I am still at Carol’s site, although I am not as active as I’d like, as I mentioned earlier the first 4 months of 2012 were bad and I was very depressed and just in a huge black hole, I started going to councilling and my beautiful “Goddess of councilling” told me to get back to my art, of course my mind was so bogged down in “woe is me” I didn’t get near anything remotely arty, instead spent all my time reading books and crying ALOT!
The second half of 2012 we went on a huge road trip for 56 days you can read all about that and see all our pics at http://wrakhine.aussieblogs.com.au/ and while I was away I was starting to look at things with the tiny voice in my head saying “Pity you didnt bring your pastels to draw this” luckily I took heaps of pics, I was also really inspired by the Indigenous Art in Northern Territory, so finally after 56 days we came home and we three walked into our house and went “yuck” although we had gone away the bad stuff had NOT, so we set about making some big changes in our lives, so far we’ve spring cleaned the front garden and removed a whole bunch of wild plants, and general junk, decluttered some of the house, had new bamboo floorboards laid and this week we are painitng the house, so all the energy in the house is being thrown out and refreshed, Then of course it was New Years Eve and so to take the plan one step further I shaved off all my hair as well!! Out with the old and sad and in with the new fresh and HAPPY new Year!
Usually I make a bunch of resolutions and most times I keep the, this year I made only one broad ranging one “2013 My Year of Fun” and after last year no one in my house is arguing with me, so how to put it into action, first I made a list of all that I like to do and how did I feel when I am doing them?
ART! I get lost in my art, I can work on a piece or a scrap book page or a project and not take in anything around me I really get lost and then suddenly its like “OMG I forgot to eat lunch and now it’s almost dinner time” So I needed to bring that back in.
Learning new things– I was once called an “eternal Student” because I’m always wanting to learn something new and so I set about looking for a study subject, I’ve got a few very different ideas so which one to follow? Easy… the solution came to me by accident I get lost following a link here and click there and viola~ I found Sheri Ann Ponzi’s webpage http://www.paintingherselfintobeing.com and I read through it and then closed the page down, and then went and opened it back up and joined on the spot. I will spend 6 months with a bunch of wonderful Goddesses and I will see where that leads me, hopefully the Goddesses will help me find the direction the next half of my life needs to go in, whether it be art or something else. The course is not ALL about art, we also learn some meditation and do some journalling and we paint with acrylics which is new and little scarey to me. I have vowed not to be scared just jump in and see where the Goddess leads me. I am open to anything she helps me uncover about myself whether it be good or bad, (I hope it’s not TOO BAD!) Already I’ve found a link with one goddess that has shown up and is meaningful to me, see I’m also learning about different goddesses and their meanings for us, for example Isolde is the one i’ve connected to and she is here to help me open my throat chakra and “SPEAK” which is why I hear Isolde’s voice as my “Goddess Councillors” voice, she is telling me always the same thing “speak UP” and the other thing both of these Goddess are always telling me is “you ARE worthy” someone will hit me on the head with a brick soon if I dont start getting THAT message..
Other fun things? Laugh more than I cry, I am going to spend more time with my “real life” Goddesses my Sunbury Sisterhood of Hatters group, we have recently picked up 5 new girls and they are lovely and we are all on alert for “Fun things” t do this year as a group!
So, Movies, music, games or all sorts, oh yes!! My cousin and I have just signed up for a Sewing Class, we both have sewing machines and overlockers which we never use, so this way in the 9 weeks of classes we will learn to make clothing to fit us and that flatter us and use our machines at the same time. This year I am going to be terribly selfish and do things for ME….. my husband approves…
Over at carol’s group A little goddess in All, she had in December a month long challenge where she gave us three colours to use and a prompt and we had to make a page… I didn’t do it because my house is in disarray with furniture everywhere, but I asked carol if I might do it this month to start the New Year off as I mean to go on and of course she said Yes!! So here are days 1 and 2 and I’ll tell you the colours and the prompts…..
Day 1-Colours to use are Pink, Red, Ivory, the prompt is “Art is….”
Day 2- Colours- Orange, Turquoise, Brown, Prompt “I am….”
So this is my Monthly challenge and I’ll be posting these as I do them, and whenever I do any arty for for “Painting the Goddess within” I’ll post about that too… Wow, this had been a long posting, but I wanted to catch you all up and appologise for the long time between posts.
Kim L Hine 