Wow. Wow. Wow. Long time since this old hippie chic has written a post !!!!! Got a little side tracked! Oh well, back on it now! Want to share this little gem of a quote. Written by one of my favorite authors..Julia Rogers Hamrick! Hope you dig it and have a grahooven' Christmas and New Years~!
Love accepts. Fear rejects. Love embraces, Fear pushes away. Love allows. Fear resists. Love Includes. Fear excludes. Choose Love.--- Julia Rogers Hamrick
Want to turn you onto some of Julia's Gems of Wisdom!
WELCOME YOU 300 + Creative BLOGGERS THAT MAY BE CRUIZEN THROUGH TODAY!!
Hey There!!! Thanks for stoppin' by my Pad!!!!!
Thanks Karen Valentine for creating this "Where Blogger's Create" Party! This is the third one and I dig seeing your spaces too..So while I do that, you snoop around mine and .....
Being the bright, beautiful, peace-lovin blogger that I assume YOUARE, I encourage you to have some FUN today!!!!!
YEAHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!
So take your shoes off, look up....
and click on the music and dance your way through my blog
with the fabulous... E.L.O!!!!!
Click to listen!
Oh yes!!!.... and hop into the Magic Bus while you are at it!
In the back of the bus you will notice I have gathered a groovy collection of things from my "Blast From The Past" Store for you to wear while you "Journey into the Center of my Blogging Mind! " Pick out what FREE's your bohemian butterfly spirit and let's rock and roll to see my latest RE-DO!...Hurry!!!!
Hat's Perhaps??
T-shirts ?
Flowing Skirts ?
Crazy Shoes ?
Hippy boots?
or
an OLD Beatles album ?
Then again, how 'bout a bag to put it all in?
Peace and Love Man!!!!!
So now that you are dressed and ready, HOP ON!!!!! and let's watch, as the Magic Bus takes us to the place I hang my own crazy hat ... IN Portlandia!!!!!
FIRST...
I want to show you my Indiana loft where I have lived for the last year and a half and the MESS of ART STUFF that I had to pack!
and more...
I decided to box it all in flat rate boxes and ship them to my new Creation-Station in "The Port" .
Right Cheer!
CHECK OUT THOSE flowers in the front A BIT CLOSER!!!
So that my far-out friends is where I am currently living! Groove? NOW let me show you my Creation-Station!
Come
On
In
I will snip-snap away for you and show you how I changed the place up!
All those flat rate boxes arrived and I unpacked them and threw them in the closet! Dig That!
Ahhhhh..Not so much.
Then I decide to get organized for this PARTAY and came up with a tagging system for Meeee-self!
Then I got busy getting the "Art Closet" organized!
Purchased 7 fabric box's for $6 at Walmart
Total $42
Now....
Let's go where the Magic Happens!!!
The Before Look of the Art Studio.
I decided to move the sofa on the other side of the room and put the desk on this side!
Here you go!!!
Bought the art above the desk and the plates and paint holders $33
Window Treatments $23
Leather Shrug Rug $16
All purchased at Good Will and Home Depo!
This is what the desk looked like before I moved it across the room.
As you can see, I moved the sofa where the desk used to be! Need to lower that guppy I can clearly see!
Fish Art $24
Pillows (all) $20
Black Scarf $5
Lamp $24
Sticks $8
All purchased at Consignment stores and Goodwill.
This side of the wall I just straightened and cleaned up the bookcases and also bought some used items carrying the " India Modern " Vibe that I was trying to go for!
$12
Total $45
$8 Box (The Top)
$8
So There It Is!!! Total $ Spent on my Creation-Station?
About $250
Now I invite you to come out in the back yard and have some
.... some Arty Food~!
and perhaps break some bread with me and John
and if you still feel like snooping around my pad you can....
Arrow back to learn more about my new business~ RE-imagine That!
and if you don't want to do any of that then just take a jouney to the center of your mind!!!
As promised, I wanted to show you a grahoovin' "GET BACK" experience I had when I went home to close up my place. A good friend of mine picked me up one sunny day around noon, and told me that a surprise was in store!!!!! She is one of my dedicated blog followers of this "Get Back" adventure. I love surprises so I happily jumped in her brand new shiny red car and she took me to a place I never even dreamed existed!!! Right there in my small little town that I grew up in....! Well, what she turned me onto was EVERY hippie chic, tree huggin', girls dream!!!!!!! A TREE HOUSE! Ahhhhhhh...She had her bag full of fresh, healthy food and lunch was being served to me, in a most groovin' of groovin' tree houses !!! We climbed up into the tree house and opened the windows and made our magic mark on the wall..!! It was quite a moment for me to sit there in the town that I grew up in just blocks away from where I brought my only son home from the hospital... some 37 years ago, eating salad in a tree house with one of the most creative woman I know! Whew! Long sentence! Whoa! Now to top it off .......blow me away just a bit more...the man that owns the tree house threw a very long extension cord in the bucket below and told Angie to heist it up so we could listen to some tunes, while we ate! Guess what song came on....So apropos for this journey of mine, to get back to freedom, peace, happiness, joy and a reinvention of myself and a true GET BACK song!!!...Here it is...and it is by Journey!!!! Holy flippin' Hippie!
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It was definitely a magical drop down from "The Get Back Powers that Be!" I never could have thought up something as Magical and Divine as thisll!
So here you go - This is the Tree house!
What a Beauty! See the Bucket!
So there you go! What a day it was and "Thank You Girlfriend" for giving me this "Get Back" experience..! What is amazing and wonderful to me ....is that we are really like that tree...we start out small and sparse, yet in time, if given love, water, sunshine and an environment that supports our growth, we can become a beautiful, powerful presence.! All those elements make us what we are and if we missed any of those along the way, well, it is up to us to give it back to ourselves.. Get into your own divine line-up (s)...by getting back to what you love my friends ! The magic bus will move in and take you away...OR BACK! Whatever the case may be!!! So for now, I leave my hometown and I " get back" to a place I loved and moved to with that NEW son, who was almost two in 1976, some 35 years ago.PORTLAND, OREGON..Yes, We lived in a commune for awhile..one with a spiritual bend...Truly an environment that nourished and fed my soul. ..full of trees, water, sunshine, mountains and well people that were genuine and furthered a calling, I feel. So now that I have all the art supplies boxed and ready to ship... I will get on that big jet-aira-liner and head my ass back to Oregon and begin to work on my new creation-station...and GET BACK to WHAT I LOVE- MAKING ART, WRITING and PHOT0GRAPHY!!!! See you on the flip side for the JULY 15th Blogging Party..
