Friday, August 13, 2010

New Ways With Old Things

This weekend I ask you to use something for an activity it wasent intended for...

I was driving down the road yesterday and there was a lady who had her backpack sprayer sitting comfortably in a wheel chair while she walked down the road pushing it and spraying her drains! 
That is kiwi ingenuity.
My grandad is also so stubborn he will not get a mobility scooter, so we are dismantling a ride on lawnmower for him to use instead!! Go Forest Gump!
So as you can see I have gotten into the spirit of this new fad by using my wooden printing stamps to make cookies.... so pretty dont you think. 


I have always been looking for carved cookie stamps but havent found any yet.  They work even better on a still non rising cookie like shortbread.


So you see, this is the challenge I set you all, start looking at things in new ways....



I hope your weekend is full of surprises
Happy Friday 13th everyone

xxx
Sheree

3 Things I Love

1. That I sold something on Etsy today woooohooooo!

2.  That mothers ring me for parenting advice!! Me?? haha

3.  That I have finished a huge book on New Zealand Flower Essences and these may just be my saving grace.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Hanging Love

Hands up who is getting a little sick of pouring their heart and soul into art work for it to just sit in their Etsy shop and go nowhere??
I have taken a break from money making ventures and am now just making things for people I love.
Too much  long late nights and enthusiasm spent making treasures that sit there making me doubt myself on bad days.
Im having a mini revolution!
Here is my first present for my lovely clothes horse model Jen Jen.
Its a hand stitched wall hanging for their newly decorated house...


Obviously her favorite colour is ORANGE!!!


I just used alot of old fabrics, clothes, scarves, printings, silks that I had....


and had so much fun hand stitching it all together....


man hours wise I would say it has taken me 20 hours to lovingly produce...


thats why I wouldnt be able to sell it, no one could possible afford it!!


So Jen is coming for dinner tonight to pick it up, fingers crossed she loves it...


I am also making her wedding dress for later this year, I will see if she will let me blog it after the wedding for all of you to see


I have embroidered the words
ASK . BELIEVE . RECEIVE


and these flowers are screen printed in peach and gold then coloured in with pencils, and the feathers are from a jolly old rooster who saw the pot!!  great! Jens a vegetarian! She will be stoked!


So now all those hours pouring over stitches and fabrics has become a masterpiece...
Hanging on a piece of native Kauri Tree


I have made no money at all and couldnt be happier
pure satisfaction x

So peoples
Never throw out sparkley scraps!

and thankyou to everyone who has brought from my Etsy shop, bless x
I never pay my bills with Etsy money, I always spend it on other art, that way it keeps going round and round and will one day come back to you and me and you and me and you and me!... see!!
xxx
Sheree


3 Things I love

1. Hunting for split ends! eek...but i dont smoke or bite my nails or pick stuff so I gotta do something!

2.  Olives, I watched a programme on Morrocan olives last night, it was amazing..

3. Water from plastic cups, I cannot drink water from glass, it smells like eggs??? yeah I know!


Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The Dark Lady Meditation

Unconscious Power and Wisdom, Rituals, Mysteries, Secrets....
at first when I kept drawing this card I was a little scared, its not the type of picture you want to see in your darkest hours, but as you will see, this is a blessing I wish upon no one and everyone at the same time.
We find her through meditation, in sleep, and within inner peace, ecstasy and total despair.  It is the dark lady who passes with us through the night of endings and death, whether of the body or of the soul.  It is she who holds and guides us as we reconceive ourselves and prepare to be born anew. 
I sleep with this card stuck next to my pillow and today I did a meditation with her to try and understand this fear that sits in my body like a cowardly poison, not willing to show its face and not willing to go either.



I wrote down what happened in my meditation, and thought that seeing as it was such a moving story for me that I would paint a little story board and share it with you all.....
So here we go...

I see my fear, I feel it as a swirling chaos, spinning me to the right, so strong I can feel my body leaning into it, turning, turning, turning for the longest time....


I slow down at a huge stage with curtains of red velvet with gold all around, the curtains slowly open and in front of me is darkness with golden stairs.  I walk to the top....


I am in total blackness all around with no depth perception in any direction.  This is it...I had been waiting for months for my chance to jump into fear and here it is, so I jump....I fall but turn myself over so Im falling backwards, 'turn over' Im told 'and see your fear'....Oh phoowey!...I gently come to a halt and am standing in front of a red door.... 


Im hesitant and stand, deep breath, a bit scared of what behind, I open...There is a rush of love and light, beauty, and magic, its a garden....


a garden so lush and so warm, light and sunny, all the animals are sleepy and content, its what I imagine the garden of Eden to be.  It is absolute happiness and peace and the temperature is the happiest I have ever felt, so comfortable...I walk in looking and feeling such awe and relaxation running over me.  Is this heaven??....


India comes running up to me, she is in a pretty yellow dress, 'Mummy your here!'  I pick her up and hug her and I love her so much I cry, both in my story and as I sit and meditate.....


Kelly comes walking behind..we have a peaceful hug that is such pure love it dosent need any words spoken...


We all walk together in the beautiful nature and the warmth, India tells me 'Mummy theres something here for you'...We come to a long rainbow shaped table, on it are things.... my talents....paintbrushes, needle and thread, paint, spoons, swords, goblets, hammer, plants, sticks, rocks, so many things..it goes on and on...


I get worried, I dont want to choose, I want them all, I cant choose just one... 'you dont have to choose mummy' says Indi..'these are all you talents, you have them all'.... I stand looking at them and cry, I do have them all....


'You just need to remember the love, light, beauty and magic in everything, that is why you are here,.... that is why we are here together'
'Live In The Light Mummy...Live In The Light'
She is jumping in the air....


We are all together, holding hands, walking thru the plants towards an orb of pure light, we all walk into the light together and dissipate into warmth and love....x


As you can imagine by the end of this I was an absolute mess, I had to write it down as fast as I could because I didnt want to forget one word, not one beautiful word my little angel spoke to me....


So you see, when things are all going smoothly we enjoy life but seem to learn very little, we are too busy enjoying.  I am trying to use my 'Dark Lady' time the best I can, to learn as much as I can about my reason for being....
Meditation rocks, I never really understood it before, I feel its important to record as much as you can about a session, it will always be helpful.


Im up to a very useful part of my 'Empowering Awakening Angels' book, its about how to find your true lifes purpose.  heres how

First you need to trust yourself, you need to empty your mind of all the false purposes you have been taught, which includes the idea that you may have no pupose at all.  The more open you are to this process, the more you expect it to be successful, the faster it will work for you.
Do this alone and with no interruptions.
a.   Take a sheet of paper and write at the top,  "What is my pupose in life?"
b.   Write any answer that pops into your head.
c.   Repeat this process until you write that answer that makes you cry.
This is your purpose.

It will take about 15 to 20 minutes to clear your head of conditioned thoughts and false answers, you will feel your true answer come from somewhere far deeper, it may seem silly but keep going till you write something that makes you emotions surge.  wanting to give up is part of the process and push on, you may get mini surges but something that dosent make you cry, underline them but keep going, they reflect a piece of your purpose and you are getting closer.

let me know how you go..

I know I was gonna blog constantly but you know......its winter here, nothing much to feel like blogging about, hope your all stinking hot in the northern hemisphere, Im so over wearing clothes and shoes!!!

wishing you many happy meditations and life pupose writings
xxx
Sheree


3 Things I love

1.  that a lady saw me today for the first time in ages and said "I heard you've been sick" as she spun her finger around at the side of her head!! sheesh small towns, so its official, Im mental! haha what can you do but laugh!

2.  winter sunrises


3. Hand Sewing xxx Im refinding my love for it!

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

A Little List Of Happiness



Heres a little trip thru my personal real life..
I have been listening to the same CD in my art room for the past 4 months, ohh others try and get some air time , but they are always replaced after a song or two with the same CD....I am in love with Jewels album to put babies to sleep, its called 'Lullaby'...so calm..so beautiful.

Like I said last week I have been writing lists of things I appreciate, so here are a few photos of those little things in my life.
The plan is for you to push play and listen to the song while you are looking thru the photos...

Things that I love...
































































































Thankyou for stopping by
lets have a giveaway in the next post aye!
its been so long since I gave back

xxx
Sheree

3 Things I love

1. My very supportive family and web of friends

2. Hanging out wet clean smelling washing on a sunny day

3. Glee ; )