Day 21 of Today

Positive horizons! We are this close to completing on our house!

Day 20 of Today

A school trip. This was the most peaceful part.

Day 19 of Today

Iron Man. Created by my class.
- head as large as bedroom, taller than a tree

Day 18 of Today

Little creature greeted us whilst we were taking a break from our vast workloads. He seemed pretty pissed that we stole his makeshift house of underneath our waterproof BBQ cover.

Day 17 of Today

Oh, what a week it has been. Very vulnerable.

Day 16 of Today

' For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.' 
- Hunter S. Thompson  


My soul has been trampled today.

Day 15 of Today

Nice to see that there is still colour on a miserable day.

Day 14 of Today

Testing. Feeling bad for the kids at the moment as there is quite a lot of pressure. Feeling bad for myself as there is a lot of marking.

Day 13 of Today

He came home sad and stressed. All he needed was somewhere to lay his head.

Day 12 of Today

The Jewish bakery is open again. Huzzah.

Day 11 of Today

In the In-Laws garden. A rainy day didn't seem so rainy.

Day 10 of Today

Dinner at Da Peppino's for Pa Green's birthday. The swordfish was mighty tasty.

Day 9 of Today

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease,
Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies,
To make the shifting clouds be what you please.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Day 8 of Today

A bad day. Lots of shadows.

Day 7 of Today

Had to go for a walk during my lunch time to get away from work. Teaching is rewarding but also very draining. I feel there is too much still left to do to help all the children in my class. Finding this on my walk made me even more reflective.

Day 6 of Today

 

Mmmmmmm. The Jewish bakery down the road from my school makes delicious rogs, chocolate ones are my favourite. I could eat a vat of them.

Day 5 of Today

 

A pretty good description of my day. Well, not all of it but definitely the end. It's a shame that I can't remember the good bits.

Day 4 of Today

A day of laundry. Briefly rid me of Sunday blues, which was odd.

Day 3 of Today

New mugs from the charity shop for £1.50 for the pair. A day of drinking coffee. Hangover averted.

Day 2 of Today

 

I put a deposit on this bed today. A new bed for our new house. 

Day 1 of Today

He got home from work. The sun was shining on his face as I gave a him a kiss. I took a photo.

Chasing creativity...

When I was a little girl, I used to spend weeekends scrapbooking, collage-making, and knitting. No, I wasn't boring, I had a social life too. I was just more creative. I've learnt that I have a creative soul and when I'm not creative, I often become stressed and mentally frustrated.

In my previous blog , Lullah in Wonderland, back in 2009, I took part in  a pledge in the London Word Festival's 'One Hundred Days to Make Me a Better Person' project. My pledge was to take a picture that represents my day, accompany it with a word that also represents my day and post it on my blog, which is essentially what I did... for 46 days. I started to feel bad when, for whatever reason, I couldn't take a picture or post to my blog so I quit. To this day, I am still annoyed with myself for it.

So I'm back. I decided today to stop looking longingly at  blogs where the author does not fear and puts whatever they feel like with little care for who reads it. Well actually before doing this, I found this video, Jonathan Harris: Today, which was exactly what I was going for when I had decided to complete my own project back in 2009.  If you can't be bothered to watch it, here is a brief summary of his intentions: a guy turns 30, realises he isn't quite where he wants to be in life so starts documenting his existence daily through photography, just one photograph a day.
Two thoughts kept disturbing me when watching the video:
1)This guy lives in a beautiful place somewhere in America.  I live in Walthamstow, East London, which is not renowned for its beauty.
2) This guy clearly does and sees some weird and wacky stuff. I am teacher who spends most of her day at school, if not, I will then be thinking about school or doing something towards school.


And yes, you've guessed it. I nearly quit again right there and then.
But here I am...


I think I will always love writing, drawing and photography yet I spend such little time doing them.
I have recently joined up to 750 words, which is based on Julia Cameron's The Artist Way  and her suggestion to complete Morning Pages - three pages of whatever happens to be in your stream of consciousness while writing - and I am writing again. I have downloaded an app called Pic Plz where I have been trying to be more creative when taking photos on my phone. And finally, I have started drawing again, using a book I bought a long time ago called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards.

(Now I'd like you to know I hadn't drawn in about nine years before drawing these:)

Me -

My hand -

So, what's my point? Well, I want you to use Mildred and Montag to chart my quest for creativity and I want to have fun doing it. So, I'll be here creating photo stories, drawings and other crap for myself, that anyone is free to come and have peek at if  they want to.


It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ~ Seneca