THAT YOU ARE HERE - THAT LIFE EXISTS🌸

hi:) 

happy tuesdays to you all💜

how are you doing?

i am kind of a tiny bit tired today but still feeling good thank goodness:) i think it's because i am doing tasks i have promised myself to do. this is sort of a new thing here in my world, since i am that rebel personality gretchen rubin talks about ( do her quiz to see what personality you are), which means (and i of course have known this for a long time) i do not listen to others and i don't  listen to myself most of the time...oh hallelujah🌸🌸🌸

i have certainly not been easy for my family.

on another note:)

i wanna give you a tip if you want to learn a new language

 ( one more language adds one more life i think in terms of stories and culture). 

 the duolingo app!:) 

one can choose between so many languages,

 i have chosen to learn french

 i am doing small classes daily 

and

 i am improving fast. 

plus

 it is SUCH fun. 

the app is free!

i can't wait until i can read poetry in french:)

 french literature! french movies! and such magic things.

since i finished another jane austen book,

 i choose to read someone elses magically romantic beautiful story so now i am in the middle of emily brontë's wuthering heights ,  this i because i want to save the few books of austen i have yet to fall in love with:))) luckily for me i am loving this mademoiselle brontë too:)))) thank goodness for all the literature genius women and men that have been out there. they shared their brilliance with the world in their time and now i get to enjoy it.

i have been meaning to read "the four agreements" for some time for my own well being and for others well being for some time and by luck the other day it was given to me at the oxfam charity shop. the first agreement is to be: impeccable with my words. it is gold. 

be impeccable with my word

nourish the moment

be joy

have grace 

create magic beauty

this is a daily mantra of mine:)

the below self portrait i call

the flowery goddesses

playing in photoshop

sometimes i have fun with picmonkey

the praying sister flowery goddesses

me 

yesterday

in a zara dress 

that i wear when i'm painting

chloe glasses 

 a marc jacobs hairpin

spring spring spring

finally

here in epping

 please dear god in the heavens make it warmer though

i have things to create!!!

 if you have read my blog for a while you do know that i am in the midst of reading (for the 3rd time) the artist way by julia cameron, she will have you go on an artist date once a week. you with yourself to do anything you'd love to do.

i love the wallace collection here in london so for my past week's artist date here is where i took myself on a date.

it is SO beautiful. i am stunned by the talent of these masters.

thanks for giving us this place for free,

 to wander about in awe of all its splendour.

now i am to devour games of thrones. i read the books but have never seen the actual tv show, but yesterday i bought season 1 on amazon. so this is what i am to gift myself now to devour.

that you are here -

that life exists and identity.

that the powerful play goes on,

and you may contribute a verse.

- walt whitman

 leaves of grass

love

alice solantania saga