Prepping4

08/15/15
11x15 collage on paper

Prepping4

Lighten Up

10/21/13
9x12 paper collage

Today's collage features a brave and fun-loving penguin who appears to be thinking up bright ideas as he/she walks the spinning cogs in the machine that is corporate life. Time for me to lighten up and enjoy the walk too. 

Lighten Up

Day 218 Willing to ask

218:365

Day 218 Willing to ask

05/06/13

Louise Hay affirmation:   “I am willing to ask for help when I need it.”

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Work only with, or be inspired by, measuring devices today.

Media:  Magazine photos, Mod Podge

Time:  45M

Comments:  Today's affirmation is one that hits home for me in that I typically find it tough to ask for help when I need it.  

First, recognizing that I need help is sometimes a challenge.  Second, asking for help (without feeling that I am weak or inadequate) is a lesson that has taken me a while to assimilate.  As an person who views myself as independent, it can be hard to let go of personal control and seek the interdependence that comes from asking for help.  

Being willing to try a new way of doing things is an insight that I'm exploring more as I age, and finding has it's own rewards.   If we are truly here to learn and grow, why wouldn't we be here to help each other along the way?   I find it rewarding to help others when they ask, why wouldn't someone else enjoy helping me too?

The imagery in the collage has to do with remembering to play and not take things so seriously (crayons), bright ideas and creative sparks (light bulbs), and time to reflect and meditate (the dark room with reading chair and lamp).  The Help! message in a bottle speaks to my own circuitous ways of getting help in the past.  A little indirect, a little slow, a little wandering in its path... but eventually the message washes ashore to be found by someone willing to help.   

Day 66 Tomato red

066:365
12/05/12

Day 66 Tomato red

Louise Hay affirmation:   “I have all the Divine ideas and activity I need.  I move forward right now.” (gland problems)

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Go grocery shopping and pick up something new specifically to work with. 

Media:  Magazine photos, Mod Podge

Time:   1H:30M

Comments:  Sometimes I feel I have too many ideas to hone in on just one.  This is a good affirmation to encourage action on something, rather than just thought about everything.

Day 44 Letting go is easy

044:365

11/13/12

Louise Hay affirmation:   “Letting go is easy.” (bowel)

Day 44 Letting go is easy 

 

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Make something that lights up.  

Media:  Scrapbook paper, Cover image from Interior Design magazine

Time:   1H:40M

Comments:  The ease of letting go is ironically juxtaposed here against the imagery of moths being attracted to flame.  Only, in the design world, plain and boring moths just won't cut it.   p.s. Second day of my colon cleanse was much smoother than the first.  Letting go IS easy.  

Link for more info:  

http://www.interiordesign.net/