08-31-10

Another month has gone by. Now on to the month that I always think of back to school month. After the holiday we all focus on settling into the fall and then we have to hibernate.
The challenge for today is a fun one, if you like to shop. And who doesn't like to shop. HA. Some people hate it. As we have been thinking of a project we would do next from the challenges from days before, now I want you to see what you may need that you don't have to make that creative project. Maybe it is time to organize your items and then see what you may need to move forward in your creativity. Maybe you need a new paint brush, some new colors, a new piece of software for your computer, notebooks, pens any thing that may make your creativity easy when it is time. Now, many things are on sale because of the schools supply need for children and college students. It goes on this whole month. Art supplies may be on sale at the college book stores. See, I am having fun already. And maybe we can be saving some money as we go along. Make a list if you can't go today and then you can do some shopping online or ads in papers to find the best buys. Or just go out and look. Have fun shopping!!! I will!

08-30-10

Yes, it is the beginning of a new week. And we were going to think of a project that we could do this week. I haven't thought of mine yet. The weather has changed drastically. It was raining this morning. I wasn't at home so I didn't experience the down pour. I am home now and have many projects to do that are required. Like painting the trim on the house. Hope the weather stays nice into the fall. Like an Indian summer. But for a creative project besides that I am kind of at a loss.
I will look around right now and see if I can come up with something. My creativity for tonight and tomorrow is going to be organizing and putting things away so I can have a slate that is cleaner. So maybe I am in creative preparation.
Now comes the challenge for my dedicated creators. OK, I want everyone to look at the end of the year holidays. There may be birthdays or your specific family holiday where gifts are given. See, if you can create presents for some of those special people in your life. If you have the inclination see if you may want to do many creative projects and find a place to share them with others. Could be a church sale, an art sale, or an online extraviganza.

08-29-10

It is a cleanse day for my friend and I. It is not an easy thing to do when you ate and ate the day before, the reason that we do this is to allow our insides to have a day off from the toxins and over processing that we may have to do. The cleanse is a safe one that has the nutrients in it that supports your body. If you want to try it contact me at actingforyoung@aol.com.
The challenge today is to take a look at your week coming up and to see it you have plans or are you going to play it by ear? We also have a weekend coming up that is a longer weekend? Labor day is coming up as the kids go back to laboring in their school atmosphere. I will be going back to teaching acting this fall. So that will be some sort of Laboring also. I excited to get more things done around the house to make it more organized, clean and ready for winter. My creations are around re-arranging where we store things and all so I can have it more organized and not so cluttered. My other creation I worked on today was to look at a new look for this fall and winter. I actually gave my friend an exercise for her fall look. You can do this also, write down 5 to 10 words that describe how you would like to be perceived when you enter a room, she had confident, approachable, lovable, classic were some of her words. We got a few things for her today. It is a good way to focus on what you need or want. You can also think about what you think when you see people walking into a room. Fall is always a good time to rethink what you will be wearing in the next season. Now, that is very creative. Looking at what you already have and try and incorporate that with any trend that you might be interested in. Yes, it is a fashion blog, creating a safe place to wear your look for all..

08-28-10

I want to ask you a question, "has your life changed since you have been finding a safe place to create." Mine has, I have a husband that is saving things now so I can create.
The challenge today is to make a new project, have an idea for a new project and see how that works. I am going to force myself into thinking about a new project.
Hope it is a good one. l i n d a

08-27-10

OK,let us look at my frustration right now. Let's not look at that. I am going to give you your challenge before I get into anything like that.

This challenge is to take a look at your anger, do you hide it, escape it? Please take a look at this and we will talk later at it, because I have hidden my anger for so long, out of fear, that now at this age I feel like it is not ok to have this childhood anger. Just look at that, be at peace with it.

08-26-10

Now we are on the correct current date. Now that the major part of our house is done and I am actually feeling better I didn't focus on the house. I focused on all the things I had on hold in my creative life, in my teaching life and in my personal life. Focusing on the house with my husband was awesome and at the same time I didn't get my calls in, my appointments made, mynext creative project in tow. So today I got many many things done in that short time span.
It does seem like time stands still sometimes.
The challenge today is to to take a look at time. You can't look at it except on a clock or watch. Time is illusive, it travels fast sometimes and slow other times. You always hear how time flies when you are having fun. And in the creative world that is the same idea. When you are writing, painting, acting, cooking, doing your creative gifts, time seems to slip by.
Today I kind of had the opposite. I started going with the creative flow, of laundry, calls, projects, posters, etc and I got so much done in a few hours. More that I have done in 7 days. I went with the flow and I even noticed and stopped myself if I started to get frustrated with something and noticed I had a judgment about it and it didn't go so great. I stopped the flow. Stuff like, oh they should have better information to give me. Oh, that has nothing to do with what I called about, etc. I judged the outcome and I stopped it and thought, they are doing the best they can with the information they were given and I thanked them sincerely. They were nice and really simply doing their jobs with what the company had given them. Bless their souls, I thanked them and moved on. Let us all go with the flow today and see what happens to time. Does it work with us or against us. I like ease and least resistance. Now I get it.

08-25-10

Happy 31st wedding anniversary to me. Yeah, With the house, work and our anniversary along with my husbands schedule I didn't get to blog yesterday. We had to get up at 4:00 this morning and I didn't have a mind to say anything so I didn't/.
So yesterdays challenge is to see if you ever find yourself without a mind. As things pile up on you, you can't have a creative thought to save your life. I am searching for a way to not have that be the default. We are on Default most of the time. I just shared with a friend about how I heard her frustration with her business (it is an ongoing thing) as being something that started when she was very young (I am in a class that is exploring all of this). And now I can tell her it may be her default. The words come such as, why does this happen to me, why is it easier for them, why do good things happen to them and never to me, etc. I have them, all of us have them that is why they say that what is happening right now isn't the source of your anger or frustration. It is triggering something from your default system. I like that.
I will use that and maybe change my default. Have a great day.

08-24-10

Think 3 times before you start a big project. Add your age into that, your mental state, the weather and then ask for help. HA. We are still working, my husband is out painting with the sprayer and I can't walk out any door but one. And I can't even do that now. So I can't help him until he gives me the cue. All of this plus the appreciation of our jobs and all the changes that happen with one phone call we are looking at our 31st wedding anniversary tomorrow. We may celebrate tonight if we aren't to tired, but tomorrow we are planning on being to tired. We are a funny bunch.
The challenge today is to see if you can find a create moment while working so hard. I did......yes, I found a new place to create a picture. On my front porch I am painting 2 new pictures to add to the decor of my front porch. Yeah!!!!@

08-23-10

I am so grateful right now as I am not dizzy and I haven't been dizzy most of the day. I took sea sick pills and some vitamins that are good for your ears. And one of them must have worked. We got the whole house primed. Now we have to re-tape for the house color. Since our house is an original color we get to name the color of our paint. I will keep you updated on that.
I am missing my friends and my normal life. We are living in the dark. All the windows and doors are papered and taped. The yard is full of all the deck furniture and the deers ate all my plants. The front yard is full of the front porch items plus much more. I am not complaining I am actually explaining. It is quite a process. All the counter tops in the house are full of tape and any other items that we use.
We even bought a great gray stain for the front porch cement and we bought cleaner and water proofing for the deck. We have 4 out buildings to scrape and paint too. We could get overwhelmed easily, but have to take in one step at a time.
Creative, creative, creative. The deers still visit and watch us. The bees aren't getting too made at us invading their space.
The challenge today is to take a look at what overwhelms you? Do you remember a time when you think you may have gotten in over your head? If you do what did you do about it? Go with the flow or stop the project. Sometimes I would stop a project but you can't really do it with this, well I guess you could but my husband would never ever do that. I use overwhelmed in much smaller projects, like clutter, magazines, piles of papers. Don't tell anyone OK?

08-22-10

What a day. I have taped and taped and covered and taped. We are painting our house. Getting ready for the primer. It takes a lot of figuring out what you do first for the primer then with the color. I love the figuring out how to tape things by myself. I find it a challenge and I like to find the best way to make it work and since I have never done it before there is a real satisfaction that I can jump in and figure out the best way. I sound like I am repeating myself. Well after 2 days of really weird positions, of the scraping then taping etc. Hands over my head for hours, on a wobbly ladder, glasses off, glasses on. Wow, my body doesn't know which is up and which is down and this afternoon it decided to go dizzy. My dad and aunt used to have dizzy spells, and after my son was born I have had random dizzy spells that I don't really have a common denominator.
The challenge for the day is to take a look at your life and see where you find challenges in creative changes in your life. As we are keeping the same color of our house because we love it and we don't see anyone else have that color we both had to find very creative ideas to make it work. Then the physical dizziness that really put a dent in my contribution. Actually I still did the work, first I got a little mad and then I just pushed through it and figured out ways to make it work with the less dizzy ways. For all of you that read this I truly appreciate it and I do apologize if I don't always have time to proof read.
We are alive, active and in love. Thank you!!

08-21-10

Today was the day we were going to start painting our house. Yes, our whole house and all the out buildings too. Well, we saw all the flaws and work to be done just to get it ready to paint. So, we slowed down and didn't put so much pressure on ourselves. We started scraping, we have many many windows. We learned a lot with this process.
The challenge is to ask yourself if you have started a creative process and then realized it is way more work than you ever ever expected. So we must ask how do we react. Do we panic, give up, feel overwhelmed and can't move. Maybe we think we aren't going to have enough time or we are way over our heads. That is what I thought first of all. Then, I just realized it all gets done or it doesn't. Does it really matter. And in the truth it always gets done. Have a great one.

08-20-10

Today is a busy day and yes, let us talk about a safe place to create. I guess things have changed around my house as my husband is actually keeping things so that I might want to use them in a creative project.. And yes we are cleaning out the garage to make a welding shop with a desk that can keep my projects in front of my face. This is all new this year since I started this blog.
My challenge for you today is to take a look at your creative atmosphere and see if it has changed. I am very grateful that I created a safe place to create. And I truly don't know how it happened except I focused on it. Take the day to create and be safe. Things are good.

08-19-10

I have to admit the loss of an animal or family member can knock the energy right out of you. I really tried to have lots of energy today but it all goes back to tired.
The challenge that I want to give you though is about something else. We are cleaning the outside of our house. It hasn't been cleaned for years and years. Many animals have come and gone as my sons roommates etc. So this cleaning actually meant more than just a clean house. It meant years of change coming to an end. So the challenge is about cleaning a layer deeper and how that can clean out memories, or stale energy. Really!! Try it out!

08-18-10

Hello, this is a sad day for our family. Our last animal had to be put down today. She was anywhere from 16-18 years old. She was our Diva kittie. Diva was her name and it took me 3 or 4 weeks to name her. She was a fighter, a hunter and just a tiger of life.
My challenge for you is to be a tiger in your own life.

08-17-10

What challenge shall we attack today, or take a look at anyway. I need an artist date. I know I have talked about it before but going out to see other artists ideas, even magazines, books, fabric, stores, etc.
I have had many friends adventures, along with work, spiritual center meetings and classes, a singing lesson. This has been a very busy 5 last days. I am grateful.
The challenge is to ask yourself, what would be good for you right now? For your soul, for your creativity. Maybe it is quiet time, a bath, a walk, some music or even a movie. I know I over ate earlier and now I don't feel so great about myself. I need to feel a little better. Move into feeling a little better every moment.

08-16-10

My challenge for today is to take a look at people that drive you crazy. The reason being,maybe we meed to take a look at what we may do to drive others crazy. I have always heard what you don't like in another you probably do. I am really taking a look at that. People that I find to not know what they are doing to others by their behavior is a reflection of my behavior. I am challenged to take a look at that. Let us all take a look at that. That is not my movie. So shut the frickin up. Just had to write that. And I have to write one other random thing. I think you need to move on. OK, I'm done with random words of this moment. Because really who is reading this anyway. I could say poo poo and no one would know.

08-15-10

I am working on another keyboard and I really kind of like it. I am always working on my laptop but i plugged in a keyboard of my husbands. I am having a time with the wireless internet in my house so I had to go to the hard connection and move my computer to another room. This actually works way better.
The challenge for today is to look at how Big you are, How Big is your creativity? How big do you think that you can become? Yes, are you in a small box or an infinite possibility mode? Are you always worried about the How? Think about it, you get these great Big ideas and then you start thinking How? Well, what if How wasn't our responsibility? What if we were given the creative idea and then simply trusted and stayed open to the How? Yes, do take a look at that. I am. What are my Big Ideas that have been given to me and trust that they can and are mine. Stay open to Big Gifts of the Universe. Let's do it. Together. Love me

08-13-10

The challenge for today is to take a look at superstitious ideas? Is that the same as religion or beliefs. Well, it would seem they have something to do with beliefs as they would be one, they wouldn't necessarily be a truth now would they. That is what the name implies. Today was Friday the Thirteenth and not much in my technical world worked. But today is a new day....Welcome to the new day!!

08-12-10

I wrote a new blog on Braveheart Women. I love that community of women that are out to grow and be the abundant beings that we are. The blog was called, Art to Heart. That is my new company and focus for bringing creativity to neighborhoods that may not be able to see or do creative things. Bring real artists in to teach and share their love of art. A safe place to create just went global.
Well, that is an idea I had. My challenge for you today is to see if you can come up with a global cause that floats your boat, or gets your head or heart a little bit of energy. I did. Now, if you can think it you can create it right. Well, that is in my energy field now. Art to Heart touching hearts with art all over the globe.
If you want to contribute please contact me..........l i n d a

08-10-10

It was my mother's birthday today and she passed in 2002. I still miss her and my dad. It is really hard to not have your parents living on this planet. I am sure it is different for everyone. For me I felt like my security was gone. It changes with time. I feel I hear them talking to me now. Their energy is free now, they know a different energy than the stress and aggravation of living on this planet.
The challenge for today is to take a look at your parents and how they have influenced your life, your creativity? Whether they are dead or alive they have had a major influence on how you look at things and your beliefs. Almost like a therapy session take a look at this.

08-09-10

My challenge today is to what? Oh, my gosh, I just forgot. Yes, that may be the challenge, what did you say? OH, I forgot. No, it will come back to me, yes, it will. No, my challenge is to take a look at what you think you really believe or what you now believe, and what you might have made up. This is not so much fun sometimes, anyway, just do it!!

08-08-10

The challenge to you is to ask yourself if you think that sometimes the moon, or the vibe of universe to bring you a bad day. Or to have all of the electric things in your life not work right. Yes, what are your beliefs in those areas.
I had a bad day, my husband and a bad day....yes!

08-07-10

Beautiful day for a great amount of energy. Sometimes getting too hot doesn't give you the amount of energy that you might want. I exercised early so got that out of the way. Started to work on a bush that created itself to need some outside help. It was smothering itself with it's old remains. I got as much done as I could before it got to hot for that.
I am conserving my energy to go to work. That is the challenge for me and you today. Do you think there is a lack of energy? Do you think you get tired and you don't have anymore energy? I do. I want to take a look at that and know I am unlimited energy. I can allow that unlimited flow. I will.

08-06-10

The challenge today is to write a gratitude list. Do this for a week. Or do it the rest of your life. Gratitude is a way to grow good things in your life. The more you are grateful the more you will get to be grateful for. Gratitude can open your heart and you may be able to find unconditional love out of simply being grateful for waking up in the morning. I feel better all ready.

08-05-10

I have a new class to go to tonight. I am excited. I want to leave now. But I have lots of time in between. Do you ever do that? You have something you are looking for and you want to go now. I will live in the moment. Not in the future. The last couple of days I have gotten so much done that I am excited. Projects that I have put off for years I got done. I am proud of this work that I did for me and my family.
The challenge for today is to look at how proud of yourself you are? I have a friend that is loosing weight and doing a great job but she won't give herself any credit until she looses it all. She has lost 20 lbs and isn't a little bit happy. I tried to see if she could give herself some credit. I was thinking of children and how we encourage them by their small steps. I think it is a good idea. Another one is to like yourself as much as you would a friend. How can you respect and accept unconditionally when you rank on yourself all the time? I am letting go of any expectations from friends and simply love them unconditionally. And most of all I am going to put myself right in the middle of that acceptance and unconditional love. Let it radiate out from myself, creating a safer place to create, what am I creating? I am creating a circle of expanding love and acceptance. Join me in this circle. It is a lot of fun.

08-04-10

My challenge for you today is to take a look at yourself and see if you are broken?
What does that mean? That your just aren't right, that you just don't fit in, that you were born on the wrong planet? Really, most of us think we are broken or we are superior, we are better than, maybe a little self-righteous. Let us break it down to everyone being equal on every level. We are all original creations, our lives, mind, or connection to life gives us all an equal playing field.
We create the opposition, we create what doesn't flow with our game to fit what we came to believe with all the conditioning that comes with being alive now. It is time to break the false conditioning of society, media and even the government to seek a connection with the land, the universe the energy that makes everything work.

08-03-10

Let's see I need to write this so I can just space out or finish the project I am doing. Or maybe all the projects that I have started. I have laundry to find a place to live, I am cleaning up the front porch (to some level) and designing a present for a patio party. So my creativity is revolving around the house, around creating a space that is uncluttered and/or organized. The recycling needs to be done.
So the challenge for this day is to see if you overwhelm yourself with things to do. You just don't know. I had a list of things I wanted to do and then a wrench got thrown into it and everything kind of went into the background. I once heard that we are never ever complete or can get everything done so just face it.
I am doing that just face it.

08-03-10

Yes, it is that time again today. The blogster time. I have to say I have had a pretty wonderful day. I did a two day cleanse and feel great. I didn't really want to start eating again. My body was pure and running smooth. I am now eating as many vegetables as I can along with my healthy shakes. I also got my juicer out. Love that carrot juice. Costco lost many veggies today.
The challenge today is to see this physical world as a creative environment in which you, and everyone else, could express yourselves creatively. You didn't come here to judge or to fix others. What came to me last night was the flow in which this world or universe works and if you are in opposition of the flow you are creating stress. If you are in the flow, seeing the flow without judgments or filters from the past you can see what is happening with an ease. Road rage among other things are suppressed anger and filters seeing the world to be out after you. That isn't what is truly happening it is your perception of what is happening and believe me it causes layers of stress and anger to yourself. Release the need to be right, to judge why things happen, why people do things. See the happenings and say OH, then stay with natures flow. You will grow less and less stressed and things will happen in your favor not against you.

08-01-10

My challenge for you today is to see how other people influence your ideas, creativity, and/or behavior. I had a dream that I wanted to write as a short story but I wanted to stop myself because of what my husband might think of me having those kind of dreams or thoughts. I had to take a look at all my creative adventures and see where and when I stopped myself because of what other people might think. Creativity is given to you as a flow it is not there to be judged or stopped. I will write no matter who it may effect. Because I have no control over other peoples effect ratio. And if I thought I did, I am tired of thinking that false thought. People are going to think what they think and I don't have control over that. Thank you!!!!!