This post can take many forms. I may talk about the world view in review but the original intent is to review the aspirations I have set for myself for this year that is soon coming to a close. There were a lot of areas that I wanted to improve on for 2008. There were [...]
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The Year in Review
Posted in Art, Family, Fitness, Just my Thoughts, Simple Abundance, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged aspirations, goals, simpleabundance, triple8challenge, yearinreview on 27 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How do you exercise your brain?
Posted in Fitness, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged brainexercise, grabdotcom, jigzone on 6 August 2008 | 1 Comment »
We all spend a lot of time – because it is in the news a lot or because we care about our quality of life – worrying about exercising our bodies, making our bodies more fit and ready for aging (okay, so the teenager that exercises regularly probably doesn’t think of that). The question today [...]
Book Review – Three Cups of Tea
Posted in Book Reviews, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged 3cupsofteam, 911, centralasiainstitute, gregmortenson, penniesforpeace, tripleeightchallenge on 3 August 2008 | 1 Comment »
I started reading Three Cups of Tea as I took my 17 year old son for what we both hoped was his last orthopedist’s appointment due to a broken ankle. I had picked it up in my summer reading pile. I have read many books about life in the Middle East but most of my [...]
Patina
Posted in Art, Family, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged Art, juliaandrus, papertransformed, patina, tripleeightchallenge on 25 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Patina – by definition – is a film or incrustation, usually green, produced by oxidation on the surface of old bronze and often esteemed as being of ornamental value. I have always loved those “fake” patinas that artists create. I was so excited when I saw that learning to create a patina look was one [...]
Sand in Gesso
Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged Art, celebrateyourcreativeself, gesso, green, marytoddbeam, spring, tripleeightchallenge on 24 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As those of you who visit often might recall, I am doing a year long workshop based on Mary Todd Beam’s book Celebrate Your Creative Self. I am tad bit behind the group but was catching up by doing a painting using sand in gesso. I agree with Todd Beam in that the one thing [...]
GPP Street Team Crusade #21 – Irresistible!
Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged Art, crusade21, gppstreetteam, juliaandrus, michelleward, papertransformed, tripleeightchallenge, waxresist on 12 June 2008 | 8 Comments »
Every month I look forward to my visit to Michelle Ward’s GPP Street Team blog so that I can see what Michelle has come up with for the crusade of the month. Last month it was paper casting which is something I love. This month it is IRRESISTIBLE – wax resist! I set off to [...]
Summer Movie Time
Posted in Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged film, reading, sexandthecity, summerfilm, tripleeightchallenge on 9 May 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have to admit that I am a huge “Sex and the City” fan. I never watched it when it was on HBO as I didn’t have HBO but my daughter would watch it at friends’ homes. We would rent the season’s DVDs and watch an entire season at a time. I still watch the [...]
Celebrate Your Creative Self – Seascape
Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged Art, celebrateyourcreativeself, marytoddbeam, seascape, tripleeightchallenge on 22 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the workshop I am doing this year that is working the way through Mary Todd Beam’s Celebrate Your Creative Self, we are working on a seascape this month. I have been behind due to some unforeseen and some foreseen life circumstances. I just started mine today. This post will be a continuing one with [...]

