Tag, You’re it !

I got tagged by my friend Corrine at Sparkle Day Studios (also known as Dos Fishes) with this kind of different meme. I decided to do it and pass it on. If you don’t feel like doing it, that is fine, but if you do, have fun and play !

The Rules
…you must post the rules
…answer 11 questions the tagger posted for you
…create 11 questions to ask the people you tag
…tag 11 people
…let them know you’ve tagged them

Corrine’s Eleven Questions for me with my answers in purple.

1. If the moon were a wedge of cheese, what kind would it be? Jarlesberg. It has holes like the moons craters. It is also the special cheese that my Mom loved when I was a kid and we only ate Kraft Singles.

2. Where would you ride on a unicorn? Along the white sand beach by the warm ocean.

3. Are you a left brain or right brain or my brain doesn’t fit into this world kind of person? My brain is uniquely mine, thank God for others !

4. Are your boots made for walking or do your heels make you tall?

My boots made for walking in my forties but they were made for strutting in my twenties and thirties. Miss that sometimes !

5. Spelunking or the sauna? Spelunking followed by sauna.

6. What is your favorite vegetable to draw and to eat? I like drawing carrots but I love eating summer radishes.

7. Do you chat with the night owls, or hang out with the morning doves? Morning doves, definitely.

8. What is your most favorite creative tool? My Hands, my magnificent hands !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  art journal page 2010

9. If you were a muse what would your name be? Henrietta. I have crazy, wild, black, curly,long hair and wear a tiara everyday. And a kimono over my jean overalls.

10. Sing me your song? Que Sera, Sera by Doris Day

11. What color is your heart? It’s like a rainbow !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

art journal page - 2010

AND…

My Eleven Questions for my Taggees !

1. What color do you imagine is inside your head ?

2. What artist would you most like to spend the day with ?

3. Cupcake, apple pie or chocolate éclair ?

4. If you were to suddenly get wings, where would you fly to first ?

5. What superpower would you most like to have ?

6. Watercolor, acrylic, pastel, or finger paint ?

7. What song most reminds you of your mother ?

8. Luxury cruise or canoe/backpacking ?

9. Do you have a tidy organized workspace or messy, chaotic workspace ? Which works best for your creative process ?

10.What was your favorite candy as a child ?

11. What is the one thing you love most about yourself ?

Here is my list of Taggees :

Michelle Yesterday’s Trash

Mary of A Splendid Adventure

Carmen of A Playground of Imagination

Janet of Artopia

Kate of The Queen of Creativity

Jessie at PurpleTree Bird

Marit at Marit’s Paper World

Kelley at One January Day

Jane at A Painted Heart Studio

Sherry at Indigo Girl

Kathy at Kathy Maximo Studios

I hope you ladies have fun !

I head out tomorrow with my Artsy Friends to Cape Cod for a long weekend.

It is supposed to be very March-like weather rather than the June like stuff we had last week. It doesn’t matter though. We will all be together, and give one another a lot of good loving. Plus lots of laughs !

Kim & Heart Rock –Cape Cod 2010

Be back next week.

Sending you big love, Beautiful Ones !

Transitions and 7 Things Re : Me

So my wonderful large juicy art journal that I purchased for $20.00 at Barnes and Noble (a multi-media blank sketch book with 9X12 inch pages) is all but finished. Just three pages left, I think. It is a true mistresspiece to me...

I need to go and buy another journal (hopefully I can find the same one - the paper was delicious) but in the mean time, I am going to Mexico next week and there is no way I can bring the big baby. I bought this stack of little blank moleskins around Christmas and I figured now would be a good time to start breaking one in...

I am not crazy about blank pages so I am trying to fill some of them in before I go as jumping off points in my journaling.

I also took my stamp play page with Jack The Crow and stuck in in there...

and gave him a little story.

New journals are a little hard - they feel too empty to me.

Luckily, I know just what to do to fix that !

Fill 'er up, Kimbo !

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So it is Monday morning and I am kind of stressing and I am doing my best to keep busy.

I read my lovely Sherry's blog and saw that she had shared 7 things about herself this morning after being awarded a Blog Award. I decided to consider myself awarded too, and follow suit...

1. I have a terrible fear of all things medical. It is based on lots of gross experiences throughout my life. I have faced a lot of the fears, found a "team" to work with me, who have finally learned that you need to treat me like a person, your friend or your family member and I will stop freaking out, or possibly crying and my blood pressure will come down a bit when you do so. While this is all good, I still get very, very uptight when I have a doctor's appointment, which I do today at 2:00pm...

2. I like to do things in Kim time. Some people don't follow that timetable or understand it, but I do. Things always work out well for me when I do them in Kim time.

3. My friend Suzanne turned 50 in December and she is taking me and her other best friend to Playa Del Carmen, Mexico for one week of Crazy Chick Fun to celebrate! We leave on March 1st ! Yes, I know I am extremely lucky and fortunate to have such a friend ! Love you, Suzy !

4. I absolutely love Mexico - this is my 6th trip there, and my second visit to Playa Del Carmen.

5. I hate to fly, control freak that I am, and will be asking my Doc for some help in that area this afternoon ! Meditate and medicate !!! ;)

6. I sleep naked. I have since I was about 12. I hate when the nightgowns or pajama pants get tangled around your legs, etc...but I can sleep well in a t-shirt and undies which I will do in Mexico. And no, I will not be getting into a hot tub naked anywhere, anytime in front of strangers !!! (see Sherry's post to understand this one ! )

7. I tend to talk and giggle a lot when I am nervous... ;)...blah blah blah teehee tee hee tee hee...

Man, I can't wait until 2:30...

Hope your Monday is filled with fun details !

Big Love, beautiful Ones...

Do You Want to Know a Secret ?

So Anne at Gaal Creative kindly nominated me for the MeMe Award, where you reveal 7 Secrets about yourself and then nominate 7 other bloggers to do the same.

The MeMe Award

I haven't passed on awards very much lately - I really do appreciate receiving them and the recognition from my fellow bloggers but I don't always want to use my posting time to fulfill some of the requirements and I also have a hard time nominating one blog over another as I have so many favorites that mean so much too me for different reasons.

The fact that this award asks you to share 7 Secrets about yourself worked for me today. It gave me an opportunity to share some more little details about myself, little things that make me Me !

Here are my 7 Secrets :

1. I only got my driver's license at 31, the same time I bought my first car (A green Saturn SL - it is still on the road after 13 years - my Mom has it now). Before that, I lived in a big city, took the bus a lot and relied on friends to drive me where the buses couldn't take me.

(Kim in the Banana Boat Yellow Mustang - FLA in 2003)

2. I met David when I was 34 and he was 39. He asked me to marry him after we had long distance dated for only 3 months. After knowing him for 10 years now, I have come to realize how brave and unlike him it was to ask me to get married after such a short time. He tends to be much more cautious and a planner than that. I guess it just shows that it was completely meant to be !

(David and I in St. Pete's Beach, FLA in 2001, our first trip after we got married )

3. If I could play any instrument, it would be the piano. I would love the play the piano the way Chris Martin of Coldplay plays the piano...magic !

Art Journal Page - 2007

4. My two younger sisters, Natalie (4 years younger) and Kristina (5 years younger) used to drive me nuts when we were kids by chanting "Kimberly Diana, Kimberly Diana..!" over and over again at me. I don't know why I hated it so much (My real middle names are Kimberly-Anne Pauline) but it still kind of makes me cringe even now !

(Art Journal Page 2006 - photo of me at 6 years old)

5. I am horribly afraid of sharp objects like saws (especially electric ones) and blades. It is so intense that I sometimes wonder if I was amputated in some way in a past life or something ! David is slowly helping me deal with this fear, but I still refuse to let him use a chainsaw !

(Art journal page - 2008)

6. I believe that my houseplants and my animals communicate with me, kind of telepathically. I feel like I just "get" their language. I have to ask a plant before I cut a branch or dying leaf off. I just know when they need some extra TLC or if they should be put into the ICU window to get some extra boosts of light. I know when Chica is feeling depressed about a lack of walks or when Azzy admits to me that he really loves me in spite of the fact he is still not sure if he can trust me (he was a street cat and it has taken him over 2 years to come and lie beside me). David thinks I am nuts about this but I just know I hear them talking !

(Chica and I on the top of the world - Mt Washington, 2009)

7. If I knew for sure that I had just 37 Days left to live, I would spend that time at the ocean somehow. I would probably take up smoking again (damn things, I still miss them after a year !) and eat yummy fruits and veggies and cheeses and bread and drink some fine wines. I would paint and write and watch the waves and smell that smell of the salt water. I would invite my family and loved ones to come and surround me, and I would spend as much time as possible listening to the kids laughing and chattering as they played by the sea. And I would then run up and join them and play the day away in the sand. I would breathe it all in and make it a part of my Soul and Spirit so that I could take it with me when it was time to go...

Me at Hampton Beach, Summer 2009

As I was writing this post, I came to realize that I have little or no fear about sharing parts of myself this way. I think it comes from being an extrovert in many ways. I feel like by sharing myself openly, I can help others feel safe and trusting to share themselves with me. That is a good thing in my world as it helps me make connections on a heart level, which I so appreciate.

So rather than choose only 7 people to take up this MeMe Award, I challenge any and all of the bloggers on my blog roll to take some time to share some secrets about themselves and then let me know they have done so. (Well, I will be reading the posts anyway !) Let's do it in celebration of the fact that we are all in this together, and for the fact that this Blogland community is so supportive and kind.

Happy Labor Day, all you Blogland Beauties !

Meme Rhymes with Dream - Do you know this word ?

So I was visiting Leah at Creative Every Day today and I learned a new word. The word is "meme" as in "She found a meme on another blog and she created a post with her own replies." For a pretty clear definiton of a meme, you can check here. Apparantly you can pronounce it so it rhymes with "dream" or like it is the "mem" part or "memory". I think it should be pronounce "me, me!" because whenever I read a meme, I immediately want to respond to it. Hence, "Me, me !!"
Maybe not ...
Anyway, saw this meme on Leah's post and had to reply. Like Leah said, what is it about memes that just makes you want to respond to them ? Leah finds them calming... I think I feel a sense of belonging mingled with a sense of uniqueness... What is it about memes ...?

A Meme for Sunday, September 7, 2008

Song you love : "Teach Your Children" by America

Word you love : "Smooch"...it feels like it sounds...

Academic Subject you love : Psychology

Hobby that you love : Flea Market Shopping

Type of baked good that you love : a French baguette (savory) or oatmeal with raisins (sweet)

Type of sky you love : A sunset over the ocean, a sunrise at Lac Bibitte, a starry sky at Lac Bibitte

A Beverage that you love : cappucino

A Vacation that you love : A beach lounging vacation in Mexico with a bit of sightseeing thrown in

A Restaurant that you love : the Chinese place with periwinkles in Montreal's Chinatown

A way of getting around that you love : walking or canoeing

A Person that you love : My Man

A room in your home (or your ideal home) that you love : The bedroom in both

A movie that you love : The Princess Bride

A book that you love : "Succulent Wild Women" by Sark

A city that you love : Montreal

A future plan that you love : moving from our house into a condo, less house , more travel

A form of communication you love : Touching

A junk food you love : Cadbury Fruit & Nut Bars

Happy Sunday !