"Creativity is contagious....pass it on..." -Albert Einstein
NEW YEAR HENNA by Morgan
The New Year rolls around and it's time to pull out the henna. Shipped from India. Dark and rich and scented with Tea Tree Oil....just the right amount. ....not too strong.
One year,Morgan made homemade Henna dye, and it worked fairly well, but the dye didn't last long enough, and the tea tree oil was realllllllly wicked. Had to have a window open it was that strong. Getting it from India, already made into cones, seems to be the best. Not too strong and the cones have the right consistency.
Henna comes from a plant called Lawsonia inermis. It can be found in places like Egypt, Tanzania, Afghanistan, a slew of other countries , Africa, Asia and parts of Australia. It seems to be everywhere.
Henna has been a favourite for Hair for over 6000 years.
Historically, back in 2100 B.C. it was recorded that women stained their skins before being married.
"Art is not what you see, it is what you make others see..."
-Pablo Picasso
Now we do it because it's so incredibly cool. The skin becomes a canvass for another medium.
In Hindi , Henna is also known as "Mehendi" ( old Sanskrit). Very long ago , henna was meant to showcase the inner and outer sun.Now it represents good fortune and luck.
Designs can be completely random. But you can also get inspiration from designs you find.
Morgan gets inspiration from designs she researches, then makes up her own adding elements that she has learned.
You can be as elaborate as you want .
Having Henna applied is incredibly soothing.
The final result will look rather orange. Not to worry, over a few hours it will darken.
And then you can start on another design, once the dye dries and hardens. Once it is scraped off you will see it darken into a true henna pattern.
"A blank canvass has unlimited possibilities..." -Stephanie Perkins.
New Happy Year 2018!
"I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas. It brings people together while time stands still." -Rachel Cohn.
WHITE FIELDS by James Stephens ( 1880-1950) Irish novelist and poet
In the winter time we go
Walking in the fields of snow;
Where there is no grass at all;
Where the top of every wall,
Every fence, and every tree,
Is as white as white can be.
Pointing out the way we came,
Every one of them the same
All across the fields there be
Prints in silver filigree:
And our mothers always know,
By the footprints in the snow,
Where it is .......
the children go....
"Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity." -Novala Takemoto
Photographs 2018 Campbell River, B.C.
"This New Year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with the forgotten things from last year...the words we forgot to say, the love we forgot to show, and the charity we forgot to offer...." -Peggy Toney Horton (author of "Somewhere in Heaven my Mother is smiling")
"This is the New Year, the New you..." -Pablo
"The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air....
It rings to announce endings and beginnings...
And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.
Its clear tones resound in the placid silence of the winter day, and echo long into the silver-blue serenity of night....
The bell can only be seen at the turning of the year,
when the days wind down into nothing....
and get ready to march out again.
When you hear the bell.....
you feel a tug at your heart....
It is your Immortal Inspiration...."
-Vera Nazarian (Armenian-Russian Nebula Award Finalist)
"No brooding over old worries.Let's start a new series. Think of the new possibilities...." -Shon Mehta
"As you prepare to usher in the New Year and bid adieu to this one, I suggest live a life that gives your soul bliss...."
-Latika Teotia ( author of "Have Wings, will Fly..")
"The magic of new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all..."
-Josiyah Martin (author of "Red")
"The newness of this DAY is divine..." -Lailah Gifty Akida
"May you find a new grace to live your dreams in the coming year...." L. Gifty Akida
Watch the New Year unfold.........
Photographs 2018 from Campbell River, B.C.
