Stuff your doodles, what a cool concept! This small unique company makes your children’s designs (or yours) reality.
Doodle a monster, princess, animal, alien or whatever. Send it to them and they make it. What a cute idea.
With my feet on the mend, and the Earth Day Art Show this past weekend, plus starting a new job, things have been very busy for me! I was going to move to Fort Worth, but with my new job, I have now decided to stay in Dallas. I am currently looking for a place that is closer to downtown, as that is almost where my new job is. I am really excited about my new position. I will be working for a non-profit organization. They have a food bank, clothing center and learning center. I will be teaching Civics and ESL, as well as monitoring the other teachers. I am thrilled to be working with the organization. I have never loved a job as much as I have loved teaching ESL. I am also getting ready this week for a little art show at the Angelika. It is put on over by Mockingbird Station by a store there called Counter Culture. It will be from 12-4 on Saturday. Please wish me luck!
Today I was getting ready to leave for the art show. I was kind of rushed. I was taking things out to the car, and the impatient side of me kicked in and I tried to take out more then I should of in one trip…. I have learned this lesson one too many times! Or is it that I have not learned this lesson well enough? I thought I could manage it. Well, I couldn’t! I twisted my ankle, and as I was falling to the ground the clog on my right foot flew off and my big toe came crashing down on a piece of metal door frame, slicing my big toe like a tomato.
Needless to say, I did not make it to the art show today. Instead I spent a glorious four hours at the emergency room. I have an updated Tetanus Shot. I am now the proud wearer of an orthopedic shoe brace/cast on my left foot, a large sliced toe on my right foot, and a pair of crutches. So if both of my feet are injured, how do I walk????? Well let me tell you, it is not easy! I am MISERABLE!!
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| Thirteen of My Favorite Goddesses
1. Kuan Yin - Goddess of Compassion. Exerpt from Goddess & Heroines by Patricia Monaghan Just as Catholic Christianity has provided an antidote to pure theological patriarchy by encouraging the reverence of the Virgin Mary, so Chinese Buddhism evolved a feminine bodhisattva, or Buddha-to-be, named Kuan Yin. And just as Mary captured the hearts of Catholic worshipers, so Kuan Yin far outstripped the male bodhisattvas in popularity. Both in Japan (as Kwannon, who is often pictured as male) and in pre-revolutionary China, this semidivine being was honored in virtually every home; she was the most powerful being in the entire Chinese pantheon. It was said that Kuan Yin was so concerned for humanity that, upon receiving enlightenment, she chose to retain human form rather than transcend it as pure energy. And so she would stay until every single living creature attained enlightenment. Her name translates “she who hears the weeping world”; Kuan Yin sat on her paradise island P’u T’o Shan answering every prayer addressed to her. The mere utterance of her name in prayer was said to assure salvation from physical and spiritual harm. Even better was the observance of Kuan Yin’s own testimony of peace and mercy; her most devout worshipers ate no flesh and lived entirely without doing violence to other beings. ************** 2. Oya - Change 3. Brigid - Inspiration. 4. Isis - Mothering 5. Hecate - Crossroads 6. Pele - Awakening 7. Maya - Illusion 8. Artemis - Selfhood 9. Vila - Shape Shifting 10. Maat - Justice 11. Lakshmi - Abundance 12. Sekhmet - Anger and Rage 13. Ix Chel - Creativity |
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1. Creating Art is so exciting!
2. Strawberry fields are something I have never seen. I would like to go and pick my own fresh strawberries someday.
3. Warm-Chocolate cake with vanilla ice-cream sounds like it would taste delicious!
4. Why does getting enough sleep make me feel so good?!
5. The Alhambra is something I’ve always wanted to see.
6. It’s sad when I miss my sister, when I see something That would make her laugh, When I wish I was more a part of her life, or when I think about how far away she is from me.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to working on my art projects, tomorrow my plans include Book Club and Sunday, I want to work on more projects!
This has been a busy week. I have been working on getting my jewelry ready to sell. I will be selling them on etsy.com. I have been making new pieces and taking photos. My store name is AmethystsArt.etsy.com. I hope to have everything up and running today. WhooHoo!!! Check out my healing stone jewelry. I want to coincide the start of my site with the New Moon. This is a great time to start something new. I send love and light to everyone!!!
Click here to create your own painting.
I was looking at http://transformingmylife.wordpress.com/2008/02/17/heigh-ho-its-off-to-work-i-go/ and I had to make my own painting. You take a quiz and your painting is created based on your answers. Fun, fun, fun…
I was tag surfing Ikebana, and I came across this posting. If you want to see a cool Ikebana related graphic art video, click Below.
