Another "taken while driving picture"

It's this kind of day.

I take pictures while driving.

(a sunset on a country road in Eastern Iowa)

Yes. It's bad, but some of the best shots I've ever captured are on my Blackberry Pearl while driving. I vow to stop texting and driving. But photos....ehhh. Mostly I take pics of sunsets or people or funny plates, etc. Things that, because of amazing advances in technology and my obsession with my phone, I can capture forever.

(my drive to work in the morning)

GOventure.

Elise serves as a constant source of blog-spiration for me so when she teamed up with the talented Kal on a spectacularly creative GOventure, I decided it was time for me to jump into blogland again with a creative challenge.

I'm going through some weird times right now* so the "green+dizzy" prompt came to me, obviously, in a mess of marker, crayon, pencil and (oddly enough) a tube of mascara I was throwing out.

I'm trying to tap into my art again. Find a place for it. Big changes coming in my life. And hopefully many many GOventures to come.

*I've decided that 26 is a pivot age. A year that exists solely to cause stress, to cause a ridiculous amount of questioning and to see how much self-doubt and strange changes one can endure in a year long time frame. I'm having a love hate relationship with 26. I think we'll grow to like each other...it has only been one month tomorrow since we first met.

Have you checked out this?

To promote my super talented Iowa friends:

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=1938

Danelle is not just a great person, she's a superly awesome artist. She specially made (heart) Iowa pouches for me. And included glittery vinyl. Glitter makes everything cooler, but even without, MonsterFashion is worth a look.

A look at the awesome goods I special ordered from Danelle.

tutelary goddess

The word of the day. Tutelary. "Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting..." All I could think when I read it was "yes. I need one of those."

Lots of changes needed in my life. Might be time to turn back to art and blogging and creative coping. I need a Tutelary Goddess.

I wish I drew this

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