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Treasures and Visions

01 Friday May 2015

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Gratitude journal, Journal 52

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100 Mandalas, acrylic paint, altered art, Altered book, art journal, Earth day, gratitude journal, leaves, Pema Chodrun, quotes, stencils, Treasures, trees

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Sorry I have been unavailable for a while. I’m not sure if I had the flu or food poisoning, but I’m starting to feel better and I just kept adding layers to my journal pages. That worked well with the Journal 52 prompt of Treasures. My sons, husband and cats are my greatest treasures (not necessarily in that order). But in the time since my last Gratitude Journal posting we have had Earth Day and that is definitely one of my greatest treasures, too. I thought it was wonderful serendipity that the page layout for earth day was leaves and I wanted that to come through. The combination of multiple layers and the bottom layer showing through is a tricky thing, but it worked! I like the practice of writing every day and layering my writing so that none of it is really legible. This was not my most positive journaling week and I’m just fine with those words not being retained for posterity.

I have included a quote by Pema Chodrun: “Practice not causing harm to anyone – yourself or others – and every day, do what you can to be helpful.”

I don’t usually journal or blog about my worries, however, I have been having vision problems on top of my usual migraines and I did not pass my most recent Visual Field eye exam. They want me to retake it in 6 weeks, but I’m rather worried. I have been monitored for possible multiple sclerosis for a few years and this could be a bad sign. The headaches are something of an impediment to art making, but the vision problems are an even greater one. If that means they can solve some of the eye problems that would be ok. So far I can still make art and that is a good thing. I did some big paper painting this week and cut shapes out. That is where the center of the eye came from and the little flower outlines.

With being sick I fell out of my morning mandala habit, but I have continued my bedtime A, B, C, s of gratitude so I will share a bit of an overview here. I’m not sure if I described it or not but what I do is as I’m laying in bed having difficulties falling asleep I start with A and think of things for which I’m grateful for each letter of the alphabet. I rarely get to the end of the alphabet, so some of these are made up today.

A – art, Amanda, animals, avacado, aquacize

B- Bridget, Bonhommie, books, bread, bananas, batik, blogging, blogs

C – cats, Carla, creativity, colors

D – daylight, delight, Dawn, drawing

E – Earth, Elementary, Enola

F – Friends, food, fun, facebook

G – grass, gesso, gel pens, Garfunkle and Oats, Gage, ginger ale

H – Hannah, happiness, hair, home, Hexi

I – inspiration, ink, ideas

J – Jessalyn, Janine, Jacqueline, Joanie, jellybeans, joy, Jill

K – kindness, Katmandu

L – light, love, laughter

M- Mike, Marq, Mom, money, meditation, medicine, mandalas, music

N – Night, Nicky, Nora Jones

O – open heart, oatmeal

P – paper, people, pets, purple, painting, Paul, plumbing, Pat, photography

Q – quiet

R – rooms, restaurants

S – Shannon, Sarah, silliness, synchronicity

T – truth, tv, teeth

U – underpants

V – vaccines, vegetarians, vegetables

W – Watercolors, words, writing, Winzton, WordPress

X = eXcitement

Y – YMCA, youths, yoga

Z – zebras, zippers

These are not in any particular order and the list goes on, but these are the ones I can bring to mind right now. So much to be grateful for. And isn’t it strange what you think of in the middle of the night?

What do you do when you can’t fall asleep?

Challenges: Cee’s is Clouds and Diva’s is Earth Day

21 Tuesday Apr 2015

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Mandala, Photographs

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100 Mandalas, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Diva Challenge, Earth day, Mandala, photograph, Tree of Life, zentangle

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Check out the other Zentangled illustrations and photos of the Diva and her wonderful boys at

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Hawaii pink cloud

North beach clouds Hawaii Hawaii palms clouds hawaiian clouds beach with child

The above pictures are for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Clouds. They are all from my recent trip to Hawaii. I love clouds and I have tons of cloud photos. The setting is what makes these special to me. I hope you enjoy them too.

See the other entries here

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All of you

29 Tuesday Apr 2014

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altered art book, collage, Earth day, forsythia, gratitude, gratitude journal

All of you

Lunanista topped 2000 views this week. I am grateful to all of you for taking the time to see what I’m doing. I have received such positive feedback and many times days it just makes my day. I was doing this before anyone else paid attention, but the feedback really keeps me motivated to challenge myself artistically. Also, look how beautifully my forsythia bloomed on Earth Day!

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Bonhomie likes to join me for meditation and yoga. Thursday was a quiet day to prepare for the upcoming weekend full of activity.

Friday I got a Cricut Cuttlebug to make die cuts and stencils with ease. I am really having fun with it as you will see in many of the ensuing entries. Marq sang “Stars” and played piano at the Roots & Wings opening performance. Each performance will include different alumnae of the Beaver Dam Area Community Theater. We are so fortunate to have such a lively arts community for a small town. I also ordered and picked up the corsage for his prom date. It is going to be a busy weekend!

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Saturday we hit the ground running, leaving the house by 6:30am to get to University of Wisconsin Oshkosh for Marq’s vocal solo. We picked up one of his friends on the way and met Janine and Scott at the information area. Marq sang, played piano and cello and got 4 first place evaluations before lunch. The friend we picked up had an event at 3:50 – one of the last ones of the day. This gave us time for a leisurely and super yummy lunch full of laughter. We made it back home in time for Marq to get ready for prom. There were a few glitches, but Mike and I had a nice relaxing evening alone at home.

Sunday was a quiet and reflective day to perform routine tasks and get ready for the week. Of course I played with my new art supplies some more, too! Have a beautiful day!

 

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