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Catalyst One Hundred is: What’s the highlight of your week? Thoughts:
Catalyst Ninety-Nine is: What’s something you wish you knew about your parents? The Journaling:
Catalyst Ninety-Eight is: What does your future hold?. Journaling Reads:
Catalyst Ninety-Seven is: When in life have you felt most alone?. Journaling Reads:
Catalyst Ninety-Six is: What are the most important lessons you’ve learned in life?. I’ve decided that, in the end, all that matters is your integrity. Do you always do what you say you will by when you say you will? I strive to. And I strive to surround myself with people who do. Too many people discount the value of one’s word. All you have is your word. Does yours mean anything?
Catalyst Ninety-Five is: What’s something you struggle with?. I made a list of all the things I would like to do. I constantly struggle with choosing which thing to do, to learn. I want them all. I made a list and printed it as my background. Here’s what’s in the list: Teach David how to read. Learn Russian. Get a PhD. Study Mathematics. Learn to sew. Learn to crochet. Drive fearlessly. Visit Antarctica. Ride on a hot air ballon. Write a novel. Write another novel. Learn to ballroom dance. Learn to draw. Really well. Play the saxophone. Read. read. read. a lot. Learn Hebrew. Visit New Zealand, Australia, and Africa. Pet a penguin. Master web design. Teach Nathaniel to read. Teach both my kids math. Spend oodles of family time together laughing and hugging and playing. See the Northern Lights in Alaska. Drive across the country again. See all of the states. Go camping. Write a product that I am really proud of and one that becomes popular. Learn to quilt and make a huge quilt for our bed. Get my coaching license. Learn to ride a bike. Make beautiful art journals. Teach courses. Let go. Journal every day. Run a marathon. Cook more and better. Start my own non-profit. Run a non-profit bookstore. Embrace imperfection. Publish a book with my photography. Take a lot more photographs. Master post-processing. Master photography. Become fluent in Japanese, Italian and French. And Sign Language. Go to an art retreat. Let go. Stop seeking validation. Embrace joy. Make a movie. Create art products. Affect the education system. Let go. Learn to paint. Acrylic. Oil. Learn wood carving and metal smithing. Learn more about physics. Chemistry. Statistics. Become a therapist. Learn to decorate a cake. Master design principles. Have a photo shoot with my family. Read all the classics. Go to the movies. Take daily photos. Make more scrapbook pages. Tell our stories. Tell my parents’ stories. Tell my grandparents’ stories. Collect family photos. Find my own style. Let go. Embrace myself and the way I look. Make lifelong friends. Spend regular time with good friends. Apologize from people I’ve hurt. Donate to charity. Volunteer. Learn to knit in the round and to knit a cable. Change a tire. Make wreaths. Make bread. Take photos of myself everyday for a year. Reach out to family more and connect. Take a trip alone. Watch the sun rise and the sun set on the same day. Bake a pie. Let go. Make a really complicated dish. Walk across the Brooklyn bridge and the Golden Gate bridge. Declutter. Practice kindness towards others and myself. Let go.
This week’s question is: “What magical thing happened to you this year?” It was a great year with a new house, working from home etc but the most magical thing this year ever was Nathaniel hands down. Love you, my angel.
I now sell some of these tags in my etsy store. If there’s a tag you like and are interested in, email me or leave a comment and I’ll be happy to add it. I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here.
This week’s question is: “What was the best gift you ever gave?” I did this for creative therapy a few weeks ago. I became an American citizen. Best gift I could give my children. I used tape to cover the tag and did the stripes with red ink. The blue side has some clear embossing for the stars which then does the resist over blue ink. Not perfect but I was playing around.
I now sell some of these tags in my etsy store. If there’s a tag you like and are interested in, email me or leave a comment and I’ll be happy to add it. I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here.
This week’s question is: “What do you love most about where you live?” Well since I am in sunny California I decided to make it about the sun. I painted the tag blue for sky, rolled up a ribbon for the sun and then glued sequins for the rays.
I now sell some of these tags in my etsy store. If there’s a tag you like and are interested in, email me or leave a comment and I’ll be happy to add it. I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here. Last year, in the beginning of the year, I made an album for my creative therapy catalysts. I cut a bunch of the patterned paper I was saving and put it in the book and decided I was going to make each of my entries using the pre-prepared pages. This Sunday is our final catalyst for this year. Here’s what the book looks like now.
I love it and it’s a book I will cherish forever. So for this year, I decided to make another one. This time, I didn’t fill it with pages because this year I plan to make this my art journal. I want to experiment with sewing, stitching, fabric, paint, etc. Anything my heart desires. I am not going to worry about whether it’s “pretty enough.” Since I am not doing the tags again, I wanted to have an outlet for trying new things and since I already do a catalyst each week, I decided to couple the two. I am going to use this album I made. It’s using my word of the year so it fits perfectly. (More on that later.)
Here’s to a year full of art. Catalyst ninety-four is: What’s something you swore you would never do? Why? Did you do it?
When I had my first son, David, I was working from home. Even though it was hard at times, I loved watching him grow and being there to see it all. And when he turned eighteen months or so, I took a job with Google and was working in an office for the first time since he was born. Although his dad was home with him, I missed him everyday and regretted not being there with him. And then I got pregnant with Nathaniel. I told myself that there was no way I was going back to work once the little baby came. My job at Google wasn’t something I could do from home and I was determined not to miss Nathaniel’s childhood which meant I had to quit my job. Then, a month before my maternity ran out, I went into work and told my manager I would be happy to stay at work but only if they would let me work from home. I would be willing to do any job, as long as it meant I didn’t have to come into the office. As it turned out, they were very wonderful and helped me move into another job in the same group. One that I could do (and have been doing) from home. As it turned out, I got the best of both worlds: I get to see Nathaniel (and David) grow up and I get to work at a wonderful company, with a product I am proud to be a part of.
This week’s question is: “What is the sweetest thing anyone has done for you?” For some reason, I was really stuck on this but then it suddenly hit me that I wanted to make it about this story. I punched a whole bunch of hearts, glued and sewed them and the lifted up the edges. I spelled the name of the song, added some beads to the heart and that’s it.
I now sell some of these tags in my etsy store. If there’s a tag you like and are interested in, email me or leave a comment and I’ll be happy to add it. I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here. |
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