Sunday Shutterbugs: Kiss

Full Dream Board: The Full Flower Moon

This is my dream board.  I tried to put in as many cameras as I could, because I've always wanted to be a photographer, though lately, I'm uninspired and having difficulty with all the technical stuff.  On my moon is a house I would love to live in, and a Boho ( love that style) girl with a camera - I am imagining she is a profesional photographer (me one day). 

 I love pansies with their happy little vibrant faces, and vivacious colors.  Sine it is a full flower moon, & my favorite flower, they needed to be included!

The girl jumping is how I feel when I'm at full flower, what exudes from me is this happy, vibrant & energy. 

I'm confident, & easy going, taking things in stride.

 I drew a stem & leaves on to my moon, making it a flower.  It's petals are words & phrases cut from a magazine, or written in by hand.  They are my dreams. 

Wishcast Wednesday - What do I Wish for My Space

My Space - I'll start big, no I will start small.  My space to  create - I'd have to kick my son out of his room, move him into the girls' room, open up the attic, and remodel it into a room for the girls.  I would add a balcony to my creative space, so that I could look out onto the park, people watch, feel the cool breeze, & listen to sounds of children.  There would be hard wood floors, white walls, and some & funky antiques throughout it.  My sewing machine & a place for my materials to be stored in a neat & organized manner, will have a spot.   I wish to have a computer with an extra large screen, where I can create digital art work.  I wish to have to have a spot for all my scrap-booking and crafting tools - easily organized & accessible. In the corner an easel with work I am creating.    A large partners desk, where I can meet with clients - as I would love to have a successful at home business.  And of course, examples of my photography framed and displayed around  my creative space.

My Space - My home - I wish to have a large & spacious kitchen that would be the center of our home.  I wish to have enough sleeping space and rooms for our large family.  I wish to have my space updated, lighting, flooring, bathrooms, furniture.  I wish to have a usable and inviting porch, a swing, maybe - I place to sit, contemplate, meditate, relax.  I wish the decor of my home to be simple, so that I'm not stressing on keeping things neat & tidy; so I don't flip out when someone spills.

My space, I wish mostly that my space, (& I write this in the mist of 2 on going tantrums) is to be peaceful & harmonious.  I wish to peaceful & harmonious.  Isn't the mom that sets the tone of the home?  This, I know is the most important part of my wish.  Even if the other parts of this wish don't come true, this part of my wish I wish to come true.

Sunday Shutterbugs: Jagged

J is for jagged.  Okay not rocks or a tree, but brown rice!

Wish Cast Wednesday - What do I Wish to Have?

What do I wish to have?  The list is soo long?  What shall I start with?  The material things?  I wish to have my house completely renovated  - I'm living in a time warp of the 70"s - that is not exactly true, we have done some work on the house.  But it needs so much.  I wish to have an art/crafting studio, a large room for all my girls to cohabit.  I wish to have a large kitchen / family area & I want all this done in eco friendly way.  I wish to have second home on the central coast of California, with wide open space, a large porch with a swing, and an old 50'as styled Chevy truck to drive around in.  I wish to have  a barn that can house a brewery for my hubby, and an art/crafting studio for me & the kids.  I wish to have an organic garden growing, and be mostly self sustainable.

I wish to have my passport ( & my families)  be a testament to world travels -unique places to go & be.

I wish to have complete and utter financial freedom.  I wish to have a bank account that miraculously is always refilling itself.

I wish to have great health, a sharp mind, and a fit & tone physique as I get older.

I wish to have a more clear focus on the creative direction I want to go towards. I wish to have  an at home business that I love, that fulfills me.

I wish to have a solid grasp all the technical aspects of photography - so I can be consistent instead of lucky.

I wish to have a healthy peaceful planet that my children & grandchildren can inherit, & cherish & revel in all it's wondrous beauty.

I wish to have a planet where it's inhabitants are peaceful & tolerant of one another.  I wish to have acceptance of the diversity in our communities.

I wish to have honest leaders who lead with integrity, who don't bow down to the almighty dollar that keeps them in power .

I wish to have more moments to total bliss.

I wish to have more time, to revel in small moments - no make that ALL moments with my children, with my husband. I wish to have more time to play, to photograph, to draw, to scrap, to write, to sew, to crochet.  I wish to have more time to laugh with my friends and family.

I wish to have more smiles emerge from me.

I wish to have more courage to put myself out there, whatever it is that I want to be out there for.

I wish to have more patience, esp. when I'm hormonally influenced and become dark & mean.

I wish to have my divinity always shining forth from me like a bright star.

Wish Cast Wednesday - What Rules do I Wish to Make or Break

The rule I wish to make is to simplify.  I think this is a good rule for me & I'd really like to actively apply it to my life.  I tend to have every moment busy, then sigh & feel resentful that there is not enough time in the day to do the things I WANT to do.  I sign up for this class & that, & I become overwhelmed by them, trying to fit them into my life with the other busyness of being a mom and a wife, and having a job.  I don't enjoy them like I should.  I don't know if I'm pulling enough out of them for the money that is invested in taking them. 

This goes for my home too - no impulse buying, or buying in bulk, but having just enough.  Enough food, enough clothes, enough extra curricular activities.  If I don't buy any unneccessay, unneeded items, then I don't have to find a home for it in my house.  I don't have to wash it, put it away, take care of it.  Those obligations are always in the forefront of my mind, having to care of the house and the duties it requires before I can play.  There is somthing to say about being sparse. 

A few years ago, I read an Oprah magazine, & she had an exercise where we had to come up with aa affirmation. I had a great one!  I wish I could remember it all.  The part I remember is "Stuff does not define me".  Do I really want people looking at me & saying WOW!  She's got that fabulous new camera!  She carries an i-phone! Coach bag! Wears the latest fashons! Oh! Are those Jimmy Choo's on her feet?  I saw her coming out of Nordstoms. NO!  I don't.  I want people to like me for me, not the things I own or don't own.  I want them to see what makes me special & unique.  I want them to see the divinity with in me, & I think one way to is for me to simplify.  Otherwise I'll always be preoccupied, stressed, & rushing off to complete the task at hand.