Ella Publishing Co., is an amazing resource for scrapbookers, paper artists and memory keepers! It's fun laid back style will have you coming back for more!!! Check out their blog for their latest contest, "I Love Your Smile." This is my take! Thanks for looking and leave some love if you can...my daughter would love that! Come on, tell me you're smiling when you look at that face!
remember the simple pleasures! Head on over to It Takes All Kinds to see more inspirations!
I would have like to said, I made this! BUt this is a picture from India called a Rangoli.
Rangoli is one of the most popular art forms in India. It is a form of sandpainting decoration that uses finely ground white and coloured powders, and is commonly done outside homes in India.
The term rangoli is derived from the words rang (colour) and aavalli ('coloured creepers' or 'row of colours').
This is a tradition that is done in India around Diwali: Diwali or Dīpāvali (Sanskrit: a row of lamps[1]) is a significant festival in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism, and an official holiday in India.[2]Adherents of these religions celebrate Diwali as the Festival of Lights. They light diyas—cotton string wicks inserted in small clay pots filled with oil—to signify victory of good over the evil within an individual. Diwali being festival of lights, across India people celebrate it via symbolic diyas or kandils (colorful paper lanterns) as an integral part of Diwali decorations.
So happy Diwali!!!
In honor of this, tomorrow at Isara's b-day party, we plan to do a bit of Rangoli too!
I've been taking this wonderful e-course called, In the Fish Bowl, by Marissa . I am taking every word in...from her and from my fellow fishies!
I have a few things in my ETSY shop, but have realized that photos are what I want to delve into. So my shop will be getting a bit of a face lift as I think through this process, and find that voice so to speak.
I love creating. I missed it SOOO much for the past two years. You would not believe the amount of arts and crafts books I won, let along the amount I have checked out from the library! Seriously, I could start my own bookstore! But since I am no longer employed, I take to the library with fervor, every week...and I love that place!!!
But time has come for me to rethink and listen to my inner voices and find that TRUE creative spirit within me. I have been making these wonderful photo pendants that I just love making. All the photos are taken by me. Then the process begins for cropping and creative actions in photoshop, and then onto the jewlery making process....I am enjoying the process more than the end product, and that to me is KEY to finding my voice. These are the kind of things I am learning and sponging up from my class!
So my photocraft is what I am thrilled about, and soon, I hope to have a new shop, with my voice carried through it!
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They rock. Why? I will tell you.
I love the wide legged ones, they actually flatter your legs.
They are comfortable and stretchy.
Black is slimming.
Look great with flip-flop, boots, or sneakers..hell, go for the heel too!
Can go with most tops; just make sure the top isn't to small, especially if you want butt coverage.
Help motivate me to work out...really, it does! Just the fact that I'm wearing them, helps me realize, oh, I better work out today!
No this is not an ad for any specific brand of yoga pants; just find a pair you like, get two and wear everday!
There ya go! My bit of ramble for the day!
Miranda has given me this award and I am so honored! Thanks Miranda! The recipient of this award is asked to write 10 honest things about themselves. So here it goes!
1. I hate doing leg lunges, but will do them if I have to...and I do!
2. If I could go to school for the rest of my life (and had the funds to do it) I would!
3. To be quite honest, I really want a new road bike and camera lens for my 40th!
4. I talk to much about the decisions I've made as if to reassure myself...now I just need to stop talking and keep doing!
5. I like to talk to myself.
6. My handwriting sucks...ask any of my friends!
7. I put way to much creamer in my coffee.
8. I lose my patience more with my family than my friends, but I'm working on it!
9. I sometimes get overwhelmed with so many ideas, I have a hard time getting started and following through with just one.
10. I can't stand painting my fingernails, but will take a pedicure any day!
I hereby give this award to the following people!
Jenny A., Emily, Jacqueline, Elina, Jill, Katie, & Francine
Here is the challenge:
For October's first challenge we'd like you to do a little thinking; a little soul searching and a little creation that's straight from the heart. We want to know -
Do you ever feel as though you've been pigeon-holed? Categorised? Labelled? Misunderstood? As though you've changed, but no-one else sees it? Who does everyone think you are? Who do you really think you are? Are they the same?
Here is my take:
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Journaling reads:
Me
Know this
Patient, Curious, Hardworker, Passionate, Learning, Making Mistakes, Human, Creative
It's hard to see all these things on the outside. All anyone has to do is ask me...talk to me...I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me.
Check out the blog and the takes by the design team...they will blow you away!
In other haps:
-Called my mom and dad. It's so nice to hear their voices and know they are just up north! It was nice talking to them and me calling for a change!
-Sent a little package off to my past bootcamp trainer-I hopefyully be signing back up after the new year due to money issues. The woman they have now is wonderful and I highly recommend it!
-Been sewing and having fun! Soon Isa will be learning to sew as we have our first new project in 4-H...a pillow!
-Tamra is a little spitfire of stubbornness at times! But I have to laugh, cause she always gets this crooked crinkle on her brow line when she's in a mood! Must remember to capture that on film!
-Been part of this wonderful online course called Into the Fishbowl. I need to devote a whole post to this! Been journaling and taking in all the wonderful thoughts, ideas, advice, and experiences from all my fellow fishies taking the course, led by Artist and Mentor and creator of Creative Thursday, Marisa Haedike.
-Trying to build my photography portfolio with a great deal, especially with these times! I love taking photos and am realizing that I can do what I love!!! It can be done!
-Been hanging out with some amazing women, Claudia, Kelley, Idona, Jennifer, Kara, and other parents all working hard. It's nice to be on this side of things....taking care of house and home. Taking the girls to school and activities, and doing the best to maintain my sanity! Do I miss working a full time paying job? At times...but I am content and not struggling with me...for me...that is a good thing! I love the connections I am making...with my kids, my husband, my friends, my family and with me....Here I am...I am here!!!
Namaste Everyone!
With fall and winter upon us, I would love to take photos of you and your loved ones. As a natural light photographer, the Central Coast is ripe with beautiful locations. Let’s take advantage of where we live and get your portrait needs met at the same time!
I am offering a portfolio building special of $75. Our session would include up to an hour at a sweet location. You would then receive a fully edited, digital disc of your photos, including some in black and white, vintage and color popped transformations. The disc is yours to keep, for your own prints, cards, etc., at your favorite developing center.
I have professional print lab options available for various print sizes and paper, canvases, art boards and albums if interested.
And for that extra unique something, I make photo necklaces…perfect for gifts! Please ask me for all the wonderful details!
But until then, please peruse my photo site at http://charmingbirdie.wordpress.com where you can view my recent work. I look forward to using my time and passion for photography as your tool! Feel free to call with any questions. Also word of mouth is the best marketing so tell a friend! I look forward to your call and setting a date!
PuraVida!
Rani
Charming Birdie Photocraft
I know!!!! But been busy with the girls and house...so this is a good thing...right?!
Hopefully by this weekend, I will have some more online. We had such a great time! We're already thinking about when we can go back!!!
Been busy working out with my friend Claudia, working in Isa's classroom, planning her b-day party (yes, we are still going to have one!) getting ready for fall, home upkeep, cleaning out the girls room, working in my studio, getting ready to revive massages again, thinking about our next trip to see my parents before they leave for India, trying to land new photo gigs, drawing and creating and spending relaxing mornings with Tamra, playing kitty-kat, and princess in the back yard!!!
Life is very busy, but very satisfying!
