Breakout, the wine, food, flowers, music and love! I'm celebrating!!! I have a brigade (the Home Love Brigade), aka "My peeps, my tribe, my love buckets, my family" and the nick names go on and on. No matter how I'm feeling or who I'm yelling at, my brigade is my stronghold. They love me fiercely and I them! :) The last few weeks were extremely busy, holiday stuff, school work, household junk, workshops, sales, art fair preparations, holiday studio tour preparation, marketing and creating (my only grip on sanity)!! My brigade has been there through the thick (which is me) and the thin (my patience)! But, they still love and support me! So ... Continue Reading »
Family, Friends, and Life
Vanity or Confidence…
Illustration Friday's prompt for creating this week is vanity. It got me to pondering whether confidence is sometimes mistaken for vanity. Of course, I know the definition of vanity, but there have been times when I've mistaken someone for being vain, and after getting to know them, I realized that they had a confidence of self, that was enviable. Which brings me to my next pondering...do we see vanity because we envy the confidence of an individual? The lesson learned for me, is not to judge, since it is only when I get to know the person, do I begin to see the true self, and there have been times, when I would have missed out on knowing a ... Continue Reading »
Scattered Thoughts and Actions
I have been super busy! Attending workshops, creating new work, gearing up for my Holiday Studio Tour, conference calls, video summits and taking care of my daily business routines! I've also spent some incredible time with new friends and old friends, (Thank you, awesome goddesses, you know who you are); which always fills me with love and adrenaline...:) My thoughts have been scattered, but focused...is that possible, you ask? Yes, because these scattered thoughts and actions are an abundance of energy, that I believe are coming together, to bring another dimension to my life, creating richer experiences for me. They are only scattered, ... Continue Reading »
Defining Success
This blog plays a part in my success, because it captures some of my creative processes, dreams, experiences of art and life, as a daily practice, I share with others. Since my creative processes are often done in isolation, my blog is a way for me to interact with others, which in turn helps me to network, connect and share! After some difficult months and major changes, I spent some time soul searching, reestablishing boundaries, redefining goals. My definition of success needed to be adjusted, tweaked and changed at various times in my life. What I defined as success in my twenties, looks very different from what success looks like in my ... Continue Reading »
Disguise
Since August 22, 2011, at 9:30PM, I am disguised...Mum died. I appear strong to my family, I thanked people who gave me their sincere condolences. "Not now, maybe later" is what I've said, to the many well-meaning offers of support. I have nodded my head appropriately in conversations, completed household routines, consoled my children and clung to my husband. I am a dependable, responsible and strong daughter, a calm sister and a quiet mother. I keep my disguise intact. Disguised this week, making the phone calls, finalizing information and writing Mommy's obituary, (because my siblings think, I write better than them). Trying to capture ... Continue Reading »
My Heart Swells…
This image, right now sums up my feelings and I do not have the strength to create anything else, that fits these feelings. I listen everyday, as my Mum's voice gets weaker and weaker and all that is happening to me is my heart swells and I wear it on my face. I hold on to all the sweet and sour that is her and pray that it lasts me a life time. I pray that everyone holds what is dear in life earnestly and closely, so that they may be able to let it go when it is time. In peace to you and yours. ... Continue Reading »
Perennial Thoughts On Becoming
I am in the middle of my life, my children are long from babyhood, my youngest will leave the nest in two years, and my eldest is creating his own wisdom, apart from mine. Where the preciousness of life takes on a new meaning, because I may be closer to an ending than a beginning. Why do I write this? As an artist, I gravitate toward the visual; it's just my particular way of interacting with my world. With so many things, to catch my eyes, I am in a constant state of over-stimulation and creating art is the passionate thing that calms me down. It is the constant, throughout my life that I believe keeps me interested, sane, stable and ... Continue Reading »
