If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? ~Bjould

(above) One of the hand made magnets from my

A.I.M. Series

***

Good Monday all!

Here are some quotes to start the day off:

***

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by obvious realities.
We need men and women who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy

***

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

~Robert Fulghum

***

The cross comes before the crown, and tomorrow is a Monday morning.

~C.S. Lewis

***

From my perspective of Higher Awareness, No one has the power to drive me crazy. In fact, people have stopped trying. They assume I can walk from here.

- Charlene (unknown submitter to Hay House newsletter's Laugh Out Loud)

***

Oky-doky. Now where was I? Oh yes...Good Monday to you all.

I have had a busy weekend. We spent a lot of time cleaning house, (yuck) and cooking for the week (fun!)...and playing Sorry! the game with the boys. I know...I have a very glam life. Be jealous.

Let's see I cooked: 2 Shepard pies, 6 quarts of bean and barley soup (known in this house as hamburger soup), 4 pints of hummus, Italian chicken with polenta, chopped a metric ton of fresh veggies (snacks and the hummus), twice baked potatoes, and a bunch of oatmeal cookies. Now...I don't have to cook for at least a week. Everyone can grab what they want out of the freezer...warm it up...eat it and put the dish in the dishwasher. It's really great. I've been doing the food thing for this family, like this for about 5 years now. It saves so much money, because there is no waste and everything gets used and eaten. It's also pretty great because I love to cook, just not every freaking day.

For the four of us...I can feed us like royalty on about 350.00 per month.

It's all good. I am thinking that this week I am going to make some mini-meatballs (I make them up and freeze them uncooked...then they can be added to all kinds of things quick and easy, taking about 7 minutes each to cook all the way through). The kids have been asking for pita bread personal pizzas...with meatballs. So, other than that I don't plan to cook at all.

We got the whole house spiffed up...and now I can paint all week without guilt. UUuummm...we bought a new board game the old Sorry! game. We basically sat around trying to sabotage each other and exact our revenge...it was great. I never won even one stinking game though...I suck at revenge I guess.

Well...I am going to start a new work later this morning...and my only problem (see above quotes) is the what will I paint thing. I have two little canvases drying at the moment in the experiment phase...I took oils and thinned them down with Liquin and painted it over the top of gold leaf I had used matt medium to glue down...then I made a random pattern with masking fluid (for watercolors) on top of the gold and then painted more of the thinned down oils over the top. I repeated that a couple of times...and I did the same thing with acrylics on another little canvas. The liquin has made the masking fluid sticky on the oil one...which I removed and then had to wash the canvas with a little terp to get the sticky off. I have not removed the masking fluid from the acrylic one yet...but I tested it yesterday and it's not sticky. Both seem to have worked...I just don't know what I plan to do with the information yet. Adventure time...we shall see.

Well, I have a busy day ahead with the day job (life coaching) and a big ol' white canvas on the easel...mocking me...so I had better get to it.

Love to all,

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. ~Degas

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

(above) The Moon and the Magic Man

2005 (sold)

Quote(s) for today:

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
~ Brian Tracy

***


If the world were extremely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.

~William Allen White


***


You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today.


~Romain Rolland (1866 - 1944)


***

I am sure that I am going to explode. Heather Pie all over the walls. I might be having a wee bit of stress...you think?
It's all good...really. I have not been sleeping well and work is overwhelming me...and the art is taking a back seat to my daily life, and lemme tell you, I feel crazy when I can't work in the studio.
CRAZY I say!
OY!
***
So anyway, over at Zaadz I joined the Zpro part of the site. It gives me a bunch of great business tools, my favorite so far is the newsletter. I will have my first newsletter real soon! I sent out opt-in emails last night...and then got to work on creating my first newsletter. I hope to have it out in less than a week. Some of you may have already gotten your opt-in email from me...but if you have not and would like to sign up, just click here and hit subscribe. I plan to make it a fun romp every month. I am also looking for volunteers to be interviewed once a month for that part of the NL (newsletter)...so if you would like to be promoted in my NL, just email me HERE.
Well that's about all for today folks,
I have to move and groove and shake the earth.
Love with Rockets to you all,
Heather
www.badkittyartstudio.com
OK...just buy some art today, if not from me, than from another living artist that resonates with you. (there are many wonderful artists in my side bar...pick one! Or just let it be me. :)

I'm Baaack!

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day

***

"All your life, you have heard yourself denounced; not for your faults, but for your greatest virtues.

You have been hated, not for your mistakes, but for your achievements.

You have been scorned for all those qualities of character which are your highest pride.

You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgment and bearing sole responsibility for your own life.

You have been called arrogant for your independent mind.

You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity.

You have been called anti-social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.

You have been called ruthless for the strength and self-discipline of your drive to your purpose.

You have been called greedy for the magnificence of your power to create wealth. You, who've expended an inconceivable flow of energy, have been called a parasite.

You, who've created abundance where there had been nothing but wastelands and helpless, starving men before you, have been called a robber.

You, who've kept them all alive, have been called an exploiter.

You, the purest and most moral man among them, have been sneered at as a 'vulgar materialist.'

Have you stopped to ask them:

by what right? - by what code? - by what standard?"

~Ayn Rand

***

We have arrived at our new resting place. The home we

live in isn't the nicest in the world, but it is ours,

and we will make the best of it, with pride.

Danville is a really nice town, a little wet and cold for the last couple days,

but a very nice place to live, grow, work and

raise our little family.

I am pleased with the way things are turning out so far.

We are still unpacking, I am getting back to work with

my coaching clients, and working on new commissioned

work for a well loved art patron.

The boys are settling into sharing a bedroom, and will start school again next week, I can't wait for quiet days again.

Mate Man is looking for work, and it is a lot more promising here than in

Mississippi, we have crossed fingers.

The dog and cat made it just fine.

Danville is a dry town, interesting to me as I have never lived in a town where you could not buy liquor of any kind, I didn't even know they still had places like this in the country.

I will be getting together with the local art community leader

soon, and hopefully arranging for a public showing of my artwork for the near future.

Money is tight, and a more than a little scary, but I have hope and faith that things will eventually work out for us, in a fine fashion.

I am tired and sore from all the moving and travel.

We got stuck in an Alabama traffic jam on the way here that lasted hours in very hot sun, but we made it through and that was our biggest trouble on the trip.

I guess that's all for today, just wanted to let you all know we made it, and are fine...a little on the stressed side, but fit as fiddles.

Be well, Share the love.

Yours in Courage,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com