Author Archives: Jen H Mont

Horriblescopes….

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horoscopes

I confessed this earlier with Shimelle in her I Must Confess Class, but I was reminded of it again today when I read my horoscope at Free Will Astrology and was smiling at what it said…

 

Virgo (August 23-September 22)

“Success means controlling your own time,” observed actor Rod Steiger. “If you gain control over 60 percent of the time in your life, you are really successful.” In 2008, Virgo, you will have far more power than you’ve had before to fulfill this definition of success. And right now you happen to be in a phase of your astrological cycle when your hard work toward this goal will have maximum impact. The ironic fact of the matter is that it’s an ideal time to slave away in behalf of greater freedom.

I love this shawl….

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Shawl

I love this shawl…

  1. Not just because I got all the yarn (except the small row of white) from my first trip to Loop in London.
  2. Not only for the lovely way that the yarn worked together so wondermously.
  3. For the lovely colours which just shout (in a very calm way) I am warm and comforting.
  4. For it calls to your hands. It needs to be touched.
  5. Because I made it and I feel absolutely wonderful when I wear it.

Thanks, again is due to Shimelle for this wonderful prompt which was much of the fun.

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I have for some time been working on a Moleskine Accordian Notebook to create a book of quotes from favorite song lyrics of mine and illustrations to go with those quotes. I have created one of them for Thing 4 for Thing a Day

worrysaur

This one is a quote from a Soul Coughing song,  So Far I Have Not Found the Science. “I don’t mind worry following me like a dinosaur.”

I also decided to show you another one that I made a few days ago from a lovely Regina Spektor song, Love Affair. “There was a love affair in this building. The kind of love affair that every respectable building wants to keep as a legend.”

love affair

The word is defenestrate.

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Shimelle you are -once again- a girl after my own heart. Your prompt today is perfect. I have so many favorite words…. but one of my most favorite words is defenestrate.

defenestrate {to throw someone or something out a window}

My friend Drew and I found this word at some point in high school- or rather he found this word- It seemed so wonderful at the time. A word that existed solely to throw someone or something out of the window. I was thrilled- in fact I am still quite thrilled with it. Yeah words!

This word sounds lovely and works well when you want to say something mean to someone- it confuses them for just long enough to both say something mean and break tension.

Something like “You suck. I will defenestrate you at once!” … “What?” … “Exactly, now what were we talking about?”

Yeah words! I love them.

I liked the word so much that I suggested it to Girl in Green and she used it for her word project. It was word 20 of 30. I loved what she came up with and because of her wonderfulness I get to look at it everyday. Woohoo!

You always say…

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Prompt Day 2 from Shimelle…..

You always say that I could have chosen anything to do as a profession, but really, I think that you would not have been pleased if I had chosen garbage truck driver or lounge singer over teaching. Now, honestly the garbage truck driver thing passed quickly enough, but even through college I harbored dreams of being a lounge singer- or a starving artist, but I love food so much. No sushi- are you kidding me? Not really something I want to aspire to.
As a female of my generation I was brought up believing not only that we could be anything, but that we should be Something. It was our duty. Secretly, harboring ideas of becoming a housewife? No, see, because that is not all that you could be doing. We were supposed to find our calling- as long as it was not a “traditional calling.” I have to admit that for a time I even thought that teacher was not enough. I mean- I could be a doctor- a lawyer- a politician. Why on earth would I choose something that women- albeit single women- have been choosing for such a long time.
So I tried coming up with better and more brilliant ideas- but now I am thinking not so much. No one can be everything. And that is just fine by me.

Let me tell you about….

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So Shimelle started her February prompts yesterday- woohoo- Here is my response to yesterday’s prompt.

Say it

Let me tell you about this girl.
This girl loves her coffee, but is also an avid consumer of tea.
This girl used to hate pink, but now adores all its pinky goodness.
This girl is at times an english teacher, but she likes to make up words and when allowed she throws grammar rules out the window in favor of play.
This girl loves all creatures, but currently only has creatures of the stuffed variety in her home.
This girl has always worked since she was about 14, but is currently un-employed.
This girl is happiest looking out at the ocean, but has lived in several places where this is not possible.
This girl is trying, but sometimes she doesn’t think that is enough.

and so it goes…

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Most of the day involved me and some blahs… looks like I should take my own advice and make some tea. This morning, however, was not blah… I played with paint- one of my favorite things.
I started these pieces yesterday and continued working on them today. It was much of the fun.
First, I would like to introduce you to Little Blue Guy. He is a creature I have been playing with for some time and he has a fondness for birds- as some of you may already know.

blue guy

Then I would like you to meet Thing Number 1- for Thing a Day. She is not so- and believes that she requires no explanation.

Not So

And last, but not least- Come to me. She is inspired by one of my White Horse Poems.

Come to me…

I hope that you had a loverly day- with no blahs- and if there were blahs join me for a cup of tea.

Let them make tea…

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what are you making

Jon and I are both participating in Thing a Day for the month of February. On the eve of this we are both trying to figure out what we are going to make each day. I have decided to make tea- at least while I am thinking about it.
I so often feel like making something or writing something, but I am caught with this huge feeling of- but what (imagine in a very whiny voice- the more annoying the better- this voice is not pleasant). So today I decided that when I am feeling this way- I will make a cup of tea. I will make something. Realizing that I make stuff all the time- tea, the bed, words put together in ways that I like, yummy food, pretty pictures with paint and paper. I make a lot of stuff. Truly.

Now to some other things that I am excited about- like Shimelle’s Journal exercises for every day in February. How wonderful is that and another great answer to the “but whats.” Then there is this lovely new Inspiration Zine that also looks to be quite wondermous as well.

All of this loveliness swirling around me and helping me deal with my dreaded affliction. I am all excited about the month of February for so many reasons now… and that is truly wonderful- for February has not often been a month that I have looked upon fondly. So cheers for February and lovely people and projects that help with the “but whats.”