Late as ever.

Sad to say I am happy that I am not the only one who got left way behind on this.
I have signed up for next year, hope Kim lets us do another year after that as I will need 5 years to accomplish what others managed in 1.
However, I have learned loads and feel that admitting I am slow is better than not even trying.

However, I appreciate ALL that Kim has done

Pink End of the Day

A walk round a lake and the sun set and this was
the residual colour in the sky.

12-12-12 Make a Wish

An interesting date.
Some one said today is the day that the world ends. Well not for me.
Some one said that this date is a wishing day.
I am going with the wishes.

I wish to work less at my job and get a change in direction, live closer to the land and enjoy being alive, rather than being a slave to work, more or less for works sake.
I wish to make a living through creativity, photos, crafts, or something similar. Not a huge wage but some spending money. Friends are having a party in Vancouver, can I go? no! No time, I have to work, and I have little money.
I wish for the creative job that would give me time and finance me to go and take photos of so many places in the world I wish to visit. Not sure I want to go to the Arctic or Antarctic, but all other continents have places I would love to visit.
I wish I would give myself permission to take control of my life. I should not worry so much about what others will think of me.
I wish I could work on this blog on a more regular basis, every other day would be fabulous, once a month would be an improvement. How do people blog daily? When do they find the time?
I have signed up for Kim Klassen's Beyond Beyond, I am hoping that I can take the classes next year as I missed so many this year.
I wish that I could read and do each of Kim's Beyond classes, and I wish that when she does her blog class again, I can afford to take it and actually complete it.
I wish for more money, I would love to win the lottery and pay off so many of my friends mortgages, however, as I do not buy lottery tickets this seems a frivolous wish.
My biggest wish is that my family, friends and those around me stay healthy and that the grey negative cloud that has been over our area for a while gets blown out to sea and lost.
I wish for happiness and health for us all.
I wish my wishes come true and that I remember to count my blessings.

Do you think????

Kim's class lasts for a year,

there are 52 weeks in a year, 

so DO YOU THINK ....

that once a week I could 

sign in and do one of her projects

sign on here and make a post?

Apparently NOT!

So here is a pic and a sweet thought.

I love taking photos

    they are supposed to be a way of slowing me down,

looking at nature and taking time.

A New Years resolution that is still on the back burner.

where

Have you ever said something and then realised that God was listening and then whatever you said happens to you?
Seems like God listens to my not too brilliant words often and
THEN
I really commiserate with the person who said/wrote them.
Some time ago Kim said that she had dropped several of the online classes she had signed up for and I thought "she is batty, she paid good money for those and then just dropped them!"
well guess what
I am now so far behind in my classes with Kim that trying to even think about catching up seems like an insurmountable task and I am regretting my words about Kim dropping classes.
I have been every bit as busy as I knew I would be for April, problem is we are now in May and I am not even beginning to catch up.
Well a little pat on the back for me I am doing this blog!!!
Do I have a recent photo for it? no!
Just an old one that I am still messing about with, I did try the RadLab and got hooked so have used a bit of it on this photo.

Push

In our Beyond Layers class Kim has been gently pushing us to explore
our world
ourselves
our abilities.


Today she is pushing, again about ourselves, 
but
like Kim I have an extremely hard time with this.....
taking photos of myself; 
that is why I hold the camera!


I believe we have our idea of beauty so distorted by the fronts of magazines with those gorgeous girls, and although we know those photos have photoshop help, still the idea of not being up to snuff persists for me.


Many years ago there was a British television programme called Butterflies, in one episode the lady was sitting on a park bench and saw a lovely young girl pass by, the older lady reasoned that her own face bore the wrinkles of a longer life with many laughs, the lines from child bearing and the wear on her body from experiences, laughing, loving and living. 
My face and body tell the tales of life experiences, laughing, loving and living.  
I need to accept this as seen from the mirrors reflection. 


Photo, not of me, 
another using Radlab, I love the pictures I can make with them.

Oh this is amazing

In Kim's class she refers to a site called RadLab.
Wow do they have the most amazing stylets, almost like actions, but not!
They have a free down load trial, they are smart because once you have tried this you are hooked!

Here is one of my early tries, not mind blowing but so easy to create.