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Mixed Media Project

1/31/2016

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A poem using the 'em' sound, a bit of piano playing, and 3 years worth of Instagram photos became this project!
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Continuing with Creative January...

1/16/2016

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It's cold and it's snowy in Canada in January but vow to be happy, despite the cold!  Wear your favourite winter woollies and get out there!  Happiness doesn't just happen so plan for it to happen; in fact, don't accept anything less!  LIFE is a special occasion.  And each individual moment that make life are special, too. Of course, a good life needs good health, so DANCE with the spirits - Zumba, perhaps! - Stay ACTIVE (& stay hydrated) to stay HEALTHY.  GROW a PASSION - a passion for creating. Get your ZZZs and LET's GET HAPPY... get ready!, already! You got this. Make life a meaningful journey... be tasty.  Normal?  Really?  Normal is clearly over-rated. Normal is boring!  Never settle FOR GOOD ENOUGH.  Imagine the world... it is often irresistibly surprising!  Unleash the PASSION.  Make a splash!  BE STRONG!
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Lab 1 -->> Smartphone 30/30...

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​This project emerged as a result of Lab 1 in Steve Sonheim's Creative Photography Lab - 52 Fun Exercises for Developing Self-Expression With Your Camera. 

It's time to go beyond the single snapshot.  The objective is to capture an experience by shooting a series of images.  Tell a story by taking thirty shots in thirty minutes with your Smartphone.  Take a shot of whatever grabs your attention at one-minute intervals.  Don't think - just shoot!
Okay, here's what happened...

My ride didn't show up one day last week so I hustled to the bus stop to get the right bus; the one that drops me off right at my door!  But, alas, the wrong bus showed up first.  (Everybody knows that bus schedules, much like the Pirate Code, are more like guidelines, really.)

When I got off the bus, I faced a thirty minute JOURNEY HOME...
The song, entitled "La Doodle Song" by Nicola Schneider (MissNikkiRocks of Team Schnadams, Inc.)  accompanies my video, JOURNEY HOME, depicting an unexpected surprise of an adventure.
​Mellow and mournful piano gives way to a more frantic frenzy, mirroring the actual situation I found myself to be in.... at first, annoyed that I had a longer than necessary trip home after work.  But, I also, to  put it bluntly, really had to pee! But, woe was me for I was yet 30 minutes from home.  So, I took pictures to distract my self.   And, the whole situation was made infinitely worse by the frenzied, flowing Spencer Creek that I was walking alongside!  
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Splashes of colour command a second glance.
Here's to Happy Trails and Happenstance!
... I learned that sometimes wrong is only frame of mind;
Wrong is right if you make it so!
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My January 2016 Vision Board

1/2/2016

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It's cold and it's snowy in Canada in January but vow to be happy, despite the cold! Wear your  favourite winter woollies and get out there! Happiness doesn't just happen so plan for it to happen; in fact, don't accept anything less!  LIFE is a special occasion.  And each individual moment that make life are special, too.  Of course, a good life needs good health, so DANCE with the spirits - Zumba, perhaps! - Stay ACTIVE (& stay hydrated) to stay HEALTHY.    
GROW a PASSION - a passion for creating.  Get your ZZZs and LET's GET HAPPY... get ready!, already!  You got this.  Make life a meaningful journey... be tasty.  Normal? Really?  Normal is clearly over-rated.  Normal is boring!  Never settle FOR GOOD ENOUGH.  Imagine the world... it is often irresistibly surprising!  Unleash the PASSION.  Make a splash!  
BE STRONG!
I really love this project! I happened to have done some vision board collages last year and the year before:
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Challenge Accepted!

1/2/2016

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Day 1: Create and name your intention.
"Intention is like a road map that will take you to the right place*".  *Sara Aurora Waters' words:)
I am a person who will do better focusing on one month at a time, so rather than making an intention for the whole year, I'm going to make this my January Intention...

I enjoy creating as a way to relax.  Pretty colours make me happy, as does the beautiful tones that come from my black and white piano keys.  Just as the ebony and ivory tickles  my ear drums, creating images and words pleases my soul.  I feel happy when I see (or hear) my own creations and I'm proud of my own creativity.  In fact, I know that my creativity helps me be an awesome teacher!

First,  make a space in which to create... check!  In fact, our whole house seems to be a Haven of Creativity, or a mess, depending on whom you ask.  I prefer Haven of Creativity, and according to Einstein, a sign of genius. 
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Above: Here are some art supplies (or, much to my Hubby's chagrin, any thing that could remotely be an art supply).  They forcefully spew forth,  out of boxes.  Towers of paper; they teeter!  The toy boxes were made by my uncle, Joseph Neskar, RIP, when I was a kid.  I'm sure it's why I'm so creative!
​Below:  My Hubby is in the creative mood.  Each year, whilst on holiday, he creates a model.  Sometimes, he ignores the instructions and does what he wants because he has creativity in him!
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Above: Here is where I sit when I binge watch Netflix.  I can not just do nothing so I have art supplies at the ready!  My art journal is just waiting and I am reading about today's challenge on my iPad.
Below: The wall of my work space...  I made paintings using a golf ball in Tupperware containers with my little niece and nephew (pictured) last summer.  Then, I used the pages to make new Art.  This is also the wall that they see when we Skype visit. (They live far away in New Zealand.)  My nephew has hung all of his creations on his bedroom wall so I thought I'd do the same:) On my white board, I sketched a representation of my cat, plus a photo of my dream studio, and a collage representing dreaming.  Finally, there is a picture of myself as a kid - playing street hockey in the rain, decked out in my bathing suit and Care Bear 4-wheel roller skates.  This is to remind myself of the free-spirit girl that still exists inside me:)
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