Art.

I was looking online for some art to inspire me for a painting i'm working on. The piece i'm working on is just to blah to me right now. It's lacking creativity, and I need to find a way to make it unique and not just ordinary. Here are some pieces i stumbled upon that I LOVED!

Ps.. none of these are my works, I found them all on weheartit.com

Inspiration Accounted for.

Now that i'm into my second actual post i've realized how much i've MISSED this. Blogging is my creative outlet where I can just poor out my thoughts, what inspires me, my ideas. When I keep it up in my head I loose it, there's too much jumbling around out there. It also keeps my writing from rusting up.

I've missed meandering around looking for pictures, ideas, things to blog about. Getting swept up in inspiration and letting my idea's take their own form.

Blogging keeps me accountable to to the things I want to accomplish. So you shall here more from me...because to tell the trust these last few months I have felt ANYTHING but creative in the way i want to. I honestly haven't felt creatively inspired in a while. I've created things...and been inspired. But it's not the same. If that makes any sense whatsoever.

So anyways. I'M BACK YO!

HEY NICOLE, i'm talking to you.

NOTE TO SELF:

When feeling low or unispired this summer

READ THIS

and your bible

I wanna live this summer to it's fullest. Seize the moment cause if the last year has taught me anything you have to treasure the time you have on this planet and definitely the time you have with people You're only at this stage of your life for so long.

Me and Gab's were talking the other day about how sometimes she gets frustrated and just wants to be done with all the in between and just wants to be where she wants to be already. And thats exactly how i've been feeling the last year. I just wanna own my design firm and have a family. Maybe I wouldn't go as far as to say frustrated, theres just some days where I just wanna be there, you know. Yes, sometimes the getting there sucks but today I realised I have to much to do in this time right now. Heck i'm not even 20 yet.

I think dreaming does that to you, you get so excited for the future and you start to dream bigger and God shows you what he wants for your future and its so awesome you just want it now. If there wasn't a reason for the road to getting there God would just give it to you.

Today, in particular, was a day full of inspiration and good news. It definitely showed me how much I do love learning and dreaming. I realised that right now to get where I want to be I need to be learning and dreaming. I wanna learn something new everyday and live everyday more inspired than I ever have. Live my summer with a purpose, hence the list. To take time to be my age, and act like a fool with my friends.

SUMMER GOAL:

Live life to the fullest

God died to give you life

In the Summa Time When the Weather is Fine

So i've been really psyched for summer lately. I've been thinking about all my plans. Camping, road trip, and hopefully a foreign country! There's definately a few things I wanna do this summer that I didn't get to do last summer. One of those things is spend much more time in the water. Possibly some of the time learning to surf! Its been a rough week and God and thinking about summer has definately kept me positive. These pictures were also a big inspiration!

Superpowered Words

Okay so I found this cool contest thats going on in UBC and SFU right now through a friend that entered. Long story short I got to looking through the other entants. And i couldn't help but notice their theme. Not all of them but many of them we're about God. I really enjoyed listening to them so I thought I would share. They're so honest and down to earth, and thats what makes them inspirational.















And this last one is my friend Francis's. Well probably more like acquintance, as we haven't spoken since high school. I still follow his work cause he's a genius with words, but that shall be another post.


Really what amazes me is how much so little can make an impact. These videos are 30 to 60 seconds long and in that amount of time their words impacted me. Its kinda crazy how something maybe as small as a single sentance or even a word can resinate with you and spark a whole thought process or revalation. In my in class summary this week I had to respond to an article. Basically pick a point the author wrote about and agree dissagree or show ambivilance. I chose to agree with the fact that analyzing the world around you can call for a higher vocabulary and sentance structure. I'm not going to spit my essay back out at you don't worry. But my response summed up to sometimes you don't but in most cases you need extra ordinary words to describe something in the ordinary world becuase the world is just that ordinary. Higher vocabulary and new words are being still being added to the dictionary for a reason and that reason is that this invented word was created to describe or define something another word didn't quite fit. Anyways, right now i'm trying to say that, it's pretty spectacular how people can select a few choice words in a sentance and say so much and make such an impact. It makes me think about how I choose my words on a daily basis. It also makes me re-evalute those things that pop into my head that I never say to someone that could be really impactful but because I chose not to say them I missed an oppurtunity. Sometimes it's impossible to really know what words or things you say will impact someone you just really gotta be aware. One things for sure, anything that is a word from God can impact hundreds upon thousands. Wrap you're mind around that, I know I hardly can.

God is good

This is how i've been feeling lately. I don't know if you translate the same thing I do from this picture. Heck I don't even know what I'm translating from the picture sometimes you just can't put words to feelings. I'm feeling so inspired but there's so much going on around me at this moment my life feels cluttered. But honestly, I don't like it any other way. Sometime i'm like i'm doing to much and I sit down and try to sort out what it is I am able to drop. My answer every time = nothing. Every Sunday night i look over my last week and organize my next week. Many a times I end up puzzled at how I got through my last week and then think how the heck am I gonna do the next week. It is so evident God is good, and miraculously I had an essay pushed back a week and no homework assigned for painting next week. On top of that I didn't get scheduled for work on Monday which has its pro's and con's cause I need the money. I think I need the time to put my artisitic inspiration to hard work.

Too inspired to sleep

So i'm halfway through my first wednesday 4 hour break. And I amdone all my reading for English. Since I was up all night looking at achitecture that inspires me I though I would share a few that I particularily loved. Some modern, most older. I am definately a fan of the natural. Stone, brick, or wood leave me utterly speachless and feeling all giddy-in-the-clouds like.

 I just don't even know how this was done. Ingenious.

The different varieties of columns that were built early on are amazing. Same idea but each culture has their own variety and adaptions.

This is the Natural Museum of History.

I wish to walk slowly through buildings like this soaking the textures and history and engineering of these monstorous works. Running my hands along the natural stone.

This i don't even know. Amazing as well. 

This is a church. The amount of detail and effort, thought, technique, time, skill, and creativity to make this blows me away. All for God's house.

This picture just makes me think back to when it was made. What went on their. The values beleif and caulture that existed at the time.

This is just flipping neat! Like Tarzan and Jane. I just love wood.

Desperately love the morrocan/asian/spanish inspired feel.

Is it weird that sprial staircases and bookcases give me butterflies?

This is a university. Like how i've mentioned before. I would love to go to school in a building like this. So inspriring and cozy.

This is my absolute favorite. The Strahov Monestery. Absolutely breathtaking. I actually have no words. The intricate...well everything. The book cases, columns, ceilings, staircases, colors, detail. It kind of reminds me of the Beast's castle in Beauty and the Beast.

This is not even a quarter of what I stumbled upon last night. I am constantly intrigued by the different styles from different parts of the world. When houses were beginning to be built, their authors had no idea what buildings looked like in other parts of the world. With little means of transportation and record technologies each community had their own style. I one day hope to be able to witness the many varieties of mediums and teture and history of buildings all over the world.

I'm off on an adventure.

Now I have posted about my love of sailboats, and my undying goal to go sailing! I also love Lighthouses. The idea of living in a Lighthouse would be so cool. Like in one of my favorite childhood movies "Pete's Dragon" or that movie that's like Cheaper by the Dozen..the name escapes the walls of my minds at this moment. You could do so much to the interior of a lighthouse. The wooden beams, winding staircases, circular nautical windows. The the top floor a circular glass room with a giant light, so cozy. The constant sound of waves bombarding a mortar of rock. While winds attempt to blow down the house in the evening, come morning the calm is deafening.

 



Hey Mr. Rager. Tell me where you're going, tell us where you're headed

I'm off on a adventure, Mr. Rager Tell me some of your stories, Tell us of your travels



One strike of the clock, brings a New year.

The last few days i've been super inspired. Probably has alot to do with these two books i've been huddled up in a corner reading. Those being The Bible and The Architecture of Happiness. I took time to reflect on what has happened this year. I didn't really feel like alot has happened but in reality way to much has happened. I look back a year ago from today, its amazing really.

So here's a recap of 2010 events and such:

Became part of the most amazing family made of some pretty amazing girls
Finished my first Semester in University with an a, b, and c.
Discovered so many more of my dreams, but I know that isn't even part of them.
Experienced the olympics, which was one of the most patriotic things i think that can ever be experienced
Reached my savings goal of $10 000
Seen two amazing people leave the country to pursue greater things than most people can imagine.
Made a difference in someones life

And there's so much else I know I did. A year is such a short but long time.

And this is some of what I hope to accomplish in 2011;

Grow more in God, but clearly that is a given

Have my lifegroup grow by 5 girls regularly coming out

Have Maygan and Breanna Regularly come to wildifre

See my Lifegroup girl start to give back. And be their generations leaders.

Finish my next semester with nothing lower than a B

Start my Autocad certificate

Finish my portfolio

Go out and talk to several local Interior designers

Go to another country. England?

Take a road trip

Get my N

Save 2000+ more dollars

Learn something new (piano, surf)

Finish an entire sketchbook

Spend more time reading less time on the computer\

Get my first tattoo or two.

It all starts with God and then me. I know I won't get any of this done unless I commit to it. I often write down what I want to change or do, or set goals for myself. I end up getting dissapointed becuase half of them never happen. Sometimes life gets in the way, and I have to make the effort to not let the less important tedious things stop this list from getting accomplished. Maybe not all this year but in the next few.