01 Tuesday Sep 2009
Posted in Art Craft and Beauty, Faery, Storytelling
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challenge, Devotional, Feyhearted path, Magic, multimedia, oracle cards, project, Stories, Tarot
The next 4 faery cards, only one left to do!!! My Creative Obsession… see all posts on this here!
I am catching up…
25 Tuesday Aug 2009
Posted in Reflections
Wow… life has been full!
In no particular order, I have done the following since I last posted:
Gotten a new job
Finished and then started a Faery Oracle Card (3.5 left to go…)
Taught at my first Witchcamp (Sunrise! Just soooo Good!)
Moved back to Mum’s for the summer
Managed not to save any extra money
Made tarot cards for swaps
Decided to take singing lesson (but not actually booked any yet)
Aquired an electric guitar destined for the skip
Watched my roses be infested with greenfly and almost die… but still hang on
Plotted HUGE ideas with my Mum
Painted 3 pictures of dragons
Knitted a hairband
Volunteered at a Museum
Begun research for MPhil Proposal
And some other things I can’t quite remember right now.
Its been a busy summer so far… and at some point I might actually post about some of these properly (like scanning my pics and cards and posting those, and writing a review of Camp). Summer ‘break’ is 2/3rds done, and I’m looking forward to its end, as this is the time, as a student, that I work the hardest. This, of course, assumes that I’ll get on the course I want to… otherwise I need a new plan quick!
So yeah… its been a while… and I’ve not been idle!
I’ve found it odd balancing working (almost) full-time with making space to play, and its renewed my desire to find some form of work that allows me to be creative as well as philosophical so that I can keep all my parts fed without being as tired as i end up over the summer. Plus, I’d like to not have to be running on someone else’s timetable (i.e. 9-5 or some other time-frame) but that might be something that has to wait for a while…
How’re you all? 🙂
07 Sunday Jun 2009
Posted in Art Craft and Beauty, Magic
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Art Craft and Beauty, beauty, challenge, Devotional, Magic, maps, multimedia, oracle cards, project, prompt, stars
CollageDiva’s True North Arts has a new prompt… the Serendipity Compass!
And I’ve been playing along too…
I’m searching, searching, searching for which way to leap… The carnival of stars awaits…
07 Sunday Jun 2009
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Art Craft and Beauty, beauty, challenge, Craft, Devotional, Faery, Feyhearted path, Magic, musings, oracle cards, process, project, Stories, Tarot
Jumping to card 5 this week, I focussed on the moment when we become fascinated by our own potential, by the power we can harness, and begin to pay more attention to that rather than our connection with other beings. Of course, this power is represented by fire:
Card 5 – Fascination-Distraction
Questions that this brings to mind:
What are you concentrating on to the exclusion of all else?
What are you distracted by when you should eb focussed?
What are your personal strengths, and how can you develop these in rigth relationship to the world?
I’m really enjoying this process, the feeling of satisfaction which comes from seeing the steps come together, from actually following through with a long-term plan, and from being able to share with you all, is delightful! Thanks for sharing in my adventure!
This card is from a series of cards illustrating this story. Find the first 2 cards here, and the sketches here. The larger project of which this is a part is to be found at www.feyhearted.wordpress.com, and the post announcing this project is here. Thank you CollageDiva for getting me kick started!
30 Saturday May 2009
Posted in Art Craft and Beauty, Faery, Magic
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Art Craft and Beauty, challenge, Craft, Devotional, Faery, Feyhearted path, Magic, oracle cards, process, project, Stories
I have finished the painting for the first two cards illustrating this story!*
Based on the sketches I made last weekend, I sat in the sunshine and painted these, first the backgrounds with slowly melting wax pastels, then using pens to draw in the detail a few days later.
I’m really pleased with them, although they’ll get some digital tweaking to turn them into useable cards, like neatening up the borders!
Card 1: Earth’s Becoming
Card 2: Earth’s Heartbeat
How are your projects going?
*See here for the initial post announcing this project.
23 Saturday May 2009
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Told to go and meet My Lady, Queen of Faery’s, Gentleman, I find myself dancing by the river, dancing as an offering, because you don’t go to meet royalty without a gift.
He thanks me for my efforts, and I’m filled with such peace and joy – not what I was expecting at all!
He gives me a story, and tells me to run home and write it down, write it down before it flies away… and so I do.
I have caught a story, a story that feels like a little white bird, fluttering in my heart, fluttering to escape.
This story I shall share with you, swiftly, before she flies away…
23 Saturday May 2009
Posted in Art Craft and Beauty, Faery, Magic
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challenge, Faery, Feyhearted path, goal, Magic, oracle cards, process, project, Stories
Leading on from announcing my plans to finally get going on this story-card combo I’ve been promising myself for years, related to this Fey-themed project, I have completed step 1 – the story…
and now, I bring you, step 2!
Sketches based on the story above, planning the images for the cards. There are only 8, because only part of the deck will be based on this story, and I’ve decided that I want to give myself the chance to succeed so I’ve chosen a managable goal!
These are very rough mind… so with that in mind: enjoy!
20 Wednesday May 2009
Posted in Art Craft and Beauty
A map-based piece… from True-North Art‘s Map-prompt.
I began with a star-map, then added a Soulcollage card; ‘Gypsy’
Then came Alice, wondering about the door, and the words…
“If you aim for the moon, you’ll land amoung the stars.”
(Paraphrased from many places.)
and a snippet from Skinny White Chick‘s song Firebird’s Child, which I love, which makes me dance, which inspires!
I Present: Carnival
I love the stars, they’re so vast.
The world is so huge… sometimes we just need to be brave and leap.
I’ve just finished my 4 year degree course, and I’m feeling a little at sea. I’ve plans, but they’re big and scary because they require an extra step of effort, of being brave, of leaping into the unknown.
I love Alice in Wonderland, and the wonderland that is life.
I’m opening the door.
I’m risking the fire, because to burn brightly but briefly is better to not burn at all, and always wish you had. And, as SWC puts it in the song…
“You must not fear to blister if you’d live a life in flame!
Freely fly as what you are, keep dancing just the same!
You’ll never know a wonder like the wonders of the flame!
I am girl and firebird and Solace is my name!”
And an inspired moment of poetry:
Aim for the firey stars and the cheshire cat grin of the moon, for our lives are brief and we’ll burn out soon.
We’ve but one chance, and it’d best be bright, so dance, fly, burn! Light up the night!
18 Monday May 2009
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Art Craft and Beauty, challenge, Devotional, Faery, Feyhearted path, Magic, musings, oracle cards, project, Stories
Today I jumped the gun and rewrote my story.
The ideas themselves are not new, but the telling, I hope, is fresh 🙂
My plan is to use the story for the first suit of the deck of Faery oracle cards I’m making (see here for information, and here for the bigger project).
And then the deck will expand…
Enjoy…
17 Sunday May 2009
Posted in Art Craft and Beauty, Faery
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beauty, challenge, Craft, Devotional, Faery, Feyhearted path, goal, inspirations, life, multimedia, musings, Stories, Tarot
Inspired by this post on Collage Diva I am setting myself a goal.
Tomorrow is my final exam, and this week is full of very important things* so I plan to start next week.
In this case… next week, I will be finally getting round to making that deck of cards based on the Fey that has been playing in my mind for the past few years. It will be created using a story as guidance. This is part of my FeyHearted project, and the cards are intended to be beautiful, an act of devotion and oracular. I also intend to write around each topic the cards are about, leading to much musing!
Step 1. Re-write story.
Step 2. Sketch designs.
Step 3. Start drawing/painting/collaging and writing.
Step 4. Scan and Print each card onto ATC size.
Step 5. Put cards into sleeves and play!
Step 6. Celebrate!!!
And, to keep me on track, I plan to share the process, stage by stage, here.
This is a Challenge for me… will you join me in choosing a creative challenge for yourself? Let me know in a comment so we can do this together!
*Like a job interview, birthday parties, end of degree tea parties, actually spending some time with my neglected sweetheart, organising graduation and living over the summer… and so on.
Halo Quin 