I’ve been noticing I have a very varied audience here at The Designing Fairy, and I would love your input so I can better help my reading audience. Please take the poll.
Oops! So busy this week that I forgot to post the card of the week. Beat me with a wet noodle! Here is the card for the weekend! And if you could take the poll in the next post, I would truly dig it.
Lots of change or transitions happening for everyone right now. Some of us turning into butterflies and it can be a squeezing, tough process as we reemerge from our safe cocoons. Biggest advice is to take baby steps to not overwhelm your sensitive system if you can, and go to the actions that help you feel stable and grounded, whether drawing, hiking in Nature, or napping!
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Over at my newsletter, we are talking the faces of Nature, bringing in fairy energy to the cold winter, and birthing heart projects. Have you subscribed yet? You can here.
Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy! My essay is for the second time (double Yay!) in Somerset Studio March/April magazine (The Last Page feature) alongside a picture of the HEALING FAIRY ALPHABET DECK. I love this magazine! If you ever birthed a major creative project and experienced the emotional ups and downs of success, be sure to pick up the magazine to read. Feeling super grateful.
This Week: February 24 –
The message this week is to dare to leave your comfort zone and take some risks, even if it means make a few baby steps in the desired direction. Big change is difficult for those that are sensitive. It can all be overwhelming. Rather then just jump in and sabotage yourself, find the small next thing you can do that let’s yourself know you are important to reach for what you want.
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No, this post isn’t about being sensitive or psychic stuff, it’s about my other self that is developing and has always been there. I let that part be shoo’ed away. So, today I share a little of what I’ve been creating. I am learning animation and a bitch of a program called Aftereffects. It’s created by a homicidal maniac who probably pulls pigtails on little girls, but is probably also a bloody genius. But I am finding once you start to learn the program, it actually does some seriously cool things. Plus, I feel great pride for tackling such craziness that I wanted to learn, but stumbled and avoided for over a year.
Here’s a drawing I am making for the next animation. It’s a a little story adventure.
Here’s my first animation experiment.
My tutor friend helped me with the ending credits for my videos. What do you think?
I love Instagram. It’s such a fun place to share and there’s so much illustration eye candy over there. Are you on Instagram? Let’s follow each other. I am here.
Here is a new blog series I hope you enjoy. In all my lessons I like to share cool resources I find on the NET for students to later explore and have fun with to back up and support my written lessons. This week’s excerpt is from the WILD WORLDS WITHIN class offered on Friday.
Whenever you are feeling trapped and stuck, it’s probably because you are thinking too limited. Being intuitive and trusting your gut is all about thinking out of the box! I scouted the NET and found these cool examples of thinking out of the box.
Sometimes you need to look at objects in a different way. Who would have thought? Check out the Toilet Paper Roll Creations by Junior Fritz Jaquet.
Check out the fun comic series by Incidental Comics and see full post over here.
Artists, think outside of the box. Crayon Sculptures by Diem Chau here.
And seeing things in a new way: NOT A BOX! Video (so sweet) here.
When you are pulled back in six thousand ways.
When what you are doing doesn’t work.
When it all feels like an uphill battle.
What worked before isn’t working.
It’s time to rest. Time to regroup. Time to follow what excites you NOW. Follow the new breadcrumbs. And the biggest message is:
P is for Pay Attention. E is Earth Energy. Q is for Fairy Queen.
It’s the gradual climb.
Driving up to Flagstaff this weekend, I often get nervous climbing up those big hills. The view is magnificent veering over the forest trees, but pulling the car up the hills feels like a force of my own will rather then the car’s. Going home, driving down is even scarier until I realized it doesn’t have to be a roller coaster. I may be the only one who thinks this, but as a sensitive, I hate that feeling of being so out of control when I zoom down a hill that I am not familiar with. If I was easy-going and didn’t mind, I would just let go and enjoy the ride careening down the hill. But being so sensitive, and aware of so many physical sensations at once, it’s a scary feeling. And then this last trip down, it dawned on me. What if I take the hill slow so it doesn’t feel like a roller coaster? Yes, everyone around me is going 75 miles and up, but what if I go slow and take it easy? I will stay in the slower lane, of course, so others can pass. The bigger metaphor? The main stress for me is when I am asked or even forced to go a rhythm that fits other people, but doesn’t me, so they are comfortable. I don’t want to be a “problem.” I want to fit in. I want to be like everyone else. But I don’t want to be treated like I have three heads because I have different needs.
I drove down the hill the other day slowly taking my time, and guess what? I was fine. The trip was even enjoyable. I looked over at my basset girl who wasn’t showing huge signs of motion sickness, and I knew I wasn’t the only one who had a problem before. My stress and fear was greatly reduced and the hills felt doable to me. I felt in control of my car. I am sure with practice and once the roads become more familiar, I will be zooming along with everyone else. But in the meantime, I am honoring myself.
This week: pay attention to your own rhythms as a true form of self-care.
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