Process: Learning Curve

While attending University there are moments you are assigned exercises and assignments that as a budding art student with no experience, a deep lack of knowledge and vision, and a very vague concept, you are truly and completely unprepared to tackle that assignment.

This is called the learning curve. Good ideas do not come easily or at the best time. Also bad ideas and mistakes happen way too often. The lousy truth is that you will make bad work as well as good work. Not every idea you will have will be gold and that is part of the process. 

It takes a great while to learn to churn out ideas that are good, wierd, bad, and inconsistent. It takes a greater while to learn resistant and edit and not to be dishearten by bad excercises. 

Unfortunely some fine material is scarficed in the name of learning like this vintage book called Silent Reader. The learning curve is quite large but worth sticking it out.

Moodboard: Foolishly Wise

As I reach the end of my time at university, my thoughts are pondering more and more where I am headed and how I want to get there. 

My thoughts are also turning towards how and what I choose to represent myself and how I want to represent myself. This process is a bit of an old hat since it follows a similar pattern to graphic design work. 

The key difference between this and previous project is that I am applying all this thoughtful and carefully chosen manner to my our life and story. While the experience is quite exciting, it is at the same time quite frightening. I will be sharing ends and bits of the process along the way. 

Thank you.

*allimages found via Pinterest 

New Year Thoughts & Resolutions

In the midst of millions of New Year Resolutions made, I found myself resisting. 

I wanted to commit to the thousands of projects, travels, and goals my heart dared 

to dream of, but I did not want my pen to touch paper.

I puttered a few days after New Years, feeling a bit guilty about not making 

resolutions. I was feeling that by not having a resolution I was giving up on 

those plans in the first place. Even with those thoughts in place, I persisted in 

not making a resolution. It somehow it did not feel right, making a that list this 

year. A vague list that was aloof felt wrong for me, and a detailed list that spanned 

pages made me cringe.

Later as I was scrolling through Pinterest, I found these gems. It sums up 

what 2013 was like for me and what I dream that 2014 should be.

My resolution for this year and every year is work hard to be where I want to 

be tomorrow.

Images sourced from http://hqlines.me/.  

Sweeter Words Saturday:

Children literature and prose is my favorite section in every library and bookstore. I am drawn in by the colours, the typography, book design, and the quirky stories that lie within each book. I have the refined taste of a twelve year old and I am not a ashamed. 

I read a bit of children poetry and prose a while ago and copied the poems I liked into a small journal. This was one of them. The age is evident in the old choices and how people are described, but the sass is undeniable there.

I will share a bit more information about the author later. I also think that a poodle can substitute for a lamb.

"If No One Ever Marries Me" by Laurence Alma-Tadema

If no one ever marries me-

        And I don't see why they should,

For nurse says I'm not pretty

        And I'm seldom very good-

If no one ever marries me

        I shan't mind very much;

I shall buy a squirrel in a cage,

       And a little lamb, quite clean and tame,

That I can take to town.

And when I'm getting really old,

        At twenty eight or nine,

I shall buy a little orphan girl

        And bring her up as mine.

Margert Drummel & Yard Sales

Margaret Drummond is a women (I am assuming) that I have never meet. But her books have become a treasure of mine.

All I know of her is that is was German, lived in Lincoln, and attended University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She studied prose, poetry, and drama.

The books are mostly of poetry, prose,

and plays. These images do greater justice than any sentence I can form.

Sweeter Words Saturday

During my brief vacation, I have been indulging in reading books I have bought over the years and never finished reading. It is refreshing to discover and rediscover things in one's own home.  

My personal library is quite small but dearly loved. I thought I would share a bit of poetry by Wordworths. After spending what feels like months indoors, I cannot help but share in this idleness. though Wordsworth had a fine spring day than a warm day in the dead of winter.

To My Sister by William Wordsworth 

It is the first mild day of March:

Each minute sweeter than before 

The redbreast sings from the tall larch

That stands beside our our door

There is a blessing in the air,

Which seems a sense of joy to yield

To the bare trees, and the mountain bare,

And grass in the green field.

My sister! ('tis a wish of mine)

Now that our morning meal is done,

Make haste, your morning task reign;

Come forth and feel the sun.

Edward will come with you; -- and, pray,

Put on with speed your woodland dress;

And bring no book: for this one day

We'll give to idleness.

No joyless forms shall regulate

Our living calender:

We from to-day, my Friend, will date

The opening of the year

Love, now a universal birth,

From heart to heart is stealing,

From earth to man, from man to earth:

-It is the hour of feeling.

One moment now may give us more

Than years of toiling reason:

Our minds shall drink at every pore 

The spirit of the season.

Some silent laws our hearts will make,

Which they shall obey:

We for the year to come may take

Our temper from to-day.

And from the blessed power that rolls 

About, below, above

We'll frame the measure of our souls:

They shall be tuned to love.

Then come, my Sister! come, I pray,

With speed put on your woodland dress;

And bring no book: for this one day

We'll give to idleness.

Winter Bucket List

A while back ago, I had a summer bucket that was extravagant and long. It was nice though impractical for me. I am trying out smaller and simpler list to see if that works out better for me.

On a side note, Foolishly Wise will be having its first Cyber Monday Sale. Stay tuned for more info.