What’s the big idea?

February 06, 2012

Last week I saw this meme on Facebook about a shower taking 27 minutes. 2 minutes for washing and cleaning your body + 25 minutes for thinking time. That’s totally me!

It got me to thinking about all the other places where I come up with my best “big ideas”.

My Best Thinking Places

In the shower.

Over a cup of tea.

Laying on a blanket under a tree.

On a walk through the leaves.

Weeding the garden.

Whilst knitting and crocheting.

Baking bread, cookies or just about anything!

What are your favorite “big idea” thinking places?

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I love you. Pass it on.

February 01, 2012

Did you know that I love you? Well, I do. I love everyone. Well, some of you are harder to love than others, but in general I do love you all. And I think that we should practice love for one another. Not just your family, that’s too easy.

I’m talking about loving strangers,

because believe it or not, that’s our default. We are all born into this world with love in our hearts and it is only through the years that we learn to not love as a default. Instead we learn to distrust, to hate, to judge, in inflict pain, to shut out and to shut down. But, we can make a change. We can make a conscious decision to love our fellow humans again. And that’s what I plan on doing.

What got me thinking about this is I have a friend who told me recently that he is planning on hugging everyone at these joint meetings we both attend. Now, these are not social meetings at all, the people who are meeting are often strangers or distant acquaintances at best, but he has decided to hug them all. Sometimes, these meetings can get quite contentious and it’s so much more difficult to get angry and shut down in a conversation with someone you just hugged.

A hug sort of resets that default,

it helps you to see other people are people. I think his idea is a fabulous one.

So, I’ve undertaken a new project. I’ve made these signs (see below) and I plan on posting them in random places. Wherever I see a community bulletin board, I will pin one up. I actually have a stack and some pins in my bag right now, so I won’t be caught unawares. My goal is to share my random stranger love with the world and hopefully they will in turn share their love with strangers as well.

What do you think? Would you like to join my campaign to tell the world that we love them?

If so, download this sign I made and post it wherever you can. Take a picture of it and post it to the Pass It On Flickr Group.

Printable Pass It On Sign

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Indie Cats

January 26, 2012

You know that I love cats and I know that many of you do as well…that’s why I started the Indie Cats Flickr Group a couple of years ago. Periodically, I like to share some of my favorite cuties from the flickr pool.

Won’t you join us?

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Art birthdays!

September 29, 2011

Artist Suzanne L. Vinson has been coordinating and offering birthday celebrations for all ages in her studio as a way to honor, celebrate and create. Through her fun art-themed celebrations she helps the celebrant and birthday guests ritualize the special day. Both guests and birthday girls/boys get to create their own special art memory for the day.

What a wonderful idea for utilizing the art studio for creating memories and art! Great idea, Suzanne!

See some pictures of Suzanne’s last special party for Kaleigh, a friend’s daughter, below. Photos are by Ashley Glasco Photography and you can read more about Suzanne and her parties in an interview Ashley shared on her blog.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Transitions

September 27, 2011

It’s time for another Weekly Photo Challenge!

In case you aren’t familiar with them, I periodically post a Weekly Photo Challenge and ask readers to upload photos around a particular theme to the Indie Fixx Flickr Group. Participants have a week or so to get their photos taken and added to the Group.

The idea is to provide everyone with a venue to share their craftiness and photography skillz & offer up some inspiration for everyone involved. Sometimes, but not every time, I offer up a prize.

The theme for this challenge is: Transitions!

Inspired by the seasonal change of summer into autumn, and back to school/work for many after the summer vacation, I chose the theme of transitions. Please feel free to interpret that theme any way you see fit…points will be given for creativity.

Some suggestions include: a pic of a sunset or sunrise, fall foliage, storm clouds on the horizon, black and white pics, baby kittens with their momma…you get the picture. The more creative, the better!

Myself and 2-3 other judges will be choosing the most creative, fun, relevant and interesting photo from all those that are uploaded.

Prize:

In addition to bragging rights, one winner will be chosen to win a Bracelet Bag from Megan Leone (pictured above). It’s perfect for fall and is made with vintage tweed, lined in pretty evergreen fabric and comes attached to a vintage bracelet. It also has a heavy duty snap that’ll let you swap out bracelets and change the whole look up whenever you’d like!

In addition, the winner will also win their choice of an 8×10 Typography print from Nan Lawson. Nan is an illustrator based out of L.A. who creates quirky, sweet, poignant, fun and cute prints.

Details for the Photo Challenge:

1. Upload your photos to the Indie Fixx Flickr group by Wednesday, October 19th 11:59 pm EST.

2. Make sure to tag it with the following: “transitions weekly photo challenge” or transitionsweeklyphotochallenge.

3. One winner will be notified via Flickr Mail after October 19th.

4. Multiple entries will be considered.

5. All photos added to the flickr group between September 27th – October 19th, 2011 will be considered entries for the purposes of this contest.

6. Myself and 2-3 other judges will be choosing one winner who will receive both prizes.

7. Contest open to US and international entrants!

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Just a few things

September 20, 2011

I’m looking for folks who want to share share their homes via a virtual home and/or studio tour. You can see past examples here.

Do you want to share a book you just read, put together a curated collection based on a book, do a top ten book list or have some other idea for the Indie Fixx Book Club? Get in touch, the Book Club is long overdue!