What an amazing Leesburg Art Fest this year. So FULL. I designed a PAINT LIKE POLLOCK Create Station for the kids. It was superbly messy, educational and FUN!
I awoke today body sore therefore I simply had to keep moving. I needed to catch up in the garden, make tentative designs for a new fiber art Create Staton for BoHo Fest in September and actually (can you believe it) paint a damaged table. One would think I had quite enough paint but priming is meditative. It's GOOD FOR YOU.
Here are some pics from the Art Fest's Saturday. I still haven't edited Sunday's. Today was for quietly balancing with my own creations at my own pace - alone in space.
Just a little garden update. The weather is finally good in the mornings (and afternoons on my days off) to do some serious garden work. Being inside on the computer just seems wrong :) but it is 5:00 and the sun is getting low so a good time to stop for the day.
My faux Moroccan tiles ended up in the rosemary and blue daze mandala. I am so happy the daze finally came back. Last year's freezing made it unavailable everywhere so I had to go from just a few cuttings and nurse it along. I planted some dianthus on Sunday. I am almost ready for new mulch. I still need to tackle the herb garden, side garden, other side garden, mint and wildflower (planned) area and back of the lot. Hmmmm - Where will the veggies go?
Step by step it slowly moves along. I am a weekend gardener now. Luckily I have long weekends. Most of the time. March is going to be a bit crazy because of Art Fest so I am taking what I can for time now. I even got in a bike ride today. JOY JOY!
Buddha's yellow bush daisies have been transplanted to the foundation. They will be in transplant shock for a month. I will start with potted plants until I make a decision as to what goes in the ground.in front of the pedestal. The bush daisies got way big! Patience Patricia Patience.
And now off to shower the dirt off and clean it out from under my fingernails. What's for dinner?
Remember this photo from September's BoHo Fest in Leesburg, FL? The HUGE Community Street Mandala on canvas?
We rocked on the color fill in. The detailing was not completed during the fest so I am looking to finish it up during a super cool program we hold inside the art center on the first and third Wednesdays.
ART LOUNGE
I took the canvas home to size up the task but really... it is SO BIG that I need to bring it on the 6th to ART LOUNGE (CREATE) and spread it out on the Great Room studio floor to properly paint it.
HEY!
Do you want to help finish it? Then get on over to the Leesburg Center for the Arts
at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday February 6, 2019 and I'll give you a brush and some paint.
"Winter will take some patience." That's what I said on a short Facebook video this morning after waking up to 35F in Central Florida.
Today I am working in my tiny bedroom as the studio is a large open space and hard to heat. I am diggin the sunshine too. It is a good time to work on garden froo froo and not outside digging. Last year I painted some cinder blocks in a Moroccan Style motif. They became Buddha's pedestal. This year I am creating pavers for around the earth mandala.
That's it. I am getting back to the sun and color.
Chau 4 now!
I'd rather be blue thinking of you, I'd rather be blue over you, Than be happy with somebody else.
Another short post because I have been rocking the garden redesign. My 200 lb solid cement (ok I am exaggerating but it takes 2 full sized people to budge him) Buddha has been in my garden for over a year. Last week I was given an arch arbor kit to paint and build to place over him. Somehow the gray concrete called out to become BLUE. Today I stained dear Buddha and he looks pretty darn good. I think he is happy. I know when the hanging planter and vining plants get in he will look blue but feel FA-BLUE-OUS!
Another short blog post this week. Two pairs of gloves failed in the dying process and now I have smurf hands. It will be wierd at dinner out tonight so I best go fix it. :) Chau 4 now.....
Oh my goodness, I have been a bad little blogger. I haven't posted since mid November and here it is the new year. My Bad. Year-end was so busy. So is this beginning to the new year but... big but, all seems so much more in balance. Why? Because I am diligently taking care of me. This week I am simply going to post some photos of nature and get off the computer.
I was off grid Saturday night and Sunday morning. I didn't even have cell service. Friends took me to the coast. I was fully present. :)
These are terns on New Smyrna Beach. We also went to Blue Springs to visit with some manatees. Lovely.
I love the "do" on thee terns!
I have vowed to myself to BE out in nature at least five times a week. I am continuing my morning meditations before I get out of bed. Starting EACH DAY with deep focused and meditation makes an enormous difference in life quality. I believe it opens up your energy for good things to enter. Who needs valium?
The other thing that I am doing is eliminating or cutting down severly on some things in my diet and reducing computer time (that one is hard as I work as a graphic designer). More on that another time. Beach, Biking, Bed, Bonfires...It is a matter of balance.
Well - I leave you there. Happy 2019. See you soon.
Here you go....a post that has little to do with mandalas except for Mindfulness, Moving Meditation, and Art. Well that's a lot actually. And where it goes... :) spirit stole my fingers again.
Origami: The Japanese art of paper folding.
Recycling old magazine pages for peace cranes.
For many years when it gets to be around the "holiday" I fold paper cranes. I give many away with the intent of spreading peace and good wishes. I don't usually have traditional Christmas trees. Often I simply decorate with garlands of cranes or put the cranes on a ficus tree along with little colorful globe ornaments and cocktail umbrellas. It's not so much about the religious holiday for me. It is about thankfulness, reflection and new year intentions to go forward brighter and better.
Peace and goodwill for all. The CRANE means that for me.
This year I am in my own BoHoMoHo Boo *Bohemian Mobile Home Base of Operations* in Central Florida. I have no family here and few friends outside of my work at the art center. There will be no gifts to put under the tree again. That's just stuff anyway. My MoHo is uncluttered in the no chaos zen way that I like it. I don't need nor want gifts. The sentiment is the important thing to me. If someone wants to gift me something make it their friendship (that is an honor) and an excellent experience. I opted for experiences over material stuff decades ago pre-nomad time.
I have been cutting 5- 6" paper squares from old magazines and aged colored copy paper on my paper cutter and making the first waterbomb fold. I have many "starts" stacked in a container to easily take along with me. I can fold the rest of the creases myself and teach others. Spread and share the love. There are a few stories about the crane and its meaning. 1000 is a personal quest. I am expanding that to be a community quest of good intentions this year. More on that in another post.....
For now I just want to introduce you to this amazing young woman and what folding cranes did for her, her heart, her creative expression and more. The cranes can do this for all of us. Pay attention. Our next generation of creatives are the ones to bring change to our world. Take a moment to watch, listen and be inspired.
I am going back to mindfully folding good intentions. >>>>>
