blogging elsewhere

as well.

this is easier to do from a mobile phone,

and it'll probably be mostly for pictures.

tumblr has caught my eye for quite some time now.

http://annalisanutt.tumblr.com/

i'm sure i'll keep this blog going too tho.

just thought i'd add another one since life isn't congested enough.

top skeleton is mine.
i don’t have a sway in my neck,
which isn’t the best thing.
this partly explains why i’m so often sore in my upper back and neck.
special exercises and prayer to start the reverse.

i’m overly aware of my spine throughout the day now, which is slightly creepy…

heart of iron

the other night i tried out a new technique painting tissue paper.

it’s similar to watercolor.. you mist your paper, water down your acrylic and let the paint flow. watching the different shades of liquid meld together was a complete JOY. it felt sooooo good. i kept smiling like i was in the presence of a new boyfriend or something. i was so inspired by the colors and the mood of the night, i started snapping some pictures.

when i finally captured the shot that hit me deep down, i stopped. (this photo is in my last blog entry)

later i found out there was a contest with the app i was using.

and it just so happened to be a theme that the photo could work with.

so i entered it.

i used to enter contests all the time when i was little!

usually coloring contests..

so this is new & fun & makin’ me feel like a little kid again. (in spite of the subject matter)

winner gets $100 gift card to iTunes.. SWEET!

ready, set, Vote.

http://community.hipstamatic.com/submissions/40240

and here’s another shot from that moody night:

you have to try out this technique!

you can use this paper for collage, scrapbooking, gift wrap, home decor, etc!

PS: here’s a clip from the DVD i learned from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc8i6WXlTMI

when inspiration finally becomes…

feel the hope in your guts

trust your guts

base your gut feeling on hope.

-Nephew

This is the kind of sky that dreams are made from.

i read this comment on a youtube video the other night:

"well what are you waiting for then? remember this: you can act yourself in to believing, quicker than you can believe yourself into acting."

it was in response to someone who was confessing that they should be doing the Spirit music that was featured on the video.

i thought that was perfectly said.

i was looking up some natural remedies (which by the way i learned how to make GOOT, a very interesting miracle salve!) and got to blog hopping... it led me to this video on someone's blog.

some of you will feel me when i say that this gave me the cry-laugh-shouts....

(especially from 4 minutes on)

years back, i remember asking Robin Pasley (co-creator/percussionist/singer) of ETWC who she listens to for inspiration..

it interested me because i was so inspired by their music...

and she mentioned this guy below.

i never followed up on him.

glad i bumped into this.

MAN this is good.

it doesn't even really anger me... or hurt my feelings.

more than anything it saddens me for the individuals who live their lives harboring such demonic thoughts towards others.

"kill her with a rock."?

i've heard that if you hang with an angry man,

you'll learn his ways.

New Years Eve, i made plans with no one.

it'd be nice if that was cleared up on a certain guitar forum cesspool that my YouTube video was recently linked with, and/or deleted all together.

and to benefit yourself, perhaps join an entirely new chat-board.

or whatever you call those things.

one

one lone diamond of a song together.

i wish there could have been more.

so achingly beautiful.

National Post link

Map: From fish to birds, the week in dead animals | Posted | National Post

eleven

the Holidays came upon me fast and left before i knew it.

this is probably the first Christmas where i was ready for it to be over with before it even started!

i figured that just meant i was getting older..

but after some thought, i realized it was mostly because i was really ready for the fresh slate of 2011 to begin, and not that i was losing my whimsical side.

(another part is that i hate how America does Christmas)

i didn't do anything too special to ring in the year, and i decided not to make any New Years resolutions..

but, as suggested by a friend, i am speaking certain words over my year.

at a show on 1-1-11, she told me that she spoke the word "order" over hers.

it really inspired me! seemed like a fresh idea.

i've been thinking about different words, but "order" in every sense , feels good to me too for 2011.

i look into numbers a lot.

i have special ones in my life, and they are significant everywhere...from the cosmos, to the number of ribs we have, to music composition, to God.

so i thought about the number 11 and wondered if it held a special meaning for this New Year...

after some reading, i find it "ironic" (in Alanis Morissette's definition?!) that the number 11 in the bible means DISORDER.

http://www.biblestudy.org/bibleref/meaning-of-numbers-in-bible/21.html

i have not researched many other Numerology sites..

but this definition was congruent with a couple others.

i'm still speaking ORDER over 2011.

gotta always speak and think Life, ya know?

the other word for my year is:

Joy.

Harvest Moon. taken December 2010.

abandoned project

i just caught the sky on fire.

wounded birds