tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56346825416321082082024-03-20T17:17:25.795-07:00Lady ProteusLady Proteushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08626412970330393068noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-31372866551714913802012-12-12T15:11:00.000-08:002012-12-12T15:11:03.224-08:002012I don't remember Gabriel growing so fast, but at the beginning of the year he was a baby, and now he's a boy.<br />
Ronin is a month old and yet it seems like just yesterday that I was whinging about him being overdue.Some of his clothing he could only wear once, because while wondersuits were in the wash he outgrew them. Others he never fit at all (4.4kg anyone?)<br />
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I'm horrified by how fast this year is coming to a close.<br />
So while it doesn't even seem like a year has passed since I <a href="http://lady-proteus.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/2011.html">reviewed last year </a>- here is 2012<br />
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We took over the local park and the swimming pool in our complex for some intense athletic competitions. It was so amazing that we even attracted the attention of a local (highly eccentric) artist.</div>
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Also I turned 27. </div>
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Family photos at Carrs Park - and the beginnings of Ronin. Thankfully I don't get morning sickness to any debilitating degree.</div>
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Still warm enough to take Gabe to the pool, and he's still too young to be scared of things that he ought to be wary of. Like jumping into the big pool when he can't swim.</div>
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My sister got engaged on her birthday to her very nice boyfriend. Gabe LOVES visiting his Oma and Papa and pestering all the guinea pigs and the ducks (RIP duckies)</div>
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Gabe hates getting his hair cut. We have to wrestle him to get any kind of cutting implement near his head. As a result of this, his hair cuts aren't so great. Visiting Lambs Valley and Grandma and Grandma <i>is</i> great though. </div>
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Mum taught me how to crochet this winter, so I made things. Gabe and I escape whenever it's not super cold or wet because our house is boring. We are sick for this entire month.</div>
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Gabriel goes for his first horse ride, bare back and unassisted - like the true grandson of his horse-lord Grandpa. This month is awesome, because it is full of family. We spend our last weekend at Blue Bonnet as it is SOLD :( but it is fantastic to spend that time with family. </div>
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Family travels from around the country and from New Zealand to be there and enjoy the occasion (and the great food)</div>
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After impatiently waiting for him to arrive, Ronin is born on the 9th. He looks like his brother's brother, but definitely has my nose. </div>
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Another wedding, the first that I get to go to NOT pregnant. </div>
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Next year Kyle will be studying film, and to make sure that we have enough currency to survive we will be running several businesses out of our house. </div>
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Sometimes when I remember I will sit down and write on the back of them about where and when they were taken.<br />
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Today I was looking back on some photos and decided I would write on the front of them.<br />
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The swag was like a body bag - and kind of freaked me out I have to admit, and the bottom of the creek out the back of the in-laws place is super slimy and also kind of freaked me out. Eleanorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00232463128315706314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-10802012269647848372012-08-16T17:44:00.000-07:002012-08-16T17:44:32.425-07:00regrets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A lazy page? it sure is.<br />
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This is a magazine page, which I put white out on and wrote over. People say they don't regret things and wouldn't change their mistakes. I disagree. I would change certain things for sure, I don't treasure the foolish things I've done or think that they have made me who I am. I am sure that given the opportunity I would have chosen a wiser way to learn those same lessons.<br />
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The real point is that nothing can be changed so it's best not to worry about it.<br />
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That's what I'm ranting about on, if you can't read my writing. Eleanorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00232463128315706314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-85663841560075204492012-08-07T20:15:00.002-07:002012-08-07T20:15:29.340-07:00Another blog with my REAL name.So I am refocusing my artistic efforts into commissions and have created another blog where you I will write about that kind of thing.<br />
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Because I have really loved getting into art journaling, this blog will be dedicated pretty much 100% to that. Updates won't be as frequent (hah) but the blog will stay alive.<br />
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Come check out the new one, and HIRE ME FOR WORK over<a href="http://eleanormccomb.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> here. </a>It's so grown up it even uses my real name - novel!Lady Proteushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08626412970330393068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-80570386414786129372012-07-26T16:45:00.000-07:002012-07-26T16:45:31.457-07:00The Art Journal - Page 4 (& 5)<span style="font-size: large;">Goals.</span><br />
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So this is a double page spread I suppose. (and the blurriest photo yet)<br />
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I think its good to regularly write down and reassess my goals - it helps me track how close (or far away) I am to achieving them.<br />
So this page is about that.<br />
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I painted the background, cut the letters out of scrap paper - to use as templates for the nice paper and then just stuck some bits and pieces down. You can cut out a printed font if you aren't too keen on what you come up with free hand. <br />
All the paper I've used so far in this book is much like what I put in the kits for sale on etsy.<br />
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Sometimes you don't want just anyone reading the things you write so there are lots of ways to hide your writing. I made a flap to hide my more personal goals behind. The hinge stickers are obviously purpose made, but you can make your own, or just glue down part of the page and fold it over.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What are your goals?</span> What do you want to be when you grow up? (I still don't feel like I have) Write them down!<br />
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These pages face each other and so I thought it would be good for them to share a theme.<br />
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My husband is not an overly sentimental fellow. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(understatement)</span><br />
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One day though, I know that I will be glad that I have bothered to write/create/spew these books, because it will help him, and our children, and their children (if they last that long) to know me, and perhaps even him, better.<br />
It certainly isn't my primary motivation, but with one little kiddie-winkle running wild on this world and another one kicking my internal organs (even as I type this), it seems like a nice thought that one day they'd be able to look at these - my creative spewings - and get to know me at 27.<br />
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This page has... a wonderful drawing from Ky and Gabe during church, a photo of the boys in Raro, a rubbing or a lino cut plate, and more paper off cuts. (Art journaling is a great way to get rid of scrap paper!)<br />
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I also sewed some things on with wool.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Use photos in your pages!</span>These boys are my favourite people, who are yours? Make a page about them! Art journaling is a lot looser than scrap booking and there really are no rules. <br />
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Some tips:<br />
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<li>Make your own paper - with stamps, leaf rubbings, drawings, hand prints...</li>
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In other news... my camera is no good at taking photos of flat things - like pages of art journals. The edges are ALWAYS blurry.Lady Proteushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08626412970330393068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-20037167568070966572012-07-18T17:27:00.000-07:002012-07-18T17:27:19.602-07:00A thousand and one leaves.I am quite sure that I have mentioned this before, but I love trees.<br />
Once upon a time I had hopes of making my career out of them. (I wrote all about that<a href="http://dirt-ball.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/master-of-my-fate.html" target="_blank"> here)</a> Turns out I can't escape them because nearly everything I draw or paint seems to have trees involved.<br />
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My 'portfolio' (such as it is) is utter arbour madness. <br />
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Recently I got to be involved in helping a family of friends create a tree of their own, loaded with meaning and significance.<br />
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So thanks <a href="http://carlisclan.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Carli</a> and Winston for letting me be part of creating something for your family.<br />
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In related news, I never want to paint another leaf again.Lady Proteushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08626412970330393068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-9949548607187361822012-07-17T22:25:00.001-07:002012-07-17T22:25:43.512-07:00a rant<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Time really does go by much faster than I ever remember as a kid. </i></span><br />
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Days must seem incredibly long to Gabriel.<br />
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Day length seems variable, based on what I have to do/want to do, and whether or not it is raining.<br />
I have been art journaling and putting together what I hope will be a useful little course for people to download (once I get some decent not blurry photos!!) in the coming months.<br />
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Restrain your excitement.<br />
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After finishing watching all of Stargate SG1 and then Stargate Atlantis, Ky and I turned to The Walking Dead. I LOVE zombie movies, so I figured that it was only a natural progression for me to appreciate this tv series as well. I have to admit though that after passing the midway point of the second series I am disenchanted, and depressed by the characters having their moral strength chipped away by the obviously heinous circumstances.<br />
It's not that I can't appreciate the realism of the psychology of the whole thing, but I like seeing people succeed, rise above circumstance, maintain their courage in the face of adversity, pull together through trials... you know, all those good things. <br />
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This is probably why I love B-grade action movies so much... as a general rule they are resolved in an incredibly redemptive way. Perhaps not realistic, but I don't necessarily watch television for reality.<br />
<br />That's why I can't sit through Battlestar, because the characters are so real, their issues so real, and all together its all just very annoying.<br />
I want to escape for goodness sake!<br />
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Anyway, after all this blathering about television, here are some of my other thoughts for the week - it is Wednesday after all, and while I am running out of lungs to cough up, sickness can't keep me from updating my blog... or complaining about tv.<br />
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I miss my daily jogging path around Raro.</div>
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This page was inspired ENTIRELY by <i>Roy Batty</i>, the deep thinking android from<i> Blade Runner. </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">With no record of them, my moments will disappear with me, and to be<i> 'American Beauty'</i> style sentimental for a moment -<i> life can be </i></span><i>poignantly, pleasantly, and even painfully beautiful</i> - and I don't want to lose those snapshots. </div>
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What I think is beautiful says as much (if not more) about me, and my concept of beauty, but things like beauty are highly subjective and I will enjoy looking back one day at these creations which illustrate in more than just words the details that I believe make life truly wonderful. </div>
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This man held his granddaughter so carefully as the train moved. I thought it was such a precious moment that I had to take a photo... even though taking photos of strangers is a <i>REALLY creepy</i> thing to do. </div>
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The vintage image of the woman came from a tarot deck which I cut up, because I liked the pictures. (Don't like tarot - I think its freaky) but the lady in this picture seems really sad, and journals should encompass the whole range of emotions that make up our lives. Even the sad ones. </div>
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I cut 2 different papers into strips and wove them together just for some difference in texture. Stuck things down, then painted on the photo and print with acrylic paint - so that I could write legibly over them. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What inspires you?</span> Collect together some of the words, images, memories that inspire your work and your life and put them onto paper! </div>
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I made these prints ago and decided to colour some in and frame them up.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The backwards note on the bird one (it looks like a q, is SOOOOO anooying to me. Grah. There are nearly always things in my work that bugs me, but this more than other things)</span> <br />
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The pieces of masking tape that I used to make the design on the frame when I painted it got taken by the kiddo and stuck on his face. Which for some reason is where he puts all stickers.Lady Proteushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08626412970330393068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-10786065210826576842012-07-12T02:30:00.000-07:002012-07-12T02:30:46.953-07:00an exercise in self-pityI have been sick for the past five or so days. With a sinus infection which has taken away my sense of smell and taste, and therefore removed food of all the enjoyment that you derive from eating it.<br />
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I realise it's not the end of the world, and the antibiotics are very slowly slaying these sinus-blocking evil things. Still, constant headaches, tooth aches, popping ears, inability to breathe and all together general crappiness are tiring when stretched out over a week.<br />
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The most gutting part of it all is, that I missed out on the mars bar cheesecake at the brother in laws engagement, missed church (which meant missing out on Charlotte's epic cake... amongst other things), and then missed the awesome pav that my sister made at mum and dad's that night.<br />
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There is a little bit of bitterness there, could you tell?<br />
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So much so that I made a page in my art journal about it. Combining the two things that are annoying me at the moment.<br />
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<li>Sinus infections in a pregnant person. (Apparently it's worse when you're pregnant)</li>
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This is what I drew as my 'photo-a-day' effort for July 1. I don't think it looks very much like me... I kind of went crazy with artistic license and make my eyes bigger and made a bunch of other non deliberate changes. When I showed Gabe, he said "mummy!" which was good enough for me. <br />
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Coincidentally, it is also the basis for what is the title page/ introduction/ whatever, for my A4 art journal. If you would like to follow along with me as I make this book, I will be posting new pages on Friday or Saturday with different styles/mediums/techniques and hopefully it will help you to make your own.<br />
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I thought that it was important for me to get back into what used to be one of my favourite ways to express myself as a teenager. After putting together the "FUN STUFF" kits I had a lot of things out and a lot of inspiration to really get into art-journaling.<br />
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Paint - an assortment of paper - some fabric - staples - glue - and a bunch of writing.<br />
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I think it is great to have intros or title pages for art journals, especially when you anticipate other people looking through them. Also its nice looking back to see your intentions for the book spelled out and just to break into a nice blank book... which can be a bit intimidating (in my opinion)<br />
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<li>Fixative spray on pencil drawings (or writing) is reaaaaallly useful in helping them last without turning into really smudgy messes (and mirroring themselves on the opposite pages)</li>
<li>Lay things out before you crack out the glue stick. </li>
<li>Love your handwriting! I'll go on and on about this, but it's a great way to have something 100% uniquely you in your book. If you aren't really confident, practice on another page first or use pencil. (If I had done this I would have far less spelling mistakes in my work...)</li>
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<br />Lady Proteushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08626412970330393068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-14234591937250302732012-07-02T23:03:00.000-07:002012-07-02T23:03:26.514-07:00Art journaling kits and fun stuffThe idea for travel journal kits, or journal kits... or anything like this, isn't exactly original - I am NOT claiming in any way that this is some grand idea that I had all on my own.<br />
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What I did do, was realise that I have an awful lot of goodies collected from years of hoarding, working in a scrapbooking store, and general magpie tendencies. I will never use them all, and that is a real shame, so I have collected some things into packages, made some books to go with them, and come up with these.<br />
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I personally think the books are GREAT. These ARE my idea, because I don't like it when books swell up because they get overfilled (which happens all the time) but I also don't like wire ring type bindings.<br />
This way, I have been able to put together a lot of paper that I love, make a book which is wire bound - and can therefore expand as things are stuck into it, but have a cover to protect the spine, and cover it up when it's on the shelf.<br />
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<br />Lady Proteushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08626412970330393068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-89103937557471727972012-06-30T01:37:00.001-07:002012-06-30T01:44:46.915-07:00Photo a day - July's challengeA few months ago I attempted<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (more like attempted to attempt) </span><a href="http://www.fatmumslim.com.au/" target="_blank">Fat Mum Slim'</a>s photo a day challenge.<br />
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<i>Catastophe! <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(say it in French, it sounds better)</span><br />
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Instagram stopped uploading images which would sit in a queue and not get uploaded till days later, we went away for a weekend where I had no reception, I got stuck on the day when you had to photograph a time and I just plain old forgot about it until AFTER the time<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (for about a whole week straight)</span> and then I just thought.<i> "Stuff it. I'm done."</i><br />
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Photography isn't really my thing anyway<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (*cough* excuse *cough*) </span>and frankly I don't know how many images of my son everyone wants to see. It was a sad reminder that while it often doesn't feel like it, my life isn't always super exciting.<br />
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Eg. <i><b>"Someone who you spoke to today."</b></i><br />
My husband.<br />
My son.<br />
Some days that really is the extent of my spoken communication with others.<br />
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<i><b>"A Stranger"</b></i><br />
Umm... The person I saw from my window on the 2nd floor of our building? Does that count?<br />
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This month I am doing something a bit different.<br />
I'm taking the lovingly compiled list of themes, and every day I will create some little piece of art inspired by the word of the day.<br />
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I'll still take photos, but I think that it will help <i>me</i> more to make something textural and still be involved in what I think is a very inspiring and inspired project/system/thingo...<br />
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That's the <i>plan</i>... along with Wednesday Words, I am sure that it will prove challenging...<br />
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<br />Lady Proteushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08626412970330393068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-47785542332234883542012-06-27T23:53:00.003-07:002012-06-27T23:55:10.669-07:00Madness is the gift that has been given to meSeveral years ago while living overseas I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Once upon a time it was called manic-depressive, which is a very descriptive name because you get manic, and you get depressed.<br />
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To be honest, I think that being happy and sad is just called: LIFE, but for some people it's a lot more intense<i> to the point that getting by becomes a real struggle,</i> that decision making is impaired and for some it seems like there is no way out. <br />
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For me, its all about<i> knowledge</i>. Knowing that I had a disorder meant that when I was overwhelmingly sad and unmotivated I didn't go searching for a reason why I should feel bad, (exploding any perceived faults in myself into reasons why I was a terrible person who deserved to feel bad) instead knowing that it was a sign that my hormones were out of whack, that I needed more sleep, that I needed to exercise more, that I needed to take on less stress, that I needed to eat better, or all of the above.<br />
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My case is quite mild, and yet there are weeks when I really have to convince myself that having a shower isn't just an okay idea, but mandatory. Those weeks/months/whatever really suck, but they are manageable.<br />
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It's different for everyone and I can't speak for anyone else who has additional struggles like this. <br />
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Why bring this up?<br />
Last week I found an old sketchbook which had survived the culling process I went through a year or so ago when I threw out anything and everything related to a very dark time in my life.<br />
It was full of drawings, words and some depressing (but witty) haikus. Haikus were my favourite way to get things out...<br />
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I was surprised at how detailed and creative my art was, how full of colour and symbolism, and it was obvious that a lot of time had gone into the creation of some pages.<br />
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I was impressed with my creative work ethic. Frankly it bordered on the obsessive.<br />
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I was slightly saddened by the recent (the past three or more years) slackening of this intense creativity<i> (I believe its called MANIA hahaha.)</i> but this was overwhelmed by the complete rejoicing I felt in the fact that <i>I couldn't even remember </i>the last time I was as low and full of self loathing as I had been then.<br />
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<b>The nicest part of the whole experience was tearing up dark memories, and realising that the place I am now, was where I had hoped to be then. That the work I did at the time, the efforts I went to, the sacrifices </b>(which seemed so huge at the time)<b> were all in the right direction, because they led me to a place where I am happy more often than not, and capable of being the master of my own emotions</b> (most of the time... pregnancy doesn't help with that!)<br />
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So goodbye crazy Eleanor, and hello<i> manageably</i> crazy Eleanor. (I don't think that's a word) The differences might appear subtle but they make all the difference.<br />
Now I just have to get back that creative drive, without the late nights, the obsessive movie watching and emo brooding.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To life, to life,<i> l'chaim!</i></span>Lady Proteushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08626412970330393068noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-56983120591570950672012-06-27T23:05:00.000-07:002012-06-27T23:06:38.936-07:00Wednesday Words - from ThursdayJust pretend that its Wednesday.<br />
I'll be better next week, and get my camera cable to work so I have more relevant photos. (and more of them)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Monday</span> 25.06.12</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday</span> 26.06.12</div>
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In fact using lino is very difficult when you don't have a press and nice sharp tools.<br />
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So when I discovered rubber blocks it took me about as long as it takes to get it out of the packaging to convert me.<br />
Rubber blocks are like lino blocks only obviously made of rubber, the thickness of them, and lack of binding fabric on one side means that both sides can be used to carve designs.<br />
Rubber is also much easier to cut, as my son discovered when he hacked away at a print I had recently completed cutting, but not yet printed. (DISASTER) Its so easy you can cut the stuff with your fingernails.<br />
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Transferring your image to the block to be cut out is as simple as drawing it in pencil, and rubbing the paper onto the block. Its rubber so the pencil sticks to it and you can just cut out around it. This is helpful when you want to write things but don't always get the mirror image thing right. So easy!<br />
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They print easier too, kind of like giant stamps (or normal stamps if you cut them smaller)<br />
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And that, ladies and gents, is why I use <i>ezy carve</i> (its the name of the renoir brand ones that I buy) rather than lino. Maybe one day when I can get a nice printing press, I will get back to lino, but at this point, I think the rubber blocks suit me MUCH better. </div>
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I didn't take a photo of the CD art all folded up, but they do cool cut out stuff too, like The Shins.<br />
What I decided to take from this cool collage though, is that giraffe.<br />
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Its drawn on patterned paper, something which I appear to have an excess of. So I looted the scrapbooking paper stash, grabbed Gabe's toy horse for reference and got cracking. </div>
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<br /></div>Lady Proteushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08626412970330393068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-15195791475154303402012-06-18T17:33:00.000-07:002012-06-18T17:33:39.694-07:00"Nothing else is love"Once upon a time there were these things called CDs.<br />
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Once upon a time I had the money to buy them.<br />
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Given the rise of the MP3, it strikes me that this may only appeal to a small<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (and ever decreasing)</span> number of people... but nevertheless, I will press on.<br />
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For a while, before I became poor and stopped caring, I was into music in a pretty big way. In fact, to immediately contradict myself - I still <i>do</i> care about music. I just can't afford to pour all that money into it any more,and I would like to think that some of the pretension that I affected at the time has been worn away. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(I liked everything before it was popular and going mainstream was an epic sell out and generally deserved the loss of my good opinion... don't you know)</span><br />
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I threw out all the cases years ago when I moved overseas and had to make my collection more compact, but I did keep some of my favourites and I totally love the art on them.<br />
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So I decided to use them as inspiration for some of my journal pages.<br />
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The Shins are awesome. Seriously awesome. True story... if you haven't heard their music - look into it.<br />
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Chutes Too Narrow is still one of my favourite albums... ever. And check out the cool art, its all cut out and stuff... so I thought I would use it as inspiration for the first page of my NEW ART JOURNAL.<br />
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ps. note that those jellybeans disappear... aldis jellybeans are <i>awesome.</i><br />
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I drew a little scene and coloured it in with watercolour paint. I really don't mind watercolour being epically messy, but if you want clean lines... <i>wait for a colour to dry</i> before painting the one adjacent to it.<br />
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Cut out the parts I wanted out.<br />
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Then I started with the next page - referring back to the first page to see which parts would be visible when they are on top of each other.<br />
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Then I went over it all with coloured pencils to make everything sharper and add in details like the bridge, and grass patterns and such. See how only my name and that tiny horse (donkey?) silhouette is visible? Totally planned.<br />
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I also cut out the space around my name and that hill and the monsters head. So you can see the next page, which I will show you all later.<br />
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And there it is. The title page(s) of my new art journal.<br />
Thanks to The Shins and my propensity to horde things.<br />
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Do you have CD covers and art that you love? <s>Rip it off </s> Be inspired!! Use ideas from things around you and make them your own.<br />
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<br /></div>Lady Proteushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08626412970330393068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-59309634500955961802012-06-17T21:52:00.000-07:002012-06-17T21:52:54.803-07:00Thoughts on MondayI woke up this morning with great plans (and a complete lack of affection for my husbands alarm) dressed the boy, dressed myself, cleaned up a bit and headed out.<br />
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We caught the bus, did some shopping, ate some food and all the while he was a very well behaved little 20 month old.<br />
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<i>Is that a bird in the middle of the road? I better go get it! No? Let me just lie down on the curb then and see how far I can reach into the road. </i></blockquote>
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<i>A leek! I think I should shred all the leaves off it. </i></blockquote>
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<i>Oh, mum's shopping bags broke and all our food is spilled in the middle of the road. I'm not going to wait on the footpath where she put me, I want to splash in that filthy gutter water!</i></blockquote>
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I am sure that Ky thought something was seriously wrong when I called him up crying, sitting in the cemetery (which is right beside our house) shopping bags right where I had thrown them when I went to save our selectively deaf child from being hit by a car in the gutter of a main road.<br />
Bless him, he swung by before his next appointment and picked us up, dropped us off at home and had some stern words for Gabe. Gabriel sat very quietly, listened to his father, said "uh-huh" which I think is what he just says to make us think that he is agreeing with us (this kid must think we're chumps) and went and sat himself quietly down in front of the TV.<br />
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I haven't quite forgiven him entirely for ignoring my road side shrieks, but I'm venting now and it will never be mentioned again.<br />
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This quote came to mind, and as soon as I get off the computer, I am going to work on getting a real life version of this photo going on.<br />
Because naps do make (most) days better... especially when its <i>the baby</i> who is having the nap!!<br />
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<br />Lady Proteushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08626412970330393068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-25071246574938787012012-06-16T00:01:00.000-07:002012-06-16T00:03:55.067-07:00Looking forward<div style="text-align: center;">
<u><span style="font-size: large;">Awesome things that happened this week:</span></u></div>
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<li>I sold things on Etsy and in real life, <i>which was validating and awesome. </i></li>
<li>I got jelly-beans from Aldis, <i>which was delicious and sugary.</i></li>
<li>We found out our little alien is a boy, <i>which was bladder-busting and lovely.</i></li>
<li>We got Monday off and spent it in Lambs Valley with family<i>, which was relaxing and renewing.</i></li>
<li>Darren Percival got through to The Voice finals,<i> which made me sad for Diana, but happy because he's amazing. </i></li>
<li>Imogen Heap guest presented Rage this morning,<i> which was musical (obviously) and familiar (cos she chose all songs I knew)</i></li>
<li>It stopped raining long enough for walks and park visits throughout the week, <i>which was freeing and full of fresh air. </i></li>
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<i>^^^^^^ </i><br />
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Sometimes I sit back and assess my life and wish that I had studied something more useful or practical in a day to day sense when I was at university. (I have a BSc in Earth and Environmental Sciences.) <br />
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What I should have done was, accounting, or nursing, or teaching or something with a job on the other side of it.<br />
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But that's the past...<br />
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I am looking to set up <i>online</i> and<i> in person </i>classes for art journaling, record keeping, drawing, bookbinding, and things like that.<b> Is that something that you would be interested in doing? </b>Please let me know if it is something that you have even the vaguest interest in as I am really looking to gauge whether or not this will work<b> </b>and would love to hear what you think!<br />
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Wouldn't be until around August, but as I have more information I will share it.<br />
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<br />Lady Proteushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08626412970330393068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-4415110253537463052012-06-13T23:03:00.001-07:002012-06-13T23:03:16.314-07:00The science of Seeing.I admire John Ruskin.<br />
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After reading his wikipedia entry I'm not convinced I'd have liked him in person, but as he died a LONG time ago, that point is irrelevant.<br />
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John Ruskin was an art critic. Quite an influential one, the kind where if he didn't like your paintings, you kind of went nowhere.<br />
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Beyond his extensive artistic efforts, or perhaps as part of them, he was a writer, teacher, and environmentalist. He dedicated much time and effort to the preservation of not only nature but to a slower and more traditional lifestyle where man could reconnect with nature in all its beauty. <br />
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Said he: <b>"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."</b><br />
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While I am quite certain that my artistic efforts would have been deemed woefully inadequate by Ruskin, I am sure that he would appreciate that I was making the effort as he spent years teaching tradespeople and other working class men how to draw.<br />
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Ruskin believed that everyone and anyone could learn how to draw, and that by drawing you could lean how to really <i>see</i> the world around you. To make us happier, help us to notice the beauty in the details. In 1857 he said <b>"My efforts are directed not to making a carpenter an artist, but to making him happier as a carpenter"</b><br />
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I have to agree. Nothing, certainly not taking photos - which I also love to do - can compare to the appreciation you get from spending time studying something in order to replicate it's likeness onto paper. I think that getting into the practice of <i>Seeing</i> makes us better at everything that we do.<br />
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To his students Ruskin said: <b>"I have not been trying to teach you to draw, only to<i> see.</i> Two men are walking through Clare Market, one of them comes out at the other end not a bit wiser than when he went in; the other notices a bit of parsley hanging over the edge of a butter-woman's basket, and carries away with him images of beauty which in the course of his daily work he incorporates with it for many a day. I want you to see things like these."</b><br />
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So it's time to slow down. To take notice, to record, and to possess these beautiful details and moments through drawings, or 'word paintings' (Another Ruskin thing - describe what you see, and how it makes you feel)<br />
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I feel like I have written a lot in this blog post, but it is not without purpose. All these things just inspire me more to be more diligent in my journals. Art, writing, whatever.<br />
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<b>"No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being."</b>Lady Proteushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08626412970330393068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634682541632108208.post-48465817729805273422012-06-13T03:17:00.000-07:002012-06-13T03:17:25.811-07:00I have something to sayWell actually... I'm never really sure that I do have anything to say. <i>Anything useful that is. </i><br />
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One of the reasons why I love looking at other peoples scrapbooks and sketchbooks is because there is generally writing. On top of all the photographic/design/art/awesomeness that says so much about a persons interests and cares, what they say, says a lot. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(duh)</span><br />
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I sometimes struggle with this.<br />
Being all poetic or poignant or profound<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (P!)</span> ... you know, like everyone else seems to be.<br />
I also don't want to spend my whole life quoting other people and expressing <i>my </i>feelings through the far more eloquent words of dead folks.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (or living ones)</span><br />
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So I've been thinking - best to say it all in as few words as possible<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (I should have applied the sentiment to this blog post, but ah... I didn't)</span> like all those bravely anonymous people who send in postcards to<a href="http://www.postsecret.com/" target="_blank"> PostSecret</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Be prepared for controversial secrets if you are going to be a regular at the Post Secret blog... </span><br />
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I like this one: <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you don't agree, go watch the trailer for<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N8wkVA4_8s" target="_blank"> Moonrise Kingdom</a>. Please. </td></tr>
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Straight up truth. Told simply.<br />
I kind of like it, and with popular 'art journal' pages tending toward the busy<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (angry fruit salad?)</span> and trending scrap-booking being all about negative space and simplicity, a few sentences can fit in anywhere. <br />
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So with that in mind, I have decided that every day I am going to find something to say that neatly and concisely depicts something I have thought in that day.<br />
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I'll post them up every Wednesday for the rest of the month<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (if I can last the month that will be awesome)</span>.<br />
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Starting today.<br />
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Gabriel, I love you, but I thought this a lot today...<br />
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