Lemon Cucumber Voss like a BOSS ! (edited!)

What are my hopes for September? 

What do I want to let go of before September begins?

For a much better, clearer answer, I am singing, "WAKE ME UP, WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS..." by Green Day.

Summer is over, and with summer being over, I am looking forward to fall, crisp mornings, hoodies, bon fires, football, and for Hurricane season to be over! (The hurricane part is why I just want you to wake me up when September ends!!! ) 

 This has been the rainiest summer to date!   

And we went camping in our rv and still managed to have a great time! Even though a bunch of nights were spent cuddling without netflix, but we chilled with candy raided from the dollar store, while we built a nice winter collection of dvd four packs!  

     I had to let go of my summer color palettes. I spent my morning, and cleaned my desk off. A clean slate. Time to put those cool colors up, and start using those warm fall colors in spreads.

    This is the start to my favorite time of the year. Breezes from hurricanes that linger for days! Makes me want to be anywhere BUT in my art room! However, here I am, sitting at my computer, looking out my window,  watching branches, and leaves, my beautiful wind chimes singing their own song, and anything and everything else fall, from the storm Harvey!

     While it may seem like I am complaining I am " stuck in my art room, * I am throwing this out there, I am NOT. I am very thankful I have a room of my own. I have worked really hard to be able to have a space just for me around this house. My husband is lucky to have a man cave as well. We each have our own little hideouts, that we both retire to, when we need "space!"King Bees man cave is called the Honey Comb Hide Out, while mine is, La salle de vie, in French, the life room! I just call her Sally! She's my little mustang. Always a project I am working on in here. And I treat her with kindness and compassion... ( when I am not traveling!) When I am traveling, she sits and collects dust, just like a mustang that only gets taken out for a Sunday drive! And that makes me sad! 

     But getting back to my clean slate. Don't we all need a fresh and new start? Why does the day January first get the fresh start? Simply because it's a new year? This is the fresh and new start, of all things that long in the winter. Longer thoughts, longer cooler nights, at times it might often seem darker longer. I long for each season. As we close one season, to open another, why not take that time for fresh starts? I always try! Here it is the last day of Aug. And You see, I am getting a fresh start! It can be anytime or day of the year. Not just at 11:59 pm on December 31st! Let today, Aug 31, at 1:30 pm, be your fresh start!

     The fact is, sometimes it's all we really need. "A FRESH START!" A fresh start to your morning. A fresh start to a new book. A fresh start, that's why we need really clean art rooms. To make the art a little more fun and fresh! *LIV STONE*

*NOTE TO SELF*
YOU ARE A HOOT! I LOVE YOU AND I AM PROUD OF YOU!

Kisses,

LIV STONE!

Stay closer to people who feel like sunlight!

And sometimes you have to find ways to be your own sunlight! 

 I dabble. I have taught myself how to paint. That was never something I ever thought about! 

 I'm a traveling gypsy. This is my dog Sassy Frass! The best traveling buddy ever!

I am a fur mom to 5 cats! Shanobi, Melody, Itty Biddy, Cady Did, and Penny!

 I am an artist! I use my hair as a canvas! I love the red so much!

 Me and King Bee with our first loves. Mine photography, his the bass!

That's me, hiding behind a camera at an Egypt Central Show! 

One lucky girl to be able to use the name Keep On Smiling for my photography business. 

Mr Rick Hersch and Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie gave me permission!

Me at the said Egypt Central and 12 stones show, before they put a band shirt on me:) 

I gave the rapper, the last Mr Biggs, the hook for one of his songs, 

"I'm in my comfort zone, when there is a concert going on! "

I Dabble with bass when my husband is at work.... 

Me on a photo walk

( I felt so punk rock in that outfit!)

I have read every SINGLE rolling stone mag, from front to back cover! 

I love ZEN TIME!

NOTE TO SELF * YOU ARE A HOOT! I LOVE YOU! AND I AM PROUD OF YOU! *

Kisses,

Liv Stone!

12 ounces of Bull!

https://effywild.com/2017/08/28/lets-blog-along-september/

     Come back daily in September to see my posts each day!

     This morning, with my thoughts, having a red bull! Yes, I write something called morning pages. Inspired by Effy Wilds Bed Head diaries! It isn't blogging or status updating. It's my inner most thoughts, and sour grapes of the inner most makings of me. It's about a good habit. Writing. Every. Day. In this, there is no grand scheme of writing a masterpiece. It is just simply writing. To just write. Nothing poetic about that, is there? No, not really, but what is poetic about it is, what you learn about yourself! Morning Pages started by Julia Cameron. And her book, The Artist's Way! Julia, calls this process POINTLESS, but my thoughts are, it is far from pointless! And it sure has by passed being randomly bored in the morning! I have learned, I am still willing to write. I write anything and everything down now. Even if it is one random word of the day on a sticky note! You, read that right. One uncommon word to describe the most common days! But, it is said, and it is written in my journal! 

     (more to come!) A LITTLE CAT WANTS MY ATTENTION

The little notebook that could!

  Carrie Bradshaw lied, because life can still be fabulous filling up little pages in composition notebooks! Honest to blog, I haven't blogged in years. Last I blogged, blogging, blogged, and words of that nature weren't even really in tune with the rest of the world. Now, that they are, I am writing in a composition notebook! 

          So, why am I blogging again? I majored in mass media, communications. I miss feeling that sense of connection! I know I can write again in my little sweet trash journals! Thanks to Effy Wild, who gives us prompts to write about daily, I am starting to feel like the little writer that could again! Thus, the little notebooks that could and can and this little cute hoot blog, that WILL! These little books have made my daily routine a little more magical !

         It is time to start saying good things about myself, while, Carrie Bradshaw, didn't blog, she did sit down at her computer, in front of her favorite window, over looking the city. I  might not have a newspaper column, but I have a communications degree, with articles of my own written for my college where I graduated. And since, I have really missed writing with deadlines, writing with meaning, writing the way I used to! So, now thanks to Effy Wilds, Blog Along With Effy, I am being challenged to have those deadlines back, and challenges to write once a day, each day in the month of September.

        As Carrie would say: I couldn’t help but wonder… in looking for career-love, when do you know it’s right to write?

          As a writer, I have really missed writing, and I used to write everyday, for fun! Yes, for fun. For lack of better words (writers block!) At times I would feel I was missing chapters in my life, because I wasn't writing. I would only dream of having five seconds to my day to write to calm the mind, escape, and get out of the head. January 1st 2017, I joined in the tribe of Effy WIld, for an art course, in mixed media. The course called Book Of Days. It is a buffet class! Oh and you would have to join and check it out to understand. Now, I am writing again every day as mentioned above and filling up composition notebooks. While, it may seem like a false accomplishment, there is nothing false about filling up a journal with my thoughts! Even if I am the only one reading these (or if "KING BEE, " my husband sneaks a look....) I feel as if I am doing this for myself. Something I have needed for a long time. There is never a wrong or a right time to write! I do have to remember, that this is a blog, now, and not my Sweet Trash Journal, and that ANYONE can READ this! I want to find other writers, who enjoy my passion. I want that connection again, that I used to have with random people who sit and write 1,000 words a day, just to write! 

      Sorry, I almost got "Carried away, " with all the Carrie Bradshaw references today, but as you can see she had an impact on me! By starting this blog today, it is important to me! What I do every day, is important yes, but writing fulfills my soul and gives me that funny feeling in my tummy! Like a musician would if they walked into guitar center, like a clothes horse would feel like walking in a Bloomingdales! Time to change my habits and bloom! 

     NOTE TO SELF 

          * You are a HOOT! I love you! And I am proud of YOU! 

Kisses,

Liv Stone!