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Really random Friday

It’s funny but today I don’t seem to have much to say.

So…I’m glad it’s sunny this morning.
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Woke up at 3am from a nightmare. Nightmare carried on each time I closed my eyes and so I just got fed up and got out of bed. A family issue which is causing me a lot of pain and reflection keeps being played out over and over in my no-limits imagination and sometimes takes hold and 3am and then that’s it. No amount of meditation, self talk, or any other activity can lessen the pain and then I just spend the next day or two seeing things in black and white, and so I’m trying to concentrate on the good things.

So…I’m happy that the morning went from this:

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To this:
Also happy that I live in a city where the snow knows its place…on top of the mountains.

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Yesterday I had very low energy and so spent most of the day playing with some mixed media in the studio and came up with these art cards.

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So now I have a stack of mixed media art cards around…these are just the ones I had on hand, never mind the ones in the drawers.

Don’t know what to do with them. A new friend on FB asked me if I sell them…more to the point…where I sell them, and honestly I don’t know what to do. I have absolutely no idea if they are sell-worthy, although I suspect not, and sort of prefer the thought of actually sending them out to people who want them, or who would like to trade art cards or something…maybe sending one out with a purchase from an Etsy shop, (which by the way I still haven’t started…need a good kick in the…)

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I asked Robert if he liked the little thoughts i constructed on them and he said the sweetest thing. He said, “Your words are like a trampoline for my imagination.” Couldn’t you just melt? I know!

The sayings are a little bit of found poetry from the pages of a weird little book called “The Brief History of the Wellington Boot.” I’m always amazed at the good words still left in that much used book.

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Aaand…

… Oh, bought a pretty little beaded purse for no reason at all except that it’s pretty.

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Sharing with Nancy and all my random Friday friends.

Comments: 22

  • January 31, 2014
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    Veronica–those cards are so incredibly fabulous–and YES they are worth buying! Holy cow, I see things that are not near that quality all the time in gift/book stores. Recurring nightmares really suck, especially family related ones. Here’s hoping that the clear sunshine and blue sky will reset your thoughts back to bliss (and that comment from Robert–what a poet πŸ™‚

  • Pond side

    January 31, 2014
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    I think your cards are ‘sell worthy’. In fact, they are the sort of cards I buy and save for when I wish to send a special note.
    The little beaded bag is lovely.

  • January 31, 2014
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    yes, totally worth buying. an you find a local vendor and see if they’ll sell them as a package.

  • January 31, 2014
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    gorgeous purse – i love the bead design & colors. ( :
    i really really dislike nightmares … they sometimes feel so real … did you eat something to late & it cause bad dreams? that is what my Grand – mom would always say? drink some warm milk & go back to bed. warm milk sounds gross … never have done that. yuck!! ha. ha!!

  • January 31, 2014
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    Oh my… Pretty cards! I used to have lots of nightmares in our last home. They seem to have stopped. I think it was from eating ice cream too close to bedtime. The nightmares were so vivid that I would wake up screaming. Sorry it hear you are going through this bad time.

  • January 31, 2014
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    Nightmares are never fun and worse yet when you keep on having the same one after you fall back asleep. I hope whatever situation you are dealing with it gets resolved soon. – It’s great you have a creative out let like your cards.
    I agree snow looks best in the mountains.

  • January 31, 2014
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    excellent work on the cards…I often find things stuck to the bottom that suit my needs. People overlook so much…

  • February 1, 2014
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    Your cards are really neat. I hope the family issue resolves soon.

  • Catherine Llewellyn

    February 1, 2014
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    the card starting ‘furthermore’ would be a perfect card for me to give to my friend tim on his 60th in 2 weeks time – if you can send it to me in time i want to buy it from you! – i’m not joking XX

  • February 1, 2014
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    Oh I’m so sorry you are having family issues that cause such strife and stress. I can totally relate. Ugh. But despite the darkness you are feeling, you caught some amazing light in your photographs. I think that is an optimistic sign, dontcha think? πŸ™‚

  • February 1, 2014
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    P.S. new follower here πŸ™‚

  • February 2, 2014
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    Wishing you some peace… conflict can suck the life out of you. xo

  • February 2, 2014
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    It is a pretty purse and I will always trade art cards with you!
    Just pop them in the mail to random strangers (go to Mail Me Some Art and click on the page that says “2014 Informal Exchange” and there is a list of addresses of people who would love to give and receive some mail art. Do it, girl, do it! LOL
    ~Dawn

  • daryledelstein

    February 2, 2014
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    love those cards, they remind me of my friend and artist Alice Balterman’s work .. she’s 91 and still creating .. and that little purse is darling

  • February 2, 2014
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    Cute purse and lovely cards. Keep working on it you will get that Etsy shop up and going.

  • February 9, 2014
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    Unless she is paying you quite , adequately direct her to Etsy and wish her well !

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