Hopefully, you are reading along daily as opposed to waiting to hear something from me. I have lead a book group around Sarah Ban Breathnach’s Simple Abundance for three years now and I never seem to get out the things I want when I want to but I keep trying. From the middle of January [...]
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Wrap-Up of January Simple Abundance
Posted in Just my Thoughts, Simple Abundance, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged authenticyou, juliacameron, sarahbanbreathnach, simpleabundance, theartistsway, tripleeightchallenge on 2 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wax Resist
Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged acrylics, Art, celebrateyourcreativeself, create, creating, marytoddbeam, triple8challenge, waxresist on 31 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In our (a group of artists online) neverending way to work our way through Mary Todd Beam’s Celebrate Your Creative Self, we have been working on some white space in paintings. I understand the need for white space but I have trouble keeping it in creations. One method discussed in the books is wax resist. [...]
More Marbling
Posted in Art, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged Art, atc, crafts, juliaandrus, marbling, papertransformed on 17 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
I finally received my book – Paper Transformed by Julia Andrus in the mail. The more I read about marbling, the more I was sure I wanted to use some of the other supplies I have around to marble additional papers. I have mordant mixed up so that is not a problem. Both boys had [...]
Button Swap
Posted in Art, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged Art, atc, crafts, juliaandrus, marbling, papertransformed on 16 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So maybe the background on this ATC (artist trading card) looks familiar to you. I did write about it in a workshop I am doing – marbling. The workshop is based on Julia Andrus’s book Paper Transformed. I used denim, espresso and eggplant to create what I was hoping would look like a stormy sky [...]
More About Gratitude
Posted in Just my Thoughts, Simple Abundance, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged gratitude, gratitudejournal, journal, sarahbanbreathnach, simpleabundance on 14 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My Simple Abundance posts are not quite daily. As the year goes on, they will be come less frequent also. Just making sure you know. As I was reading on the tenth about old cemeteries, several thought quickly ran through my mind. First was how grateful I was to be alive. The second thing was [...]
Creative Self
Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged acrylics, Art, canvas, create, marytoddbeam, pumpkin on 14 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay – so as part of the Triple 8 Reading Challenge and as a year long workshop, I am reading Celebrate Your Creative Self by Mary Todd Beam. I have been patiently awaiting the mail delivery of my book and have had a friend tell me the basic concept. Unfortunately, one of the promises I [...]
Simply Happy
Posted in Just my Thoughts, Simple Abundance, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged happiness, needs, simpleabundance, wants on 9 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The last few days in Simple Abundance have talked about happiness – our inability to find it within ourself, our inability to get happy ourselves, the source of happiness being outside our control. More than anything, the January 8th reading, which I just re-read, spoke to me. I was at a funeral yesterday – a [...]
Marbling Papers
Posted in Art, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged Art, atc, creating, juliaandrus, marbling, papertransformed on 9 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Combining several things I am doing this year, I am reading a book called Paper Transformed by Julia Andrus. Lesson one is on marbling so off I went. I used shaving cream – the old fashioned actual cream type. Then, I put drops of dye re-inkers in the shaving cream. I took plastic forks and [...]
The Triple 8 Challenge – Reading
Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, Politics, Religion, Simple Abundance, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged 888challenge, books, catholicism, creating, jimmycarter, reading, Religion, selfimprovement on 1 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you are interested in participating, please visit the “official” site for details. Below are my entries and partial lists. I will be updating as I can. Books by Jimmy Carter – CAT 1 1. Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope 2. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid 3. Our [...]
The Triple 8 Challenge – Reading
Posted in Just my Thoughts, Triple Eight Challenge on 29 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
src=\”http://momto6.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/1198930897-sc-362.jpg\” If you are interested in participating, please visit the \”official\” site for details. Below are my entries and partial lists. I will be updating as I can. Books by Jimmy Carter Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid Our Endangered Values Christmas in Plains An Hour Before [...]

