Sunday, July 29, 2012

Top 10 Signs


Happy Sunday my Honeysuckle Breeze Peeps.......  Loved one of my notes from The Universe this week:


Marlynn, the top 10 signs a really huge dream of yours is about to come true, are:

10. You regularly visualize the end result, the after-party, or beyond.
9. Every day you "show up," doing something about it.
8. You're not attached to how it will come true.
7. It really matters to you; you really care.
6. You know who the first 3 people are that you'll call with the news.
5. You're smiling and winking way more than normal.
4. Sometimes you speak and behave as if it already has.
3. It probably doesn't depend upon specific people.
2. You already know what your next goal is.
1. You keep whispering, "Sweet! Thank you! Yes!" with clutched fist.

Sweet! Thank you! Yes!
    The Universe
Did you just smile and wink, Marlynn? Good, keep on it.
The past week has flown by very quickly as has this weekend.  Love that the 2012 Olympics have begun and equally happy that Bravo is showing the tennis matches live everyday. Wanting Roger Federer to win his gold medal. Four years ago - he won silver and gold in doubles.


Went on a field trip to Michael's on Thursday and found some really cool goodies including Retro Candy.... oh my .... they also had some great new tissue tapes from Tim Holtz and yes, I bought! 

Have been creating in my little ATC size travel art journal (4"x3" Pentalic Sketchbook).  Yesterday, I found an odd little show (after tennis was over on Bravo) on Science Network (thinking it is in the Discovery TV networks) called Dark Matters--Twisted But True. Sounds like my kind of show - and it was. Also was creating while it is on..... yup, it gets a little odd. LOL  Beginning with the new Tim Holtz tissue tape. This tape is so cool as a background on a page:

and then the after photo - using a transfer (Lesley Riley Tap Transfer Artist Paper) I brought back from Art and Soul in February from Lesley Riley's class.  Love her transfer paper - it is idiot proof which would me me!




and on the other side is the "back side" of my creation called "Send In the Clowns."  I am loving playing with this back side trying to keep the cool design that bled thru from the other page.  Also another new Tim Holtz tissue tape on the left hand side of the page:




and here is what started it all -  Send in the Clowns - that created the above "back side" page. It was the Sharpie outlines that did the bleeding:



And the final two pages this week was my salute to egg heads all over the world.  I am a "Big Bang" Fanatic. Love Leonard, Raj, Amy, Sheldon, Penny, Howard.... and on and on. Love them and will just keep watching the reruns.... This inspiration came from an old cook book I picked up off of Ebay a number of years ago.... Egg Salad....




And the opposite page features Egg Beet Salad.... along with some other friends....


Between my summer workouts (Wednesday and Friday), my cardio boxing (Tuesday), cardio tennis (Saturday), and some regular tennis on Sunday's, I am really so happy that I wanted to start creating again. It was a dry spell. You have a great week and I will see you next weekend - if not before, who knows!

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Yes, Aunt Mary, I'm still Kicking

You know you are in trouble when you get an email like this from your beloved Aunt Mary:



Hi Marlynn,
No blog since April 7.  Everything OK?
Love you,
Aunt Mary

Yup, big trouble, and if my Mama was still alive I would hear her words, "how could you?"  She use to chastise me when, at an early age, I would not send thank-you notes for gifts received.  Now, I know she would chime in, when I had not blogged in like "forever."  Nope, I did not realize it had been April 7.  Nope, I didn't have a clue my lovely Aunt Mary read the blog - OK her photo along with my mother is on the featured blog banner.  They were such a sweet looking duo weren't they?

Last February when I went to Art & Soul, Lesley Riley was not able to teach a class I had signed up for and she offered us a 30 minute call with her.  Oh WOW!  So I took her up on her offer and had a call with her just before our (work) conference when I felt snowed under and not able to get much done except work. All energies and focus was on that project.  If you are following me on Facebook, you know my mantra at  was - get me to July 1 and all will be well!  Get me to July 1!  Well, in talking with Lesley I realized there are a few things I do want to focus on in my personal life:  

(1) art journaling, 


(2) organization of art room, and 

(3) back-to-blogging.  

On the matter of # 3, I needed someone to jump start me back to the blog 



- NOOOoooo, it wasn't Oliver who has been over to visit on numerous occasions.  Nope, I guess I got a good kick-in-the-butt (I know Aunt Mary would not see it that way) just-do-it.  And here I am. I have been thinking about blogging all last week but just couldn't grab the laptop.  So here I am on a very early morning reacting to Aunt Mary's note on AOL that was the first thing I saw on my iPhone.  The universe moves in ways we don't comprehend.  And with that, I really need to get ready for work!

Better go and wake up the office.  And yes, I have been creating like crazy in my art journal.  I have enough art work to show you now!  (OK, a dirty little secret - I haven't been creating the first part of the year and really felt like I had nothing to show you..... that's just between you and me!)  More later.