crazybird studio

Me Collage

2011-03-09T19:52:00.000-05:00

I've been playing with the collage feature on Picaso.
Here is I'n I surrounded by symbols that hold meaning for me.
If one of these photo's are yours please let me know so that I can credit you. and thank you. or take it down if that is your desire.

2008-11-16T18:26:00.003-05:00

I need healing.
I need to build myself a sweatlodge and climb in for the duration.
I need introspection, a cleansing, I need to release.
inovation
revelation
let go, let it go

fear is the root of all evil
scrub it out, stamp it out, wash it, sweat it
o-u-t

I'm ready to do the work.

2007-07-06T20:30:00.000-05:00

This guy was standing out in the rain today at work. He didn't look too happy about it either. It was quite the storm, tunder and lightening as the great Bob Marley says. The electricity went out a couple of times, but came right back on again.

I've not been doing anything even remotely interesting. Acutally I've been a bit depressed. Feels like changes are coming. So I'm trying to enjoy this down time.

what I did las weekend

2007-05-29T18:58:00.000-05:00

Entry for May 29, 2007

I did a distance Reiki attunement last weekend for a friend of mine. It was the first time I have done one that way, and it went really well. I'm excited for her, she is so special, and this will add to her abilities.
I had a really good meditation afterwards, very deep, I met some new guides, AND new animal guides, and received the Isis Blue Moon attunement from a friend. Amazing stuff. I had so much energy the rest of the weekend. I received validation that I am on the right path, and to quit being so timid. I started a new journal, and I'm already a quarter of the way through it, thats a lot of energy!
I also went to a quilt show, my first one. I went by myself, and had a fabulous time. I have pictures of some of the quilts on my flicker page. I bought some applique patterns, a "beginners" of dolphins surrounding a circle of waves, but I think I'm going to make the center pattern the Earth. I got three advanced patterns that were just to pretty to pass up. I think they will be very challanging, I probably won't work on them for a long time. They are Manatees, Turtles, and Pelicans. I also bought a beautiful panel of fabric, Aisan styling, purple with cranes flying over waves. I got the coordinating fabrics to make a wall hanging, I can't wait to start on it. But first I must finish my jounaling project.
Yesterday Patrick, Sam and I went to the park for a picnic. It was beautiful, I have pics up of that also. The place was packed, wall to wall people, but on the nature trails you could still imagine life here hundreds of years ago. Probably not too different from the way my people were living up in Georgia on the river. Very different from the other side of the family though, no jungles in Ireland!
The love bugs are out in full force. OMG you should see the front of my car. There are probably 3000 dead bugs. And we were only driving for about 30 minutes. Seems like they are worse during drought years.

2007-05-08T22:35:00.000-05:00

I've been exploring my and others psychic abilities.

I met this woman, online of course, Harmony, she has amazing talent. She's been doing these mass healings, for free. She's also done a couple of individual healings/chakra balancings. and wow.

what a difference. I've been able to release a lot of old crap that has been holding me back. grief, shame, fear.

She credits God for everything she does. And I have to say that she's got me beleiving. Nothing like a little personal experience of miracles to make a beleiver out of people. Godcol.com is the website. I encourage you to go if you want to make a positive change in your life. Here is some of my experience.

First I lay down making myself comfortable with pillows under my knees and neck, becuase I'll be in one postition for about 45 minutes. I've done this with meditation music on and without. I prefer no music. I allowed myself 15 minutes to meditate before we were scheduled to begin. I invite the angels to be with me to protect me from harm, keep me safe. The first two times she did the healing, I didn't meditate, and I got some good results, but much better the last two times when I did meditate. I think the better results might be because she is also getting better at what she does. And the more I open up, the more I get. So each one has seen more positive changes, faster and easier. I can actually feel her start. There's a whoosh of energy, a tap, yes and actual physical tap on my forehead, then tingling in my hips and warmth in my lower abdomen. Thats when the light show starts. Depending on what she's working on, I get different colors. Purple, gold, orange, red. Once I kept getting the image of a white dove. I get a lot of visions when she works on me. Afterwords, the psychic gifts are stronger. The last time the next day I was able to release alot of guilt and shame. I didn't even know thats what was holding me back. But the readings are starting to come easier, I'm tuned in better to my guides, and I've started lessons again in my dreams. I am so completely thankful and gratefull for the opportunities that have been put in my path. peace

spring

2007-04-30T18:25:00.000-05:00

this is what my son and I did two weekends ago. It took us 2 days, we had to dig out a huge bush/tree that the birds had planted. the root was about half the size of the tree trunk in the photo. So that was the first day, then on Sunday we planted. It's been two weeks and so far nothings dead.

wedding fun

2007-04-03T20:28:00.000-05:00

Here I am getting ready for the reahersal dinner on Saturday. I had about 8 inches cut off my hair and now it's curling.

The wedding went well, the bride and groom looked very happy. The food was excellent, the decorations beautiful. The weather cooperated, sunny with a nice cool breeze, and a full moon that evening.

I had a great time, and the BF looked so good in a tuxedo. All the girls were calling him Mr. Bond. Of course he changed right after the pictures were finished into his standard uniform of shorts and his favorite Hank Williams t-shirt.

frogs

2007-03-24T22:12:00.000-05:00

Frogs
So I have to share this weird thing with you. ..
The bathroom sink clogged up, I have ongoing problems with plumbing at my house. So I worked on it for about a week, plunging and plunging some more. I got that canister that shoots pressurized enzymes down the drain but I couldn't get a good seal because the faucet was in the way. Well, by this time it was taking about 6 hours to drain, so I got some of the bad stuff, Draino and that didn't even work. Next step the plumber.
I don't have good luck with plumbers, thats why I have ongoing problems, I have had probably 15 different companies out to my house in the last 10 years and they are all idiots and theives. Not to mention drunks. Yes I have actually had 2 show up drunk. Many that never showed up at all.
So the guy comes, he shows up when he's supposed to, actually 30 minutes early, good thing I left work early, or I wouldn't have been there. To make a long story short he goes up on the roof and snakes out the vent and tells me it's full of frogs.
frogs
full of frogs. How did that happen? The lye based drain cleaners ate a hole in the pipe and frogs are living in it. Giant buffo toads. Almost as big as a dinner plate.
So the guy tells me he has to remove my cabinet, tear down my plaster wall, and replace the pipe. He quotes me 1,275 dollars. AND he won't be able to repair the wall.
So I say thank you very much, I'll think about it, give him 99 dollars for his diagnosis. I've got a call into the contractor that redid my kitchen last year, their going to give me an estimate next week.
I figure if I have to tear the bathroom up, I might as well update it. Get rid of the vanity, it's too big for the space, and the bottom is caving in. Darn fiber board. I'm going to take down that huge mirror and get rid of the over the toilet thingie. I'm thinking maybe a pedistal sink or at least a smaller cabinet. And a smaller mirror with shelves on the walls. If I can afford it I'd like to get rid of the bathtub and make it into a shower.
So, back to the frogs. It's such a strange thing. I can't stop thinking about it. My granny always said that frogs were good luck, they bring money. Medicine Cards say that frogs are tears. Various other sources say that frogs are Transformation. communication. transition. A sign of moving to another level. Hopefully it will be the level of excellent plumbing forever.

sick

2007-03-20T14:00:00.000-05:00

Ok, I've been sick for 2 days. Headache, stomachache, weak and wobbley. Just been sleeping and drinking lots of fluids. I don't think it's the flu, I'm not feverish, not congested, but nauseated and severe head pain, w/ back spasms. I think it's probably those discs in my neck acting up giving me a migraine.
So the upshot of all that is no work, no pictures, no journal, no nothing. Just sleeping.
ta.

2007-03-18T12:08:00.000-05:00

As promised the abundant geranium. She's got three dying blooms, and this gorgeous bud.

My plan was to get out in the garden this weekend and do some clean up, but it got cold.

The peace rally was a bit of a disappointment, not too good of a turn out. The tv reported "dozens", but it was probably a bit over a hundred there when we left.

The sound system was very bad, and that and the cold was what finally drove us away. We got there about 4 and left about 6. Drumming started at 7 and the march at 8, so we missed those. We sat on the grass on a blanket and ate a picnic, listened to some good and bad music, and made the rounds of the tables, signed some petitions and in some of our parties cases, danced. We took my son and his friend, she was the dancer. Nice girl, very chatty.

I've started on the wedding page project and it's going well so far. I've printed some pics and cut some from magazines. I need to paint my background and start glueing.

wedding pages

2007-03-14T21:08:00.000-05:00

work in progress.
page I'm making for my friends wedding, instead of a guest book, they have mailed everyone a page out of a scapbook. We then can do whatever we want to it. This is my first draft. I've got pictures of them I'm going to paste into the plane. I'm still thinking about what I want to underlie the bottom of the page. I know I want to do some more with spirals, and I want a pastoral landscape with the bomb over that. It will be much more colorfull too. So that's one side of the page.
The BF has volunteered to write up a short essay/paragraph/story/a couple of words for the other side, and my plan is to frame that with papers, stencils trim, sewing them together like a quilt, and then gluing the whole thing down. I'll post pics when it's completed, and probably some of the process.

money fairie

2007-03-14T17:49:00.000-05:00

I spoke with my mortgage company today and started the ball rolling to refinance the house. It's looking good. I can pay off my car and still get the monthly payment lowered. The guy seemed to think it was a done deal, he's mailing me the papers. Yay!

So no car payment, that's $300.00 a month I don't have to pay, and it brings the monthly payment down by $200. I'm actually going to come out ahead. It's a lower interest rate, and only extends my current loan by 3 years. I think the money fairy was smiling on me today.

We did out big presentation today, it went great. I had major problems obtaining the projector(that I had reserved and confirmed twice). I got bumped by the second in line from the president of the company. I spent 2 hours tracking down another one, only to find it had missing parts. I spent another hour getting the missing power cord, got everything working, went downstairs to take a break, (I had missed lunch by this point) and when I got back, the cord was missing again!!! (but I was only gone 10 minutes...) Finally I had everything I needed and people started arriving, and R did her presentation and it was fabulous. She did all the research, I put it into PowerPoint,( after teaching myself how to, and then teaching her) made it flow, found the pictures, corrected all the grammar and miss-spellings, and she did the presentation. She really knew her stuff, and was conversational and easy to listen to. She stayed within her time limit and people paid attention. Unlike last months when they talked through most of L's presentation. So all in all a good day.

peace

2007-03-13T18:47:00.000-05:00

This is a picture of an old journal page. Made a couple of years ago after taking the kids school supply shopping. I got myself a couple of goodies too.

I'm tired today, not too much to write about, but I want to make an entry everyday, even if it's about nothing, it's the discipline I need. The follow through.

I met P for dinner at our local health food store. I got the vegan Moussaka and veggie au-gratin. Both were excellent. I also got a Harvest Bay Coconut Water with Acai and I don't like it. It's not agreeing with me. So thats $2.49 I don't have to spend again. Not that I spent it anyway, P was treating. He's jumped right into the natural/organic food thing. He even goes to the health food store a couple times a week for lunch. Shamefully, he's doing better than I am.

Today I ate a peanutbutter & jelly sandwich on multigrain bread, fruit salad, 2 boiled eggs, a muffin and the aforementioned moussaka and veggie gratin. 2 cups of coffee, and about 6 oz of coconut water/acai. No water at all. Something I have to work on.

There is going to be a peace rally this weekend in St Pete.

Heres the info:

March 17 Rally in St. Petersburg, FL - 4 Year Iraq War "Anniversary"On Saturday, March 17, Tampa Bay peace and social justice organizations will hold a peace rally on the weekend of the four-year "anniversary" of the Iraq war.

The event will take place at Williams Park in downtown St. Petersburg, on 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue North. There will be live music, a drum circle, tabling, and a picnic from 4:00 to 7:00PM.

From 7:45 to 9:00PM there will be a march and demonstration in downtown St. Pete.Participating groups include Code Pink Tampa Bay, St. Pete Food Not Bombs, The Refuge, St. Pete for Peace, Tampa Bay Veterans for Peace, Tampa Bay 9/11 Truth, Tampa World Can't Wait and NoNuke.org.

:hope you will join us and bring a table with literature and information about your group. There is no charge to set up a table – our goal is to provide an opportunity for people to get the word out about their organizations and to network with others. Please email RSVP or questions to tabling@stpeteforpeace.org.

Volunteers Needed This will be a regional rally and your help is needed in order to make it a powerful and meaningful event. Please let us know if you are able to help with any of the following tasks or items:

· Event set up (need to be able to arrive at the park at 2:00pm)

· Event clean up (need to be able to stay until about 9:00pm)

· Flyer distribution and outreach

· Peacekeepers

· March coordinators (assist with gathering people together for the march and help keep people safe during the march/protest)

· Event “staff” (help out with parking, loading and unloading for tablers, assist bands with equipment set up, etc.)

· Drummers (there will be a drum circle before the march and drummers will also be accompanying the march. All percussionists are welcome – including “bucket drummers!”)

· Sidewalk chalk needed

· Megaphones needed If you are able to help with any of the above, please contact volunteer@stpeteforpeace.org.

Picnic The event will be held in a picnic setting. There will not be vendors. Please be sure to bring along a picnic basket to share with your family and friends!

Additionally, we are in need of people who can help with the Food Not Bombs sharing. Can you: · Help set up and clean up of Food Not Bombs table (5:00-6:00pm)?

· Bring a vegetarian dish or snack to share?

· Bring bottled water?

· Bring bake sale goodies? (Assistance is also needed to help tend the Bake Sale table.)

If you are able to help with any of the above items, please contact volunteer@stpeteforpeace.org. We look forward to a great day of speaking out for peace! Peace,

Code Pink Tampa Bay

· St. Pete Food Not Bombs

· The Refuge

· St. Pete for Peace

· Tampa Bay Veterans for Peace

· Tampa Bay 9/11 Truth

· Tampa World Can't Wait

· NoNuke.org

· Cuba Vive of Tampa Bay

· NatureCoast Coaliton for Peace & Justice

· NOW Tampa Bay

· NOW Pinellas

· Friends of Human Rights

· Kucinich campaign

· Florida NORML

wow, I guess I had more to say than I thought I did.

peace

2007-03-12T18:49:00.000-05:00

My friends are getting married. The date is April 1, at the beach. I think it's problematic to know what to wear to a beach wedding. It should be easy--bathing suit. I mean it's the beach, right?

But it's the beach with a traditional wedding dress and tuxedo's for the guys. So I have to "dress up". Well, even dressed up, I want to be comfortable, and I need something new, because I'm sick of all my clothes. So there's a woman at work, she's about my size, and she always looks nice. We seem to have the same taste in clothes, so I asked where do you shop? And she took me there after work! Good thing too, cause I never would have found it.

Any way we walk in and immediately I see the exact top that I've been imagining. That never happens! So I'm all set, black dress pants(very nice, slimming, with a side zipper. We always thought a side zipper was soooo grown up back in the day), cream colored silk top with pattern of black bamboo. I want to get some of those cloth chinese round toe slippers with the embroidery to go with this outfit. I have no idea where to get those. My daughter says Magic Mall (ie: the ghetto flea market) so if I can't find it anywhere else, I guess I'll go there.

Okay, I just ordered some on internet. I am set!!

I talked to a man I work with today about him cutting my hair. He said he would do it for 25$ in his home. Seems kinda high for an in-home haircut, but he did another coworkers and she looks fabulous. I want to get it layered up, so it curls. He said he can do that. Keep your fingers crossed, I have such bad luck with haircutters.

I got some really bad news this weekend, my homeowners insurance more than doubled. It went form 1100 dollars to 2900 dollars. So my mortgage payment has gone up by 400$ per month. I know those figures don't add up, it's because the as of July05, the escrow account was 2000.00 in the hole, and now I have to pay it back, along with the current charges. I don't know what I'm going to do. With the increase in the car insurance($200 per month) because of my son being of driving age, that $600 more per month. I don't have that kind of money. So I guess my son and I both will be looking for part-time jobs to make up the short fall. The good part about that is the last time I worked two jobs I lost a ton of weight. It will only be for a year, then the fee goes down again. I want to just work my butt off and then pay it off as soon as possible.

I called my insurance agent today about it and she tells me that my insurance company is in recievership, so I have to get a new one anyway. And because this is Florida, the only place open to me is the infamous Citizens. I told her to go ahead and work up a quote for me, I seriously doubt that they could be worse than the one I have now. My ex husband has Citizens, his house is older, and bigger and he's paying less than I am, so I'm keeping a good thought about this. I think it will work out somehow.

Everytime we get a bad hurricane here, I have to find new homeowners insurance. And my town didn't even get hit!

In the meantime, no more eating out for me unless the BF is treating. And no more trips to the bookstore, that's always $100.00 at least. I'm going to take all the old books to the secondhand bookstore and sell them. It's just for store credit, but that's ok, I can get something to read. I'm going to hit the library too. And If I'm not reading so much, maybe I'll excersise. Riiiiiight, that'll happen.

2007-03-11T16:25:00.000-05:00

I'm still having fun learning the new camera. This is a picture of my eggs from this mornings breakfast.

I've done 4 loads of laundry today. And they are all put away. You know thats the tricky part.

The dishwasher is loaded, the bathroom cleaned (but not the tub).

I wish I had a few more days off, I could get the house really spic and span.

We had made plans to take P's adopted grandma to the Strawberry Festival today, it's the last day, but she wasn't feeling up to going out today. She's 94. So if she wants to rest, no one argues with her. I was kind of glad not to go, as I had so much to do around the house.

I'm off to the grocery store for the second time today. I really need to learn to plan better. This morning I went to get breakfast stuff, I found some new fake breakfast sausage. Gimmee Lean it's pretty good, here's the nutrition information from the website: Calories 50 Fat 0g Saturated Fat 0g Trans Fat 0gCholesterol 0mg Sodium 330mg Carbohydrate 4g Fiber 2g Sugar 1g Protein 8g Soy Protein 7gm I'm going to try the fake hamburger tonight in spaghetti.

I don't usually put any meat in my spaghetti, I use lots of veggies, mushrooms, onion, peppers, zucchini, shredded carrotts. I cook it down for a couple of hours which means I need to get started to the store cause we're going to be eating at 9pm as it is.

2007-03-11T12:08:00.000-05:00

P has boxes of rolled up surveys in his office, I'm fascinated by them. He keeps them a while, then throws them out. I think they would make great wrapping paper, and I want to take some for journal pages. I love all the compliclated little lines and measurements.
I also enjoy the rolliness of them stuffed in the box, my eye is drawn to them again and again.
My blog experiment is ongoing. I started out with 5, trying to see which one would best suit my needs.
First myspace. Thats no good, pictures are way too complicated, and everything is too slow. Althogh the community there is good. I'll keep my page there, but only update the blog infrequently. Here's the address if your interested: http://www.myspace.com/crowlanding I just noticed the page is all messed up. Things are all over the place, I need to do some spring cleaning. Maybe time to redo the whole thing.
Then I got Blog.com, and once again it's way to slow, but I know they are working to improve, but I think that one's going too. Here's the address: http://crowland.blog.com/ once again let me know, cause I think I'm going to let that one go.
I just spent an extrodinary amount of time trying to change my background, and it never would work, fatal error messages. I probably spent an hour on it and couldn't do anything.
The next one I tryed was Yahoo 360. eh.
And finally the last one, I really like this one and it's down to these two. The one we are in now, and this typepad blog: http://crazybirdstudio.typepad.com/crazybird_studio/.
Maybe I'll keep them both and make one just for arts and crafty stuff and one for everything else. la di da

2007-03-10T11:34:00.001-05:00

yo does it work?

and the answer would be yes it does. I sent that from my cellphone. Now I'm feeling all techie and cocky.

I've got the printer all set up and I've printed two things, but I haven't tryed the scanner yet. Wait, I'll try it right now....

hold on

yes!!! success twice in one post, I'm really feeling it now.

That is my first SoulCollage Card. It's been percolating for quite some time.

I named it Fear.

Here is the writing that goes with it:

I am the one who Hides.

I try to run but I am frozen. I cannont move physically or emotionally. I cannot grow, or mature. I am stuck, I am so afraid, I must protect myself. I need to hide, I build walls, thick and high. Even I can't find my way out.

I'm always watching. Looking and waiting for the bad thing to happen. And it will, because it always has. I notice everything, but I keep it to myself. I take your panic and hold it for you. I have always lived in the shadows.

I give you your keen powers of observation, your ability to fade into the background, your sixth sense for danger. I help you to be safe.

I want you to protect me, love me, nurture me. Don't deny me or hate me. I want us to work together so that I can come out into the light.

suburban wildlife

2007-03-09T18:46:00.000-05:00

So I stayed up entirely too late last night playing with the new camera. What fun! I went to bed a 2:30 and the alarm went off at 5:30-----no, no just a few more minutes I beg you. But no, it was off to work for me. And here is what I get for not getting enough rest, a cold sore is blooming on my lip. I haven't had one in two years. Aren't I the lucky one.
I took that picture at work today on my lunch break. We have 4 large buildings surrounding a swamp, a designated wildlife sanctuary, with a boardwalk/bridge over it to facillitate getting around. I walk across it most days. It's very peacefull, full of birds and squirells. I've seen blue, grey, and white heron, egret, ducks, hawks and once an eagle. Of course there are crows everywhere, you can't get away from them here, and that's just the way I like it.
There are numerous ponds on the property, we had an alligator last year, and once a bobcat.
The swamp is filled with cypress trees, some maple, palmettos, unidentified native Florida shrubbery, palmettos, ferns, and a red and green ground cover. Sometimes it's underwater, and sometimes not. Right now we have puddles. In the spring the ground cover will get tiny white flowers all over it. A flower carpet. Late spring sometimes brings rain, last year we stood on the boardwalk and watched 5 snakes racing through the water. zzzzzip. zoom.
This morning I worked on my journal and was almost late for work, I didn't want to stop the creative flow. And now I'm too tired. Tomorrow, the blessed weekend.
I'm off now to finish my SoulCollage Card. I have to write the story. When I'm done, I'll share.
peace.

2007-03-08T23:57:00.000-05:00

ok, it seems that I can only post one picture. Or that I can post as many as I want but they will be all higgety piggety all over the page, not where I want them to be.

I think I need to take my own advice and get a grip.

2007-03-08T22:52:00.000-05:00

I've been trying to post some pictures from the new camera, but this website is not cooperating with me. I'm disappointed.

better than christmas

2007-03-08T19:59:00.000-05:00

I went crazy at Best Buy tonight. I got a printer/scanner/copier/fax machine, and a digital camera, whooo hoooo! I'm too tired to set it up tonight, I'll do it this weekend. And then watch out---I can't wait, this will be great.
I'm going to start carrying (sp?) the camera in my ginormous purse. It seems like I'm always seeing things when I'm out and about that I want a picture of. Now I can have one! and you can see it too, I know you will be as endlessly fascinated with bottle caps embedded in asphalt and graffitti posters as I am. ha.
And I have grand plans for the scanner. I'm going to scan my fabric stash into my EQ6 library, so that I can plan my quilts with my actual fabric. This is going to be great, she says rubbing her hands together. I also want to scan or maybe take pictures of some of my journal pages to post here.
The copy machine will also help me with my journals, I can't wait to start playing around with my new toys.
happy dance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!