Author: Christine

Christine http://www.mombie.com I'm a writer/storyteller/director/creativity & lifestory coach with a black belt in ITF Taekwon-do. I read voraciously and I write like my fingers are on fire. I'm the founder and Co-Chair of the Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl and I'm the current president of the St. John's Storytelling Festival. I bake a mean chocolate chip cookie.

Working on a junk journal page…

And I just loved this phrase that I cut from a magazine.

A collage page with gold background, black dots, and text reading ‘build it one peace at a time’
Image description: a photo of a junk journal page that was painted gold with black dots and decorated with text cut from a magazine that reads ‘Build it one peace at a time.’

Another Project (almost) Complete

Over the past few weeks, my friend and I have been making oracle tiles and mine are almost complete.

9 decorated rectangular wooden tiles
Image description: a photo of 9 rectangular wooden tiles, each painted either gold, black, or green, decorated with words, drawings or stickers to represent different concepts. The top three tiles have words on them (Bold, mind, love) and are each decorated with patterns. The centre tile has a gold star outlined in black against a black and gold patterned background. The two tiles next to the star each feature stickers, one is of a large window with flowers in front of it, the other is of squid and octopi underwater. The three bottom tiles feature a green letter Y on a gold background, a green spiral on a gold background, and a sticker a snail climbing a green hill that I drew.

Now I have just three things to do:

1) Decide whether to seal them with modpodge

2) Make a bag/cloth for them

3) Write an interpretation guide

I plan to use these tiles to brainstorm/guide my decision-making.

A pretty balanced week

I’m really happy with how this week turned out.

Despite not sleeping well for a couple of nights, and despite winking out my hip, I have struck a good balance between work and rest and play.

I did some writing, I made time for creativity, I worked on key projects, and I hung out with friends.

I feel like I should do a close study of what made this week work and try to bring those elements forward into future weeks.

I feel ridiculous writing that because part of my brain wants to argue that I ‘shouldn’t’ need to do that but another part of me reminds me that being conscious of patterns is the only way to live with any satisfaction.

So, since I want to live with satisfaction, I guess paying attention is the only way to go, right?

Saving Space

Three weeks in a row, I have managed to save space for myself on Wednesdays.

I’ve met with a friend and worked on an art project that is just for me.

There’s no deadline, no external pressure.

There isn’t even a complete plan.

The endpoint is clear, but the path isn’t.

And yet I’m walking it for myself, a little while each Wednesday, in my friend’s company.

I can’t even begin to describe how victorious I feel.

My Experiment Was Successful

Well, it was an experiment, either outcome would have been a success.

Yesterday, I wasn’t feeling great and I wrote about how hard it is to know whether to rest or to push ahead with some work.

I ended up experimenting with working in a low-key manner and I ended up doing a huge chunk of work on a major project and feeling a great sense of accomplishment.

So, yesterday, the answer was that forging ahead would make me feel better.

I reserve the right to experiment with rest next time.