Shifting...

Today is a day of shifting....By that I mean shifting some of my routines. So often we get so stuck in our routines that we think there is no other way to live. Ah...so today, I am shifting that routine with small things and learning in the process that it works out just fine!! And I am aware that change is a way of looking at things differently, and allows me to see a vast amount of things that I might not of even been aware of. So today is a day of shifting....shifting and finding a child like spirit involved that is full of wide eye wonder. So, that would be my wish for all who venture to read this post today....SHIFT! Make a move to the right or to the left, but shift a little from your daily routine...Wake yourself up a little...take a different route home from work...have a different type of coffee, or take a few moments for yourself at lunch...whatever it may be, small or big , try looking at it a little differently...See things in a new way and renew your zest for living!!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Looking Deeply....

Today is a day of Looking Deeply....There are moments in our lives when things seem to NOT be turning out the way we had planned, expected or even hoped that they would. Today, I am sitting back, even though I am not doing what I originally had planned, and saying from deep within...IT IS ALL GOOD! Today I am seeing the goodness of the postponed plans, and accepting them as a change that is for the good. I am experiencing the beauty of the day and feeling quite alive. We as humans have that choice...We can choose to believe in the darkness of the change and think that it is something terrible or we can choose to look even deeper and see a purpose for the change and know that it is for the good. Today, I am settling into the center of my heart and remembering how to truly see! Today, I will enjoy where life takes me! So, that is my wish for all who venture here today. There will be days like this...days when things just did not or are not turning out the way you had visualized them....but, then take a deep breath and look a little deeper into your soul and find a spot where you can see the goodness, the beauty and the acceptance of the change. It is with your hearts eye that you see most clearly!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Goals

Today is a day of clearly seeing that the goals that I set up for myself at the 1st of the year are being met. I continue to reach out for them one by one and taking them off the list that is in front of me...New ones have been added too. So today is a day of following the outline and finding out that I have been learning new things about myself on this journey this year that is almost 1/2 way done now. Today, I am aware of my strengths and my abilities. So today, I climb another step on my ladder to the stars. That would also be my wish for all today! May you continue on your journey to the stars...one small step at a time...believing in yourself and your abilities and your creative talents. May each day, each week, each year, bring you that much closer to the realization of your dreams.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Cheer

Today is a very cheery day! The sun is shining, the weather is beautiful, a cool breeze is blowing and I was surrounded by my family! Ah, Memorial Day...the opening of a summer season! Today I feel as positive and bright and cool as the day! I am feeling every moment of this blessed day....and I am so cheerful! Smiling and laughing and enjoying good conversations and watching a little one explore a HUGE world with wonderment. Today is a day of cheer and I am ever so thankful to have this day!! So, that is my wish for all who venture here...May you look for the cheer...for the shine, and the beauty, and the love of any given day. And may it always be accompanied by a cool and refreshing breeze that makes you stop for a moment and breath deeply enough so that you say THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Risks

This is an affirmation from Tuesday...
Today, I am finishing up some art that needs to go out in the mail for some calls for artists work in some national magazines...I am taking the risks and sending in the projects and feel confident that I have done some good work here, and hope that they see that and publish it. So today, I am feeling the freedom from fear and limitations. It is difficult on some days to see my art in an objective way. When I look through many of the magazines I see totally different art than what I do, so I have been adapting it. I have just finished up some wearable art and hope that they meet with someones approval for these magazines....My wish for you today, is that you too take risks...that you hold back nothing when it comes to your creativity...that you do not compare, or judge against anyone what it is that you do that makes your heart soar.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Adapting

This is my affirmation from Monday..May 21
Today is a day of adapting...Today I have driven 6 hours alone in the car...half of that time I spend in silence with myself..the other half is spent with TINA TURNER blasting and traveling at higher speeds!! Today, I adapt to myself...I have challenged myself with many opportunities to open up this year...I have decided to take the time to discover my creativity to its fullest and prove myself....So, I adapt...adapt much like a oyster shell that is forming out of sand a precious pearl.....I am learning much about myself and making myself form my own precious gems...So that is my wish for all who venture here today...Although the oyster is irritated with the making of the pearl it does so and produces such beauty...Let your own challenges make your life beautiful by adapting to the irritation!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

off Line for a Week!

I will continue to do my daily affirmation pages, but will catch up after the 21st. I am taking a little road trip, which is really much needed...Till next week I wish everyone the best of the best, the highest of the high....from within and without...
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Awakening....

This morning as I asked myself what it was that I needed to be aware of the word: AWAKE came to me. I am using this day to have an awakening, especially after yesterdays lull...
Today, I will be aware of the knowledge and the wisdom that I have within me and around me. I will accept help when I need it, and expand my understanding of the things that are of the most important to me. Today, I am awake with gratitude and I am very open to myself and those close to me. So, that would be my wish also for all who venture here today....If you need help, please ask for it, no one can hear the marbles rolling around up there, as my mother use to say!
Be at peace with yourself and your knowledge and wisdom....You are full of everything you need to know, even when it does not seem like it. Fill yourself with gratitude for all that you are and all that you do.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Persuasion

Today has been a day of persuasion....Talking myself into and out of things. Persuading myself not to give up, but rather to just give in to being tired. Sometimes when I get tired, I start to question, doubt, give up. So today, I have been persuading myself, that those things just will not serve me! Today with my persuasion I am listening for the whispers of inspiration, that are in the background. I am trying to stay aligned with my purpose and my voice, instead of caving into negativity! Today I am using all of my heart to let go, just for the day, of this creativity...To just let myself be and to be COMFORTABLE with that!! So that is my wish for all who read this today. Instead of "beating" yourself up when you have one of these days where either nothing creative comes, or you feel that you just can't do anything right....PERSUADE yourself...to let yourself rest, and regenerate....It truly is the best thing that you can do for yourself, your voice and your message....I am off to take a nap!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Relection Friday

Today is a day of reflection....and as I reflect over this past week, I am aware of many signs and symbols. There have been signs of growth for me, growth with my thinking. Feeling a great future of infinite possibilities. My mind races with so many things that I see before me, that I want to do and accomplish. I see myself, moving forward in many directions. I laugh more, and play more, and do not feel heavy with any of these dreams. I smile deep with the exploding power of them. I am aware of the sensations of feeling light hearted and connected, not only with myself but with others. So that is my wish for all who enter here today. May you reflect on your week and see what is working for you, and then keep using it. May you let go of burdens that weigh you down so that you can feel connected. And may you remember to smile...smile deep with in yourself smiles.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Sharing

Today has been a day of sharing...Sharing all that I am with others and with myself. Today, I share my written words, and my art...I look around and see that it can be both powerful and heart warming. My heart is open to everything today, I see projects that I want to jump in and complete, I see writings that need to be written, I see that with the dreams of these things, that I will be sharing...Sharing all that I am. Today my heart is open and full of vision for my path. So that is my wish for all who enter here today...Share who you are with others, be it with a piece of art, written words, spoken words, a hand held out, a gentle voice, encouragement...All spoken and done with love and truth is a beautiful day of sharing.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Sensations

Again I am behind...So this is my post for Wednesday....I was lost in my sensations! It was a beautiful day........

Play...

A day late!! This is my affirmation for Tuesday! It was a day that began early and ended late...And it was full from the top to the bottom!! Today was a day of play...going to the zoo and rediscovering the wonderment of the beauty and the sounds from the eyes of a little one! Today was a day of singing silly little songs, and counting to 10! Today was a day of sketching a new painting out, and feeling the warmth of the sunshine on my face and arms...Today was a day of play...there was no paint, there was no schedule, there was no time line....Today was a day of complete play...eating corn dogs and having great explosions of laughter. Today was youth, and joy all wrapped up in a beautiful package with an ice cream ribbon! That is my wish for all who enter today...Find yourself a day of play...Let your child like spirit be recaptured...eat ice cream for dinner...walk bare foot in the sand, make a castle, swing on the swings...go to the zoo...what ever it may be it is so very rewarding! You will feel a pleasant sort of tired at the end of the day, and you will smile deeply! TRY IT!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Thinking

Today has been a day of thinking! Thinking and understanding that the future is full of infinite possibilities. So I am thinking inside and outside of my box! I am imagining my life coming closer to my dreams with acts of creations and excitement. I am thinking that the universe is giving me so many sign that I have seen lately. And a lot of creative thoughts. I am thinking that because I am so aware of them that something so unexpected is coming my way! So today, with my thinking I align myself with my creativity and all the energy I feel and I create my dreams. And that is my wish for all today! Take a day just to do your thinking...where it is that you are, where it is that your dream is leading you, and acknowledge all of your accomplishments to date! Create your dreams ...one thought at a time!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Reflection Friday

Ok so it is Saturday, but I did do this page yesterday morning and the 5 minute painting late last night!! It just so happened that I had a date with a beautiful boy, of 2 years of age, and we had to "play" all day!! And when a beautiful boy calls....well...a girl has to do what a girl has to do!! LOL
So as I reflected in the morning on my week I was so aware of the wonderfully positive emotions that were flowing in and around me. I made promises, some kept, others well, they will have to wait for another day! I was daring....and will continue to walk closer and closer to edges...without any fear! I feel a wonderful renewal with the changing of the season, the new moon floating in the sky above. I feel harmony with myself and my surroundings, a calm, and a peacefulness like no other before! This reflection is such an honor to myself, especially looking back on where I was a year ago and where I am now! I reached out and touched someone new this week too, exposing a rawer side of myself! So my wish for all who enter here today is that you also look around and see where you were emotionally, spiritually, artistically, last year and see what edges you have walked to and jumped from in the past year...And honor that...feel yourself standing tall, feeling a sense of pride, feeling your honesty!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Harmony...

Today has been a day full of harmony. I have approached things both honestly and calmly. By making a choice for a greater harmony in my life with both skill and caring. Any conflicts that have come my way recently could of been dealt with either with anger or by asking questions and listening for answers. I have chosen to ask myself questions and offer up some suggestions instead of digging my heels in the ground and giving up. All of this is causing a spin of harmony from the deepest part of my being. So that is my wish for all who enter here today..ask questions, seek answers and listen to within. For with greater harmony comes a peacefulness for your self and for others.
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Renewal

There are days when your little eyes pop open early and you feel it...feel it deep inside...It is a new day...a new dawn! It is a sense of renewal! Today, as my little feet hit the floor running...today I make up for loss ground from yesterday! You know I always feel so FREE and happy on days like today...Nothing goes unnoticed....Everything is open to my senses and it explodes with color and smell and touch....Today, is a day of RENEWAL! Today, I am aware of everything around me! There are smells and noises, and visuals galore! So that is my wish for all today....Look around you...drink in the visuals, the smells and the noises....Feel your core opening up and give a good shout out to the heavens....I AM ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie

Daring!

I was up early today...and yet, I have accomplished nothing! Maybe it is the beginning of a new month that has me out of whack...maybe it is because I have been so focused on deadlines, maybe it is because it is such a gray day in upstate NY.... So when I asked myself what it was that I needed today, a single thought came to mind! I DARE YOU!!! Remember as a kid when you were together with a friend and they would dare you to do something that you were afraid of doing, or was quite ridiculous? Remember how your heart would race and then upon completion you were quite proud of yourself for going outside of your comfort zone? Well, that is what I am doing today...I am daring myself to jump, dance, sing..anything that will get me a tad more motivated. I think that sometimes we get our self so overwhelmed with a direction that sometimes that is the only thing we see! So today, I dare myself...dare myself to walk a little closer to the edge and perhaps see things from a different view. So for all who venture here today, that is my wish for you also...When you are feeling a little bit out of it....DARE YOURSELF!! Dare yourself to see things from the edge with a totally different view of your horizon! I think it is helping!! And I am actually daring myself to take the day and move with it without a deadline!!
Artfully Yours,
Pattie