Athena Dreams Design

At Work on Ideas: pinterest-ing pins

Seeing sketches in mid-creation, or drawing tables filled with the tools of a craft, journals being worked on and creativity in session always gives me a thrill. I love to get glimpses of how others work, aspects of the processes that other people use, a peek into someone else's world.

(clockwise from top left):
journals on Wild Thyme Creative {pinned by Theresa L.}
A Canvas for Creativity by Lucrecer Braxton (found via Liz Lamoreux}
Journaling 101 by Chookooloonks {pinned by Trish W.}
Pen & Ink by Nicola Hensel {found via Pia Jane Bijkerk}
Sketches by Emerson Made (pinned by me}

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Each week a different topic illustrated with some of my favourite images from Pinterest.

If you are a Pinterest user, pinning on pinterest please remember to "Link with Love" and credit the maker, the creator, the ideator, or the originator.

If you'd like to share on Pinterest you can find me here!

Some Frost: pinterest-ing pins

December was not very winter-ly, and up until now, neither was January. But this week it seems, winter has begun in earnest in the bay area (and other places as well).

Frosty beatiful things from Pinterest (clockwise from top left):
Midwinter Daydream by Elle Moss {pinned by Jessica Snyder}
Window Frost by Girl Behind the Red Door {pinned by Kayla Haykin}
First Frost by Jodi Martin {on her POV board}
Frozen Clover Flower by  Scott Heppell {pinned by Sophia Roberts}

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Pinterest has definitely become a part of my regular life on line, and I love all the sharing and inspiration and joy it brings. this post is the start of a new regular post series where I will be sharing some of my favourite images on Pinterest organised by a different topic every week.

If you are a Pinterest user, pinning on pinterest please remember to "Link with Love" and credit the maker, the creator, the ideator, or the originator.

If you'd like to share on Pinterest you can find me here!

Upcycle .:. It's All the Style

 or how my cat became the newest fashionista, repurposing tree pollen into a set of pretty fab false eyelashes. Or is it false whiskers, I'll leave that to the beholder(s).

So much to say, so much to think, so much happening this busy summer, but I will take a breath, step away from the monitor, and just leave you with herself, The Little Bear (aka our cat), in her latest summer outfit.

Blue Tuesday

 out of the blue: unexpected

 true blue: loyal or faithful

 blue plate special: a specially priced meal at a restaurant

  once in a blue moon: an event that occurs infrequently

Curious Girl .:. Colour Week

Red & Pink Monday

Wish on everything. 

Pink cars are good, especially old ones. 

And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. 

Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. 

Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. 

Birthday candles. 

Baby teeth.  

-Francesca Lia Block

 

 

 
Seems that pink definitely dominates my world. . . . with just a touch of red. I think I resisted pink for years and years and years, but no longer. It is luscious and lovely . . . 

Curious Girl .:. Colour Week

Ranunculus for (another) Rainy Day

I love the rain, I do. But I am saying Uncle now. Enough. Enough with the spatter, or the deluge from the skies (depending on the moment). Enough with the damp feet and the muddy shoes. sigh... It's early April and I'd like to turn the heat off now and open the windows to warm spring breezes. 

But just in case I am ready to turn my rainy view on the world around, I have these lovely white and pink and lavender edged ranunculus in a beautiful pink glass vase that belonged to my husband's grandmother. I am gazing at them now, and oh, lookee there, out comes the sun for a minute or 3, and a patch of blue sky bigger than just a speck. It's the little things that can turn a day around in just a second or two . . .

 

 

December Views .:. Day 30

Recipe for a sunny winter walk to the beach

Follow the trail
let your feet lead the way.

Allow the wind to blow your hair back, and feel it caress your face.

Re-tune your mind, your heart, your thoughts
and listen to how the chattering background voice in your head
is now silent.

Remember the sound of that beautiful silence,
and come back for more,
soon.

December Views .:. Day 27

A gray day can run to lavender, sometimes to taupe, and sometimes to an almost blue, or an almost pink. Am loving these gray moments from Flickr artists:

1. Doves on Grey, 2. grey day, 3. Fade to grey, 4. Grey morning, 5. grey, 6. Grey, 7. 'twas a blue~grey shade of pale, 8. greys, 9. Canada Goose - Gray's Lake, 10. One Gray Dey, 11.Gray Outside, 12. ~some shades of grey~, 13. One Grey Morning (a.k.a. Darkness Before Dawn), 14. Gray's Lake Grove - November Fog, 15. The world speaks gray today, 16. Grey Morning

December Views .:. 23 to 25

 
 
 

December Views .:. Day 22