To Please God, Wednesday, September 23, 2009

I realized the other day that I have been choosing dispair, fear, and depression instead of life these last few months. There is life in the misdt of paying off massive amounts of debt. God has been trying to teach me that and there is life in IBS land. The other day I was praying with my housemate and realizing just what a gift this disease is to me and what it has been teaching me in the realm of taking care of myself and turning to God. I want to try to choose life again and choose to please God. I did this watercolor in my journal last night and hope to start drawing and painting for real again.

Sunglasses, Friday, August 28, 2009

So I have this problem that I will not do art until the conditions are ideal which means the perfect supplies, lots of time, and the right environment. This is very mad for me because this rarely happens. So I am trying to break myself of this habit, my first step is to draw from random places where I am always with whatever I have around which often means my black (not waterproof, but acid free) pen and my sketchbook journal. My first attempt, my office during a break. I drew my sunglasses. These are lovingly refferred to as my migraine sunglasses in my community house because the first pair was bought by my house mate when I was totally being attacked by migraines and light and flourasent light was killing me. These block out all the light even on the sides; they are perfect. I wear them always, even in long meetings under flourasent lights when I am having a bad headache. My other housemate wore them the other day when she had her eyes dialated over her other sunglasses. They are huge; they fit over my glasses that is why I love them so much. So, water smears and all from my drink. Here they are.

Things to do for fun for free, Thursday, August 20, 2009

So I have been depressed about my tight financial situation and the fact that I have no money because I have been paying of my life of debt. But I realized today that there are so many fun things that I could be doing that I have either paid the dues for, have the stuff to do it or it is just absolutely free. I just have to kick out of this dispairing mode and do the fun stuff God has for me to do. So here goes with my list and hopes that I do some of these things. Today during lunch I went for a great walk in nature and saw two beautiful butterflies.

Go Workout at the Gym

Swim at the Pool

Take Lucky for a Walk

Paint something

Play with Paint

Color in my coloring Books

Draw Something or someone

Go to the Zoo and sketch

Cook something new with stuff I already have

Clean the kitchen, my room, the yard, whatever

Take a bath

Dance to fun music

Read

Watch a TV show on my gift from God computer

Watch a movie on my computer

Play with the kids

Sword fight with Elliott

Go to the Zoo and just watch the otters play

Call a friend

Talk to God in the hammock

Memorize a passage of scripture

Drink Tea

Put on Lotion

Put on Makeup and believe I am someplace fancy with God just in my own house

Play Guitar Classical or Acoustic or get really brave and play both the same day

Rub Lucky or Daisey

Brush Lucky and give her a cookie

Play with Lucky

Sketch Lucky

Look at inspiring pictures on my computer

Paint one of the pictures

Start the three crazy abstracts that are in my head

Talk with a Friend over tea at my house

Call someone on the phone

Swing in the Park

Lay out in Nature

Go for a Hike

Playing with marine blue, Wednesday, August 12, 2009

I love just to play around with watercolor and I love Marine Blue by Holbien. So here is some fun.

Splashy Sunset, Monday, August 10, 2009

I love sunsets and I wanted to do this splashy sunset off of various pictures of the sunsets of the beach in San Diego where I went in 2007. I have been able to look at all my computers with my new laptop. It has been amazing how God has been providing for me and I always think of Him lovingly providing for me when he gives me a beautiful sunset or when I actually rise early enough to see a beautiful sunrise.

All Things in Christ, Sunday, August 9, 2009

I have been battling my lies and my sin lately and God prompted me to do this little stamping page to remember that He is more powerful then the one who is in the world and I can do everything in Christ.

Spring Flowers, Friday, August 7, 2009

To honor my dad who is recovering right now and hopefully he can come see this. I have returned to the life of blogging. I have got to do something to get back into art. This is what I have been working on for the last few months. It is a full watercolor sheet 22X30. It is off of another half sheet one that I did of Falling Leaves that was similar. I am not going to blog everyday, but now that God has graciously given me a computer. I guess I could do some blogging. I miss it anyway.