tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73630593081497063202024-03-14T01:57:17.317+11:00LISTENING TO THE SQUEAK INSIDE art by Kirstin McCulloch of LilliBean DesignsA creative journey, learning to let go, life with children, art, painting, promarkers, illustration, illustration friday, art and family, creative living, listening to the squeak inside, whimsey painting, paintings of girls, big eyed girls, lillibean designs, watercolor, lifebookAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15495304925279290058noreply@blogger.comBlogger648125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7363059308149706320.post-63589272036147783502015-07-23T12:00:00.000+10:002015-07-23T12:00:00.326+10:00☆ The LilliBean Designs Super Sale Starts Tomorrow!<div style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;">
<a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Birthday Super Sale" class="aligncenter wp-image-377 size-full" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/birthday-super-sale.jpg" height="244" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/birthday-super-sale.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 620px; vertical-align: middle;" width="660" /></a></div>
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It's Happening! Have you set a reminder? </div>
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Incase you haven't heard it's my birthday tomorrow Friday 24th July. Yep I am turning the big 4-0. (Cue mini freak out!)</div>
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And because I am having a mini freak out I decided to celebrate big! I have plans here to celebrate and I also want to extend the celebration to y'all! </div>
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So I am having a SUPER SALE starting tonight/ tomorrow morning at 12.01am!</div>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px;"><a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Original Paintings" class="size-full wp-image-380" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/original-paintings.jpg" height="372" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/original-paintings.jpg" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="660" /></a></dt>
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And on Friday everything in the LilliBean Designs <a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Shop</a> is discounted 25% off!</div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #339966;" style="color: #339966;">THATS RIGHT 25% OFF! EVERYTHING</span></h2>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px;"><a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Jewellery in store" class="wp-image-379 size-full" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/jewelry.jpg" height="372" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/jewelry.jpg" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="660" /></a></dt>
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From the very early am to the very late pm of Friday 24th July use the code HAPPY25 to have 25% taken off your final amount.</div>
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<a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="discount code" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-378" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/discount-code.jpg" height="244" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/discount-code.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 620px; vertical-align: middle;" width="660" /></a></div>
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Make sure you pop over to the <a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">store</a> to see what goodies you could grab during the Friday sale!</div>
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<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span data-mce-style="color: #339966; text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #339966;">USE THIS LINK TO GO TO THE <a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" data-mce-style="color: #339966; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="color: #339966;" target="_blank">LILLIBEAN DESIGNS STORE </a></span></span></h2>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px;"><a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Gift Cards, Journals + Tags" class="size-full wp-image-381" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/paper-products.jpg" height="372" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/paper-products.jpg" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="660" /></a></dt>
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I only have one or two big sales in the year so make sure you set your reminder for tomorrow so you don't miss out!<br />
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Oh by the way - if you have been wondering where I've been, I've started writing over <a href="http://bit.ly/1L2B69w" target="_blank">here</a> now! Don't miss out on the usual LilliBean Designs adventures - make sure you <a href="http://bit.ly/1L2B69w" target="_blank">pop over</a> to catch the latest news + gossip!</div>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px;"><a data-mce-href="http://eepurl.com/oez61" href="http://eepurl.com/oez61" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Did you know I send out an email with Studio snippets, freebies + give aways once a month? You can have your very own Studio Snippets delivered into your inbox, with free desktop art, discount codes for my online store, snippets from my life, my art + my brain. And absolutely everyone who is a member is in the draw for the monthly give away. Wanna know more? Then click HERE" class="wp-image-89 size-full" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/newsletter.jpg" height="123" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/newsletter.jpg" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="600" /></a></dt>
<dd class="wp-caption-dd" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.8462; margin: 0.9231em 0px; padding: 0px 4px 5px;">Did you know I send out an email with Studio snippets, freebies + give aways once a <a data-mce-href="http://eepurl.com/oez61" href="http://eepurl.com/oez61" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">month</a>? You can have your very own Studio Snippets delivered into your inbox, with free desktop art, discount codes for my online store, snippets from my life, my art + my brain. And absolutely everyone who is a member is in the draw for the monthly give away. Wanna know more? Then click <a data-mce-href="http://eepurl.com/oez61" href="http://eepurl.com/oez61" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">HERE</a></dd></dl>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15495304925279290058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7363059308149706320.post-42977709020777612012015-07-14T12:06:00.000+10:002015-07-16T12:07:02.778+10:00☆ This is your two day pre warning! {LETS CELEBRATE}<div style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;">
<a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Birthday Super Sale" class="aligncenter wp-image-377 size-full" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/birthday-super-sale.jpg" height="244" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/birthday-super-sale.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 620px; vertical-align: middle;" width="660" /></a></div>
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So I haven't posted here for a long while now, but I really wanted to let as many people as I could know about my big birthday surprise. </div>
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And this is your two day warning! It's my birthday on Friday 24th July + I am turning that big significant number that I never thought I would reach. Mainly because it always seemed so far away, but some how it has totally creeped up and I will be the big 4-0.</div>
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Yikes. I don't think I am ready for this, so I thought about how I could celebrate + I decided to have a massive one day sale!</div>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px;"><a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Original Paintings" class="size-full wp-image-380" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/original-paintings.jpg" height="372" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/original-paintings.jpg" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="660" /></a></dt>
<dd class="wp-caption-dd" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.8462; margin: 0.9231em 0px; padding: 0px 4px 5px;">Original Paintings in store</dd></dl>
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On Friday everything in the LilliBean Designs <a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Shop</a> is discounted 25% off!</div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #339966;" style="color: #339966;">THATS RIGHT 25% OFF! EVERYTHING</span></h2>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px;"><a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Jewellery in store" class="wp-image-379 size-full" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/jewelry.jpg" height="372" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/jewelry.jpg" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="660" /></a></dt>
<dd class="wp-caption-dd" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.8462; margin: 0.9231em 0px; padding: 0px 4px 5px;">Jewellery in store</dd></dl>
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From the very early am to the very late pm of Friday 24th July use the code HAPPY25 to have 25% taken off your final amount.</div>
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<a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="discount code" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-378" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/discount-code.jpg" height="244" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/discount-code.jpg" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 620px; vertical-align: middle;" width="660" /></a></div>
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Make sure you pop over to the <a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">store</a> to see what goodies you could grab during the Friday sale!</div>
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<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span data-mce-style="color: #339966; text-decoration: underline;" style="color: #339966;">USE THIS LINK TO GO TO THE <a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" data-mce-style="color: #339966; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="color: #339966;" target="_blank">LILLIBEAN DESIGNS STORE </a></span></span></h2>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px;"><a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" href="http://etsy.me/1F2fBAU" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Gift Cards, Journals + Tags" class="size-full wp-image-381" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/paper-products.jpg" height="372" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/paper-products.jpg" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="660" /></a></dt>
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Make sure you set your reminder for Friday!</div>
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Oh by the way - if you have been wondering where I've been, I've started writing over <a href="http://bit.ly/1L2B69w" target="_blank">here</a> now! Don't miss out on the usual LilliBean Designs adventures - make sure you <a href="http://bit.ly/1L2B69w" target="_blank">pop over</a> to catch the latest news + gossip!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15495304925279290058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7363059308149706320.post-12621359823449719592015-03-09T15:24:00.001+11:002015-03-09T15:24:43.605+11:00☆ Moving forward + starting afresh So this will probably be my last post here on Listening to the Squeak.<br />
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I am sad + excited by this.<br />
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This space has been my home, my sanctuary for the last 4 years.<br />
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And it is where I met some amazing people + had some amazing fun.<br />
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But it is time to <a href="http://bit.ly/1L2B69w" target="_blank">move</a> on.<br />
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I am not changing much I am just moving to a <a href="http://bit.ly/1L2B69w" target="_blank">different</a> space.<br />
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I need to make this move from Listening to the Squeak to <a href="http://bit.ly/1L2B69w" target="_blank">LilliBean Designs</a> for a couple of reasons.<br />
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And now it's not<br />
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Now it is reality.<br />
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And as I want to grow <a href="http://bit.ly/1L2B69w" target="_blank">LilliBean Designs</a> it made sense to start a new blog, that will one day become my website.<br />
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I will miss this space. It was were I first spread my wings.<br />
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<b>Thank you all so very much for your support, your lovely comments, and your energy - I hope you will all join me in my new space - <a href="http://bit.ly/1L2B69w" target="_blank">please stop by + say hey! </a> </b><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15495304925279290058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7363059308149706320.post-88859700657931501932015-02-27T09:00:00.000+11:002015-02-27T09:00:01.554+11:00☆ Zodiac Girls - Final Reveal {friday art}<div class="mceTemp" style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">
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So I am at the end of sharing with you my zodiac girls paintings. </div>
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If you have missed any of the previous posts you can see:</div>
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<li>CAPRICORN, AQUARIUS + PISCES <a data-mce-href="http://kirstinmcculloch.blogspot.com/2015/02/zodiac-girls-january-february-march.html" href="http://kirstinmcculloch.blogspot.com/2015/02/zodiac-girls-january-february-march.html" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Zodiac Girls One">here</a><br /></li>
<li>ARIES, TAURUS + GEMINI <a data-mce-href="https://lillibeandesigns.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/%e2%98%86-zodiac-girls-part-two-april-may-june/" href="https://lillibeandesigns.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/%e2%98%86-zodiac-girls-part-two-april-may-june/" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" title="☆ ZODIAC GIRLS – part two {april, may, june}">here</a><br /></li>
<li>CANCER, LEO + VIRGO <a data-mce-href="https://lillibeandesigns.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/%e2%98%86-zodiac-girls-cancer-leo-virgo/" href="https://lillibeandesigns.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/%e2%98%86-zodiac-girls-cancer-leo-virgo/" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" title="☆ ZODIAC GIRLS: Cancer, Leo + Virgo.">here</a></li>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008080;" style="color: teal;">☆☆ LIBRA ☆☆</span></h2>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px;"><a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1zhmw6x" href="http://etsy.me/1zhmw6x" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Libra" class="wp-image-112 size-large" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/libra-wm.jpg?w=471" height="1024" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/libra-wm.jpg?w=471" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="471" /></a></dt>
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AVAILABLE FOR SALE <a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1zhmw6x" href="http://etsy.me/1zhmw6x" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="LIBRA">HERE</a></div>
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Approx 5.1/2 x 11.1/2″</div>
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Acrylic + water color paint on quality hot pressed paper</div>
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<em><strong>She is Tactful, Romantic, Charming, Just, Diplomatic + Balanced</strong></em></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008080;" style="color: teal;">☆☆ SCORPIO ☆☆</span></h2>
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<em><strong>She is Focused, Brave, Balanced, Faithful, Ambitious + Intuitive</strong></em></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008080;" style="color: teal;">☆☆ SAGITTARIUS ☆☆</span></h2>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px;"><a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1zGuyF9" href="http://etsy.me/1zGuyF9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Sagittarius" class="size-large wp-image-113" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/sagittarius-wm.jpg?w=473" height="1024" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/sagittarius-wm.jpg?w=473" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="473" /></a></dt>
<dd class="wp-caption-dd" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.8462; margin: 0.9231em 0px; padding: 0px 4px 5px;"><span data-mce-style="color: #008080;" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: teal;">Sagittarius</span><br style="-webkit-user-drag: none;" />AVAILABLE FOR SALE <a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1zGuyF9" href="http://etsy.me/1zGuyF9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sagittarius">HERE</a><br style="-webkit-user-drag: none;" />Approx 5.1/2 x 11.1/2″<br style="-webkit-user-drag: none;" />Acrylic + water color paint on quality hot pressed paper</dd></dl>
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<em><strong>She is Positive, Straight Forward, Intellectual, Philosophical, Large-hearted + Adventurous</strong></em></div>
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This was such a fun series to paint. I am so please with how they turned out </div>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px;"><a data-mce-href="http://society6.com/product/zodiac-girls-horizontal_print?curator=lillibeandesigns" href="http://society6.com/product/zodiac-girls-horizontal_print?curator=lillibeandesigns" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Zodiac Girls Art Print Available here" class="wp-image-115 size-large" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/zodiac-6x2.jpg?w=660" height="486" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/zodiac-6x2.jpg?w=660" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="660" /></a></dt>
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And they are all available for purchase. The individual paintings can be found in my etsy store <a data-mce-href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/LillibeanDesigns?section_id=16788063&ref=shopsection_leftnav_9" href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/LillibeanDesigns?section_id=16788063&ref=shopsection_leftnav_9" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a> and these awesome prints can be purchased through my Society 6 shop <a data-mce-href="http://society6.com/lillibeandesigns" href="http://society6.com/lillibeandesigns" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Society 6">here</a></div>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px;"><a data-mce-href="http://society6.com/product/zodiac-girls-vertical_print?curator=lillibeandesigns" href="http://society6.com/product/zodiac-girls-vertical_print?curator=lillibeandesigns" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Zodiac Girls Art Print Vertical setting Available here" class="size-large wp-image-116" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/zodiac-girls-4x3.jpg?w=600" height="1024" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/zodiac-girls-4x3.jpg?w=600" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="600" /></a></dt>
<dd class="wp-caption-dd" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.8462; margin: 0.9231em 0px; padding: 0px 4px 5px;">Zodiac Girls Art Print<br style="-webkit-user-drag: none;" />Vertical setting<br style="-webkit-user-drag: none;" />Available <a data-mce-href="http://society6.com/product/zodiac-girls-vertical_print?curator=lillibeandesigns" href="http://society6.com/product/zodiac-girls-vertical_print?curator=lillibeandesigns" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a></dd></dl>
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I has dawned on me over the last ten years that I am a collector. </div>
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I collect shit. <strong><em>A lot of shit.</em></strong></div>
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Not in a hoardy kinda way - I mean I don't have 34 vegetable peelers, 10 foot massagers, or stacks of newspapers in the hallways. But I have my collections.</div>
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The things I typically collect include really nice writing pens, cute notebooks, (keep me outta the stationery departments!), feathers, glass bottles, books, hearts, dream catchers and sea shells. </div>
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And my very favourite sea shell to collect are sea urchins.</div>
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I collect them whole or broken. With spines or not, or even just the spines. </div>
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I love their colours, their roughness combined with the beautiful round shape. </div>
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So you may have seen on <a data-mce-href="http://instagram.com/lillibeandesigns" href="http://instagram.com/lillibeandesigns" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Instagram">instragram</a> over the weekend this photo.</div>
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<img alt="Sea Urchin vi" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-107" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/sea-urchin-vi.jpg?w=660" height="660" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/sea-urchin-vi.jpg?w=660" style="clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 620px; vertical-align: middle;" width="660" /></div>
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I rediscovered these late last year when I moved my studio space upstairs. And they have been sitting on my desk, precariously stacked on an ice cream bucket (full of rocks by the way!) They have been taunting me. </div>
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What could I do with them? I wanted to see them every day because of the beautiful memory they evoked, and because they are just lovely.</div>
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But I didn't want to stick them in a jar and put them on a shelf. (I have a huge jars already filled with shells around the house!) So I left them.</div>
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And almost daily I would worry that they'd fall off and break, that I would knock them. That the kids would come in an want to touch them.</div>
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So anyway this weekend we were cleaning out our garage (again!) and I found a heap of ikea frames that I had been saving for projects + realised that one of these shadow boxes would be absolutely perfect for my urchins.</div>
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How awesome does that look??</div>
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And every time I see this I am instantly reminded of that beach on that small greek island (that I can't remember the name of now unless I dig through my journals) where Mac and I spent a couple of hours collecting sea urchins while we were waiting for the ferry to Santorini. The smell of the ocean, keen eyes searching + the smell of the oregano container we bought to carry these shells home.</div>
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Is it a terrible shock to learn that my kids have become collectors too? I did't think so.</div>
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Bug has a rock + feather collection that is threatening to overtake my shelves + Bean collects anything that will help her in her art projects - like toilet rolls, leaves, string, confetti, sticks.... OMG.</div>
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<em><strong>I wonder if any of you have collections around in boxes, in cupboards that are attached to special memories? (Please, PLEASE let me know what you collect!!) And I wonder if you have thought about bringing these collections into the every day? </strong></em></div>
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So far I have shared with you the first six of my zodiac paintings: <a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1EQAbWl" href="http://etsy.me/1EQAbWl" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Capricorn">CAPRICORN</a>, <a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1CoqvV0" href="http://etsy.me/1CoqvV0" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Aquarius">AQUARIUS</a>+ <a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1vomsWC" href="http://etsy.me/1vomsWC" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Pisces">PISCES</a>, <a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1AtTG8k" href="http://etsy.me/1AtTG8k" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Taurus">TAURUS</a>, <a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1Kt0H9B" href="http://etsy.me/1Kt0H9B" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Aries">ARIES</a> + <a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/16BDGEP" href="http://etsy.me/16BDGEP" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Gemini">GEMINI</a></div>
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And this week it is my pleasure to share with you Cancer, Leo + Virgo.</div>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px;"><a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1DfEBqG" href="http://etsy.me/1DfEBqG" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="CANCER AVAILABLE FOR SALE HERE Approx 5.1/2 x 11.1/2″ Acrylic + water color paint on quality hot pressed paper" class="size-large wp-image-93" data-mce-src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/cancer-wm.jpg?w=477" height="1024" src="https://lillibeandesigns.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/cancer-wm.jpg?w=477" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="477" /></a></dt>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">Cancerian girls are</span></em><em><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"> Creative, Spontaneous, Faithful, Loving, Emotional, Protective + a little bit Moody! </span></em></div>
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I started painting these at the end of last year as a freebie for <a data-mce-href="http://eepurl.com/oez61" href="http://eepurl.com/oez61" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Studio Snippets">readers</a> of my <a data-mce-href="http://eepurl.com/oez61" href="http://eepurl.com/oez61" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Studio Snippets">Studio Snippets.</a> (Every month readers can download a new desktop calendar featuring art work by Moi!) And you can have a <a data-mce-href="http://etsy.me/1vomsWC" href="http://etsy.me/1vomsWC" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="PISCES">pisces</a> girl delivered direct to you inbox come March 1st by popping over <a data-mce-href="http://eepurl.com/oez61" href="http://eepurl.com/oez61" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15495304925279290058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7363059308149706320.post-15963985031552264612015-02-17T09:30:00.000+11:002015-02-17T09:30:01.191+11:00☆Life Book 2015: January Recap<div style="text-align: center;">
From the end of February I am <a href="http://bit.ly/1L2B69w" target="_blank">moving</a>! </div>
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Unfortunately I will no longer post here but can be found <a href="http://bit.ly/1L2B69w" target="_blank">here</a> instead.</div>
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I hope that you will continue to join me over on my new LilliBean Designs <a href="http://bit.ly/1L2B69w" target="_blank">blog</a>. </div>
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I have been so fortunate to be a part of the Life Book courses from the very first year + I cannot tell you how much I love it! </div>
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When I first started I was scared that I wouldn't be able to complete the classes, that I wasn't a good enough artist. I was worried that it would be destructive to my fragile artistic ego, and that I wouldn't complete all the classes. </div>
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But what I found during the journey of that first year, was a supportive group of artists of all levels + who all had the same little bitch telling them at different times they weren't enough too.</div>
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This year when it came time to sign up, there were no hesitations, no thoughts of enough, no lingering fear. Just excitement + joy + bloody hell was it still two months away before I could begin!</div>
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The last few years, I have shared on an almost weekly basis my Life Book creations, but this year I've decided to have a monthly recap instead.</div>
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Our very first class was with <a data-mce-href="http://willowing.ning.com" href="http://willowing.ning.com/" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Tam Laporte</a>. I love her whimsey style so much, but I also love how I can incorporate my style with her lessons. My Beacon of light is a symbol of all the hopes I have for the coming year, and is surrounded by symbols which remind me of these dreams.</div>
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The dragonfly is my personal talisman, the stars for my kids + the heart for Mac. My word of 2015 growth (<em>check out why it's my word <a data-mce-href="https://lillibeandesigns.wordpress.com/2015/02/10/59/" href="https://lillibeandesigns.wordpress.com/2015/02/10/59/" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="☆ Twenty Fifteen is the year of GROWTH">here</a></em>.) is also featured as yet another reminder for myself.</div>
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<strong>Week two was a playful tag making session with Roben-Marie Smith</strong></div>
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I used old manilla folders for the base of the tags, some of my super cute mini moo biz cards for the art work + spray inks for the back ground.</div>
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I also dove into my draw of crap + dug out some chipboard elements to use as well + then I decided to doodle some. The words I chose didn't really have a hugely symbolic meaning. The love card, because it had hearts on it just seemed to be appropriate, the fly card was a painting of an angel who was unsure of her path (<em>full painting <a data-mce-href="http://bit.ly/1FfR7bH" href="http://bit.ly/1FfR7bH" style="color: #f25f70; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a></em>).</div>
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The middle card represents my three girls - these paintings were their christmas gift a couple of years ago + they for me, totally represent the three of them.</div>
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<strong>Week three has us playing with lettering with Joanne Sharpe.</strong></div>
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And if you have been reading for a while, you all know I am slightly <strong>obsessed</strong> with lettering. I love it.</div>
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So I used a quote that I am particularly fond of one that reminds me to hold tight to my dreams + strive for them.</div>
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The roses were totally inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh's style. I adore his work. (I was so cool when we lived in Scotland to be able to see his work in the flesh!)</div>
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<strong>Week four was a cute little ballerina girl to inspire us to have courage by Patti Ballard.</strong></div>
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A mixed media page, I went for a little tight rope walker because I felt that week that I was balancing precariously, just holding it together but that it would only take a small nudge for the whole house of cards to fall down around me.</div>
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Funnily enough, that was all it took...a small nudge. </div>
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<em>Life imitating art or art imitating life?</em></div>
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I ended up journalling a little on the rope + around her skirt.</div>
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So that is January! It is amazing to think how much I have actually achieved in the first month of life book, four pages that I am so very proud of. </div>
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I am so excited to share next months with you (soon I promise!)</div>
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Last week I <a href="http://kirstinmcculloch.blogspot.com/2015/02/zodiac-girls-january-february-march.html" target="_blank">shared</a> with you the first three of my new Zodiac Paintings - <a href="http://etsy.me/1EQAbWl" target="_blank">CAPRICORN</a>, <a href="http://etsy.me/1CoqvV0" target="_blank">AQUARIUS</a> + <a href="http://etsy.me/1vomsWC" target="_blank">PISCES</a><br />
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And this week I am very excited to share with you the next three of my Zodiac Girls <a href="http://etsy.me/1AtTG8k" target="_blank">Taurus</a>, <a href="http://etsy.me/1Kt0H9B" target="_blank">Aries</a> + <a href="http://etsy.me/16BDGEP" target="_blank">Gemini</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">She is Adventurous, Courageous, Versatile, Lively, Positive, Passionate + a little bit Arrogant! </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #45818e;">☆ TAURUS </span><span style="color: #45818e;">☆</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She is Adjustable, Versatile, Enthusiastic, Soft-Spoken, Witty and Humorous + Intellectual.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes finding a word that <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">will guide me during the year is a difficult + arduous task. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;">So why do I choose a word of the year when it can be so difficult? What's the point in having a word for the year anyway? </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;">I am not sure if you choose a word, <b><i>(+ I would love to know your word + why you chose it)</i></b>, but my words alway help me focus on the bigger issues. It helps me focus on the overall feelings that I want to feel every day. Every minute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">It's a word to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.5px;">encompass</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;"> all my huge goals, my small weekly goals, my big picture goals. Goals like writing a new e-course, to planning significant time with each of my kids, or even to carve out an hour each week to indulge my romance novel addiction. (Ok, ok it's probably more like two hours...)</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 25.600000381469727px;">And its a word that will help me when I am feeling lost, frustrated, alone or when the little bitch starts her insidious whispers. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.5px;">One year my word was </span><em style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong><a href="http://kirstinmcculloch.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/2012-year-of-bravery.html" style="word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">BRAVERY</a>; </strong></em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.5px;">Bravery in art + in opening my heart. Taking ownership of + being proactive about change. That year I opened up the LilliBean Designs </span><a href="http:// https://www.etsy.com/shop/lillibeandesigns" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.5px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">shop</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.5px;"> + cemented friendships that I cannot live without.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Last year it was </span><em style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong><a href="http://kirstinmcculloch.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/worthy-friday-art.html" style="word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">WORTHY</a>; </strong></em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Feeling more worthy, being worthy. (It was a deeply rooted word for me + you can read more </span><a href="http://kirstinmcculloch.blogspot.com/2014/01/worthy-friday-art.html" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">) Worthy change me massively - my sense of self, my relationships, my dreams and my directions.</span></div>
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<i style="font-weight: bold; text-align: start;">Family Growth: </i><span style="text-align: start;">Now don't get excited I am not talking about expanding our family again!! But growing together </span><span style="text-align: start;">+ having beautiful family moments together.</span></div>
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<b><i>Biz Growth:</i></b> continue building the LilliBean Designs brand, selling my paintings + products, attending more markets, meeting new + interesting people.</div>
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">Spiritual Growth:</i> Allowing my soul to grow in amazing ways, releasing old hurts + soothing my spirit. </div>
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">Relationship Growth:</i> Having a few more date nights with Mac, having girls nights with my friends, having more spontaneous gatherings!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So I will keep Growth in my mind + my heart during the year. I will paint a painting to celebrate my word + I will scribble note to myself to remind myself to </span><em style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit;">grow</em><span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span></div>
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<em style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do you have a word that you have connected too? A word that will guide you, inspire you, encourage you or push you? I would love to <a href="mailto:kirstinmcculloch@yahoo.com.au?subject=The%20word%20which%20resonates%20with%20me...." style="word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">hear</a> which word resonates with you and how you came to choose it.</b></em></div>
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Over the Christmas/ New Year period, everything seems to stop. Schools off for six weeks, dance classes are on break, play groups + day care are all on holidays. There is no 3pm pick up, 8.30 drop offs. There is no need to race from one event to the next. And of course all the festive events are done + dusted for the year.</div>
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By the time Boxing day arrives I am ready to just do nothing. Nothing but read, sleep + watch bad movies.</div>
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But after New Years Eve, I start to get a little titchy, I want to begin all the ideas I have NOW, not in two weeks, two months or even next year...</div>
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And of course the girls start missing their dance classes + seeing their friends at play groups + school. And honestly I miss that adult conversation that comes with those moments.</div>
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So during this time you may have seen on <a href="http://on.fb.me/1wat0CE" target="_blank">Facebook</a> + <a href="http://instagram.com/lillibeandesigns" target="_blank">Instagram</a> some of the art work that I was able to work on during my break.</div>
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Unicorns, humming birds, the beginnings of Lifebook 2015. I can't wait to share them with you!</div>
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But first I want to share with you the first three of my Zodiac Girls series.</div>
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I started painting these at the end of last year as a freebie for <a href="http://eepurl.com/oez61" target="_blank">readers</a> of my <a href="http://eepurl.com/oez61" target="_blank">Studio Snippets</a>.</div>
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Every month readers can download a new desktop calendar featuring art work by Moi! </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">☆</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"> CAPRICORN <span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; text-align: justify;">☆</span></span></div>
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<b><i>She is practical, ambitious, wise, disciplined, a little stubborn, patient + cautious.</i></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">CAPRICORN</span><br /><span style="color: red;">AVAILABLE FOR SALE <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/220466266/zodiac-painting-capricorn-girl-with-big?" target="_blank">HERE</a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;">Approx 5.1/2 x 11.1/2"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;">Acrylic + water color paint on quality hot pressed paper.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">☆</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"> AQUARIUS <span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; text-align: justify;">☆</span></span></div>
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<b><i>She is Friendly, Humanitarian, Intelligent, Inventive, Independent, Loyal + Unpredictable</i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">☆</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"> PISCES <span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; text-align: justify;">☆</span></span></div>
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I am KIRSTIN [dreaming + planning + reflecting]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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HELLO 2015.... I am Kirstin.<br />
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I hope you all had a fantastic January, that you we able to find some time to enjoy family, some time dreaming, watching terrible movies + catching up on sleep.<br />
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For the first time I took January off. And I have dreamed, reflected, had nanna naps in my studio, listened to the entire 'In Death' series on audiobook, painted, and just settled.<br />
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I didn't frantically cram adventures into every possible moment, I didn't clean my house from top to bottom + I didn't feel guilty when I woke late + stayed up later.<br />
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This is a new thing for me, taking time off like this. I used to be so good at it.... and then I wasn't.<br />
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So I dreamt + planned + reflected. I though a lot about LilliBean Designs, about how I want my family to be, how I want to feel at the end of each day.<br />
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And as I dreamt+ planned + reflected I realised a few things about myself.<br />
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I realised that I am no longer a fresh faced twenty something, (although I pretend I am sometimes) I don't have the same hang ups + insecurities (Yup I have a whole set of new ones!) + maybe I should figure out who I am today, in this space + in this moment!<br />
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So during one of my moments of quiet I actually wrote down who I am today, in this space, in this moment.<br />
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And I was kinda surprised at my list.<br />
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<b><i>HELLO 2015 - I am Kirstin</i></b><br />
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<li>I am <b>creative</b> + I love having paint on my hands</li>
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<li>I am a mama of three gorgeous girls (Bean, Bug + Beastie)</li>
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<li>I am wife to Mac</li>
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<li>I am a daughter, a sister + a bestie.</li>
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<li>I am horribly <b>optimistic</b> (which annoys so many people!)</li>
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<li>I am also a horrible cynic</li>
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<li>I am a <b>swearer</b>. I enjoy it + feel no guilt about it.</li>
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<li>I am irritated by all things political.</li>
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<li>I am <b>honest</b> (but not always with myself)</li>
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<li>I am a lover of horror movies (but I just <b>CANNOT</b> watch them anymore)</li>
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<li>I am a card carrying member of Romance Novels Anonymous (Damn you 1-click purchase!)</li>
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<li>I am a fan of all music that makes me feel something (from Nine inch Nails to Taylor Swift)</li>
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<li>I am not a fan of boybands and I will likely never take the girls to a boy band concert.</li>
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<li>I am an asker of the universe + believe my wishes are heard</li>
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<li>I am <b>addicted</b> to aqua + turquoise + duck egg blue + teal..</li>
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<li>I am happy every single time I walk into my studio</li>
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<li>I am a gen x girl and miss my grunge days</li>
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<li>I am a vivid <b>dreamer</b>, I laugh, cry, shout + slap in my sleep</li>
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<li>I am a squeak listener</li>
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<li>I am fiercely loyal</li>
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<li>I am <b>too</b> independent</li>
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<li>I am worried I am fucking up my kids (but I am saving now for future therapy bills)</li>
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<li>I am overly empathetic + sensitive. </li>
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<li>I am also a drop of the hat cryer. (I am ok with this, but it make others <b>so</b> uncomfortable)</li>
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<li>I am <b>irritated</b> by passive aggressiveness and people who make passive aggressive comments (Is this a passive aggressive comment??LOL!)</li>
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<li>I am an artist, a social worker, a market researcher + events manager</li>
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<li>I am a swimmer, who thinks she should run, but actually does none of these. I <b>kick box</b> instead</li>
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<li>I am some one who thrives when I am told I CAN'T do something (But because I love to give 'them' a <b>big fuck you</b> when I succeed.)</li>
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<li>I am scared of being <b>vulnerable</b>, even when I draw my greatest strength from vulnerability</li>
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<li>I am likely a bad wife. I don't care too much about having meals on the table at 6pm, clothes pressed + away, and the cobwebs are just fine in the corners.</li>
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<li>I am a <b>very</b> bad housewife (see above comment!)</li>
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<li>I am that driver who dances in the car singing at the top of her lungs (with three backup dancers + vocalists in the back!)</li>
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<li>I am a huge fan of Jillian Michaels (my friends + family are so sick of me quoting her!)</li>
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<li>I am not cool with judgements + stereotypes + putting people into square boxes.</li>
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<li>I am generous </li>
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<li>I am LilliBean Designs</li>
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<li>I am Kirstin. K. I. R. S. T. I. N (not kRIstin, kRIsten, of kIRsty. And I can guarantee anyone with one of these names can feel my pain!! But I am cool if you muck it up. No hard feelings!)</li>
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<li>I am so very <b>complicated</b>.... </li>
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<li>I am me.</li>
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So HELLO 2015.... and hello to you all.</div>
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<b><i>I am so very happy that you are here + that I am here with you.</i></b></div>
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<strong style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">What is it that drives you? What do you dream of? Who are you just now, in this moment?<br /><br />And maybe think about how I can help you in 2015?</span></em></strong></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15495304925279290058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7363059308149706320.post-62368571859481285112015-01-30T09:00:00.000+11:002015-02-02T14:01:36.403+11:00☆ From Beginning to End: The Journey of a Journal Page [GREATEST HITS]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I hope you are enjoying my Greatest Hits series! This is because I am taking January off + I am currently reading a book, sleeping on the couch, swimming at the pool, or painting in the studio....<br />
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These are the posts that have inspired, helped, motivated + encouraged my readers. How do I know this?<br />
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Because you told me. In emails, comments or links.<br />
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Enjoy....<br />
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I am often curious when I see finished journal pages, about how they were constructed, the process behind the finished painting.<br />
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And I have often thought I should share with everyone the process behind my journal page - I have been asked once or twice to do this.<br />
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Usually, I am totally wrapped up in the process myself that I take a photo of the first step + then forget about it until I am almost finished.<br />
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This is the journal page that I shared with you <a href="http://kirstinmcculloch.blogspot.com/2013/11/your-soul-is-beautiful-friday-art.html" target="_blank">here</a> + I managed to get a few pics while I was painting it. {sorry for the load time! There are quite a few photos!!}<br />
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Usually my journal pages start with a problem I am working on, a much needed rant, or a observation.</div>
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I scribble my immediate + uncensored thoughts down. Don't worry most of it will be covered up later! So be honest. </div>
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I covered my scribble with water soluble crayons (I use a mixture of Derwent Aquatones + Caran d'Ache NeoColor II. I prefer the later because they seem to dissolve better the Aquatones can look a bit scratchy.)<br />
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Next I added some papers from my scrap draw (this grows bigger daily!!), some mulberry paper left over from our wedding 6 years ago, and some washi style tape. </div>
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I had some ink out from another project, so I added this and with a straw blew it around the page. I love this effect! </div>
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I gessoed a rough face + neck + added the flower + the three red strips on the right hand side.</div>
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I've started the eyes in this photo - I love painting eyes. They are my absolute favourite thing in the world to paint.</div>
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I have finished they eyes, added more detail to the lips + I decided that she needed a smattering of freckles. </div>
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I hope you are enjoying my Greatest Hits series! This is because I am taking January off + I am currently reading a book, sleeping on the couch, swimming at the pool, or painting in the studio....<br />
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These are the posts that have inspired, helped, motivated + encouraged my readers. How do I know this?<br />
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Because you told me. In emails, comments or links.<br />
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Creativity + the process of creating is a very personal experience. </div>
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And I don't believe there is one right way to create. </div>
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Your process will be different to mine, and different again to the next persons. </div>
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When I believed that I wasn't good enough to be an artist, I was fascinated to read about artist's + their creative process.</div>
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I was hoping that one of their stories would trigger a creative response in me. That theirs would be the way, that would allow me to tap into my creativity once again.</div>
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What I didn't realise until much later, was that my creative process, would be so <i>individualised</i> to me, that in reading others stories, although there were super inspiring, they wouldn't help me to unlock my creativity. </div>
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They did however keep <b>sparking</b> something inside me that would eventually grow into LilliBean Designs. And it helped me realise that:</div>
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<b><i>Inspiration is every where, and can strike at anytime.</i></b></div>
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My muses are absolutely my three girls. Their imagination sparks mine all the time. But there are other inspirations, books are another huge inspiration for me, <a href="http://kirstinmcculloch.blogspot.com/2011/10/whats-your-inspiration.html" target="_blank">music lyrics</a>, a pattern on the wall from the tree outside, fashion magazines, kids books, manga, a half over heard conversation, a shape of a leaf.</div>
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Anything is open to interpretation. </div>
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To capture these wisps of creativity, I have learnt to keep notebooks laying around the house, in my purse, in the car....</div>
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<b><i>{My name is Kirstin + I have a stationary addiction}</i></b></div>
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But it means that I will never again have an awesome idea, but forget about it in the rush of life.</div>
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So, when Bean said off hand one day, 'mama, I am going to get my fishing rod + catch a mermaid.' I wrote it down + the painting above was born.</div>
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Most of the time I have an image in my head that I want to paint. I can't see all the details, but the figure, the surround, the general placement of items. Like the <a href="http://kirstinmcculloch.blogspot.com/2013/03/princess-pea-new-painting.html" target="_blank">'Princess + the Pea'</a> painting I did earlier this year. This painting I knew from the very start how it would look.<br />
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But it took years before I had the confidence or the skill to attempt this painting! </div>
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There are times when I play in my art journal, that I haven't a clue what I am going to create. I just jump in + play. </div>
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Like everyone, I have periods of down time, when I am feeling uninspired, feeling blocked or needing to recharge.</div>
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I have learnt to give myself permission to have a break. To sit on the couch + read a good book. To watch a movie. Or watch six seasons of Supernatural back to back. </div>
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Sometimes though, the block is stubborn + I need to actively re-inspire myself. </div>
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In the end, my creative process is different for each painting.<br />
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Showing up.<br />
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Coming into the studio every day, opening up a fresh page + laying down some paint.<br />
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<b><i>What about you? What is key in your creative processes? I would love to hear your stories.</i></b></div>
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I hope you are enjoying my Greatest Hits series! This is because I am taking January off + I am currently reading a book, sleeping on the couch, swimming at the pool, or painting in the studio....<br />
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These are the posts that have inspired, helped, motivated + encouraged my readers. How do I know this?<br />
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Because you told me. In emails, comments or links.<br />
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This painting is one I have been thinking about for a while now, (you may have seen the beginning + in progress shots over on <a href="http://instagram.com/lillibeandesigns" target="_blank">Instagram</a> or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/LilliBeanDesigns" target="_blank">Facebook</a> over the weekend), and my inspiration this time came from author <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2958084.Kristen_Ashley" target="_blank">Kristen Ashley.</a><br />
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It is no secret that I am a huge romance novel junkie. HUGE. (I totally blame my 94 year old nan for this addiction - it was mills + boon over the summer holidays at her house when I was 14!! I was an impressionable teen!! - I have no responsibility for this....)<br />
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And it shouldn't be a huge surprise that the genre I am particularly fond of is the paranormal/ fantasy one.<br />
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Hello. Mermaids? Princesses? Stag Girls? Yup reading is a huge source of inspiration for me...<br />
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Anyway, I was reading Kristen Ashley's <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/69396-fantasyland" target="_blank">Fantasyland series</a> + there was a passage that described the heroine from the first book and as soon as I read it I knew I had to paint it.<br />
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So this is the beginning of the 'Winter Princess' painting (not to be confused with, by the way, the Frozen princess Elsa, who Bean excitedly asked me if I was painting for her....)<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> It took a while + some awkward selfies (did you see them on </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/LilliBeanDesigns" target="_blank">Facebook</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">?) to get the pose right... </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here I have transferred it onto my gesso panel, using carbon paper from the newsagents. I haven't been able to find graphite transfer paper here, but to be honest that carbon paper works well enough.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I don't often start with the back ground, but I wanted to start with the elements in the background first</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which as always lasted a whole five minutes before I was compelled to start her face..</span></td></tr>
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This week, I started off spending some time finishing off the back ground, adding some more detail. But looking at it now I will probably need to go back to it in the final stages. I think this is why I don't normally background first. I often change my mind + then I am left with no paint the right colour + white patches to fill...</div>
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I thought I would start painting her dress an shimmery blue, using an iridescent medium, but I wasn't happy with the colour, with the way I couldn't add shading. The light blue would lift off when I added darker colours + tried to blend them. It became a streaky ugly grey mess.</div>
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I abandoned the dress for the moment + I then decided to address something that was frustrating me.</div>
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I wasn't happy with the placement of her hands, it seemed too false. Forced. So I took more ridiculous selfies (Yah for cameras on computers!) + changed the hand placement.</div>
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I am beyond frustrated with this Winter Princess at this stage, so I mixed a new dress colour (making sure I have heaps of it and won't run out - haven't we have all been there, done that before!)</div>
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And again, I am frustrated with the shading - truly frustrated. Because I am working on board instead of paper, I have to adapt a bit - and look at her boobs! Holy cow what is going on there??</div>
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So, I left her for a few days. And did some research. I needed a reference for the highlights, rather than winging it like I normally do.</div>
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Obviously this Winter Princess is a demanding sort, and wants everything done properly. (And yes I realise right about now, I am slightly mad. Or weird. Or both.)</div>
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Working on her again, I finally like where the shading was going, I felt like I had finally conquered the dress, but the hands were again not making sense to me.</div>
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Not only did her hands seem huge, but I was irritated with the pose.</div>
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So after I gessoed over the hands (again!), I dug out my props (much better that the water bottle I was using before!) + took some more selfies.</div>
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Instead of packing for our weekend away, I holed up in the studio + painted. And even though she has frustrated me all week, I am happy with how I have left her.</div>
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Well worth the slight panic + craziness, of packing girls weekend away with my babies.</div>
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As we were away last weekend + have spent the majority of this week catching up, I haven't had a huge amount of time to spend on her, but yesterday I had a cancellation + could spend some quality time on her, so I decided to takle her hair.</div>
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But true to form, she wasn't going to make that easy.</div>
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I finished the changes to her hands - I like these much more that before.</div>
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When I started with the bottome layer of white, I hadn't cleaned my brush properly so streaks of aqua came through, and that inspired me to add aqua to her hair in later layers.</div>
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Using a combination of white, black, aqua, raw sienna + titan buff, I finished one side of the hair.</div>
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The 'ugly' phase of her hair.</div>
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After about four hours, this is her hair almost finished.</div>
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Today, I managed to start on the crown.</div>
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And this is where I left it for now. I am hoping that tomorrow night, I will have a large chunk of time to finish her off, but more than likely I will be changing her again - there is something bugging me about the sticks in her arms....</div>
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Well.... This Winter Princess has certainly made me work for the final painting. I realised today that in between Life Book projects + other bits + pieces, that this painting has taken almost the entire month.</div>
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But now she is done + I am a little sad, that I will no longer have her on my table. </div>
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So I started late last week on her icicle crown </div>
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Woo hoo! Crown finished. (And surprisingly her crown didn't give me too much grief!)</div>
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This is where I left the branches in her arms, but I hated these. (Oh + arn't we surprised by that??)</div>
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I mentioned in part one that she was inspired by a passage in a Kristen Ashley novel called 'Wildest Dreams' + I thought I would include a little of the passage that set this whole painting in motion.</div>
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<span class="calibre10" style="text-indent: 1.5em;"><i>"</i></span><span style="font-style: italic; text-indent: 1.5em;">My white-blonde hair was a mass of long, thick twists that were pulled off my forehead somehow but hung down my back, chest and shoulders. I had shimmering pink on my cheeks, a gloss of pink on my lips, an iridescent blue on my eyelids, a dark blue rimming my eyes and a sparkle of pearlescent white around my temples [...]</span></div>
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<i><span class="calibre10" style="text-indent: 1.5em;">I was wearing a crown[...] </span><span style="text-indent: 1.5em;">And it looked like icicles shooting up and slightly out, crusted with glinting diamonds and sprinkled with glimmering aquamarines."</span></i></div>
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acrylic on wood panel<br />
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$200 - <a href="mailto:kirstinmcculloch@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank">contact me </a>for details</td></tr>
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So there she is, my most frustrating painting for 2014. But also the one that I am most proud of!!<br />
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<b><i>What do you do when a painting frustrates you so much that you just want to give up? I would love to here what you do!</i></b><br />
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Just a final look-see at last years Life Book lessons, before I start sharing this years classes with you....<br />
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It's amazing to look over your year of classes and and see the progression of your art work!<br />
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I hope you are enjoying my Greatest Hits series! This is because I am taking January off + I am currently reading a book, sleeping on the couch, swimming at the pool, or painting in the studio....<br />
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These are the posts that have inspired, helped, motivated + encouraged my readers. How do I know this?<br />
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Because you told me. In emails, comments or links.<br />
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So this January has me creating a lot of art with wings.<br />
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I am slightly obsessed.<br />
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I think it is because I like the idea of flying free from all the crap that happened last year.<br />
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And, I was also flitting through the pintrest boards and found a tattoo with the words <b><i>"she flies with her own wings"</i></b> written in latin -<br />
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<b>Alis volat suo.</b><br />
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[the latin according to google translate.]<br />
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So simple.<br />
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So true.<br />
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So what I aspire to do.<br />
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Fly with my own wings - a more whimsical way of saying she walks to the beat of her own drum.<br />
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I think its time. Time to shake off other peoples wings, and don my own. And perhaps time to get my first bit of body ink!<br />
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Anyway, I just love this painting. She immediately went up on my wall (she's approx an A2 size - not sure what that is in cms or inches), but she just totally resonates with me.<br />
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<b><i>So I would love to know if you have been inspired by a tattoo, or art work to change, or act? I would love to know.</i></b><br />
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P.S she is still on my wall, still resonating and reminding me to set free and fly!<br />
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I hope you are enjoying my Greatest Hits series! This is because I am taking January off + I am currently reading a book, sleeping on the couch, swimming at the pool, or painting in the studio....<br />
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Because you told me. In emails, comments or links.<br />
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<i>{part two} {<a href="ttp://kirstinmcculloch.blogspot.com/2015/01/beating-creative-blues-part-one-summer.html" target="_blank">part one here</a>}</i></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Once I had a few photos of my family lying around, that I wasn't going to use in frames, the quality wasn't great, or they had printed wonky.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So I glued a few in my sketchbook + found a permanent marker + my extremely cheap metallic gel pens + started to doodle over the photos.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I ended up with some very cool ideas to then translate onto paper. (Bonus - It was super fun + my kids love looking at them!)</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4LnNXEbelEzsWktv8KnHT4y19ZaGCtlKJQeACzaRcCLSxMEorO-rEzL1Tk7xVtqlpXs6xSQ7hfza3yh9vKnFtuXQ3d-sHlOEu5HGgN_8WgKPpMhMmy7EAWD-BReg-56mu-n8UD7CGEFWf/s1600/the+Conversation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4LnNXEbelEzsWktv8KnHT4y19ZaGCtlKJQeACzaRcCLSxMEorO-rEzL1Tk7xVtqlpXs6xSQ7hfza3yh9vKnFtuXQ3d-sHlOEu5HGgN_8WgKPpMhMmy7EAWD-BReg-56mu-n8UD7CGEFWf/s320/the+Conversation.jpg" height="320" width="293" /></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">There are heaps of these around. These are websites which provide you a weekly prompt - usually just a word + it is up to you to create something based on around that word.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">My favourite sites are <a href="http://illustrationfriday.com/"><span style="color: #021eaa; letter-spacing: 0px;">Illustration Friday</span></a> + <a href="http://inspiration-avenue-team.blogspot.com.au/"><span style="color: #021eaa; letter-spacing: 0px;">Inspiration Avenue</span></a> - but feel free to <b><i>share you favuorites</i></b> in the comments section for others to visit.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I often use these prompts, when I am struggling for ideas. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You can share your work with others on the sites, but quite often I don't, I just spend a quick ten minutes sketching a picture.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Again there are so many courses out there, and if you a regular reader of '<a href="http://kirstinmcculloch.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Listening to the Squeak'</a>, you will know that I have done the LifeBook courses for the last two years.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I love these courses, the many different techniques + different styles of the artists teaching is so inspiring, but the best part of this is following a lesson plan, which if you are in mood you can just follow as is, or taylor to your imagination.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This makes art courses perfect for keeping creative with out having to think of inspiration.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The cost can be prohibitive, but you can find free art courses online - Tam Laporte's <a href="http://willowing.ning.com/group/theheartofart"><span style="color: #021eaa; letter-spacing: 0px;">Art, Heart + Healing</span></a> was one that I did early on + was fantastic. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You can usually find magazines everywhere, at your mums, your nans, the doctors surgery... </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And every week, we receive half a dozen junk mail catalogues, so if I am running on empty, I will find a picture of a dress I like, a cute wall decal, a tea set - something + I use it as a basis of my sketch.</span></div>
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I hope you are enjoying my Greatest Hits series! This is because I am taking January off + I am currently reading a book, sleeping on the couch, swimming at the pool, or painting in the studio....<br />
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I adore it.</div>
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I recently shared it on my Facebook page and the reasons why I love it so much.</div>
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- It was the first painting that I ever really finished.</div>
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- It was the first painting that I shared on this blog.</div>
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- It's my first painting that I ever framed (and still have framed on a shelf in my house)</div>
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Reminding me that I have come so far, that sometimes taking baby steps is ok, and a reminder that when you take brave leaps + share with your friends + family, you will never regret it.</div>
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<b><i>What about you? Do you have a reminder on your wall, on a shelf, in your wallet? What does it remind you of? </i></b></div>
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For the first time I am taking the whole of January off. I don't really have any plans - I am working on being spontaneous this year.... well I will let you know how that goes! </div>
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I had this idea. (Did you know that Mac is putting this on my grave stone??)</div>
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Anyway January is a time of creating new habits, reflecting on the past year/ years, sometimes as it is the depths of the season (Summer for me + Winter for many of you) it is hard to get motivated to move. </div>
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So my idea is this: I'm going to share with you some of the posts that have been the most inspiring for readers. These are the posts that I have had people personally contact me about. And I want to revisit some earlier work, share some of the paintings in progress that and some other bits + pieces.</div>
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I hope you enjoy this Greatest Hits series + I will return with fresh ideas + content in February.</div>
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Seriously take the day off.</div>
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Do not go near your work space or sketchbook. Shut the door, close the book and take the day off. But the most important part of this is to <i>LET GO OF THE GUILT + WORRY</i>.</div>
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Instead do something different, something you don't normally do - go for a walk, read a book, visit a park with a coffee or watch a movie. </div>
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Stepping out of your routine + taking the day off can open yourself up to new inspiration.</div>
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These are such great ways of letting your mind wander, I find them almost meditative, and often once I have spent just ten minutes doing one of these, I am open to new ideas + solving problems that have been worrying me, and unblocking my creativity.</div>
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There are so many '<i>how to's</i>' when you Google any of these terms + so many free template downloads you can fill in. This is one of my favourite inspiration busters.</div>
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But instead of the how to books or art books, go to the children's sections and look at the beautiful illustrations in their books.</div>
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There are so many how to tutorials out there on YouTube. And definitely worth watching - my favourites are this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi-4KtUm__tItszvmEtzpJg" target="_blank">one</a> + this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsEWAJsbWKQURxuRzitXZw" target="_blank">one</a>.<br />
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I have often done several quick sketches of cutesy mermaids, pirate queens or zombie queens (not my usual stuff).<br />
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Sometimes, I draw disney princess for my girls to colour in. Anything to just keep my creative brain going.<br />
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Wow - its the last Friday Art of the year! I am amazed that I managed to produce something almost every week this year. Including frantically finishing this off over the weekend so it would be finished + off my desk for the year.<br />
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With only a few weeks off for illness or holidays, I am feeling pretty chuffed right now!!<br />
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Any for the final Friday Art I have the finished painting of Dino Boy which I shared the work in progress last week.<br />
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Since we have had an alternate Christmas this year, (which mean christmas is spent with Macs family) my nephew's won't actually open there paintings until the end of January, when my family all gather together and have another Christmas dinner + gift opening session!<br />
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I hope you and your families all had an amazing Christmas day + that your boxing day is relaxed + your belly is feeling less stuffed!<br />
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I am taking most of January off, (YIPEE!), but I have a few scheduled posts - of some of my favourite paintings, some of my most popular posts + a few other bits and pieces.<br />
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But I will be back in February with new paintings, new posts + a refreshed body + soul.<br />
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Happy Christmas everyone + I hope your 2015 is everything that you dreamed big about xx<br />
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But there can only be one winner + the winner of the Christmas Bonanza Give Away is....<br />
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CONGRATULATIONS!<br />
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Please <a href="mailto:kirstinmcculloch@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank">contact me </a>with your postal address + I will pop them in the post for you early next week!<br />
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Thank you again to everyone who entered.<br />
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Every month one member of my Studio News + Snippets is the lucky winner of a prize, so if you want a chance to win a calendar in January, pop over <a href="http://eepurl.com/oez61" target="_blank">here</a> + subscribe.<br />
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I wish you a very merry holiday season + hope that all your dreams come true in 2015.<br />
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Now I am off to pop the cork + start celebrating here!!<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">MERRY XMAS EVERYONE! XX</span></i></b><br />
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I swear life book lessons seem to directly tap into my life + I guess this is why I adore it so much + will be signing up for next years course after Christmas! (It open for registrations now thought if you are interested in joining - pop over to the website <a href="http://willowinglove.blogspot.co.uk/p/life-book-2015.html" target="_blank">here</a> to learn more.)<br />
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Any way, I had my final market of 2014 at the farmers markets over the weekend + after I finished the market we had to also go grocery shopping + visit santa for our photos, visit my nan and drop off her presents, but instead of doing all this, I lay down on the pile of cushions I have in my studio and slept.<br />
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I slept for hours.<br />
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I obviously needed it, because that night I was in bed by 9pm and I slept again.<br />
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So doing Kelly's lesson on Sunday was a fabulous reminder to me to nurture myself in these times of business, especially over Christmas when it is busier + more stressful.<br />
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I loved how this turned out + I am so excited about finishing Life book 2014 + starting next years. (I've just seen on Tams Facebook feed our first lesson + I am super excited about this one!)<br />
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In the new year I will be sharing a flip through video of my life book year so you can see them all together.<br />
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<b><i>By the way - I am having a MASSIVE give away (almost $100 worth of LilliBean Designs products including an original painting, jewllery + gift tags!) I will announce the winner on Christmas Eve. Pop over <a href="http://kirstinmcculloch.blogspot.com/2014/12/its-beginning-to-feel-lot-like.html" target="_blank">here</a> to enter.</i></b><br />
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Hasn't Christmas popped around quickly? I can't keep up at the moment, I am moving from one day to the next.</div>
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Our insanely crazy weekend is behind us and it feels like there is still masses to do....</div>
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Probably because I still have masses to do before next Thursday.</div>
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But the thing is, none of the things on my list are things I don't want to do. </div>
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Except maybe make the rum balls. That is always an unpleasant task. The stickiness of the mixture in the summer heat, the rum smelling fingers for days afterwards, the fact I gorge myself on the mixture as I attempt to remove it from my hands and I end up with rum ball hang over....</div>
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But in amongst the last of the Christmas prep is this little painting for another of my nephews.</div>
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[Ree Ree if you don't want the surprise to be spoiled turn around now!!]</div>
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This is for my nephew Rosie (he was the recipient of <a href="http://kirstinmcculloch.blogspot.com/2013/10/protector-friday-art.html" target="_blank">this</a> painting too) and although he is only one + a half I hope that this is a painting he will treasure for a long long time!</div>
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<b><i>What is your most treasured present? Is there something that stands out as one of the best pressies ever? </i></b><br />
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By the way - tomorrow (Saturday 18th I will be at the Cowra Farmers Markets @ the <a href="http://www.cowrashow.com/" target="_blank">show pavillion </a>from 8am - 12 noon.<br />
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So if you have a last minute gift to grab, or need some christmas cards + tags with a difference, pop over and say hi!<br />
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It's time for a <b><i>MASSIVE XMAS GIVE AWAY!! </i></b></div>
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I have been reflecting on how amazing 2014 has been, how many big girl in my big girl pants moments I have had. </div>
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And I know. I KNOW, that a lot of these moments couldn't of happened with out you guys.</div>
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Your support. Your kind words. Your funny stories.</div>
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Thank YOU. Thank you so very much!</div>
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<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">a set of six Christmas Gift Tags</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><i>"Abundance"</i> compact mirror </span></li>
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For a chance to win almost $100 worth of products - including an original one of a kind GUM TREE FAIRY painting, gift tags, pocket mirror + a butterfly ring all you have to do is SHARE + like THIS post.</div>
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I wanted to make it very easy for you to enter as we are all crazy busy + don't have time to jump through the hoops that some giveaways make you do!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All you have to do is <span style="color: #cc0000;">click like or share on the Facebook symbols </span>located at the top, bottom + side of this post. </span><br />
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BUT... Make sure you share the ORIGINAL post, don't RESHARE a friends post other wise I won't know that you shared it + you won't be included in the draw. If you're not sure you can always leave a 'shared' comment below. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And so as not to discriminate against non-facebook users ('cause I know there are a few of you out there!) you can just <span style="color: #cc0000;">comment with the words 'yes please'</span> in the comments section below.</span><br />
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As this is a Christmas Bonanza give away I will be drawing the winner on Christmas Eve, in between roasting the turkey + opening the champagne!! (or about 3pm Australian EST!!) </div>
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Good luck + thanks. <b><i>YOU GUYS ROCK!!</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Week 48 - Courage and Celebration with Serena Bridgeman</span></h1>
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I learnt a brand new technique through this weeks Life Book lesson from Serena Brigdeman. And I love the effect it has had on my painting. It feels like an old piece of furniture that has been painted many times + has been scratched off over time.<br />
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And it was just a humble jar of vaseline which helped make this beautiful texture.<br />
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My tiger is my bravery totem + always has been (I'm sure I've spoken about Tiffee the Tiger before!)<br />
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The quote resonates with me so much at the moment. I decided to use one that I use a lot in my life!<br />
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Have a great week.<br />
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