October 2009 wrap up

You bet!

Happy dances inside my heart!!!!

what you see in this picture is my NEW toy,
yahoo!!!!
cheers for me for treating myself and keeping myself playing some more and ab-SOUL-tely for more experimentation!
Big YES!!!!

can you tell I am super jazzy happy (winks here, LOL)

and then, i know you haven't seen me around much (now you know why ;-)
I have been into all of these new things, doings, playing and mainly: nurturing my creative spirit.
But please know that I miss you and will be checking you out real soon.

Also, I have been playing quite a lot these past days with my favorite box, and it is my favorite box because it contains lots of possibilities ;-)
It is full of my beautiful leftover papers and pieces of ephemera always ready to be upcycled to "produce" lots of pretty cutie patootie things made by me.

I tried some new techniques using some unusual found objects.
And I am quite pleased with the results.
Yep! This is definitively me, a believer of reducing and recycling.
So I am looking forward to grow more into this area, too.

You will see my new artworks real soon, I promise ;-)

Okay, also, I realize that I didn't close October and I kind of enjoy doing that.

Well, October was a very very very busy month for me, it was so busy it went too fast! But It felt good and I got to accomplish what it needed or was supposed to be accomplish, in a few words, I am content!

- i practiced some more my wood burning skills, and am almost getting there ;-)
- I met two talented lovely bloggers, and went on a photo field trip with them
- participated in several blog challenges and connect with new persons
- got incredible tips for my art, and how to market it, too.
- got to see my possible new home again ;-) It's beautiful! yes!
- read her poetry, and love her! specially this one (more yesesss here)
- watch movies some new to me and some i've seen gazillion times ;-)

*where the wild things are
*the cats of Mirikitani (i highly reccomend this one)
* zombieland I watched it because of Woody Harrelson
* reservation road
* revolutionary road (you have to love Kate Winslet, greatest actress)
* drag me to hell (for halloween night)

and here my old time favorites to watch again and again ;-)

* walk the line
* once
* across the universe
* the darjeeling limited

Okay, That's it for now.
I am all ready to enjoy my day, and visit and read the wonderful world of bloglandia ;-)
Soul hugs everyone!
Carmen

Feliz Dia de los Muertos

La Catrina y el Catrin ;-)






this is my altar:

My beloved GRANDPARENTS, Mama Conchita and Papa Alfonso

SIEMPRE EN MI CORAZON








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sooooo what are you waiting ;-)

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The music and video you see is performed by beautiful Lila Downs, Mexican-American singer. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into native Mesoamerican music of the Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya and Nahuatl cultures.
It absolutely makes me joyful (a couple of happy tears thinking of my family in Mexico, specially my grandparents, RIP

You just saw my ALTAR, here it is my OFRENDA ;-)









Now, let's keep enjoying and dancing to this happy music! Yay!
Would you like some ponche, mole or sweet Mexican bread?

horchata?

tamarindo?

jamaica!!!

OR, perhaps....

Tequila!!??

or, cerveza??!!

Mexican hot chocolate? with Pan de Muerto!!!! Yummy! the best ever!!!

LOL
First, let's dance to Lila's rhythm of Mexican life!

Let's keep having fun in the Dia de los muertos, and dancing! yay!
mermaid me ;-)
Carmen

More treats, more soul nurturing

After yesterday’s post, I have been thinking of what other things and treats I am wishing for myself ...

Do you feel some days like doing things that you don’t normally do?

Well certainly today I feel that way.
I am going to write them down because I feel in a very good mood and would love to make at least a couple of them come true and make myself happy after all.

I feel like:

~ painting my face for fun and taking pictures for you to smile
~ buying my favorite kind of exotic cheese to enjoy it with a glass of wine
~ go out for lunch with someone and talk and ask for opinions
~ knit even if I don’t know much about this craft
~ buy me a new fancy bra, or maybe two
~ and a brand new pair of comfortable shoes too

Do you have a list, too? Please share it with me. And, let’s encourage each other and say that all of this is okay, it is soul nurturing.
Let’s be doers of our own wishes ;-)
Hugs,
Carmen


p.s. I get these messsages every day in my email and love them.
This is today's:

Life, Carmen, is not what you see, but what you've projected. It's not what you've felt, but what you've decided. It's not what you've experienced, but how you've remembered it. It's not what you've forged, but what you've allowed. And it's not who's appeared, but who you've summoned.

And this should serve you well, beloved, until you find, what you already have.
Yeah,
The Universe

What treat do you wish for?

where your pleasure is,
there is your treasure;
where your treasure is,
there your heart;
where your heart,
there your happiness.
~ Saint Augustine

That's Jamie's question this week for this wishcasting Wednesday, Oct 28.

I think what I would love the most right now is to treat myself to one day in a spa with lots of nice things, fragances and a massage but I'm going to save me that treat for another day;-)

This is what I can have or make it happen real soon:

I wish to treat myself for one day, preferably a Friday or Monday to make it long and worth it, spent it at home to art for hours and play with other posibilities too.

As Carmen wishes for a day to herself in the comfort and peace of her home so I ...... wish for her also.

Thank you ladies!
And have a wonderful wednesday!

I run across these sweet memories in these polaroid pictures of my daughter and i just had to share them :-)

Mysteries, Yes

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous
to be understood.

How grass can be nourishing in the
mouths of the lambs.
How rivers and stones are forever
in allegiance with gravity
while we ourselves dream of rising.
How two hands touch and the bonds
will never be broken.
How people come, from delight or the
scars of damage,
to the comfort of a poem.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.

Let me keep company always with those who say
"Look!" and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.

~ Mary Oliver

Today, I rely on a good poem to tell on how I am feeling and what I am enjoying.
Have a wonderful day, I am having a busy busy busy day at work.

Hugs,
Carmen

More mind wandering on the dark side and a lovely blog experience to share ;-)

"To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
-Thomas Edison



Both pieces were created with acrylics, imagination and a pile of junk ;-)

GPP street team: Crusade No. 34
Creative Every Day Challenge

Guess what? I met two bloggers... in person!!!!

~ Julie Prichard
~ Katie Lynn

I had the best time with them, the best i've ever had in a long time!
It was so lovely to see them play with their cameras, finding beauty and wonder all around and the best was when they found DANDELIONS, they went nuts happy and that made my heart all giggly too.

They are beautiful inside and outside!

Thank you very much Julie and Katie Lynn for the wonderful time i had with you two!
So very lovely to meet you in person!
Can't wait to get together again.
Hugs to everyone,
and before i go, here me blowing a dandelion and wishing to meet more of my blogger friends in person one day.
Carmen

A black and some green background

This piece was created to participate for the very first time in a crusade ;-) with the talented and lovely artist Michelle Ward.

Thank you Michelle for the challenge.
I am so glad to finally make the decision to join you, and play with this GPP community.

I love my results!!!
And got to play with some green, too ;-)

What do you do to let your mind wander?

My favorite things to relax, unwind and let my mind wander is

~ take a walk along the beach
~ writing and doodling
~ browsing the web specifically blogs ;-)
~ creating abstracts and journal pages, specially, playing with all kind of supplies and found objects to create textures

How about you?

hugs,
Carmen

Can you see me ;-)

I enjoyed my Saturday very very much.
As you can see, I did play with my camera.
Yay!
125 pictures total.
I love them all, in my opinion they are fantastic!
I feel like a rock star ;-)

And this is good, I mean the playing and good feeling because another busy week is coming.
More life and lots of busy-ness is about to happen to me.
And I am so ready ;-)
bring it on!

Maybe, I have a lot in my plate.
Probably.
i like it this way.

I am grateful for all the stuff going on right now.

-my full time job and, the everyday little and big things
-specifically, this joy I feel and keeps me creating and working in my inventory in order to make that extra income I depend on and brings closer to me some other dreams

I think I am going to be this busy all the way to the end of November.

I think I may take another class, who knows, I really love to learn! and apply what I learned and make it mine, oh yes!
I enjoy this search of getting better or exploring my craft with new supplies or materials, to search, to research! with new perspectives and perhaps with a new point of view.
And realize how much I love this life of mine and at the same time discovering new facts about me or of the beauty and the passions I love.

What I am trying to say is I am getting ready to offer more ;-)

How about you?
What are you all about these days?
what's making your heart all giggly and happy? or excited?
something new?
share please.

Soul hugs,
Carmen

p.s. Last week wasn't much around, now you know why. I thank you very much for your wonderful comments and emails. Thank YOU.
I promise I will get to you as soon as I can, and please if you need me for anything let me know, I will stop to go and check you out, heyy! after all I need a brake (and naps, too) to keep functioning properly ;-)

Witchful and spooktacular ;-)

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My week has been VERY busy BUT full of inspiration, WITCHFUL thinking and creativity and that is super cool and TERROR-ific, too!
LOL
I want CANDY!!!!!!



Don't forget to enter your name for a chance to win a surprise package of halloween goodies
Hugs,
pretty mermaid me AKA Good Witch AKA Carmen ;-)

p.s. I am dancing to this song wearing my red shoes, mis zapatos rojos, check out the video if you wish to learn some Spanish ;-)

UPDATE:
The give-a-way winner is Lisa from the wrightstuff

creative everyday challenge
a fanciful twist halloween party

the deepest secret

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)

i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
ee cummings