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MANDALABLOG
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Procrastination
Mood:
 caffeinated
Now Playing: Benny and the Jets-Elton John
Topic: Beta Waking
"She's got electric boooooooooooobs..."ooooohhh-tee heeeeeeee.....(you hear what you want to hear!) I am thinking about ways in which I would like to develop my products. I sat last night and put a base coat on another cigar box purse. I am really excited by the reception that they are getting. I am really having fun thinking about the possibilities that my subject matter affords. The girls at work were showing the first one that I made around. One of them said something to the effect that they felt like they would be walking down a street somewhere far away and see my designs in some Gucci style boutique someday. Ahhhh...they are finallly sensing the power of a passion for art. I am remembering someone who once told me that I was not getting enough art done because I was working in a restaurant to put myself through school and it was eating up my time. My argument was that without the job, there was no school, there was only work in a restaurant forever! I had no other way to pay for an education. I always felt like it was one of my strengths to be able to be able to work and still do what I love. I argued that in the "real world"-outside of college, work would be a reality, and that I was going to need to learn to get things done in the between time. I was right. Maybe because I had something to prove to someone that was not really in touch with who I really was or what I had been through up to that point. I think if he'd had an inkling that I had the upbringing that I had, he have been a little more supportive since he thrived on alcoholic fueled rages and manic-depressive throes of passion. Unleash your BEAST!!! He died at an early age from the pure stress of disliking himself so intensely. Can't say that I am surprised. Ha Ha-Beast of Burden just came on the radio...I love it when that happens!!! On that note...I'm not too blind to seeeeeeee....
Posted by mandalafly
at 9:57 AM PDT
Solar Eclipse
Mood:
 spacey
Now Playing: Us and Them-Pink Flloyd
Topic: Red October
Oh-let me tell you all how I should have been in bed quite while ago. It is past my bedtime, but it is prime time for that sort of Beta wave trying to take over the Alpha state that makes a visit to the old BLOG-ER-OO worth the trip. Hop on board! I'm off to the races in the head again. I have a million ideas, and I take it for granted. I notice that when I talk to people about what I am up to, they think that I must never sleep. I assure you, I get my rest. They hear a fraction of my actual portfolio in my mind, and they say that I do SO much-I on the otherhand see the task before me and feel like I am only touching the surface right now. I am squeezing art out of every time portal that I can capture, but I still find plenty of hours to piddle away!!! It's all about perception. One of the new girls at work said to me last week that I must be using extra parts of my brain-and I am hoping she is right. How would I know? Today was a solar eclipse, and the new moon is in Libra (as is the sun). Libra is the house of partnerships, both business and pleasure. Now is a good time to examine the partnerships in your life. The period of the solar eclipse (3 days b4-3 days after) can be intense, and shine a magnifier on things that need to be addressed. Personally, I am tapping a new creative vein for Holiday Market and making some SWEET cigar box purses with Angels and Faeries and the like, on them. Also Zodiac Boxes, and hopefully some original layered paper mandalas and other mystical creatures as they appear to me. Seems like every idea I have is spawning more babies than I can possibly entertain. WOW! I love having a brain!
Posted by mandalafly
at 12:48 AM PDT
Updated: Tuesday, October 4, 2005 1:05 AM PDT
Friday, September 30, 2005
Velveeta
Mood:
 loud
Now Playing: Life During War Time-Talking Heads
Topic: Cheese it UP
how come in the listings for the "emoticons" available for my site, I am faced with the lamest choices!!! I have some creative emoticons I could use-how about "cheesy"-that's what I could have used today.
Posted by mandalafly
at 5:04 PM PDT
Brain Teasers
Mood:
 chillin'
Now Playing: Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Flloyd
Topic: Continuum
I am really in another part of my brain in the last couple of days. I am having some pretty intense realizations of how small a parcel of real estate that I actually occupy in the time-space cloak of life. One tiny iota of a point where Eugene, Oregon intersects December 31...and creates that which constitutes my journey up until now. I have heard it said that if you pick up a Grateful Dead tape that someone has been listening to, chances are that it will be stopped when the show gets to the part known as Space. It takes a special mindset to be able to listen to Space the way that it is best enjoyed (no-I am not saying that you have to be on mind altering chemicals!-but if you must...) you do have to be ready to alter you thought patterns from the everyday busy-ness of life. I'm wanting to go there now. See you later!!!
Posted by mandalafly
at 1:28 PM PDT
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Back in the Saddle
Mood:
 irritated
Now Playing: All Good People-YES
Topic: HEY NOW!!!
Just to set the record straight, I am not really THAT irritated, I am just having one of those days that are kind of like a mosquito buzzing in your ear. Actually the last couple of days have been intense and focused on many of the things that need to be taken care of. A bunch of little nitpicky-shine-ola issues ganged up and harrassed my little sub-conscious until it wished for a quiet corner, while the task of making sure that the general public met their salsa intake quota kept me too occupied to do much about any of it. The day started out rough as son jr. decided that he wasn't getting out of bed in time to get son sr. to school on time (we made it with minutes to spare-I'm not sure how) Meanwhile I came home and was going to pay some bills and found that Baboo had my debit with him at the dog park. (By the way Tyrone was a relief from the chaos-finally performing "roll over" on his own after several not very promising looking weeks!) +++ Insert work rant here +++ Fortunately the evening salvaged the rest of the day (oh-and when I felt it start getting to me I had a Rodeo roll over moment:)) The boys did what I asked and I got to watch the second half of Martin Scorcese's Bob Dylan film on OPB and then a show profiling artists. I have to admit some jealousy when I see these people who get to work on their art all of the time. I am also envious of studio space, when I am crammed into a 100 square foot room which is divided in half between Baboo and me...ugh. See-feelin a bit sorry for myself. "I WANT AN OOMPAH-LOOMPAH NOW, DADDY" I KNOW that my art is good enough. I need to get it in front of the right people and present it in the right way. I am aware that that is what the grant money is going to help with, but I don't have that yet. I am trying to make what I have be enough, but I can see where I want the work to actually be, and I know that it is going to take time to get there. Until then, I need to keep progressing. I think about it and I can see that I have come a long way just in the last nine months, and I know that I have enough ideas to keep me busy for the rest of my life, I am just needing to have contact with people who can appreciate that a girl's got to make a living!!! Know anybody who wants to buy some art?
Posted by mandalafly
at 12:36 AM PDT
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Two-Oh-Oh
Mood:
 celebratory
Now Playing: Equinox-STYX
Topic: 200
Happy Equinox Everybody-Today is the first day of Fall, Libra, and it is my 200th BLOG entry!!! I will be spending my day repaying some favors and refilling the coffers so my kids can continue to live in the lifestyle they have become accustomed to. The coast of Texas is bracing for a category 5 Hurricane just like the one that reduced New Orleans to floodplain three weeks ago. Katrina paved the way for Rita who breezed by the Keys and picked up steam over the balmy waters of the Gulf of Mexico. We are being reminded time and time again that we need to strengthen our bonds with each other and do what we have to do to make sure that our weak, and our poor, and our huddled masses are attended to. We have just entered a whole new realm of awareness. Last Christmas it happened on the other side of the planet, and still it was so close. Now it is here, and where DO we put all of these people who have lost everything. There are people giving away houses and money, and clothing and supplies. There are people rushing to aid, there are people cleaning up the mess. There is a big mess. One of the things I'd like to make happen in my life is to become more PRO-active, rather than RE-active. Once it has already happened is too late to prepare for it. We are like this everywhere in our life. We don't start eating righ  t until there is a health issue. We don't know where to go or what to do in case of emergency. (this life is a test, it is only a test.) It is true that you cannot prepare for everything. If it is true that we could have an attack, or an emergency at any moment, do we all know where the shelter is? Do we know who to contact? Do we know if our neighbor needs help? These situations call out to all of us to be responsible for ourselves and each other. What can you do today to make something better for the next guy. What is your contribution? What is your legacy-THAT is your key to Immortality. No one is going to forget about Emily Dickinson even though very few people ever really knew her in life. Picasso is a household name. DO WHAT YOU LOVE. IAM! ;)
Posted by mandalafly
at 9:18 AM PDT
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Summer's End
Mood:
 happy
Now Playing: Boy's of Summer-Don Henley
Topic: Pups
Today was the last day of summer this year. Tomorrow is the fall Equinox. The day will be as long as the night. I will be spending the most of it at the Hombre Cafe working for girls who work for me pretty often. Who couldn't use an extra buck or two. The sun moves into Libra, the sign of Justice and of Partnerships. The balance of night and day is appropriate for the beginning of the sign of the scales. Libra is an air sign. It is ruled by Venus (along with Taurus) Air signs are communicative and vibrant. Venus is the planet of Love and Beauty, and natives of Libra have a love for things that are beautiful. They desire harmony in their partnerships and are generally fair minded. They like to hear both sides of the argument, and often can find reasons to agree with each one. That can be tough. My experience with the sign of the scales comes most directly with my mother who is a "bi-polar" Libra . What goes down must GO BACK UP!!! It was a long struggle trying to get the right treatment in a world that really doesn't understand so many things about the mind. She has been doing well for a number of years at last, and is now starting to speak at conferences on mental health about what it is like from a patient's standpoint. I am proud of her for getting up there and talking about a subject that is really intense and misunderstood. She is intelligent and articulate, and like the subject of a Beautiful Mind, she has walked the line between medicated and not for many of the same reasons. I think that what they can learn from her could help many, many people. I think it is part of the reason she is here.
Posted by mandalafly
at 11:55 PM PDT
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Fifteen Minutes
Mood:
 rushed
Now Playing: Sing a Song-Earth Wind and Fire
Topic: FAME
Flylady says that you can get anything done fifteen minutes at a time. I have about fifteen minutes before I have to get primped for the Desperado Rancheras. I have to try to fit the last three days in-here goes. Went to Waldo Lake on Saturday. Paddled to the far side of the lake where my Baboo, and River Tom had set up camp the day before. Home Sweet Home Away From Home. Tyrone loved it and learned to swim out to get his frisbee or a tennis ball. On our way back in on Sunday we paddled to one of the small "islands" in the lake and had lunch there. There were Dragonflies EVERYWHERE. They were the big bright blue ones that are SOOOO pretty and sparkle in the sun. They were flying around us and hanging out on the trees and plant life. AAAAAHHHHH-My totem animal EVERYWHERE. I know that I am doing the right thing. Waldo Lake is one of the three purest alpine lakes in the world. It is in my back yard. We paddled through the middle of the lake where it is so deep and so clear that the water is one of the only places that I have experienced PURE INDIGO. It is STUNNING. It grabs you by the sub-conscious and shakes you in it's depths. Add to it the shimmer of a sun in a cloudless sky on the ripply wind kissed lake and it's another world completely. I am holding onto the feeling as long as I can. If you close your eyes and picture it I'll bet you can feel it too. Have fun with that. ~OOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM
Posted by mandalafly
at 9:33 AM PDT
Updated: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:35 AM PDT
Friday, September 16, 2005
Cre8tive Differences
Mood:
 a-ok
Now Playing: Dreamer-Supertramp
I started a new project and for the most part I like it, but I have not resolved some of the issues that I have with it. I started a collage on a cigar box purse. It is a fairy on one side and it will have a mandala on the other. I like everything about it except the arms and face of the fairy. They are not subtle enough, or something.. They so not have the look I was going for-a soft, natural form. Instead they look kind of garish, or cartooney-which I think a lot of my work does-I JUST CANT GET SERIOUS. I'd have to say that the word that comes to mind is WHIMSICAL which makes me think of Hallmark cards or "The Queen of Everything" kind of art. I will keep working on it until I get it right, but what that is I am not sure of. Oh well, I'll let you know when I get there. Until then I am going camping at Waldo Lake. Perhaps hanging out with the Alpine Lake Fairies will give me inspiration as we come up on the Pisces Full Moon on Sunday-Dream a Little Dream With Me.
Posted by mandalafly
at 9:45 AM PDT
Thursday, September 15, 2005
RaMpANT ThoUght FOrms
Mood:
 on fire
Now Playing: Trust-Elvis COstello
Topic: Dream Dates
Been having so many ideas in my dreams, and in my waking hours. Just want to start every idea I've ever had right now. The things that are stalling me are annoying me. I picked up a shift at the Tortilla Bordello today so that I could take Sunday off and go to Waldo Lake with Baboo, Lil' Blue, and River Tom. Yesterday I took a field trip to the boutique shop mall downtown in Eugene. It is the opposite of Saturday Market, but alike in many ways. I was inspired by the beautifully crafted pieces of furniture, and the impeccable jewelry. I am amazed by the thought of someone just walking in and buying whatever they wanted. I can't picture that. I was reminded that it is not a sin to have the finer things that life has to offer. I just need to make my mandalas be pieces that people want to take home. I need to be able to produce pieces that people can take home right there. I am finally putting my work in for jurying at Circle of Hands Gallery in Downtown Eugene. I am not worried that I will not get in after I showed a sample of my work and the woman said "WOW".
Posted by mandalafly
at 9:53 AM PDT
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