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Invitation to Deck Of Dreams Opening

April 16th, 2012 | Posted by Jen Lee in Updates - (0 Comments)

It’s a month away and I am eagerly antic­i­pat­ing the offi­cial open­ing of the DOD project. I believe that a launch usu­ally indi­cates the begin­ning of a project, which is a good thing because this project is not quite fin­ished. So here I am writ­ing to extend the invi­ta­tion to you to attend the Open­ing on 16th May (10:30am — 12:30pm at The OBrien Cen­tre cnr Vic­to­ria and Bur­ton St  Dar­linghurst, NSW) .

Not quite as dra­matic as a rocket launch but you get the idea. Look for­ward to see­ing you there (Thanks to Dou­glas Holmes, you can RSVP online at Eventbrite)

Deck of Dreams Update… it’s been a while

March 30th, 2012 | Posted by Jen Lee in Productivity | Updates - (0 Comments)

A paint­ing cre­ated for The Way­side Chapel open­ing on Sat­ur­day 19th May 2012

Yes, it’s been a while. This is how it hap­pens, you get enthu­si­as­tic about a project and then some­where along the way that enthu­si­asm dis­si­pates and you’re left with ran­dom specks of inspi­ra­tion. So it’s with these specks I write this post.

The Way­side Chapel and St Vincent’s Hos­pi­tal have come on board to sup­port the Deck of Dreams (or could be affec­tion­ately known as DOD). I still see DOD as in it’s infancy and at this stage it still requires plenty of time and energy to grow. There will be a “grand open­ing” for DOD at St Vincent’s Hos­pi­tal on Wednes­day 16th May, 2012. There will be the oppor­tu­nity to par­tic­i­pate in a DOD work­shop after the opening.

Once I gather the specks of inspi­ra­tion to a ball there shall be more hap­pen­ing in DOD world. As for now, I leave you will a paint­ing I cre­ated for The Way­side Chapel open­ing, it’s called Con­nected World — or — black stick men all stuck together on a round green blob (Oh and it will be on sale, at a price I have yet to determine)

Also I have received another beau­ti­ful entry into DOD from Peter D. Thank you, and it can be found in the gallery. And also thank you to a spe­cial some­one who has encour­aged me to post some­thing, this is a step in the right direction.

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Copic Ciao Markers… So Delightful

January 23rd, 2012 | Posted by Jen Lee in Creative - (0 Comments)

Copic MarkersI love colours! COPIC is a brand of marker from Japan (of course) with oodles of colours, from brights to pas­tels. I may have bit­ten off more than I can chew when I ordered my 72 COPIC Ciao Marker set on the week­end via ebay… they will be com­ing in from the UK, sav­ing me about $100! I will be like a child on Christ­mas day when the pack­age arrives. In the mean time, to inspire me and to jus­tify my mark­erific pur­chase, I looked for exam­ples of artists using COPIC mark­ers — here are a hand­ful [ ana­toliba | Isis­Masshiro — 2 | Velvet-Loz | phoenix-karenee ]

I also found this adorable mini COPIC marker by MrsCre­osote (who also has some amaz­ing minia­ture art­works of food). Thanks to KiwiChameleon for the COPIC marker image in this post. So hope­fully soon will begin a ram­page of artis­tic out­pour­ing and creativity.

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Finding your purpose?

January 21st, 2012 | Posted by Jen Lee in General | Interesting - (0 Comments)

Signpostpur — puh’s

As defined by the online dic­tio­nary: the rea­son for which some­thing exists or is done, made, used etc.

What seems to be a sim­ple thing, can lead to a life of search­ing for one’s ulti­mate pur­pose. The rea­son for which you exist. That is quite a state­ment, and def­i­nitely infers you are here for more than just  to take up air and a space on this planet, Earth in case it’s become unrecog­nis­able to you in it’s chaos. Through my, rel­a­tively short — in com­par­i­son to that of a 219 year old tur­tle — life, I’ve pon­dered upon my pur­pose only a hand­ful of times. I don’t think I even thought about such a thing until a cou­ple of years ago. Back then, life was sim­ply com­pli­cated in it’s sim­plic­ity. A repet­i­tive motion of sleep, eat, move, talk, study/work, sleep etc. Through my expe­ri­ences, I’ve awoken a few times to know­ing there is a greater pur­pose for me, beyond this cycle… only to lose it again in the next wave of self pity or unwor­thi­ness. When does it stop? It stops when you are dead. So as long as I am liv­ing, I will be going through some cycle and it’s up to me to make it interesting.

Deck of Dreams is one of my dreams. I’ve nursed it from when it was just a flip­pant notion on the bot­tom of a moun­tain, to now, an actual seed which has the poten­tial to grow into some­thing. What is my dream? How do our dreams relate to our pur­pose and are they one of the same? One of my great­est dreams is to guide peo­ple to their dreams. And once that dream is found, to ensure that all the sup­ports are there to make it hap­pen. Then once that is done and dusted, to find another dream. Now that is a cycle I find more than interesting.

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