them done

I am a last minute person.

One Word

2011

"Looking for one word to manifest a wonderful year"

That is going to be difficult, I can never make up my mind, I tried to do it last

year and I just gave up. This year I'm going to give a go.

I have heard of people doing this, picking one word for their year to come,

and having great success. I will never know unless I try.

So for the next few weeks I am going to think real hard on the "word"

I love the word "fearless" but it's not feeling like the "word".

O Universe help me pick the perfect word 

Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.

Architextural

This is a must see website http://www.balleycanoeco.com

It has tons of salvaged architectural stuff…..oh love that stuff.

Penny Gorman takes salvaged pieces and makes art from them.  MAN, they are awesome.  O so creative!http://www.pennygorman.blogspot.com/

Go on check it out, beautiful work.

Talk soon.

Fearless Painting

One of the paintings I did in "BIG"

The intention we had to keep in mind is

"How it feels to be me"

I am pretty happy with the results.

Connie is so good at what she does, her little nudges to get 

you thinking about how to paint intuitively.  

Everyone in the group was very supportive it was a

great tribe of creative women. 

BIG

"BIG" with Connie Hozvicka has been absolutely amazing.  The whole idea of painting from your intuition was very scary and nerve racking. But Connie was great at guiding and steering in the right direction.
If anyone is interested they should definitely check her site out it is awesome.

http://www.dirtyfootprints-studio.com/

The shedding

Well the shedding was pretty successful....of course when the cue was to shed I just went wild and started getting rid of a bunch of STUFF.  I filled my sons huge Ford truck full with stuff and that was round one.  I wanted to do it that way because I knew I would be pretty easy on myself.  But near the end of the day when everything was gone and I was just tidying up I fell ( didn't hurt myself) but it jarred something inside...my emotions...and the tears came. What the tears were for "I don't know".  A lot of stuff was moved and shifted around, so that could be it.
Sent 3 boxes of books to the library and I still have a laundry basket full to the brim with more books to go.

Now I'm going around again.........even though I accidently got rid of stuff I meant to give to someone.....when it was all said and done.  I felt really really light and good and really did not miss a thing.

So now some harder choices to make what to keep and what to throw!!!!!!

Shed Project

Today I started the "Shed Project".............

Idea of this is to shed some things from your life, could be physical or mental..whatever you like.

The idea is one I have been always doing but on a small scale.  I want to go deeper and want to get some weight off my shoulders.



Scared and Excited is all I can say, because I know the emotional

attachment to things I have.

First 3 things we have to do is

Clean out purse that's easy I just bought a new one

Clean out car

Weigh yourself........uh oh I have not done that in a couple years.

Glove compartment, backseat and the trunk. I didnot think there was that much stuff in the car, I haven't had the car that long. Trunk...... that box in there, completely forgot about it. Surprises already.

Now just to weigh myself..............

Assignments not too hard so far.......but there is more to come.

Last Sunday I started the "BIG" course with Connie Hozvicka http://www.dirtyfootprints-studio.com/ , she is so amazing.  Connie knows her stuff, seems like she is just one step ahead of  my inner critic.  Love her approach.  Before my brush even touched the paint...so much came up. 

 Then all the wonder tribeswomen,  well they are absolutely inspiring. ♥

Connie was not kidding when she said that there was alot in this course!!

So much is changing this week...

I'm happy, sad, mad, crying, intoxicated (not with the drink)

 but maybe a little wine might help,

excited, inpatient and and the list goes on and on.

I am quit sure it is going to take me awhile to really understand

what is happening and this is only the 1st week.

Better fasten my seatbelt,

I have no doubt in my mind this is going to be the best

rollercoaster ride I've been on in awhile.

This is Jack my painting partner,

 he sleeps in his little bed while I paint away.

The first exercise was scribbling......

.a few days later I look at this painting,

I see all the walls I built up around me.

Perfect little boxes.

What is really funny is......

 that is one of the things I wanted to break down.

I wanted to break a few bricks or walls....hmmm!

Then I did another aaannndd...

to me it seems my boxes and bricks are

started to stir up....like little tornadoes.

Wonder what the red in the corner represents?

Maybe that answer will come later.

There is greener grass.....

I called this - INNER BLOCKS