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Clean and orderly after shot of my home office after completely re-organization and decluttering. Includes a bit of re-arranging of the smaller pieces of furniture, as well as completely removing a few items I was no longer using.
BTW - I LOVE my whiteboard and FlyLady calendar!
"For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us."
Richard H. Baker
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Bless the sacred moon I see.
Tis a new era from the earth, sky and sea.
I raise my arms to the possibilities. Allow every human form to see all realities.
Open hearts and minds for a universal healing.
Awaken those who ignore the feeling.
Bless the sacred moon I see as she is part of me.
I thank the sacred directions that surround me. I draw your energy to me so I may help others to see.
Let your moonlight shine a path.
Cleanse all life in one universal bath.
Bless this sacred moon I see. So mote it be.
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The Full Moon is an opportune time of the month for purging rituals to take place. The light the full moon offers illuminates those things that are interfering with our spiritual advancements. Once we have become enlightened to ways that are blocking us, the easier to let go. The full moon ritual is for releasing or purging the things in our lives that no longer serve us such as addictions to food, drugs, or sex, relinquishing suffering involved in hurtful relationships, discharging physical and emotional pains, etc. Several years ago on an episode of the television show "Party of Five" the character Charlie was throwing personal items that were connected to his cancer into a bonfire. His actions were in celebration of his cancer going into remission. He even tossed the shirt he was wearing into the fire because it was the shirt he wore when he was first diagnosed with cancer, or was it his pants? Anyway, this televised scene could have easily been portrayed as a full moon ceremony.
Full moon ceremonies I have participated in have been pretty simple, with perhaps a pinch or two of pagan tradition thrown in. Each person in the circle takes his turn throwing in scraps of paper into a fire that is then watched turn into ashes. The scraps of paper have words written down on them of those things we were releasing or vowing to change in our lives. Yes, a full moon ceremony can be as simple as that. Try it, it is very freeing and healing to declutter for your health.
Full Moon Purging Preparation
1. Check a moon phase calendar for the next upcoming full moon.
2. Create a sacred space and arrange a time to perform the ceremony (preferably at nighttime and outdoors under the moonlight).
3. Write down on separate slips of paper the things you want to release or change.
Supply suggestions: fire proof calderon or cooking pot to toss the burning paper inside, candle with matches or lighter, water (to put out the fire afterwards), and smudge sticks for cleansing.
Full Moon Purging
1. Cleanse your sacred area with an opening prayer, a sage smudging, and/or by burning some incense. Invite your guides, angels, masters, or teachers to be at your side throughout the ceremony.
2. Light one or more candles. Look to the skies. Breathe in the night air.
3. One by one, read out loud the words you have written on each slip of paper. Set your intention to release the item/addiction/attitude from your life. Set it to fire and place it in the calderon. If you have a campsite barbecue or bonfire going that's cool, just toss the slips of paper into the fire one by one. If you are doing this ritual with a group of others take turns reading your words. If these things are too personal to read out loud, read them silently to yourself. Just remember... our words have power. Saying - "Be Gone" audibly and loudly can be very freeing. Go ahead, howl at the moon if you've a mind to. Have some fun!
4. Thank the spirits. Be safe. Put out the fire.
(source :: healing.about.com/cs/spirituality/a/moonrituals_2.htm)
The final 3 items to make the 52, 53 and 54. An old nasty jacket, a hoodie that had it's sleeves torn off, and a zip up hoodie that's ripped and paint stained.
How many pairs of gym shorts are there? son's GAP mesh shorts he wore to bed for a while, a pair of green ones and a pair of blue ones both with dying waistbands.
Emily has this habit of taking her own sweet time in the morning to decide on a piece of cloth for the day. I have this habit of taking my own sweet time to decide whether it's worth to get out of bed. The other day, still in bed and so fascinated with her pronounced scapulae, I grabbed the camera and snapped a picture of her in her dressing routine. (Of course that photo was criticized to death and faults were found in all and every of its pixels!)
After a simple cropping ("Not my fat ass and my messy hair" -- they are neither), several rounds of posterizing to declutter the background ("The closets need tidying up" -- that point I agree) and a layer of texture, this resulting picture was mutually accepted.
Because of her pose and the way she had her hair done up, we both thought of the statue Venus de Milo, thus the title.
(Leonard Cohen sung "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye")
Self-portrait Week 2 : My 30 before 30 list which I have approximately 11 months to finish.
1.Travel somewhere new (& foreign!)
2.Submit my photography to a magazine/contest/exhibit/show/store.
3.Do a 1-a-week self-portrait project for a whole year.
4.Take a cooking class.
5.Go berry picking and then make pie or jam.
6.Submit my completed novel to an agent.
7.Buy myself a nice piece of jewelry.
8.Submit a short story to a literary magazine.
9.Redesign my website.
10.Learn how to play my ukulele.
11.Declutter my wardrobe & donate 25 items to Goodwill.
12.Learn to crochet.
13.Read more books than last year. (55+)
14.Go to a storage locker auction or antique auction and if I like something enough, bid on it without being intimidated.
15.Make a new friend.
16.Find a doctor I like and trust.
17.Go see a movie in a theater alone.
18.Backup EVERYTHING on an external hard drive.
19.Go to the SOWA market.
20.Host a dinner party, cocktails/apps party, couples night or bbq – any excuse to cook!
21.Start a quilting project.
22.Grow a plant from seeds.
23.Buy something vintage and repaint it.
24.Make whipped cream in my KitchenAid stand mixer.
25.Buy bright colored tights and wear them with pride.
26.Brew a beer with juniper berries.
27.Watch The Godfather.
28.Take an art class or workshop.
29.Get a facial.
30.Make a 40 by 40 list.
See more about my 30 Before 30 challenge here: jillianscreativelife.blogspot.com/2012/01/30-before-30-se...
I tried to declutter/sort out my creative space ONCE AGAIN LOL. This photo shows a good part of my inspiration / WIPs wall. Wooden clothespin are "sticked" to the wall with BlueTack. And the string is knotted to the doors. No hole. (we rent) (Jan. 24th 2009)
(c) Lee Live: Photographer www.leelivephotographer.com/
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Did a sketch in the office to distress. As I was sketching, my mind went calm immediately. Oh no, I need to declutter - there are piles of students' work on the floor, stack of files on the left side of the desk and my pottery stuff on the 'round meeting table' not to mention materials such as rattan, big and small twigs, plastics, bottles and found objects!
This is number 46 and 47. A winter cap that I don't know who it belongs to and a pair of gorilla slippers with duct tape on the bottom.
Soon for the garbage, 2 pairs of over used boxer briefs, a torn up Tommy t-shirt and a pair of WWF Stone Cold swim shorts.
Manipulations of my own photograph using IfanView and Photoshop Elements.
An attempt to simplify and declutter the field.
ADSL-modem, wifi router and all wires hidden under the table.
Laptop stands on the Cardboard Laptop Stand.
Nearing the home stretch, 48, 49, 50, and 51. Nearing the home stretch, I find 3 broken fold up chairs in the coat closet and a broken sled in the yard, I know it wasn't in the closet, but it counts because that's where it came from.
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Gone at last, dumped into the body of the truck, can hear it compacting away the trash. Wanted to start right!
I've planned this big declutter project for my home in 2006. The idea is to end up with less "stuff", better thought out storage and a cleaner, tidier, nicer place to live.
I've started out with my eldest son's room (began just before Christmas) with five minutes a day of clearing out drawers, tidying up and making sure everything has homes. As this is the tidiest it'll ever be, I thought I'd take a photo!
72/365.
An experiment my Flickr-friends.
What do you see in this oil-blot? Feel free to tilt your laptop, your cranium or your mind.
"L"ightbox will probably help declutter things a bit.
For maximum purity of the scientific method, answer BEFORE you read other people's comments/answers.
Happy day 72!
An old pair of heavy cotton jogging pants and PJs. Now why would someone wear cotton jogging pants now, and the waistband is also bad. Notice the large rip in the PJs leg.
Bet you didn know I was a yoga fanatic. Yoga is like an escape for me. Its just a time to relax and occupy my mind with what im doing right now instead of all the stress in life.
Clean and orderly after shot of my home office after completely re-organization and decluttering. Includes a bit of re-arranging of the smaller pieces of furniture, as well as completely removing a few items I was no longer using.
"Shrine" to Tool and A Perfect Circle on the top shelf of the CD rack. Need to hang a few things on the wall...
Maybe the fruit doesn't belong there, but I have nowhere else to put it. (have no dining table). It's the only surface I have in my tiny apartment kitchen.
I have several pics of our girl Zoey Lu that I need to declutter from my files,so I'll be posting nothing but Zoey over the nest week or so. Hope you don't get too sick of seeing her.
Her story goes like this.
I had wanted a Sphynx from the first time I'd seen a photo of one in a magazine about fifteen years ago. In 2007 I began searching for a breeder,and found a nice lady who had previously bred Persians,but had fallen in love with the Sphynx breed. She put us on a list for a kitten,who was born in May 2007. Lee was sceptical about having a bald cat,but it took about five minutes for him to fall in love with all of them ! At the time our oldest Son was diagnosed with cancer. I was praying for life for my Son,and the name Zoey means life,so that's why the name,Zoey ..for life,and Lu because her original name was Lucy. She came home with us in October when she was five months old. She slept under my chin every night. Unfortunately I developed an irritation in my eyes,and thought I was alergic to Zoey. Reluctantly we took her back to the breeder . My eyes cleared up,and I wanted to try bringing her home again. Alas,while she was back my eyes became irritated again,so back to the breeder Zoey went again ! I went to my eye doctor,and he gave me meds for the eyes,and they got better again. Once again,we missed Zoey so much,I begged the lady to let us try once more with Zoey. As they say..the third time is the charm !
She's been with us three years this month,and we love her to bits ! She has never met a stranger she doesn't like. She's very lovable..but also quite demanding ! She needs extra warmth which we supply ,and she must have regular baths,which she hates !
The Sphynx cat is described as being"part monkey,part dog,part child,and part cat."
They may not be your cup of tea,but they are wonderful pets !
Oh,and yes our Son had surgery and treatment for cancer,and is cancer free at this time..thank God !!
The keynote speaker, Dr. Christiana Bratiotis, a cognitive therapist specialist on hoarders gave updates on hoarding research.
Confirmed for me that depression is co-occuring with hoarding, but it is not known whether this is a result of the clutter and resulting isolation or a cause. Social phobia is also co-occuring thus it is hard for hoarders to accept help from those set up to help them. She didn't mention organizers at all (see my notes under UCSF Research for why that might be.) There is also post traumatic stress syndrome and substance abuse.
Where once hoarding was considered an OCD thing, now they are finding that there is not that much overlap. Just as many hoarders suffer from ADHD with distraction getting them off task. The benefit of being OCD is that the person is more likely to realize that they have a problem with clutter whereas non-OCD hoarders stop seeing the stuff as clutter and so are perceived by family as being willfully disobedient.
Treatment program described included weekly office visits to a therapist, and in-home visits to help declutter. Also patients were taken to places where they would normally pick-up stuff and they practiced not picking up stuff. Family consultations were also offered as was a clean-out of the home with trained therapeutic team.
There was a high response on the part of the clients who went through this 6 month to a year long program. It made them feel they were getting better. It was also a good treatment for depression since the client had to get out of bed, get dressed and actually break their isolation. Plus having people, especially cheerful undergrads visit them in their homes helped socialize them. The home visits were crucial. Reading books on hoarding helped very little. Support groups were also crucial to help reduce the stigma and social phobia. Mutual aid of the group instilled hope and motivation.
There is not empirical evidence that deprivation i.e. The Great Depression had anything to do with creating hoarders. However a personal loss like a miscarriage, a death in the family, being raped etc. was much more likely to have an impact.
Also of interest was the age when the hoarding emerged which was quite young, highest in middle school age, followed by high school. However, it is not considered a real problem for seeking of treatment until middle age to elderly. The problem just gets worse with age and the treatment gets less result with older patients.
And finally hoarding is only an issue in cultures where private ownership of property is important. In cultures where there is only communal ownership of property there is no incidence of hoarding. A very interesting comment on the pathology of private ownership.
Tables here were color coded so that those who did not want to be caught on camera would know where to sit. Hoarders in attendance may be in the closet, perhaps.
First in the batch, paint stained old sweat pants. Never wear them, not sure why I even kept them. Gone!
Declutter and view large on black.
Found the most amazing two story abandoned house in the middle of Nowhere, FL The property has a giant lighthouse and three garages its completely amazing. I am going to spend all tonight and Sunday morning trying to find a girl to shoot in it its just PERFECT. Hopefully by monday morning I have new shots for you peoples <3
It's day 29, which means there's only 1 day left in my 30 Day challenge. Today I tackled the Desk, which always seems messy and cluttered no matter how many times I clean it. But on the way home from work today, I stopped at Staples and picked up some cute organizer boxes (yes, I caved to the Martha Stewart collection, but it's so CUTE!!!) then came home and made a once-and-for-all effort to Declutter my Desk. And I did it!!!! All the usual little random bits and pieces and papers and miscellaneous things are finally neatly stored into appropriate boxes, and the boxes have LIDS so even though the contents might be random, they still look neat. And I downsized the pen jar to something that's a little more visible, then re-homed a bunch of stuff that really shouldn't live on the Desk. End result: my Desk actually finally feels very streamlined and organized.