the colors of peace

created for tag tuesday challege
goose egg blue or goosey

it is a common thing lately to see and read about how many of us are starting to slow down
when it comes to blogging.  and i am one of them. not that blogging has lost its momentum or that i have lost interest; on the contrary, i love to share and contribute to the world out there in any form or shape i can.  but i need more peace and less frazzle, more time to actually DO than talk about it.  so i have decided to do what a lot of us are doing, a monthly or maybe bi-monthly post about the goings on in my world so i can create more, share with my family and plan that spring roadtrip we've so anxiously been awaiting. especially now that spring is no longer insinuating itself but has arrived.

 and the seedlings are starting to sprout

and i can take those much awaited two hour walks.

like yesterday's

where it felt like i had the beach all to myself

after several days of torrential rains

digital collage i made for the subject of exploring

i can be an explorer again

and get involved in the issues that interest me

like the issues in the patagonia

"it takes a village" or "aysen se levanta"
houses made with empty cigarette boxes
to support the 11th. region of chile which is going through a lot of political turmoil right now.

patagonia protest

well, what i'm trying to say i guess, is that posting takes a long time, and a lot of energy goes into editing the photographs and chosing the right words. and i'm kind of not liking spending so much time in front of the computer.  the whole universe interests me, yes, but, my universe and my love story are too important to me. i will limit my browsing hours to flickr, where i began, and to no more than 30 minutes on pinterest.

let's see if i keep my resolve

tag tuesday

 

when i was a little girl, every weekend my father would take us to our beach house on the coast of chile just so we could wake up at the crack of dawn to go bird watching. his favorites were pelicans although at home we settled for a parrot named clotilde. so my love of birds began at a very early age.

i never became an ornithologist like my father but developed my own personal love of birds through poetry and art. as a matter of fact, my favorite quote is from a poem by pablo neruda and i have used it repeatedly over the years in many of my creations and even at the heading of my ebay listings years ago.

i had purchased this quite expensive enameled button of a bird quite a while ago and didn't know what to use it for until carolyn's challenge. since it is so dainty, i opted for a fabric tag. it is rather long and skinny and i love how it turned out with all the different fabric elements i found for it.

....and here is an old picture of me at the beach house observing clotilde as we often took her out of her cage to converse with.

eclectic week

lent, a time for cleansing

it's been a little bit of this and a little bit of that with a lot of reading tucked in the middle since not only am i finishing "just kids" (which i have enshrined at this point) but i ordered two books from canada about the english gentry after becoming a more than fanatical "downtonite" as in downton abbey.

  i've done a bit of sewing, a bit of writing, a bit of poetry, a bit of thrift shopping, a bit of painting, a bit of collage, lots of cooking, experimented with my camera and worked a lot in my black and white 2012 journal apart from starting a new sacred heart fabric collage. but my pride and joy has to be this altered tag i cfreated for tag tuesday.

photo by sdzn on flickr

scott

one of my digital doodles with "scribbler" program

photo by moorish on etsy
and now, hopefully, on to the prayer flag project which i have neglected altogether