I love the bold affirmation girl
By Tangerine Meg | May 24, 2010
Hi there, Bold Ones,
Thanks to several friends on Facebook who passed on this wonderful video. Many of you may have already seen this, but here she is again – my addition to the virus-osity-o-rama (virulence just sounds too much like the plague)! 
Let’s make lists of unqualified “I love ….”s in our lives. It’s not going to be a “Live Bold List” with a number and a title, just a free floating list of joyous affirmations:
- I love that it’s raining
- I love that I am warm and dry
- I love that the electricity works and I have light and a computer connection (and internet!)
- I love my warm pink cardigan from the OpShop
- I love the smell of the Sticky Date Gingerbread baking
- I love that we have a gas connection and the oven works so it can cook the Sticky Date Gingerbread
- I love that I brought my washing in earlier – before it started raining – and it’s dry on my bed, waiting to be folded and put away
- I love that I got some yummy food cooked today ready for the week
- I love that despite being ‘off’ wheat, barley, red meat, sugar, alcohol, preservatives (etc) and nuts, there are still plenty of interesting yummy options for nutrition and nourishment
Oh, yeah and one “My (thing I own) is great”
- My new stripey leggings are great (and also dry, waiting to be folded and put away, and later – WORN with glee!)
I think everyone’s list is meant to be personal and specific. Hence mine is of a somewhat domestic nature today!
Wanna share? There’s a comments section below, or you could comment at my Facebook Visual Artist page. I’d love to hear about a few of the things you appreciate
Remember, Like the girl in the video: You, too, can do anything good!
Meg
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Too excited to wait… Bold Souls Pre-proper-release Special!
By Tangerine Meg | May 11, 2010
Dear Friends of Tangerine Meg,
The new cards have arrived from the printer and I just can’t wait to show you…
So I am offering this just to you, lovely Bold Souls:
15 packs of the new Serendipity Mixed Packs of 10 Greeting Cards available now! For $35 (should I say “only”? Usually they are $5 each, you do the maths!) the first 15 Bold Souls can have a preview pack containing the new cards plus a selection of classic favourites. To give you some context: these new cards aren’t even in my Art Card Shop yet! To get free shipping too you can use the discount code: BoldSoul15
The Add To Cart button below will take you to a shopping cart where you can use either PayPal or Credit Card and get your Serendipity Pack of 10 greeting cards mailed to you immediately:
I’ll send you a good mix of 10 cards and will be sure to include the new designs, so you’ll be set with a cache of cards all ready for sending to your loved ones.
While you’re here… If this doesn’t interest you (or indeed even if it does) could you take a minute to go to my Facebook Tangerine Meg Visual Artist page, click the link under my picture to “suggest to friends” and choose some friends to recommend me to? Only the ones who you think would be interested! I appreciate your help reaching more Bold Souls
There are exciting things coming… New art, more card packs and the stories behind the artworks, too.
Oh, and I have a “photo shoot” with my son the photographer booked, so expect a groovy new portrait soon!
Love this quote I saw somewhere just this week:
Be You. Everyone else is already taken!
Take care,
Meg x o
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Eye Music (and not)!
By Tangerine Meg | May 4, 2010
Hello Petals!
1 Colourful visual music (neither audible nor moving)
This photo shows 3 short stemmed flowers (they’d snapped) out of the long stemmed bunches from the Farmers Market.
2 Black and White Music (audible and with movement)
Here is a lovely example of moving art made from letters and other typographic symbols. The Nina Simone song is sweet in itself, and in Tamara Connolly’s delightful film she’s made visuals for the dreamy sound by synthesizing and animating the simple components. Love those dragonflies
3 Cacophony that shall become visual music
I am hesitant about pressing the ‘publish’ button and letting you see this piece of today’s creative lino reality!
I can see what needs to happen next. Like Leonardo I shall carve away that which is not the picture and reveal the picture. You can see there are the beginnings of a book at the bottom, and the rounded shapes for a cat at left. I think I’ll change the florally pattern. Sometimes pictures come from much planning and fine-tuning and other times may be formed from an as-yet unrefined collection of swirls, as in this case!
I WAS enjoying carving the grey “silk cut” lino as, even though today is chilly, the lino was allowing me to cut it very readily. But now: Oh dear – Time to stop cutting for the day! I just slipped with my lovely new sharp lino carving tools and made a small cut in my left thumb, now stoppered with a band-aid. Gee I will know about that next time I am trying to send a text message, won’t I?
I learned to spell cacophony today. The main reason I know what cacophony means is from reading Asterix comics when I was a school girl. Have you read it ever? Remember Cacofonix The Bard – the bad bard? Haha!
Thanks for coming by. Enjoy the season changing!
Meg
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Thanks Bold Souls – Winner announced!
By Tangerine Meg | April 26, 2010
Dearests,
Thank you so much to the Bold Souls who entered the Mothers Day Competition (2010)! I am pleased to announce the winner is … Jesse with the wonderful mother who buys her ice-cream and treats when they go to town, and coaches her netball team (amongst other things). I am just about to email Jesse to get her address so I can post out the lovely prize.
I loved all the entrants comments, from Jesse’s to Jen’s precious mothers, Maddo’s mum because of whom she is strong and independent, and Gill’s mum who has a knack for inclusiveness. They all sound wonderfully different and valuable. Bold Souls all.
Thanks again, ladies, for entering. I will see you back here soon.
Love Meg x o
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Live Bold List 15: Some of the stuff Mum taught me
By Tangerine Meg | April 25, 2010
Dearest Hearts,
Whilst you are thinking about comments to leave and friends to invite for my Tangerine Meg Mothers Day Competition 2010 (details re-posted below) I bring you a Live List. Ta-da…!
Live Bold List 15: Some of the stuff Mum taught me
Now I am myself a mother, I’ve analysed many (lets face it pretty much all) the things my parents said to us as children, as I often heard myself repeating them! Turns out much of it didn’t need tweaking! Many of their suggestions I found re-iterated in later reading of child and adult psychology (No. 1 is a mainstay of what I understood of Steve Biddulph‘s book Secret of Happy Children.)
- Frame instructions to children (and others) in the positive. A friend who studied child brain development later told me this matches with the way young brains work. For example, if you say “Don’t touch the flame”, they hear “…Touch the flame”! “Don’t” doesn’t register. This is particularly for Under 10s, I think.
- Cool down before acting or speaking when riled or upset so you don’t do or or say something that you’ll regret later. Step back from a challenging event to give yourself time to think things through. Write a letter to the person if there’s something you can’t say to them calmly but that you think is important.
- The concept of “Clean Dirt” I think came from Mum. Perhaps it was dirt/soil or perhaps paint. Often these things were messy, not disastrous, and could be cleaned up in due course!
- Think about the other person’s point of view. If you were in their place you might well behave in the same way. This, too, is reiterated by many a psychologist to bring understanding of the actions of others. The wonderful Patty Newbold at Assume Love asks “If this were the same wonderful person who loves me just as much as when we got married, what could explain their (apparently non-loving) behaviour?”
- Use manners. Please, thank-you, excuse me and proper placement of knives, forks, spoons, during eating and after, etc, etc. Remember to say “Thank you for having me”! These are handy little habits.
- Be true to yourself no matter what everybody else is doing. This is a great one! To ask yourself what is right for you, rather than what is the popular thing, in any given situation is actually quite a powerful tool.
I realise now this was quite huge:
I decided at 18 (and still living at home) that I would become vegetarian. Mum took this in her stride, researched a bit, borrowed some books and respected my wishes. That can’t have been particularly easy. I even overheard her tell a friend that it had been a good learning experience to find some new recipes!
If you like for your competition entry you could make a small list of what’s great about your mum. Or just recount a memorable event. All wonder-Mama comments welcome!
Here are the competition details again:
The Prize
A hearty (haha) zipped leather bag and a luxurious scented soap (both of which are Fair Trade and Made in India) which I purchased on Friday from the wonderful Oxfam shop, and 3 of my art greeting cards. You can choose which card will please your Ma the best and keep the other 2 for friends or family another time. Or you can simply keep it all for yourself!!
3 Ways to enter:
- Suggest my Tangerine Meg Visual Artist page to some of your Facebook friends – please, only those you think may be interested!
How: Under my profile picture on the page click on the option ‘Suggest to Friends’. Click the friends you’ve selected on the list, and click ‘Send Invitations’. To let me know you’ve done this, leave a comment either here or at the Tangerine Meg Visual Artist page on Facebook. This will give you 1 entry into the competition. Whilst you’re there writing, do No. 2 or 3 for an extra chance if you like! - Leave a comment at the bottom of this post telling me just a little of the wonderful person that is your Mother. This, too, will give you 1 entry into the competition.
- Leave a comment at my Tangerine Meg Visual Artist page on Facebook telling me a little about your gorgeous Mother. This is the third way you can get 1 entry into the competition.
So it’s possible to do all three things and get three chances to win. I am ok with you combining way 1 with way 2 or 3!
Entries close on Monday 26th April (that’s tomorrow) at 6pm, Australian Central Standard Time. This will allow the best chance to get the parcel to you in time. Then everyone will be collected into a computer spreadsheet and I will select a winner using a random number generator.
Extra Details
I will email (or FacebookMessage) the winner to get their postal address so I can send the prize; and will let you know here who won.
I will post the prize to the winner anywhere in the world. The lady at the Post Office said that mail is disrupted because of the volcano/planes situation, but normally it takes 2 to 3 days to Australian destinations, and 5 to 10 days to the US and Canada.
By the way Mothers Day is on May 9 this year in the US, Canada and Australia. In the UK the equivalent Mothering Sunday was back in March. UK Bold Souls can of course still enter!
Take care my Lovelies,
Go forth and write beautiful things about your Momma.
Love Meg
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Thx Mum!
By Tangerine Meg | April 24, 2010
Hey there Wonder-beings, all children of someone!
Is your Mother is of the generation to read text-speak (ie. Thx = thanks)?
Here is a site to inspire your Mothers Day competition entries. Thxthxthx is a wonderful simple site comprising short thankful notes to unexpected recipients (like ‘Smile I had Today’ or ‘Hacked Email from Reggie’); Thxthxthx even have a Facebook page.
To enter for the pictured prize all you have to do is leave me a ‘Why I love my Mum’ style comment (see details below). You might like to start your comment off with: “Dear Ma, Thanks for … ” or “Thx, Mum, for … ” A little bit of appreciation goes a long way!
The Prize
A hearty (haha) zipped leather bag and a luxurious scented soap (both of which are Fair Trade and Made in India) which I purchased today from the wonderful Oxfam shop, and 3 of my art greeting cards. You can choose which card will please your Ma the best and keep the other 2 for friends or family another time. Or you can simply keep it all for yourself!!
3 Ways to enter:
- Suggest my Tangerine Meg Visual Artist page to some of your Facebook friends – only those you think may be interested!
How: Under my profile picture on the page click on the option ‘Suggest to Friends’. Click the friends you’ve selected on the list, and click ‘Send Invitations’. To let me know you’ve done this, leave a comment either here or at the Tangerine Meg Visual Artist page on Facebook. This will give you 1 entry into the competition. Whilst you’re there writing, do No. 2 or 3 for an extra chance if you like! - Leave a comment at the bottom of this post telling me just a little of the wonderful person that is your Mother. This, too, will give you 1 entry into the competition.
- Leave a comment at my Tangerine Meg Visual Artist page on Facebook telling me a little about your gorgeous Mother. This is the third way you can get 1 entry into the competition.
So it’s possible to do all three things and get three chances to win. I am ok with you combining way 1 with way 2 or 3!
Entries close on Monday 26th April at 6pm, Australian Central Standard Time, to allow the best chance to get the parcel to you in time. Then everyone will be collected into a computer spreadsheet and I will select a winner using a random number generator.
Extra Details
I will email (or FacebookMessage) the winner to get their postal address so I can send the prize; and let you know here who won.
I will post this to you any where in the world. The lady at the Post Office said that mail is disrupted because of the volcano/planes situation, but normally it takes 2 to 3 days to Australian destinations, and 5 to 10 days to the US and Canada.
Get those Wonder-Mommy comments in quickly, and have a very happy weekend!
Meg
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