Sunday inspiration

Happy Sunday, friends. ☺

Today's inspiration from French artist Anastassia Elias is quirky and a whole lot of fun! Elias creates whimsical artwork inside toilet paper tubes. She says her ideas for each miniature creation come from scenes of everyday life. Once she knows the scene she wants to create, she uses manicure scissors to cut tiny paper shapes, then manipulates them into place with tweezers—with remarkable results like the ones you can see in the video below. Visit her Web site (found here) to see more of her artwork. (Click here for more of her toilet paper tube art.) Enjoy!



Wishing you all a creative and inspirational Sunday. ☺

Six-word Saturday

A whole lotta nothin' goin' on...

 

and that's just the way I want it! After a fun (but busy) week full of commitments, today is my day to relax, and that's just what I'm going to do. I'll read and write and maybe watch a favorite show or two. This is my kind of Saturday. ☺

Wishing you all a fun and relaxing weekend.

Friday fun

Happy Friday, friends!

My plan for this weekend is that I have no plan for this weekend. I'm looking forward to those "lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer" that Nat King Cole sang about. Relaxing, reading, writing... That's all I have on the agenda. ☺

How about you? Any big plans for the weekend? Have a great one!

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So much excitement!

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Happy Thursday, friends. ☺

There's been a lot of excitement at our house this week:

♥ My six-year-old son lost his first tooth on Tuesday morning. (You've never seen such a proud boy!)

♥ The kids were able to play in their new inflatable pool for the first time on Monday. (They had outgrown their old one.)

♥ I made it through Jillian Michaels' 30-Day Shred, Level 1. Whew! (I'm starting Level 2 today! Wish me luck...)

♥ I signed up for another Coursera course, History of Rock, Part 2. It begins in a less than two weeks. I'm also signed up for a fall poetry class that I've heard some great things about: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry.

♥ I've been doing more work on my dad's memoir—so much fun!

♥ The kids and I survived the first week of summer vacation. ☺

Speaking of that last item, I've been trying to find interesting things to do to keep the kids occupied and entertained. Yesterday I discovered this fun video about creating instant ice. A future project? Perhaps!


(Go here to find more tips for making this project work.)

So that's my world this week. What's exciting in your world?

Wishing you all a fantastic Thursday. ☺

Our World Tuesday

Today is Tuesday, so that means it's time once again for Our World Tuesday, a meme that encourages bloggers to share images of their world. It's a great way to get a glimpse of life through the eyes of others! You can find out more about it here. Even if you don't participate, I encourage you to take a look at the intriguing photos that bloggers from around the world share each week.

 

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Last week, my husband, kids, and I went down to the lake to feed the geese, ducks, and swans. This is the goose that greeted us. He seemed to be smiling at us—or laughing—and with his open beak, he was always ready when someone threw a treat. (Actually, he was probably panting and trying to stay cool on a hot day, but I like to think he was being clever. ☺)

 

My husband took these photos while I tossed Cheerios into the lake—and this brainy goose actually caught some of them!

 

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Wishing you all a happy Tuesday. ☺

 

 

 

Another something I love

Happy Monday!

A couple of weeks ago, I told you about something I love—this music video for one of Tanya Davis' songs, animated by Andrea Dorfman. Today I'd like to share another example of Dorfman's phenomenal work.

Dorfman is a filmmaker, an artist, and an animator. The short video below is the trailer from Flawed, her Emmy Award-Nominated time-lapse animation about our need to find ourselves and learn to accept other people's faults—and our own as well. You can see the entire film here at the PBS Web site. It's excellent, and I think you'll really enjoy it.



Wishing you all a fantastic Monday. ☺

Sunday inspiration

Happy Sunday, friends!

I don't know about you, but if there's one thing I absolutely need in order to start each day, it's coffee. I love the taste (and that great smell!), and I definitely need the caffeine boost after the four or five hours of sleep I get each night. The coffee I drink isn't fancy—I usually just brew it in my kitchen—but over the years, I've seen some amazing coffee art created by very talented coffee artists like the ones featured in these two videos.

The first video presents the latte art of Chris Phillips. You can find out a bit more about him at his Web site. And in the second video, you can see some absolutely unbelievable 3-D coffee art created by Japanese cappuccino painter Kazuki Yamamoto, who piles up foam to make gravity-defying designs. You can read more about him here.  Enjoy!







Wishing you all a creative and inspirational Sunday. ☺