Since I have joined Blogtoberfest and have been posting daily this month...and i have tons of rock art, that should keep me going for days....you may get sick of it... I almost didn't get to this post today, so i am just squeaking in, in the nick of time...
Frosted petunias and Incipient wings are hosting the Le Mysterieux Carnival.....For those of you who are out visiting this blog party..... Here's the tale of my visit to the otherwordly event.
It was not what I had expected.... But then it was my choice. I passed up the black spun candy and the orange rock crystal sugar bits, the vendors in top hats selling all manner of goodies and dark treats, the glittered pumpkins and dark tule skirts under satin dresses. I slipped past the eerie rides in a dreamy dance, listening to the music of the carousel as I headed straight to the fortune-teller tents. I so wanted an answer to my question that I took the silver ticket that I had found on the seat of my car, rolled up and filled with glitter, and handed it to the man in the black suit.
He was standing guard in front of the passage into the lane where all the psychics in their skirts and scarves and beaded earrings waited. He looked at my ticket with a strange look on his face and put a hand up to block my passage. I said, "But I have this ticket, it's mine..... And I need to speak to a fortune teller." He said, "This ticket is for The Teller of Truth's, you will find her deep in the forest. Go down the lane, follow the crow past the fields of corn, follow the trail of tarot cards until your Spirit guide leads you to the correct path. Turn when you see the fairies' garden of mushrooms. You will find her there. If she will see you that is." I didn't know what to think, except that I had to see her. I had to know. I started off with only a minute's hesitation and one backward glance at the tall man who watched me walk down the lane. I followed his directions, picking up tarot cards in the wide trail, and soon came upon a split in the path wondering which way to go... when I spotted a bright yellow toad hopping to the left. Assuming he was my guide I followed along. I saw the mushrooms right away and turning onto a new path. A few twists and turns later i could no longer hear the caliope or the brightly dressed carnivale people yelling out their sales pitches. And there she was behind a table full of white items. She looked nothing like I expected, actually she looked alot like me. Older, heavier, with out glasses and her hair was longer with a streak of gray like a skunk, but still similar to mine. She didn't speak, but she laughed to see me and started pouring some sort of salt into a bowl. She opened a vial and sprinkled something into the bowl on top. The scent of cloves hit me. The candle flickered and her scarf blew in a wind I didn't feel. I checked out her table, it was covered in white items and she was dressed all in black. There were coins and crystals, i began to think they must have been left in payments. There was even a container of what looked like baby teeth there. I panicked when i realized i hadn't brought money. I had thought my ticket would be enough. She asked for payment, some piece of me, something i loved. I reached into my pocket without a second thought and pulled out my little rock talisman. I carried it everywhere for luck. I set it on the table and pushed it forward with one finger, worried it wouldn't be enough. Again she laughed and gestured for me to take a star from the bowl. But then she held up a hand in caution and said..." first think hard on your question... Remember this.... The question is more important than the answer...." I paused, but already had my question in mind..." will everything be OK for us?". This question had run through my head daily since i found the ticket. That's it, just...will it be OK? So i took a white star, opened it right there, and was so relieved to see the words written there. She dismissed me with a wave and a laugh and I practically skipped away, so happy to know my answer. It wasn't until I was in bed that night that I suddenly "knew" that all the stars had that same message. They ALL said the same thing. I had been fooled. Then I thought a little farther and remembered what she'd said..... The question was more important than the answer. If all the answers were yes then you just had to ask the right question. If you asked "will I fail?" the answer was yes. If you asked "will I succeed?" the answer was also yes! I had gotten just what I wanted and needed!
The video shows just a little bit of my journey to the Teller of fortunes. If you would also like a tiny rock like i paid for my fortune, and a white origami star of your own, leave a comment and i will draw a winner of this tiny giveaway on monday. Thanks for listening to my tale! Update, I have realized the video didn't post correctly, i always have trouble with this because i ended up with two separate you tube accounts... oh well, here's a link, maybe this will work... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzlaHbOOMyY&feature=plcp
To balance out all the rocks i will probably be showing for days on my blog since i am trying to post daily, I will show you something different today...
i made a cranky bird in my sketchbook....
I found Dar Host's cranky birds though Carla Sonheim's blog where she is having a celebration due to her new book release. She has had tons of tutorials so i thought i would try a cranky bird, which is required to have a cranky comment next to it. Since I have been in court (not for personal reasons or jury duty but for work) I made my cranky bird a cranky jaded hippy attorney bird.
Random fact: tons of our attorneys here do not look clean cut but rather have very long hair and /or pony tails. (Just a small observation, that i happen to like)
I started with a tea blob left over from setting my teabag in my sketchbook, not sure if that idea was from either dar hosta or carla sonheim but i saw it somewhere....
I saw the bird right away and started adding lines and color....
these are fun and addictive because i want to do more... well i have already done more tea blob sketches, so far they each involve a little boy named JoJo who rides monsters...(you'll have to wait till later to see those), but since I started on the court thing here are some sketches I did in court, the color added later as i only carry a pen to court...
I am sharing the joy today!
I had a lovely afternoon off work yesterday to go to an appt. And I sold a rock to a coworker...
and so had $3 in my pocket. I stoppped at all three little farm stands that sell pumpkins on my way home and bought something from each. OK, I had to scrape together $2 in quarters from my car by the time i got to the third place but what a deal! Don't you just LOVE a farm stand with a handpainted sign!!!!
Since I am blogging daily in October it gives me a chance to enter all the groups and challenges I know.... here's a photo of my desk for all you WOYWW people...I will try to get around to visit some of you after work...
This is actually at work so i leave the rocks to the side till my break or pull out a mandala to work on during lunch some days, not lately actually. Lately I have been walking. But I have been doing lots of rocks so here's a few more photos of some.....
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
List it tuesday has started back up and since I am obsessed with writing lists I thought I would make some of my lists prettier than usual and join in,... this weeks list theme is creative things you can do in 15 minutes or less... i filled 2 pages in my sketchbook with this list.... But i realized as i did this that it is not so perfectly easy to make a beautiful list... It's harder than i thought it would be to make it aesthetically pleasing without putting a lot of thought and planning into it, some people just do it so well with their lettering that it seems effortless... Something to work on.... The color choices and the lettering.... I realize it could just be a plain written list but i wanted it to be "pretty" too... We'll see how i do next week....
linking to mandarin orange monday and maybe even joining in on Blogtoberfest where we will all post daily in October... not sure I can make that but I'll give it a shot.
