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Get Messy Week 9

Get Messy Prompt Time! This week is the October prompt which was about gratitude. It's a lovely prompt and one that flowed easily onto my pages. Gratitude is beautiful and a mind filled with gratitude and appreciation is one brimming with such loveliness that one cannot help but be draw to it... Page one is… Continue reading Get Messy Week 9

Macabre Word Nerd via LaWhimsy
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Word Nerd: Macabre

Macabre (pronounced either mekabruh or mekab. The first is the more correct French pronunciation and the second is in the Americanized style.) is a chilling and thrilling word, filled with the spectacularly gruesome and ghastly.  Human nature is such that many of us are drawn by a morbid curiosity to the macabre, mostly, I suspect… Continue reading Word Nerd: Macabre

Affirmation Mondays

Monday Mantra 31

Happiness - it's the ultimate goal, a hoped for mindset, a desirable way of living, an enviable state of being and yet it  remains elusive. Or does it? Could it be that happiness is, and always has been, right there and that all of this time spent attempting to achieve it has actually prevented us… Continue reading Monday Mantra 31

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Get Messy Week 8

Illusions and beetles and Oscar Wilde...yeah, this week was definitely all about a bit of fun! For page 1, I illustrated and colored in a charming cigarette beetle. Mind you, I am no Coleopterist nor am I into Entomology - I think insects are best left to the wild and away from me (or at… Continue reading Get Messy Week 8

euphoria is a state of mind via lawhimsy
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Word Nerd: Euphoric

Euphoric is a word I really adore using. Certainly, euphoria is a wonderful sensation and as a descriptive, euphoric is quite desirable, since I can really only think of highly positive ways to experience it.  To be in a euphoric trance or state of mind, one must be fully in and of the moment they… Continue reading Word Nerd: Euphoric

Affirmation Mondays

Monday Mantra 30

Being a sweet, kind, and gentle person can have a downside in that so many see you as a doormat, as a pushover. That is utter nonsense because I am a kind, gentle soul and I just so happen to have a backbone and I won't just take anyone's crap. Being one does not automatically… Continue reading Monday Mantra 30