Astrology

I'm a Sagittarius and love Astrology.  I love to hear YouTuber's discussing what elements of the planets are effecting us each week.  And find a lot of the time the advice is worth listening to.  Sometime it's exactly what you need to hear.  A number of years ago I did a poster series on each Zodiac sign.  Here's my Aries poster... you can find all of these over on Pinterest:

I've taken the original posters, made them grey scale and added 'my girls':

This one is actually the cover of My Secret Amazing Delightful Life book and not included in the new book, but gives you an idea.  One for each of the signs with areas to record birthdays etc.  Here it is!

Inside there are the 12 signs (traits, elements, qualities, gemstones and more), other influencing planets (Venus, Mars, Neptune etc.,) as well as their main traits and the 12 houses featuring their main themes. You'll find descriptions of the Four Elements (fire, earth, water air) and the Qualities (cardinal/fixed/mutable). 

Artwork is simple, easy and whimsical. There is space to record your personal details or areas you may use to journal. Keep track of important dates to remember ; birthdays, anniversary’s or other dates.  

Would love you to have one!  It would make a great gift also.  Please share & thank you for your support!

Love,

Tam

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PS.  This version is 8.5 x 11 and there is another which is smaller but exactly the same.  The small version is 5 X 8 so it's easier to store for those dates you don't want to forget!

*Art Journal* Flip Through

I really am in need of a new camera!  This one is aweful, but at least I can show you some of what I've been up to.

Cheers!
Tam

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A Special Birth

16 years ago I attended a birth... one of my best friend's daughter was born.  It was one of the most amazing opportunities I have ever had in my life.  

Oddly enough I teach HypnoBirthing now and it was the first hand  experience I can fully share with my Mom's.  (HypnoBirthing offers natural child birth classes)

At the time I journalled about the experience.  At the start of this year I came across that journal.  There were so many things I had forgotten about during this day.  

For a present I art journalled the whole story and gave it to the 16 year old.  

Here's how some of it turned out....

Wishing you a fantastic week with some awesome memories!

Tam

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PS.  Some of the artwork in this piece are from other's that I printed, cut and paste into this journal.  Most of it is artwork I created myself though.

Believe in Love

I love this piece!  It was so fun to create.  

I had some extra bits of mounting foam left over from another project so I decided to use it here.  I adored the background and couldn't think of what to do with it so Zentangles and birdhouses made their way in. I especially love the little kite dangling down - the sideways written words came from font I saw over on pinterest.

Here it is again with better lighting.  The birdhouse on the right didn't mount straight.  It's stuck like that now...

Here is my Pinterest account btw... 

http://www.pinterest.com/tammycymbalisty/

Check out my astrology board.  I can't believe how many hits my Zodiac pictures are getting and being shared/pinned.  I'm grateful some are enjoying the hard work that went into them. And oddly enough it is the Aries picture that is winning with 160 re-pins!  Isn't that awesome?

Ok...have a great week and enjoy the beginning of summer

Tammy

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Embracing and doodling

I finally got around to using some of the artwork Leonie Dawson gave away at Christmas, I cut it out and added it to my journal page here:

Then I tried my hand at zendangle/zentangle whatever it's called!  Loved creating this one....

And of course a week can't go past without doing some painting!   I doodled the girls at work, brought them home and cut them out and added them to this background.  It was quite fun!

Have a fantastic week,
Tammy

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Cinqo de Mayo

Finally I made some time to update my Etsy shop... Check it out if you wish


https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/MindfulMelody?ref=si_shop


Happy Cinco de Mayo!


I'm off to meditate then to teach.  Catch you again soon!
Love
Tam
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Planning

Here is a journal page I just started last night - love the beginnings of this Owl.... now I have to decide what medium I'm going to complete it with.

Below is a journal of so many possibilities!  The left hand side of the page is one of my favourite Rainer Maria Rilke quotes from his Letter's to a Young Poet .  I just read the whole thing yesterday and highly recommend it.  I definitely need to re-read it again as there were so many nuggets of wisdom in there.  Here is the quote with more to it....

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke

And here's one from last week that was fun (and really messy)!   Food and art.... the messier, the better I say!  LOL

The right hand side quote is... 

"There is a seed of peace, joy , love and wisdom in each of us." ~Iyanla Vanzant

Freedom and a Seagull

We live by a river and see seagulls overhead daily.  They inspired me to use Richard Bach's quote,

 "You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way."

That's a lovely thought, isn't it?  

Happy Sunday!
Tam

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Believe its Unfolding as it Should

Bella isn't always as grumpy as she looked in her last picture... here's a better snap.  I love those sparkling eyes!  You can really see the lavender in her coat here.  I love Russian Blue's for this reason.. their fur is so thick and gorgeous!  I just wish she'd let me cuddle her and not just look at her.  Something isn't fair about that...

Here are the last pages of my art journal.  I can't believe I've filled my first one already!  I'll be sad to see this one leave, but happy to be moving into the next one.

Bigger right side... love these people!

Left side.  I stoled the star ideas from Aaron Blazevich (Imperfect Impulses.. Here's his youtube video if you want to see it).  I added the dots on them, they were fun and I'll definitely use the technique again.

My 2nd last page.  It says, "Everything is unfolding as it should"  This is hard to keep in mind and I need to hear it often!

Last week I was over at Shroo's blog and she had finished a lighthouse piece (one of my all time favourite things).  So this is my take. And of course what we thinketh comes to pass so its all about vision baby!  See it and believe it...

Thanks for stopping in!  

Enjoy a wonder-filled weekend

Tammy

PS.  I'll leave you with a quote that Ram Dass just loaded onto Facebook which is awesome and I love......

"Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.”

Happy Renewal Year

This year I've come across many people who are picking one word to infuse the year with. 

My word for this year is 'renewal'.

I like the thought of being renewed or refreshed.

And after how 2013 went I'm ready for it!

If you could pick one word what would it be?

PS.  Drawing back the curtain on my art journal entry from 01/03 called "Surrender Love" enjoy:

PPS.  I'm finding the backgrounds have pictures that are jumping at me asking to be born!  It's amazing.  This dragonfly had to come out.  I love it!  It inspired me to paint this little sweetie on canvas: