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HeARTs Speak and The Unexpected Pit Bull had such success with their 2012 calendar collaboration that they are doing it again for 2013! I would love to participate in their search for photos but I need your help. Do you have a rescued pittie? The pup can be adopted or fostered but *must* be a rescue. A signed photo release will be required.
If you are interested, please email me ASAP at info@fuzzypantspets.com. Thank you!
2012 cover photo ©Frolic Photography
There is a lovely, inspirational lady named Danielle LaPorte that I have been following for a few weeks. She has an amazing way with words; a way of describing things that just make even the most abstract of ideas just come to life in full living color. I’m in awe most of the time.
This week I received a beautiful message in Danielle’s weekly newsletter. And it asked me to do some work! But here is the thing about this kind of “work”. It’s soul-searching and eye-opening and creative and FUN! The project is “The Burning Question” and it started fairly simply. “How do you want it all to feel?”
How do I want what to feel?
My day? Well, warm and sunny and relaxed and easy and filled with things I love to do? Sure. But how about a little more abstract? After all, “Feelings are magnetic. So it goes that if you generate certain feelings — and you have the power to create any feeling you desire — then you increase the power of your emotional magnetism. But we need to limber up, loosen the images and adjectives encrusted on our goals and most-desired states. It helps to get poetic, lyrical, and abstract.”
I want my day to feel like jazz.
Ooooh! I like that! So, here is my little exercise in lyrical abstract-ness:
I want my day to feel like a warm bath.
I want my next success to feel like Sally Field’s Oscar acceptance speech. (“I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!”)
I want my body to feel like a skier on freshly groomed snow.
I want smiling to feel like an August sun shower.
I want my friendships to feel like cashmere socks, my favorite blanket fresh from the dryer, a new pillow.
I want my nervous system to feel like Rumi finishing a poem.
I want my neighborhood to feel like I stepped through the wardrobe in the spare room.
I want my integrity to feel like a live oak.
I want my word to feel like the Crown Jewels.
I want my laughter to feel like catching fireflies in my grandparents backyard.
I want the end of the day to feel like a quietly snoring kitty.
I want being of service to feel like a physician healing with food, not chemicals.
I want my challenges to feel like the Little Mermaid with her new legs.
I want my love to feel like a secret glance across a crowded room that only he and I notice.
I want my writing to feel like sticking my fingertips into a waterfall.
I want my ideas to feel like that beautiful dream you remember when you wake up.
How do you want it all to feel?
~ Carina
I have always been a fan of the Renaissance Festival. I just love the food, the costumes, the jousting… and of course the many unique and talented vendors and crafts people. For many years I’ve attended the New York Renn Faire and always made sure to stop in the booth of Dragon Folk Studios. It was here, oh a good 10 years ago, that I met the delightful Carrie Rutherford and purchased my first of many sculptures from her amusing and fun little world. Over the years, Carrie’s mythical realm has expanded to include so many fun new characters and recently she has added a new product to her sculpture work – Natural Pet Portraits! These little treasures are made from photos of your very own pet!
This weekend I had the pleasure of spending a few minutes with Carrie at the Sugarloaf Craft Festival here at the Dulles Expo Center (January 27-29, 2012) and I am pleased to announce that she and I are talking about working together to offer both of our clients something special! We will be talking through the details but our initial idea is that for anyone in my coverage area (Northern Virginia, Maryland, DC and several dates throughout the year in New York, New Jersey and Long Island) that wishes to purchase a Custom Pet Portrait from Dragon Folk Studios, Fuzzypants Pet Photography will offer a special Mini Session so that you can have the perfect photo for your sculpture!
Dragon Folk Studios has brought a lot of enjoyment into my home and I hope that this collaboration will do the same for you. You can visit Dragon Folk Studios at:
www.DragonFolkStudios.com and on Facebook.
I’d like to take this time now to sincerely thank Carrie for inviting Fuzzypants into her magical realm!
Best,
Carina
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