Pretty nails

i decided to paint my nails pretty colours this week. Just for fun. Because i can.

Goals for the next week

i've got a few days off work next week and i want life to take a slower pace. Life has been a real roller-coaster these past few weeks. And i've also been putting my body through the wringer with all the partying (one of the advantages of living in the city).  i need to take some time to re-energise. To step away from all the drama and enjoy some simple pleasures.

i'm posting a list of things that i want to do over the next week so that i have to hold myself accountable to them:

*Take an adventure with my camera on foot.

*Listen to something other then Arcade Fire (i've been listening to it over and over). And also maybe listen to some Arcade Fire. Again. heeeee!

*Stroll to a tea room and have cake.

*Laze in the park.

*Enjoy my last week with the Art Mobile (aka my car). It's unlikely to pass it's MOT so i've got to bid goodbye to it :(

*Take photos of the apartment!

*Make a birthday card.

*Edit some photos and upload for printing

*Spend some quality time with my nan.

*Try and find my scrapping mojo.

i also need to sort out some admin for the apartment. i hate that part of being an adult. Urgh!

And i already have plans for a couple of day trips, so i'm not sure how i'm going to fit it all in!

So True

For you, creativity is first and foremost a form of expression: it creates a special link between the internal and external worlds. It allows you to get a grasp of your powerful emotions, by moulding them into a physical form. In fact, the most important thing for you is to be able to release your emotions. You need to be able to touch them or look at them in concrete form, and to do that you have to find a way to make them come alive. This is how your desires and anxieties take shape. Keeping things bottled up creates a tension that can only be resolved once you have expressed how you feel. This means you have to be strong enough not to let yourself get swept away by chaotic impulses; if you turn your creative urges on everyday life — making a picnic, singing to the baby, choosing what to wear — you can express yourself while staying rooted in reality. Creativity is principally cathartic. It relieves a deep need, an almost primal, archaic impulse. For you, being creative is about having the power to give form to something you feel, to those deep personal issues that are often raw and disorganised. For these reasons you are usually attracted to art that demands physicality, that allows you to express what’s inside, and that unites spontaneity, strength, freedom, power and movement.


I just took this quiz about my creative style, and this is what the results were. Pretty spot on i think. What does creativity mean to you?

Distracted

i had a skype date with Katty B last night and she scolded me for my lack of blogging (and actually referred me to my own post stating that now i had internet i would be blogging more regularly! Ooops!). So i just wanted to let you know that i am still here, i'm just not making very much and not taking many pictures, so i don't have much to share with you. i set up my studio space 2 weeks ago but am yet to complete anything in it. i've only ventured into in once and it just felt forced. It's something that i've dreamed of forever but now i have it, i'm just not in the mood to use it. i'm not sure what it is about summer that sucks my creative force, it's always the same. During the winter i have so many grand ideas for the summer, so many pictures i want to take and then it comes and goes without much getting done. i thought with all this newness i would feel inspired but it's had the opposite effect, i'm not sure what to do with myself. None of my usual favourites are happening; picture taking, scrapping or dvd watching. It feels odd and yet i have no desire to partake in any of them, so i am quite comfortable.

There is a lot of life living happening. Concerts, drinks, cinema trips, cooking, baking, trying new foods, random nights out, new people, old friends, laughing, hanging out at the bandstand, watching True Blood, soaking up the sunshine, listening to Arcade Fire, skype chats, phone calls, long text conversations, painting my nails, drama, sleeping, a lot of sleeping. Life is good, it's just different. My heart is very very happy. i hope yours is too.