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Blog Award Nomination! Thank you Anne!

16 Saturday May 2009

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“These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these kind writers.”

A very kind nomination by Anne.

Just goes to show what a beautiful, friendly place the blogging world is!

To pass it forward I’d like to take this opportunity to direct you on to these places:
Moon And Raven – A friendly chap chronicles his life, one post at a time.

Moonroot – Beautiful creations ( even better in person) and thoughtful posts on her travels, paganism and the world.
Drawing a Day – This lady has committed herself to doing one drawing a day, and each one is poignant. An inspirational blog for those that would love to be more creative, showing how it is possible to do a little each day!

Spirit Cloth – Its fascinating seeing the glimpses of this blogger’s works in progress, although I’m tempted to say that they’re not so much works, as pieces of her heart.

Three14Creations – Babies, Recipes and Crafts – the recipes sound delicious (although I’m yet to get round to making any), and her other posts are personable and friendly, meet Jan.

Art Dolls Travelling – Not so much one persons blog, as a series of stories of the bringing to life of several art dolls being built by a group of individuals. I’ve nominated this blog because I find the posts so friendly and it brings a smile to my day.

YarnBombing – Again, less a person, and more a movement. What could be more friendly than making jumpers for trees and lampposts? I say, bring on the knitting revolution!

I hope you enjoy meeting these people as much as I have, and this is my way of paying them each back a little for the happy they bring into my life by posting.

PS: Apologies that it has taken me so long to respond to this, I really appreciate the nomination, and am touched by its description, to be seen as friendly is a wonderful thing!

Playtime With Kitten

17 Tuesday Mar 2009

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Kitten

(A Portrait of Sticky One)

Warm red curtains softly drape themselves around you, wrapping you in darkness. Through the thick coziness you hear, muffled but becoming clearer, the sound of a kitten playing. As Kitten comes closer the darkness lifts and She bats a glowing ball of blue light into your lap.

Play!

You’d recognise that feeling anywhere.

You rise from your sleepy seat and roll the ball to Kitten, and you swear you thought you saw her smile.

She runs through the curtains and darts back, batting the ball before her. She looks up at you, expectantly.

You don’t know where She’s going, but you just know you want to go too!

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An Oil painting, glowing from the flash of my camera, shining with the light of spirit!

I painted this as an expression of my ‘Inner Child’, who is full of play and shiney, and very intense. This is where much of my art comes from, this place of play, and the ball of light, thats the energy that lights me up when I create.

And so it begins…

22 Thursday Jan 2009

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I might, if I let myself, wonder why I’ve decided to start another blog.

So, before I ask too hard and decide to delete it and save myself the time, let me list the reasons, for myself, and for my guests.

I’ve been reading several crafty blogs recently, and I’ve really enjoyed seeing peoples creations, but more than that, the thought processes and inspirations that they discover, so I am allowing myself some space to muse on my own thoughts and inspirations.

In a similar vein, I kinda want to offer something back to those people who I have found inspirational, and to share with others in a similar position to me.

I have an LJ for random, ‘this-is-whats-happening’ posts, Devaintart for artworks and somewhere on blogspot for just short stories, but nowhere for my more crafty things. As I’d like to put all my creativity in one place somewhat, I thought I’d better find a place to do it.

Finally, this is an act of magic. By gifting myself with this space, and opening up to share with anyone who wants to share with me, I hope to let my creativity really flower.

So, yeah, this is for anything creative I do or think, and for anything inspirational I find that I’d like to share. If anyone wanders through and would like to share, please do.

Hope I can give something back to those that have inspired me, and that this can be a place where I can increase, by just a little, the amount of beauty and delight in the world.