Weeks 8 and 9

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We need constant reminders to help us stay on our path
​or the ego takes over every time it gets a chance.

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I noticed that the more I come near to what I know I need to do the more negativity and self doubt springs forward in my head. I need to remind myself that these negative thoughts - comparing to others, worthlessness, undeservedness, not being good enough, you know, these types - are the ego trying to stop me from doing my thing. Why? Because when I am doing my thing I connect to my higher self and ego temporarily looses control. And when it looses control it kinda doesn't exist anymore. 

Did you notice this happening to you as well?

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Despite the weird cold returning and me being a bit of a "meh" I still managed to get a few things done. Not to mention the work on my Super Secret Project :)

Connected to my opening thoughts are these "reminding bracelets" I made for a few of my very close friends. All of the bracelets have the person's "word of the year" written on and I hope they do their trick every time my friends catch a glimpse of them. I painted the fabric myself and must say I very much enjoyed the process. Now I only need to make myself one, or two :)

I also very much enjoyed packaging these bracelets up :) I just love stitching papers.

Time to post the last pages I did for the "art marks and words" challenge. I didn't finish the whole challenge but I did have much fun with it and learned quite a lot about myself in the process. Which was exactly what Rae Missigman intended so mission accomplished! 

"Learn" emerged by itself. I only changed the rabbit ever so slightly (mouth and ears) but I was sorry for that later. Its mount was opened in kinda roaring/gasping way (I wasn't sure) but when I realized it meant I need to learn about myself the rabbit made a whole lot of sense - read my opening thoughts again :)

"Grace" is a word I see used a lot but can never really pinpoint. Maybe because it's in a foreign language but I think what ended up on my page is a pretty good idea of it.   

I painted "less" with coffee - old mix of very strong instant coffee I prepared months ago. I guess that was the reason why it smelled funny and why it was so sticky after it dried :D

I love how "invent" happened. There's a whole universe behind the door if you open it (literally, I cut the doors to be opened). Invent if it doesn't exist!

My last one in this series was "build". I don't know why but "build" always brings bricks to my mind. Always. Probably because I love them so much. Or because I was trained as an architect :D

And finally, I made a few more wooden pins. They are available if you'd like to cheer yourself up :) ​

This is it! Whoa, doing two weeks in one post is loooong :) I hope you enjoyed the photos and the writings and that you'll let me know if you like the way I'm doing this.

I have to admit that I wanted to delete the first part so badly because - who am I to write such things? - but obviously, I managed to not to hit delete button. It was hard. I am very grateful for all the teachers I have had, and still have, around me that help me on my way. I am here to learn and experience after all. And to spread some inspiration and creativity around! ♥

See ya next week! I hope ;)

♥
​nini

P.S.
My horizons started broadening after I enrolled in Clairvision School of Meditation, did my Reiki trainings, and started to learn A LOT from Guy Steven Needler. (Just in case you were wondering :) )