Kaleidoscope fun

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Kaleidoscope by inkspired 

Have you asked yourself

“Why does she keep posting 

all those kaleidoscopes?”

???

A paper kaleidoscope by inkspired

‘Invent your world.

Surround yourself with people,

color, sounds, and work

that nourishes you.’

-SARK

I have shared this quote in past blogs.

It’s a sentiment that I believe needs to be repeated.

How short our memories can be!

Toxic people

Toxic thoughts and

Toxic habits-

They are all insidious, sneaky things

that creep into our lives and we don’t even realize it.

I have found in my life that these damaging people,

relationships, actions and habits are

Extremely Difficult

to break free from; to remove them;

to say NO! to.

That is their strength-

To fool you into believing false things

about yourself, about your self esteem

and how you see the world through their eyes

not the eyes of truth and beauty.

How does this relate to kaleidoscopes?

I am surrounding myself with beauty!

I am reminded of the wonders that abound

all around me, every day!

a garden flower kaleidoscope by inkspired

“We can only be said to be alive

in those moments when our hearts

are conscious 

of our treasures.”

- Thornton Wilder

Kaleidoscopes are fascinating.
They take a picture, and by division and separation 
create something altogether new!

By turning your kaleidoscope slightly
you are shown an all new perspective..
new colors, new shapes!

Okay, I’m giving away my secret:

KaleidaCam

This is the app I use. 
You can find it in the App Store!

Have a color-filled, awesome day!

‘Til next time,
inkspired

Truth: usually experienced before 10am or coffee-

If you see dropped food on the bottom of the oven, do not attempt to remove if the oven is turned ON.
Coils are hot. Check on/off first.
😳

Valentine paper dolls to print

personal use only

www.gabitogrupos.com

By now, you should all know how much I love paper dolls!

I am growing a very nice little collection,

and love to find new ones online that I can share with you!

Just assume that all the paper dolls are for your personal use only.

That means you can download them and give them away,

but not download them and sell them

or

tweak them a bit and sell them.

Okay?

Let's have some Valentine paper cutting fun!!

by Neva Schultz

found on marlendy.wordpress.com

Issue 101, 2012, by Eileen Rudisell Miller

www.paperdollreview.com

www.thepapercollector.blogspot.com

www.zazzle.com

www.posterplease.com

www.thericebabies.com

www.papergoodies.com

found on www.origamibears.com

I especially love the paper doll Valentines that are in the form of a

greeting card.  Here are more:

www.tiny-us.com

While I have seen these on different sites,

I believe I found mine on www.origamibears.com

Last for today, I have this charming vintage set that is to accompany the story

'The Poodle that Didn't Know English'

printed in the Ladies Home Journal in June, 1913.

I sadly don't have the story to go with it,

but it's very charmingly illustrated by Gertrude A. Kay

The fellow has such a wonderful red heart outfit, I just had to include it!

Remember,

it's not too late to mail a Valentine

to that someone special!!

until next time,

inkspired

www.collagepaperpainting.etsy.com

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and on pinterest -

kkloberdans

one of a kind 1/1 paper doll dresses cards
using recycled junk mail
and bargain bin finds
www.collagepaperpainting.etsy.com

Secret Society of Happy People

Happy

Donna, a young elephant at the Whipsnade Zoo in Dunstable, England,
is playing football with her keeper.
photo cred: Steve Parsons, 1/2012

Today's blog is all about HAPPY!!

I found the coolest thing online, while browsing for something else -
That's what 
serendipity
is!

A HAPPY vintage song sheet cover, c. 1917
courtesy of Indiana Music Libraries, address to the right of this blog

I discovered 
www.sohp.com

That stands for 
The (Secret) Society of Happy People!

What a wonderful name!

A HAPPY Jester paper cutting pattern
from out of print Backstreet Designs


Hmmmm... a secret society of Happy People?
Yep!

Pamela Gail started this back in 1997,
to focus on the HAPPY moments,
instead of
the SAD, TRAUMATIC moments.
Great idea!!

(Something that makes people happy - chocolate!)


Today is the start of an entire week of

Hunt for Happiness Week
January 20 - 27, 2013

The focus is on finding moments of happiness every day.

Here's one of mine!

The Flamingo Barbie

You know I had to get in a Barbie somewhere, right?!
AND you know Flamingos are just so cool,
and fun
and make me happy!!

a wonderful paper doll duo by Lonnie M. Bullington
LJ Studios, 2011
found on pinterest

On the SOHP website, there are several activities that you can use to find your daily
happiness.

There is a great Word Search for

Thirty-one Types of Happiness
and

there are 'I-Spy' coupons to print out and give -
(to hand to  people that you see doing 'happy' things) 
and

Happiness Challenges
with ideas for finding happiness moments every day.

She gives ideas for even kids to join in with a 

365 Happiest Moments Journal.

Moroccan 12 year old,
credit: www.nationalgeographic.cm

So why not check out these Secretive
Happy People (!)
and celebrate 
the HUNT FOR HAPPINESS WEEK!!

Who knows? We might even join a global revolution?

Happy Nigerian children!
www.ngonewsafrica.org

Well, I'm off to start my Happiness Journal,

and make a new Pinterest Board of Happy Things,
(you can find me as K. Kloberdans there)

and make an etsy Treasury of
What makes me Happy!!

(You can find me through
www.collagepaperpainting.etsy.com
or
www.inkspired.etsy.com)

"Butterflies"
original Collage Art Doll by inkspired
made from all recycled junk mail!
www.collagepaperpainting.etsy.com


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November Flower of the Month Chrysanthemum

Greeting to all!
I am fighting major headaches (storms moving in, out and all around apparently).
Plus, we still haven't figured out why our internet is being squirrely. Is it our computer? Is it the blogspot's computers? Twitch in the cable? Did someone open up a computer room with scads of computers hooked onto the same cable as ours?
These are deep questions....
oh not really. They just seem important when I am trying to post a blog!
:0)

November's Flower of the Month is the Chrysanthemum.
From here on I will refer to the flower as 'mum' as I don't feel like typing the whole word out each time.

photo by Yuriy Brykaylo

The Mum has a very long history, and appears to start in China.

I found 2 theories on how the mum got its' name.

The first is:

Chrysanthemum is derived from the Greek words

'chrysos' meaning gold, and 'anthemon' for flower.

However, others believe that chrysanthemum is derived from a

Latin compound word meaning 'golden flower'.

Different original languages, but both came up with the same meaning-

golden flower.

shutterstock photo of the week

www.freshfreestuff.net

The thing is, mums come in a rainbow of colors and shades -

yellow, purple, pink, deep pink, orange, white, red, green

and more!

http://www.greenfingers.com/

Now this next was news to me -

the blooms come in a huge variety of 'forms'

such as Incurve, Reflex, Decorative, Pompon, Single, Semi-Double,

Spoon, Quill, Spider.....and more!

a 'pompon mum

http://www.thefloweringgarden.com/

white mum, http://www.ferenc.biz/

a 'spider' type mum

a 'garland' mum, http://www.types-of-flowers.org/

Some of the photos I saw that said they were so-and-so type mum

I woudn't have believed it until I did some research!

courtesy Swaminathan

I need to close now,

but I do have lots more info for you about mums,

their history,

vintage art, vintage song sheet covers,

lots of fun!

I'll try my best to post tomorrow!

:0)

'bubble romper'

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