Follow your bliss...: Cretacolor aquamonolith colored pencils

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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Some more "Bones of the Earth"

Bones of the Earth, a Suite of Granite, February 21, 2009; acrylic, watercolor, Cretacolor pencil and graphite pencil (a 9B I believe.) 4 x 4 inches.

A little bit of inspiration from some granite on the garden wall...

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Bones of the Earth

Bones of the Earth, February 28, 2009, mixed media on paper, (acrylic, Cretacolor aquamonolith colored pencils, watercolor, and graphite pencil), 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches

Inspired by the field stones that I've found and photographed, like this one...

or this one...

Me and Fibromyalgia...the good news is, it's not going to kill me.

I was finally diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2007 after years of being told my illness was all in my head. My Fibro is everyday fatigue with body aches, mostly tolerable, but when I have a flare-up, which can be triggered by stress, hormones, or being over tired from over-doing it, I get the full body pain, including chest pains (yes, these are scary, like an elephant standing on my chest.) Thankfully, it doesn't hurt to take a breath, but I feel breathless, I just do yoga and breathing exercises to stretch and breathe to ease through the worst of it, NSAIDs help to cut the pain, and naps are always a necessary thing when needed (but hard to do while at the day job!) It's a balancing act to manage, I take advantage of the good days, lay low on the bad ones, and very often, push through in spite of the bad days...some mornings I wish I could stay in bed, but I'm glad that I get up and about, very often 'the kinks' work themselves out. I refuse to take the recommended pharmaceutical band-aids on the market, I tried one once, and I don't like feeling like a zombie. I keep active with my creativity, I think that's the key to my overcoming this obstacle every day...and I have my Fred and our son, five cats, and one dog named Max.