Inspiration is everywhere I look.

I had put away my artsy things for almost 3 months due to being depressed about my surgery, uncertain employment and general “how are we going to make it” anxiety.  I had almost no connections with friends either near or far and my one creative outlet and friend had a life and new directions that did not correspond with mine.

All of the things that I have accumulated and purchased lay her collecting dust.  I had no desire to try and do anything as I had distanced myself  from everyone, including my blog.  I fell into a pattern of watching  mind numbing shows like ?aris Hilt0n’s My BFF and Platinum Weddings…I could not imagine having so much money to toss around, let alone  time to jet set to imagined places with a couple hundred friends.   The reality was that I was losing my reality to mindless tv and red wine.  I could not wait for the kids to go to bed or to their rooms so I could “unwind” from the stress of being religated to domestic servant and chauffeur.

I received my issue of  CPS July/ August and after scanning the contents, put it in my night table drawer for a later date.   Woke up too late to see Anderson Cooper 360 and found the magaxine again.  The article by Loretta Benedetto Marvel knocked my socks off!  She spoke about the need to create art during these difficult and uncertain times because it is necessary and not a luxury!    (here I was trying to figure out if the kids would miss cable tv or martial arts lessons least; how many times could the family love lasagne and not figure out it was STILL mommy’s disguised pasta    ?  Loretta sopke about the difficulties of supporting oneself with art and while trying to reinvent one’s self  to survive economically.  What hit me most was the her passion to inspire artists, especially those of us newly discovering our artistic side.    ” As long as you draw breath, you have at hand all you need to create.  And as long as you draw breath, no one and nothing can take away from you that essential beat of the heart that declares, ” I am an artist”

I am SOOOO fired up and inspired…Jeanette, lets make a date!

By the way…

Who cares Sarah Palin is gone…AGAIN!?

That Michael loved drugs and sleep better than those beautiful precious children he left behind?

That our youngdom don’t care that you can die with “the most toys” and STILL not WIN!?????

That most of the world will continue to grieve, simply because they have been touched by a song, dance or an image that they have lost, ….forever?We were at the stuga with limited phone, modem and or computer hook up.  Where has the time gone?

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Goodbye Sarah!

Glad Midsommar! Less blogging more creating!

I haven’t disapeared or given up, just busy trying to enjoy my free time and some late spring cleaning!  Because of the ability to record so many programs on the DVR that I was missing operation slash physical therapy,  I did not participate in the usual Tossing O’ The Crap celebration that we look forward to.   Old sheets, blankets, curtains, clothes, books….anything that can be tossed, should be.  Problem is here in Sweden, we are the kings of recycling and you can’t toss just anything.  You have to sort it and take it to the recycle station.  I actually feel guilty throwing something in the wrong place!

Sorting photos and scrapping them.  Sorting the rest in to piles for the kids to do what they will with when they move out.  Please don’t percieve my absence from your comment section as neglect, lol!  Lots of graduation parties and today is Midsommarafton but we will not be out for it…also no sil or snaps! :0

The rains of Sweden…

 

The deep freezer is dying a loud and klonking death.

The office computer fried itself Saturday morning and luckily a very creative 16 year old was able to harvest parts from his old unit and rebuild Dad’s computer, saving us from financial ruin, the expense of buying another CPU and rescuing the company’s records on an early Sunday morning.

The Volvo needs to be diagnosed…:(  The instrumentation panel is lit up like that of a nuclear submarine).

We have not had a dry day in a long time.  Luckily, we had 5 hours of partially sunny sky on Friday for the last day of school.  There was a terrible tragedy near Stockholm where a lovely 15 year old popular teen was murdered.  Her suspected murderers are a 16 year old boy and his girlfriend.

I have been in a card making mood.  My friend, Jeanette makes the BEST cards in the world and I am so inspired by her talent, that I feel the need to amass a supply of all occasion cards JUST IN CASE!

Make your own sunshine!