Moonrise

Lazy Saturday Morning

A lazy Saturday morning spent playing with the kitties.

A Little Taste of Paradise

Paradise Springs Winery that is. And not even 30 minutes from where I live. I'll be back here when it's warm:)

Extra Day Off

God I love holidays. Whether I celebrate or not, I love having those free days off. No work. They give me time to sleep in, laze about in the morning and get cat pics.

2012

Our alternative to sparkler art ... glow stick. Happy 2012!

My intention for 2012 is to let joy, compassion, gratitude, grace, patience and passion guide me in all that I do. In other words to live and act from my highest self.

I've also seen other people pick a word for the year and I thought I would give that a try. The first word that came to mind as soon as I thought it might be cool to do this was nurture. Nurture? Seems kind of boring, maybe. Not exciting like Dream or Soar or Rock. But it's the word that came to me. So Nurture it is. Nurture my self, my husband, my animals, my home, my creativity, my soul. It's pretty cool after all.

Step one ... being present here.

Painting!

Well, here I am again, a month later finally posting here. Clearly something needs to be done about busyness and too many obligations. But, one of those obligations I took on was for total fun! And creativity. Some of my co-workers had been going to Tipsy Artist, a little art gathering where you pay $40 and go paint while you have cocktails. One girl was like, hey, why don't we just do this at my house, save the $$ and still paint with cocktails.

So that's what they've been doing and I joined them last night. It was awesome.

I haven't painted in like 5 years and I haven't done anything non-abstract since like 1998 or so. AND nearly every painting I've done in the last 15 years was HUGE ... like 5' x 3'. Something that's very difficult to do at home and that can be overwhelming. My masterpieces from last night ... kitty portraits on 8x10 canvas.

Quick, sweet and soul nourishing. I loved it! And the paintings pretty much look like the cats!

I can't wait to do it again and now I've realized, I can paint at home!

Workshop

So this amazing photographer, http://www.nicholev.com/, has what appear to be amazing workshops. I was actually drooling over one last week that will be in my neck of the woods next year. I even thought, there's got to be someway I can justify the cost. And maybe I can. And today I come across her blog and she's giving a workshop away. Universe, please oh, please, I would so love to win this. So in an effort to win ... I'm posting here and there and linking and commenting to up my entries and chances. And now I leave it to the hands of the Universe.