In my world, everyone’s a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!
–Dr. Seuss
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butterfly
Quote of the Day – There is something…
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
–Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With The Heart Of A Buddha
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Quote of the Day – The butterfly counts not…
The butterfly counts not the month but moments, and has time enough..
–Rabindranath Tagore
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Quote of the Day – Encouraging Others…
Encouraging others often results in encouraging yourself.
10-word Butterfly Love Story
Week Eight (Day 21) Write a ten-word love story. Bonus: Illustrate it.
Thankfully, I went on a six-word story bender not too long ago, so I had a few ideas to tweak for this challenge. I also wanted to play with fire and ice for this one so I chose:
Her burning heart made no apologies,
his frozen heart melted
**note**
(Day 21) is the prompt designation in Noah Scalin’s book, 365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life! I am using this book as the catalyst and inspiration for these weekly posts.
Quote of the Day – Some parts of life…
Some parts of life have to be messy before they can become beautiful.
–Natasha Bedignfield
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Clay Butterfly
Week Seven (Day 20) Buy or make some clay and then use it like you never have before.
At first, I wasn’t sure what I wanted with this one. I had mental images of a gooey clay blob-berfly, or a bulbous bisque statue like the kind you find ready for paint at the craft store. But, when I searched for clay images on Pixabay, many images of dry, cracked clay fields came up and I knew that was where I wanted to go. So, I have a dried out butterfly finding an oasis and transforming from dry/dead to restored to life and color.
**note**
(Day 20) is the prompt designation in Noah Scalin’s book, 365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life! I am using this book as the catalyst and inspiration for these weekly posts.
Quote of the Day – We are all butterflies…
We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.
–LeeAnn Taylor
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Auto-motor-putter-fly
Week Six (Day 18) Work with the things you find in your car (or a friend’s car if you don’t have one).
The engine’s in the car, right? My Mazda6 never looked so cute!
This prompt had me spiraling down the vortex of my detail-oriented, down-in-the-weeds self. I had all kinds of mental images of a “metal” effect on a gathering of flowers and adding a bit of “rust” for depth, not to mention using hubcaps for the center of the flowers and the headlights the petals. After hours of puttering around on Photoshop, spinning my wheels, I finally took a step back. I realized continuing down this road would cost me more hours and miles of research on technique. So, I took a brain detour and tried to think of where a car butterfly would go for “flowers.” My first thought was a junkyard, but that seemed kind of cannibalistic, especially if there were a lot of junked cars. In a flash of inspiration, I thought of using a shot of the engine block. A quick snap and color adjustment later and I was pulling into the garage…
Thanks for tolerating all my car puns!
**note**
(Day 18) is the prompt designation in Noah Scalin’s book, 365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life! I am using this book as the catalyst and inspiration for these weekly posts.
Quote of the Day – Be yourself…
Be yourself: everyone else is already taken.
–Oscar Wilde
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D.M. Sessous: writer, artist & dreamer 