August Photo a Day Challenge

This afternoon my friend Elaine challenged me to join her in doing a Photo a Day Challenge this month, starting today! You can follow both our photo posts on Pinterest (& you can also follow me on Twitter or Tumblr). I hope you join the Photo a Day Challenge too! The August photo challenge list we are doing is from Chantelle at Fat Mum Slim. Today's photo prompt was "outside" - my photo was taken while hanging out on the stoop at my house this evening. I love the angles & the clouds looming over the house.

Photo taken with my Samsung Dart phone

I am enjoying being in the flow of the Universe with exciting new challenges! Everything has really been coming together for me lately, & new & exciting things are bringing me closer & closer to my dreams of travelling!

A part-time job working at Home Management (who Charlotte Chamber Music shares an office with) just opened up for me. Very Cool! And then even more recently the opportunity to rent a house in Fourth Ward, only a few blocks away from the office, came up. It's perfect for me, and oh so affordable! So I'll be moving this weekend. I spent much of this evening sorting & packing things. My clothes are packed, bedding & towels are next; then books, kitchen stuff, wall art, art supplies, electronics, camping gear, & whatever other odds & ends remain. Overall I think it should be a fairly smooth move.

Last night my mom, Ugly Stepsister, hosted an art journaling girls' night for a group of us to share our creative energy & work on art journals (or sketchbooks or junk journals). We had a blast trying various types of media (watercolours, acrylics, coloured pencils, mod podge, stencils, mixed media...) & expressing our creative spirits. It offered a fun taste of her upcoming class, "Journaling With Art, aka Junk Journaling", which will be held at Mint Hill Arts this fall.

Putting the final touches on a stencil design with mixed media

Victoria, Heidy, Barbara (aka Ugly Stepsister), me, Niury, & Sherry

Artwork in progress!

What exciting new activities,  events, or challenges have been inspiring you lately?