The Positivies Goal ~ by Karrlin Bain

The Positivies Goal

                        By Karrlin Bain

Inner Positivity

Rises to the top

When you Focus Force

And Fake it

The negativies stop

They simply have no choice

But to run away and flee

And then your day

Just has no say

The only choice is GLEE

HAPPINESS FANTASTIC

JOY GIDDINESS AND GRINS

THE GIGGLES TURN TO LAUGHTER

AND THE POSITIVIES WIN!

SUNSHINE RAINBOWS SPARKLES

Soon overtake your soul

Just look at all the good that comes

With the Positivies Goal!

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The Wizard ~ by Karrlin Bain

The Wizard 
                          by Karrlin Bain

* * *

Focus on the wizard

To meet and move my dreams

Place him on a pedestal

Investing all my means

He's both powerful and caring

If he is what he seems

 * * *

I focus on him... driven

While missing scenery

Determined... to obsession

That for me he is the key

 * * *

For years he was a promise

Of such possibility

I could not wait to reach him

Couldn't wait to become me

 * * *

But then I got to meet him

Recognize his empty shell

The wizard held no heart for me

He did not wish me well

 * * *

He could have reached a hand out

Instead he waved me off

The cost was his undoing

And I will not remain lost

* * *

What is Your Wizard?

Inspired by Wicked (the musical)

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How to have an Amazing Creative Space & Art Studio ~ Creative Spaces from Around the World ~ Artist's Studio Tour!

Where do you Imagine? 

Where do you write?

  Where do you paint?

Where do you create?

Where do you keep your favorite books?

Where do you express yourself?

Do you have a room of your own?

I am lucky enough to belong to the most AMAZING online community of creative friends!  They have shared THEIR creative spaces and art studios with me so that I could be inspired by them and share them with YOU!  Recently (FINALLY) I scored an entire room of my own in my house to use for my Creative Space.  I can’t wait to set it up.  I have a lot of sorting out to do before I get organized, and then even more organizing to do before I am sorted out!  That is okay because I am excited about the process and the future of it all.  Right now I am MORE excited to share these wonderful artist's AMAZING CREATIVE SPACES with you:

(Viewing tip that will work now and anytime on the computer ~ Hold the control (Crtl) key down (the whole time) and then click each & every link one at a time... all the browsers will open for you each in a new window and you can look at them one by one!!!)

Laly Mille ~ Studio Tour

Amy Riddle ~ On a Journey Back to Her Wings ~ A 
Room of One's Own

Colorful Creations by Jackie Tury ~ Studio

Michelle Grant Designs ~ Studio & Storage

My Artful Life by Ginger Deverell ~ In Flow

My Artful Life by Ginger Deverell ~ My Cozy Attic Studio

Seasons of Grace & Wisdom ~ Unearthing

Vickie Martin Mixed Media Art ~ MY SACRED SPACES

Suzi Poland ~ Open Studio Tour

Beyond Words Designs ~ New Year, New Studio

Oolala Living the Arty Life ~ Say Ahhhhh

Lulu Beas ~ My Workspace

Tanya Cole Arts ~ Studio Photo A 

Becky Cavender  ~ Writing Studio

SANDYMAIRART  ~ Studio in the Making

Thank You Ladies!!!!!

Do you have a Creative Work~space Blog Post

 or Public Facebook Photo of YOUR  space that

you want me to add here?  Message me at

Poemifyme@gmail.com with the post

 and I will consider adding it here! 

Not sure how to refer to YOUR Creative Space?

Make it something FUN!

How about...

Watercolor Workroom

Crafty Conservatory

Construction Cubby

Sculpting Sunroom

Objects d'Art Office

Invention Junction

Landscape Library

Animation Station

Imaginationarium

Sketchbook Study

Dream Dormitory

Production Patio

Patchwork Porch

Thinking Theater

Painting Parlor
Assembly Room

Drawing Room

Discovery Zone

Designing Den
Graffiti Gallery

Visual Hideout

Ceramics Suite

Innovative Inn

Glue Getaway

Forging Foyer

Woman~Cave

Savvy Studio
MY Room!

Mine will be.... 
MY Room and Imaginationarium!!!!!
YAY!!
I will add pictures of my Imaginationarium
someday when it is all sorted out!


Image Credit

Waiting by Karrlin Bain

Waiting
                          by Karrlin Bain

How do we Wait

How can it be

“We will let you know”

Yet don’t you just see

I’ve been waiting Forever

And Ever 

Times Three

Just don’t let me know

I don’t want to see

I’d rather just hang out

Or go climb a tree

Don’t bother calling

Don’t reject or accept

I’m all done with caring

My cool is unkept

My phone is getting turned off

My mail all ignored

I’m so beyond interested

I’m actually bored

I’m not thinking about it

Not one little bit

OH here comes a phone call

Maybe that's IT!!!!

* written while waiting *

image credits:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspx?qu=hourglass&ex=1#ai:MC900059545|

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspx?qu=hourglass&ex=1#ai:MM900309710|

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Thank You School Bus Drivers ~ A Kindness Mission Blog Hop ~ by Karrlin Bain

I am so happy that I get to take part in the Flying Sisters Blog Hop!  (We are "Flying Sisters" because we took Kelly Rae Robert's Flying Lessons together!)  At the end of this post you will be given the link to another wonderful blog post by another creative friend of mine, then at the end of hers will be another link, then at the end of hers.... and so on... until you get all the way back to my blog! We all blog on the same topic... It is a Blog Circle... or a BLOG HOP!

This month's topic is: 

KINDNESS MISSION

as found on (clicky link)

Artist Kelly Rae Roberts
 Kindness Mission Page

My Kindness Mission:

  APPRECIATE OUR LOCAL SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS:

An inscription on the James Farley Post Office in New York City reads:

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.[1]

The above quote is about mail carriers, but I also think it applies to School Bus Drivers.  The difference is that their cargo is much more precious!

          The only thing that stops our bus drivers is the much beloved "snow day" or, as of late, the "polar vortex".  A bus driver has to work hard to get their special driving license.  I am so impressed by anyone that can drive such a large boxy vehicle.  I would be impressed if the vehicle were empty.  Add in 1 to 75 lovely beings and the feat becomes simply amazing!!!

My Kindness Mission is to

  APPRECIATE OUR LOCAL SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS by:

1. The "Thank You School Bus Drivers" poem (below) is the cover of a FABULOUS Thank You Book that will be dropped off for the bus drivers to keep in their meeting room.

2. I joined with another teacher to have over 100 local students write thank you letters to bus drivers.  These letters mean an awful lot because they are from grades 6 and 7!!!  The letters include favorite stories about, and appreciations for, their bus drivers. These make up the pages of the book. These student created letters AND poems are simply AMAZING!!

3. CHOCOLATE!! Chocolate will be delivered too! Nothing says thank you like CHOCOLATE treats!

  4.  We can show our appreciation every day by helping school buses out when we see them on the road.  Research universal and local laws in regards to driving near school buses.  Help a driver out by giving them access to the road before you during high traffic times.

I have a special place in my heart for school bus drivers...
Because one of them is my Mom!!!!

Thank You School Bus Drivers

                                        by Karrlin Bain

Thank you school bus drivers

That go the extra mile

Driving safe and caring with

“Good Mornings”

Treats and

Extra smiles

Seating charts and mirror checks

Safely driving kids to school

Bus drivers kind and thoughtful

Gets points for being extra cool

Sometimes they play the radio

Sometimes seat choice is free

The role of bus driver is not simple

This I can easily see

Because sometimes driving my TWO kids

Is hard enough for me

Imagine seventy plus kids

Fog, freezing rain, or snow

They keep our kiddos safe each day

And befriend them as they grow

From tiny tots with GIANT backpacks

To teens refusing coats

So thanks again Bus Drivers

For the many things you do

You are appreciated

For your services so true

  All the lovelies in the Blog Hop have posted their
Kindness Mission:

Heart Soul Create, USA
Ginger Deverell, Canada
Sandy Mair Art, Atlanta
A Gentle Rebellion, Australia
Bag Lady Lulu, USA
Lulu Bea's, USA
You Are Here ~ Karrlin Bain Creates, USA

Thanks to Kelly Rae Roberts for sharing our
 Kindness Mission Blog Hop on her awesome website Here
 
Photo Credits
School Bus in the Sun ~ belongs to Karrlin Bain

Works Cited:
[1]. Wikipedia contributors. "United States Postal Service creed." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 18 Aug. 2013. Web. 24 Jan. 2014.

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Wonderment ~ My 2014 Word of the Year by Karrlin Bain

The "Flying Sisters" are the wonderful group of artists and creatives that took the awesome class by Kelly Rae Roberts (called Flying Lessons) with me this during the summer/fall of 2012.  We enjoy sharing our dreams, hopes, and details regarding living creative lives.  This will be the second year that a bunch of us choose and share our Word of the Year for the upcoming year.

Last year for 2013 my WOTY (Word of the Year) was "IN" ~ click here to see the post ~ This was FUN and EXCITING!

I was definitely "IN" throughout the year... but it was mostly "IN" doing FAMILY living at its best, doing the chores of life, and also substitute teaching. I have learned how to also be "IN" a creative life by collecting and organizing ideas for the future when I have MORE time in my life for purposeful creativity. There will be time in the future as my kids grow up. Right now I am pretty much "IN" to what they are doing and also "IN" to keeping our house a HOME and working for a living. :D 

^{This year my Word of the Year is (drum roll please....)}

Wonderment...

Oh my, it is surrounded by many words... keep reading to see why...

This year I just want to be able to view the world with a sense of wonder... kind of like Lee Ann Womack says in the song "I Hope you Dance"

"I hope you never lose your sense of wonder,

You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger,

May you never take one single breath for granted,

GOD forbid love ever leave you empty handed,

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,

Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,

Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

I hope you dance....I hope you dance.

¹won·der defined:

: something or someone that is very surprising, beautiful, amazing, etc.

: a feeling caused by seeing something that is very surprising, beautiful, amazing, etc.

Wonderment 

Vocabulary.com says:

Wonderment is a feeling of surprise, awe, and joy. People felt wonderment when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

Wonder is a feeling of surprised amazement, and so is wonderment. If you feel wonderment, you can't quite believe what you're seeing, but you definitely like it. Parents feel wonderment at the birth of their children, and when their children start walking and talking. Looking at the infinite stars in the sky can create a feeling of wonderment. Being in nature stirs wonderment in many people. Anything that creates wonderment is likely to make you say "Wow!"

ABOUT WONDERMENT AND MY LIFE:

     I certainly know HOW to look at the world with a sense of wonderment!  Anyone that knows me knows that I TRY to do this.... actually that is kind of what this blog is all about!

     I also know that I cannot JUST do this.  I cannot just look at the world with a sense of Wonder right off the bat because there are a lot of GIANT ROADBLOCKS in my way to my lifetime of "wonder". 

     There are things that I need to overcome before my life will be "light" enough or "simplified" enough for me to enjoy life for all of its wonder.  If I were to choose all of the words EACH year that I would need to choose to finally get to "wonderment", I would be able to have the wonderful "wonderment" as my word in THIRTEEN YEARS!!!

     Well I am just not willing to wait that long... so I have utilized the other TWELVE words in a WORD picture and also in a WORD poem.  I have used up my twelve words in the way that is necessary for me to overcome some hurdles and then just GET RIGHT TO my "WONDERMENT".

Path to Wonderment

                            by Karrlin Bain

Wait before responding

Best practice count to ten

Respect yourself and others

Don’t be reactive, then

Journal what you think and feel

Just Breathe, cherish, and strive

To Simplify your home and life then

Peace will conquer over strife

Minimalize with Discipline

Great Change will come alive

Choose Gratitude as action and

Know Love is Heaven sent

Be Intentional each moment to

Bask in the world’s

Wonderment

Resources to help me with this journey: 
http://www.biblegateway.com

Site:  Becoming Minimalist
https://www.facebook.com/becomingminimalist
Aricle: 7 Ways to Have More by Owning Less
365 Less Things
40 BAGS IN 40 DAYS 2014 DECLUTTERING CHALLENGE

Thanks SO MUCH to my friend Jane of Jane Bell Designs (clicky link!) for THIS lovely gift:

All Images Owned by Karrlin Bain 

Image not to be reused for any purpose by anyone.

Facebook is Fun too ~ Poemify Me by Karrlin Bain Facebook Page 

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Gratitude for LOVE by Karrlin Bain

I am so happy that I get to take part in the Flying Sisters Blog Hop every month! At the end of this post you will be given the link to another wonderful blog post by another creative friend of mine, then at the end of hers will be another link, then at the end of hers.... and so on... until you get all the way back to my blog! We all blog on the same topic... It is a Blog Circle. 

This months topic is: "Gratitude" 

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
Here is my original POEM that provides a SNAPSHOT
of  our Thanksgiving (clicky link)
Did you notice the last word of my Thankfulness poem?  It is LOVE!!!!

Now... about GRATITUDE: I am grateful for the family, friends, and pets that I love. I am grateful for LOVE!!!

(I am also thankful for wonderment, imagination,

and everyday magical moments.)

Recently a WONDERFUL person blessed me with an amazing compliment. She said the only way she could think of to describe it was that I actually create:

A LOVE CLOUD!!!

What an excellent thought... A Love Cloud!  I am so grateful for this beautiful sweet compliment!  The compliment itself and the way it made me feel (happy) is an important gift I have been given that no one can ever take away from me.  It is like Maya says....

— 'I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.'

Maya Angelou 

My friend is the one that brings the "love cloud"  actually! That is probably why she can spot them!!!  : )  What I can learn from this, and what this inspires me to do, is to go forward and make sure that I treat all the people that I meet with 
Gratitude and LOVE.

Speaking of LOVE... 

HERE is a poem called "Love is..." 

that I wrote that sums it up (clicky link!!)

A BEAUTIFUL family member that I LOVE reminded me TODAY how important it is to LIVE IN THE MOMENT!!!  I am grateful for that advice and plan to follow it!!  I believe living in the moment is ESSENTIAL for 
keeping the LOVE CLOUD afloat!!!

Here is a awesome song I heard today about LOVE.  Are you surprised to hear that I am crazy about it?  
CLICK ON IT  & listen ~ it is lovely!!!!

 Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

May YOUR day be filled with LOVE and GRATITUDE!!

p.s. I appreciate the two fabulous ladies that inspired this post.  Thank You for filling up my LOVE tank with positives to keep me floating forward on a LOVE CLOUD!!

This is a Flying Sisters Blog Hop
about GRATITUDE!!!!
Please check out my friend Kathie Gadd's
wonderful blog at Lavender Chalet