Resolve

Okay I have some beef with myself. I have like a million plus 5 things I want to do at any given time. Why on earth can't I prioritize, organize, and accomplish. I have 5 paintings/collections that I want to do. I have 6 quilts that I want to make/making. One of which is for someone else. And can I just say it is soooooo cute!!! I will have to post pictures of the progress. Cooking has now become my obsession. I have been watching Food Network 24/7. And my goal is to become the most amazing cook. I'll let you know how that goes, and possibly keep you updated with pictures of my gourmet meals. Oh yes and the baby-I am having a baby. It is due in August, and yes it is still an it because we don't know what it is. However we have explored all the wives tales and listened to the heart beat-all signs point to girl! Which I am super excited about because I really want a girl-so badly. Boys just aren't as cute. Sorry boys. So yeah and then there is this whole idea Matt (my husband) had.... I went to school to study graphic arts. That was a love/hate relationship. Loved the art classes hated the computer ones. In any case, I learned the programs that you use to do graphic arts. I love those wall decals that they make now. They are super amazing and I want them all! Well Matt was like, why don't you do that. You would totally rock at that. Yeah....why don't I do that? Hmmm, something else to think about. Okay so between artist, quilter, caterer, and graphic designer-what do I do? So much, and so little time. I want all of those to be my job, if anyone out there in the Internet orb can tell me how to accomplish that please fill me in!

Prioritize, organize, and accomplish!

This is my new resolve.

Fin

Refining

There are moments in every persons life where they face a challenge or two and become refined. I have learned through every refining opportunity that I've experienced, each instance leads you to something else. And what I mean by that is each time that you reach a wall or an obstacle, and it doesn't work out the way you had intended or wanted it to, it leads you to something else. It's what shapes us as people and human beings. It's what makes us unique. I can honestly say that the challenges I'm facing now are a great opportunity for me to say..."Okay what do I really want, and how do I get it.". It's also an opportunity to reflect on myself and see what I need to personally work on to become a better person. Of course everything bad that does happen in our lives, it isn't easy and usually isn't enjoyable, but it can be. I look forward to the future and what will become of this situation. I will definitely look back and say this is why that happened. It's the ah ha moment everyone has when they reflect on their life and say yep i know why now. So instead of having a pity party and dwell on it forever, look at the positive side. What can I learn from this? How will this help me grow and move outside of my comfort zone? How do I really want to view this situation?

I feel that in order to be true to myself this needed to happen. So I embrace the challenge and look forward to the learning opportunity I have in front of me. And each time a challenge comes my way I get excited because it's something that will make my circle of what I can handle and achieve bigger. I get excited about that. Life is not easy but learn to embrace the hard times because they help you.

Getting old...

I think that we should start a petition against age. Getting old has its perks I guess, but the physical effects are not something I enjoy or look forward to. You know how in the bible it says that someone offended God and so now we have weeds? Well I would like to know who offended God so that now we have things like cancer, arthritis, MS, age spots. I would like to give those people a piece of my mind. "If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't have these problems." or "You just think you are so clever, causing the rest of us to hunch over, real funny smarty pants." Too bad there aren't any time machines, we could go back in time and find out. In the same breathe though, I don't think that I would like to have the same mentality that I had 5 years ago. I think if it were at all possible to have the wisdom of when you turn 50 and the body of when you turn 20, that would be the life. And no birthdays. Who's brilliant idea was that? Yeah let's just remind ourselves of how old we are every year at the same time. Why does time have to have relevance in our lives? If there were no time, think of all the things you could do? What would I do if there was no time? Oh man I would do a lot of things. Maybe that's the whole point. Maybe we should be living as if there was no time. zzzrcchhhaah huh....? Oh I'm sorry I must have been dreaming. But anyway, I just don't like getting older. And maybe that's just because I don't feel my life is fulfilled, or that I have achieved everything I feel that I should. I'm not sure. I will however try my best to become amazing. That is what I want to be in this life, is amazing. And not the conceited kind that you are thinking, just what I feel would be an amazing person, that's who I want to become. Never settle.

My Grandma's Crazy......Cat

My grandma has this crazy cat. Since she was a kitten she has never liked to be held. And under no circumstances can anyone but my grandma pet her. She is a feisty one. She will come up and sniff your pant leg or your hand if you hold it out. She will never, however, let you pet her. If you try she will run off. If she is sitting somewhere and you try and pet her, she will attack your hand and try and bite you. Well anyway, she has some funny habits. She likes small spaces. My grandmother came home one day and found her scrunched up in a 4x4x4 box. She had squeezed herself into it. Since that day she has grown and my grandmother has had to get her boxes and box lids to sit in. She prefers the lids to the boxes though. So a lot of times when you go over to her house you will find Maggie curled up for a nap in her box lid. It's one of the strangest things I have ever seen. She also has a scratch post that sits by the window and it has a perch on the top. She likes to climb on top and look out the window, or bask in the sun and take a nap. If she happens to be napping and you are talking to her she wisps her tail with an agitated flair. "Maggie." Her tail will briskly whip back and forth. It's like she is annoyed that you are interrupting her beauty sleep. "Maggie." Whip, whip, whip whip. Ears turned back. 

I do have to say though, I have one thing about her that I do like. When she is laying on her perch, or in her box lid, if she is staring at you and you wink, she will wink back. Sometimes when you switch eyes so will she. It's really funny. I think that we should send her to the circus. The advertisement would read "World's meanest winking cat!" She is definitely not your typical cat. She has Cattitude.  

Lovely

Inspire Me Muse

The words which are written

Words by themselves aren't usually inspiring or life changing. They don't seem to offer anything when they stand alone. But when they are grouped together with other words to form sentences, they hold power. The power to move you, the power to change you , and the power to inspire you. They can be life changing. "So I ponder the point of my art in this life...I question the outcome of the outpouring of myself." ART by Tanya Davis "You could describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure." Albert Einstein " "Sometimes one pays more for the things one gets for nothing." Albert Einstein "The Holy Grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it." Banksy "Color is my day-long obsession, joy, torment." Claude Monet "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, art is knowing which ones to keep." Scott Adams
Words inspire me, they drive me, they hold me, and they feed me. Just as words are poetic so is art. They both feed my inner need for something amazing. I hope that along the way I can help someone else to be inspired, as I have by the many greats. "Live as if there is no tomorrow, and love others as if they have no faults."