Creating a new me

When do you know it is done ?

When is it complete ?

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 The answer is never. Every day and every minute you are changing in some sort of way. Like this cartoon version of me. Every day it changed. And can change more if I keep working on it, To make the decision to say it is done. Is like looking in the mirror and saying I am perfect just the way I am. And if you really look at each photo the first one in sketch is really the only one that comes close to looking  like the real me. showing some of the lines of age. The more I work on it the more I make it look less like me. And more like a cartoon version.


Have a wonderful day and remember to laugh and play.

Good by clutter

 Out with the lazy boy

Out with the lazy girl

Good by comfy chairs

Grammy is cleaning house

 Hello scraps of paper

Let me throw together a back ground

I feel like a kindergardener

But this is only the begining

Next de- cluttered my brain

And see what the future holds for me.

Look out world I am cleaning house.

Have a wonderful day and remember to laugh and play.

Art every day

 This is the most collage's  I have ever done.
I normally do things digitally.  I bought the book for only $2.00. And started cutting out images. Some have doodles. And I did a zentangle with my hand on one page. Over time more will be added to each page.
Have a wonderful day and remember to laugh and play.

Nothing to say

So much to say

Yet nothing to say

This is my day

Am I confused ?

No I am amused

I digitally paint my life away

emotions explored

Yet I am ignored

What good is it to speak

It only makes me weak

No one listens

So I sit in silence

I write and create a life

I am in need

Yet fail to plant a seed

I do grow as he withers

So do I live a fairy tail life

No but I create one in my mind 

And paint it to give it life 

This is a new way of writing poetry for me. I have to say I kinda like it. I have stared at the image above and added to it for days. It speaks to me and send love. Yet I can not put what I feel from it into words. The girl is an image I created for Amelia on my other blog. And the back ground evolved more each day. 
Have a wonderful day and remember to laugh and play.

Love in the sky

 Look up to the sky

When you see a smile in the cloud

You will know it's Me

I can feel such a drain

It spreads to all though the rain

Please find your joy, Smile

 I send you my love

Threw the sky we float calmly

Dreams of peace fly bye

Put love in your heart
Share it with every one now
Soon we will all heal

As our soul sighs, awe
Love creeps in & leaves you a grin
see smile on your chin

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Laughter

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THANK YOU ALL !

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New beginnings

New beginnings is the title I have given this painting.
It is all about beauty in the darkness.
Every day is a new beginning.
Every minute is a new adventure.
Life is full of waves, But they will go away if you chose to let them.

Sunday was the last day of having our oldest grandson stay with us.
He is such a joy to be around. School is scheduled to reopen today, but there is a bit of snow out there.
So there may be a snow day for him.
Friday he and hubby went out to pick up dinner.
He told me that my hubby did not have any more money to buy it.
I told him, yes he got paid today.
Jeremy said Papa don't work. how does he get paid.
I told him . He gets paid to watch TV.
Jeremy said "I WANT THAT JOB"!
Hubby said you have to work really hard all your life to get that job.
It is called retirement.

Have a wonderful day and remember to laugh and play.
A man's well-being depends upon his degree of contentment. ”Sri Sathya Sai Baba

The Medicine wheel

I finished this Medicine wheel collage yesterday.
the video links below explain some of the meanings and history.
This one is in 3 parts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIGrFHy463g
This one is just 1 video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXkdmbRwtBo

In my version I have added things in my life that need to be healed. And words to inspire the meaning of each part of the wheel. This circle is meant to create balance and harmony. And add inspiration. And with it being digital art it is my addition to my calendar today. I updated it on my side bar.

Every day I am finding something new to add to my life. The past month I have been studying India, and people of interest from that country.
This is a link to my you tube channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheEmptynester
When I find a video like the ones above I add them to my favorites.

I have taken a virtual vacation to Thailand. And found I would love to spend time in both these country's.

Like this I feel like I have enhanced my life with out leaving my house. .
For 1 I do not have the funds or a person to travel with.
So this fulfills my desire to travel.
I also watch art videos to add to my lessons of education.
I am taking a course called
Collage for self discovery.
Where you are to look through magazines and cut out things that catch your interest and place them in your art journal. They can tell a story. or analyze your true self.
I normally do this with online magazines. but the other day I splurged and bought a womens world. And created this one. The image is pour quality, because of back flash, from a Kodak easy share camera. My Sony has auto focus problems. It will not take a photo now unless you put it on manual. And I can not self focus it and get quality like I had on auto. So I will have to save up to have it repaired.
It saddens me as I loved my camera.

But I can not hold on to the sadness, or allow it to control my life.
Because it is such freedom, to control what you let your mind do.
The book untethered souls is on order now. The preview gave me the freedom to control my inner critic. And this in its self is bliss.

Have a wonderful day and remember to laugh and play.

“You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.”Sri Sathya Sai Baba

DIGITAL ART CALENDAR

Jill over at Third age Musings issued a calendar challenge
So I decided to try.
I have a graphic arts background. from taking offset lithography for 2 years.
But I now do most of my art work on the computer so I will now be considered a digital artist.
I am not by any means a Van Gogh.
But I think I am an artist in training.
As art is a life long adventure in learning.
I will be doing my calendar like this. every day I will paint or collage an image for this.
here is day 1 & 2

The calendar will be posted and update on my side bar.
My inspirational quotes for this month will come from.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
He is a religious figure, and educator in India.
He brought clean water and medical help, education and many other things to people in need.
He is new to me. And I am just learning of his history. But he has helped so many in his country and has over 1,200 Sathya Sai Baba Centers in 114 countries worldwide.
according to wickpedia.

His words are from love an encouragement.
He also devoted his life to make others healthy and educated.
sample of his quotes
“You must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards light and love, Wisdom and Bliss!”
“Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is Love, enjoy it!”
“You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.”

Have a wonderful day and remember to laugh and play.

Venting negative energy

I so hope you do not mind me sharing this here.
Please do not allow this story to bring you down, Or feel sorry for me. As this is temporary and will go away.
I share this in hope of helping my self and others.

When a situation is shared, like what I went through with my daughter the other day.

I chose to let what is happening in her life affect my life.
I thought I released it in the art work I did.
I vented to a friend and my other daughter.
But I let her negative situation hurt me. I have so little energy today.
I am trying to recover from shingles. This is the worst thing that has happen to me.
As it was so many days of sleep18-20 hours a day. pain and itch.
I think my amune system is not working.
But this is all a result of letting problems become my life. Rather than separate my life from the problem.
I was getting very good at just listening to my daughter.
And realizing it was not my life, but hers.
But that Mother instinct is stronger than me. When some one is hurting your child. you want to take control, protect them, etc.
The result is all the negative energy has damaged me. I was not strong enough physically to handle it.
It is only been 2 years of mental recovery for me. Working on regaining my mental health. I am very strong mentally now. But physical health is very hard to recover from.

I wish I had learned many years ago to deal with problems. To understand they are all temporary. And will go away. . I let worry. fear, morning, pre assumptions, control my life. They basically destroyed my life.
But this story has a good ending. I will recover. I will not let this hurt me any more.
You have to think positive to be positive.
You have to replace all negative thoughts, with gratitude.
Every day I look for something to be grateful for. .I can receive feeling of bliss from a beautiful sun set.
My goal for next year is bliss. with every thing and every one.
As this year I found joy, laughter, and happiness. with life.

Thank you for letting me share my heart here today.
Namaste
E
Have a wonderful day and remember to laugh and play.

Angel in disguise

In this world we live in, there is beauty every where we look.
We some times forget that there is beauty in every person we meet too.
A simple smile
a simple hello.
You may never know.

That person that just walked by.
May have been an
Angel in disguise.

Have a wonderful day and remember to laugh and play.

Digital collage

I have been working on digital collages

It has been quite fun to do. .

There seems to be white stuff sprinkling down out side right now.
I have been calling it dandruff, I refuse to believe it is snow.
I was hoping for 60-70 degrees year round.
But I assume Santa did not get my letter this year.
Have a wonderful day and remember to laugh and play.