Thought Process

Photographs. Pictures are essential.

Camera...check...Extra batteries...check.

Coupons?...Crap. They expired already. Oh well...off I go, shopping for supplies!

What do I need to pick up? Date stamp...I'll need some Mod Podge, eventually...and whatever else strikes my fancy, I suppose.

These are pretty....

...maybe I'll come back for them and make a pretty necklace for Valentine's Day.

Back when I was working daycare, the director (knowing I was the artist type) had asked me to do some murals (which I would have done, if she'd gotten me the supplies). We had discussed the things I would need, one of them being a projector, so I could blow up what pictures I wanted to trace onto the wall.

I came into work a few days later to find she had bought one...but it wouldn't work. She changed the lightbulb, and nothing happened. So she asks me, "What do I do with it?" (Really?) Um..."I'd take it back and either exchange it or get a refund." (Hello. Did she really need me to tell her this?) Needless to say, the project never got done.

This origami paper reminds me of the cool reading textbooks we used to have in elementary and middle school, all shiny!

Thank you, Mark Harmon...I now permanently HATE this stuff!!! (Anybody remember seeing Mark Harmon as Ted Bundy in "The Deliberate Stranger"?)

I didn't buy much today, really I was just wandering around. I ended up with a visual journal (something I've wanted to try for a while now), two sets of alphabet stamps, and an ink pad. Then I headed over to the office supply store for a date stamp.

Because goodness knows I've got all the paint, colored pencils, and art supplies I could use by now! :)

Get Away

Okay. I have had ideas running through my head all day, and I'm hoping that with my art supplies, my camera, and some time in a local secluded spot several miles away from my home, I can get out of this rut I've been in!!! Thursday seems to be the day...the weather will be clearing up and the temperature will be pleasant. *Fingers crossed*

Missunderstood (By Myself, No Less...)

So many things that I wanted to do, yet I haven't even started on them. I truly mean to throw myself into it all and do things the way I see them in my mind. But somehow I just don't have the energy, or I find myself doing something else. I don't know if it's just that I don't have the discipline...I'm not sure what it is. But I know something has to change. I have to get out. I have to get an idea, I have to get a clue. I need to go someplace quiet and think. I hate being so directionless and unfocused and uninspired! It is something I want to do with all of my heart but...am I afraid to try? What are the consequences if I don't? What are the consequences if I do? I need to pinpoint what it is exactly that is keeping me from doing what I love and living my life the way I imagine it could be.

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone is having a great start to their new year! I know I am. I had a fantastic time at the home of my friends Bob and Vicki. There are pictures to come of me downing (non-alcoholic) jello shots :-)

Now, normally I'm a little frustrated that I don't have a date for New Year's Eve. But it was different this year. Maybe it's because of the confusing relationship I was in last year, or that I intuitively felt that this year is going to be a great year personally; maybe those and the knowledge that I became a stronger person emotionally during the year were a factor in that it really did not bother me that I didn't have a date.

And then I saw some old friends this morning, one of whom I hadn't spoken to in years. It was nice to see them. There's nothing like friends, old and new, the ones who encourage you, make you smile, to add joy to a new year.

I am encourage and inspired indeed, and I can't wait to get to work on my different projects to be able to share my happiness!

Signs

When I was a little girl (and probably thanks in part to corporate advertisements, and in part to, well, the department of transportation) I was interested in signs, symbols, and logos. They were everywhere, on billboards, roadsides, parking lots and even the products we used on a daily basis (and some we should stay away from, for our own good!)

I can't tell you why I was so interested; these days, most of them are common enough.

But I'm still fascinated with Mr. Yuk...

(LOL)

Overhaul

So it's time for a fresh start.

I have lollygagged for far too long where this blog is concerned, where my art is concerned, perhaps even where my life is concerned. Here is to hoping that from now on, I concentrate on the truly important things in my life, the things I want to do, instead of the things that have held me back for so long, including...yes, myself.

I'm so afraid of the "what-ifs" of life sometimes that I let it stand in my way. Man, do I have to let myself fly and, if necessary, fall.

The new year will be here soon. I made a resolution this time last year that I was going to change in 2010...and I did. I went through some things that made me stronger. I believe that 2011 is going to be a year of further strengthening and long-term happiness :)

To some extent, happiness is a choice. But I have found that if I choose to be happy, oftentimes other good and happy things come my way that just fuel my happiness even further.

I can't wait to see what 2011 will bring :) :) :)

But let me not get ahead of myself. Christmas is a week and one day away...


~*~*~*Merry Christmas!!!*~*~*~

I hope you're finished with your shopping...I'm not. *Epic Holiday Fail*