this could be you …

and

… this could be me

and

…i believe in you and me and our little world !

… believe in you and me too !!!

Have a great day !

Love Patti

Right now I am just thinking … actually thinking about my thinking … thinking about how I think differently … about how what I think matters and how I can take the time I need to think things through.

It is what we think that makes it so.  How we look at a situation, how we think about it and how we react that gives it life.

I think everyday we are faced with situations and people who challenge us … and it is only up to us to choose how we react … after all our reaction is the only thing we truly have a say in … so taking the time to think differently may shed a new light onto the situation and have you seeing differently too!

Yesterday my bigpictureclasses photo prompt had us taking photos right into the sun … It suggested that we think of the sun differently in our picture frame.  The usual rule of taking the photo with the sun behind you did not apply.  It was about thinking differently and looking right at it …. Who knew that you could reach for the sun … and then just touch it.

I feel like sharing today and I hope you do too ! I would love to hear from you … from a little hello to sharing how you are thinking differently today.  I have a “think differently” print ready to go for someone thinking differently … please reply with a comment to this post and I will pick a name tonight and mail it out tomorrow …. have fun !!!

Have a super day today,

Love Patti

Well how about that … I am thinking that I just randomly thought of a weekly think about !!! and I like it … even better I say !!!

It actually is perfectly suiting the mood I am in today … a bit random … thinking all over the map you might say !! so here goes random thoughts for a thursday

* i like munchoes chips that i get at Shopper’s Drug Mart because they are yummy and they remind me of when my parents used to take my brother and I to Walt Disney World … they sold  munchoes at this little snack shop beside the waterfall pool

* random photo …

… of the stones all over the place when I was adding in a basketball nook on my driveway

* I am loving my photography course … it gets me seeing things differently and I like that

*random photo …

… of a parrot that was sitting pretty at the raptor’s festival

* i have just decided that I am going to stop my random thoughts at 5 because thursday is the 5th day of the week

*random photo …

…of the ribbon on top of the door prize at my homeshow

* and I have also just decided that I will post 5 random photos on thursday because again … it is the 5th day of the week

*random photo…

… of my feet in my favourite shoes

* and for absolutely no apparent reason i will add that my favourite colour is bubblegum pink

*random photo…

… of crayons

happy random thought thursday everyone !!

Love Patti

Well I have to tell you that I broke one of my own rules this morning … yes indeed I did !!!

I have often been asked when do I find the time?  Well you see … I am a wee hours of the morning kind of girl!  I think I actually wake up the birds … well this morning for sure!

I sort of have this rule (and I say sort of because sometimes I just have to get out of bed … I just have stuff to do !!! lol  ) of not getting out of bed until I see a 5 … yes a 5 … as in 5:00am.  I actually set my alarm for 5:20 in case I don’t get up on my own … a little crazy perhaps … Well the rule that I broke was that this morning I did not wait for the 5 … you know what that means … 4 something in the morning I was up and about … silly I know … but for me it was just right …. (insert smile here !!!)

So already this morning I am smiling … for one I thing it is funny that I am up so early but also that I had an email that made me smile (thank you, thank you, thank you)… so here goes !!! my thought for today is smile everyone … have a super day and look for as many things today as you can that will make you smile !! I know I will be doing that for sure !

Enjoy your day !

Love Patti

It is wonderful how you can see the difference in things when you see them differently… you know like seeing the light !

Seeing things for how great they are, for the opportunities they provide and the happiness we can find everywhere if we look through the darkness and see the light.

I was so excited about this morning’s prompt from bigpictureclasses to be able to use one of the photos I took this weekend when we were in Niagara Falls. I already had it waiting on my desktop !!! How is that for just knowing !!! sooooo cool!

Our room had the most amazing view and I sat at the window for over an hour just taking pictures.   I will be sharing them in the next little while for sure … and I know I have some painting to do because I was just a brimming with ideas and a whole lot of happy.

This was the photo when I had finished my blitz and was ready to take on another adventure.

I can hardly wait to see where it is I am looking and what I see !!!

See the light today … see the goodness … and be thankful!

Have a wonderful day,

Love Patti

you know you can … so fly very high …there are no limits … not even in the sky !!

One of my favourite inspirational authors is Wayne Dyer.  Having heard him speak last year had me almost spinning … I absolutely loved listening to the sound of his voice and every word that he said!

One of his quotes that really speaks to me is “if you change the way you look at things … the things you look at change”.

This can mean a lot of different things for different people …but  for me right now it is about seeing things from my point of view and no longer from someone else’s judgemental vantage point.

I think in our lives we so often worry about what “they” will think ….

-what will “they” think if the sink in the powder room is dirty?

-what will “they” think if the kitchen sink isn’t sparkling?

-what will “they” think if there are treasures on the floor of my truck?

-what will “they” think if there is a pile of dirty dishes on the counter?

-what will “they” think if there are 5 pairs of shoes not put away … all mine?

-what will “they” think if the garden is overgrown and the lawn is as high as a meadow?

Well I will tell you what I think “they” can think …

The sink is dirty, the kitchen is a wee bit messy, my truck is full of treasures from many an adventure, there are shoes on the floor …well not all mine actually!! and the garden is really really really  overgrown …

and quite honestly sometimes around our house the list can go on and on and on !!! … but you see that is just it … it is our house … this is the mess of our fabulous life !

It just seems to happen that the busier it gets around here get the messier it is !!! Well hey !! Get busy!!!… Get messy!!!! and enjoy every minute of what is keeping you from doing it all … So just stop worrying right now that you didn’t get to it … it will wait and you will get to it !!  and in the mean time you will be doing something else that just might be more important to you at that moment!

So the next time someone gets into your truck and you think you need to apologize for the papers on the seat  … stop yourself  … and wait for the thank you for the ride instead !

Things are a little overgrown around here right now and I couldn’t  be happier …  so I must be doing something right … overgrown garden and all !

Be thankful for the overgrown garden … it really does means something else is going on … life !!!

Have great day,

Love Patti

I found the perfect thankful rock …thank you with all my heart !!!

…thank you for the great picture of architecture I am going to find for my bigpictureclasses prompt this morning

….thank you for the creative eye I will have today as I search for the best shot ever … in my opinion !!!

… thank you for the restful time I will have mid day on my new favourite bench in the city

… thank you for the conversations with friends today that will make me smile

…thank you for the hugs I will get this morning when my kids wake up

…thank you for the coffee I will be making in less than an hour that will fill the house with the aroma of me time

…. thank you for my first trioriginals birthday party tonight that will be so much fun because kindness matters

…thank you for having the time today to get what I need organized for week 7 … oh my goodness !

…. thank you for the excitement that is building because it is Mother’s Day weekend and I have great plans with my kids

… thank you for knowing that I will have a lot more to be thankful for as the day goes on

What an amazing day I am going to have … I am wishing you an amazing day too !

Love Patti

It was like a chain reaction yesterday morning … I started out with my morning prompt from bigpictureclasses that was all about patterns.

So immediately I started looking around for patterns even before I left the house.

As I opened up the curtains the light shining through really caught the subtle pattern on the fabric.  Very cool.

As I continued to look my brain started going into overdrive of where was I going to find more patterns … I must find more patterns.

Then it occurred to me that I am surrounded by beautiful patterns when I paint.  All of my gazillion papers that I use as the foundation for my art is just covered with the most amazing patterns.  So immediately I am thinking I will take photos of all sorts of my papers and

capture the essence of my art.

Then … I know this is crazy !! … Then I am staring at one of my newest paintings that says “life is full of choices choose happiness”

and I am looking right at my favourite paper of all …so right then and there I take a picture of just that letter …

… thinking well it may transfer to black and white kind of well, I will give it a try… and then … again… another again !!!!

The letter that I took the photo of was the letter “i”  … for those of you who are getting to know my work know that “i” is really big for me … and for you too !!! “i” …”we”  are very important in our lives.

So now comes the big leap to a new painting idea … I can hardly wait  to show you … it is very simple but oh so powerful …

I will show you it very soon … a little clue is that it will have the great big “i” all over it !!!  I am thinking with a little bit of strength too!

I hope you are feeling strong today and are ready to make this day amazing.

… Now after all that…

This was in fact the photo I added to the class gallery. Total change of direction I’d say … but oh my goodness I just love it !!!

I know now that I can do hard things …sometimes I wish the lessons would take a break and I could coast a while … but then hey !!! …this building character stuff just might catch on.  I have a beautiful set of three paintings that hang together on the way down to the powder room and they read …

” see the signs”

“you can do hard things”

and “be strong one step at a time”

At my show this weekend I had a request to make another one of the paintings…While I was painting it and seeing them side by side I realized ….you know I can do hard things more than once … and each time I will be proud of myself … and each time I can share with someone that you can do hard things too !! …

For each of us those things may be different but in the end it is how we plugged through and made it to the other side that counts… the changes we see in ourselves that make us stronger and allow us to be who we truly are.

So today remember that you already have everything you need inside you to do whatever it takes to see this hard thing through,  and know that you have the energy of many others with you who are making it happen too.

Have a wonderful day today … and if today is a “coast on your bike day” then sit back and enjoy the ride and if it is “an uphill battle day” then pump like crazy!! … either way you are sure to get there !

I know you will.

Love Patti