Tea - pot

Just in keeping with the tea theme - here is a drawing I did yesterday. I love this tiny minature tea pot, that my SIL bought for me when she went to Hong Kong.

I am having lots of trouble with perspective, but never having done a drawing or art class in my life, then it's either quite good considering that fact, or boy! its time to take one...you be the judge. Comment box down below.

Scep - tea - cal
Tea has suddenly become the in thing to consume.

Catering for this trend and the impending Christmas rush, Target is selling tea kits, complete with chinese-y looking tea pots ( I must admit to being tempted to buy one)along with fortune cookies, and tea blends in visually attractive looking bags. Clever marketing here.

At the expo last week, there was a very interesting stand devoted to organic teas, which affect different part of the body - in a healing way of course. No marketing here, just bucket loads of dried grassy looky stuff, boiled up and served in cups.
I've been a huge tea consumer all my life, never making that perceived 'adult' change over to coffee. I don't like coffee, it gives me a headache, and makes me jumpy.
While loving teas so much, I have been prepared to try out different flavoured ones on offer ( peach and lemon, even caramel flavour - sounds better than it actually tastes )just to stem the boredom of drinking the ordinary black stuff.
But I am going to draw the line at trying out the stuff that purports to heal while looking like the dried remains of someones weeding spree in their back yard, and probably tastes....well I was hoping to sample some, but the girl on the counter did'nt offer me one. She looked totally disinterested in the product she was selling. Or maybe it was the latent effect of drinking the stuff?

Hokey looking teas are not for me. Call me unadventurous.

Tried and tested .....pour me another cup!

A little light bondage
Bondage

I am a slave to
Diets
Fads
fashions
Trends
to expectations
To the master of commands
I serve him well
Fulfill every desire
Without a sound

I succumb in silence.

By Krissie

Bottles

A quick black and white line drawing for today:

A Thank you - for a thank you card
.....from Stefani at...Stefani and check out her amazing cards at Pine Tree Designs.

This card has the tiniest crystal embellishments that sparkle in the light. Its got that very 'Escher' look! I love it!

Stefani is seriously talented, not only in the card making dept, but also in her day to day journal entries. So Thank you for the thank you card Stefani!

Reality Bites
Now Playing: Jennifer Juniper - Donovan
What's midlife crisis all about, if you can't spend some time having a whinge, or indulge in some of those - 'what if things had been different', Should of /could of types of fantasies?

And what better way to recapture some old memories than to play one of those old songs from way back way to jog the memory cells a little. These thoughts came to me today as I listened to this lovely, gentle song from Donovan. You probably remember it too?

Jennifer Juniper lives upon the hill,
Jennifer Juniper, sitting very still.
Is she sleeping ? I don't think so.
Is she breathing ? Yes, very low.
Whatcha doing, Jennifer, my love ?
Jennifer Juniper, rides a dappled mare,
Jennifer Juniper, lilacs in her hair.
Is she dreaming ? Yes, I think so.
Is she pretty ? Yes, ever so.
Whatcha doing, Jennifer, my love ?
I'm thinking of what it would be like if she loved me.
You know just lately this happy song it came along
And I like to somehow try and tell you.
Jennifer Juniper, hair of golden flax.
Jennifer Juniper longs for what she lacks.
Do you like her ? Yes, I do, Sir.
Would you love her ? Yes, I would, Sir.
Whatcha doing Jennifer, my love ?
Jennifer Juniper, Jennifer Juniper, Jennifer Juniper.
Jennifer Juniper vit sur la colline,
Jennifer Juniper assise trs tranquille.
Dort-elle ? Je ne crois pas.
Respire-t-elle ? Oui, mais tout bas.
Qu'est-ce que tu fais, Jenny mon amour ?
Jennifer Juniper, Jennifer Juniper, Jennifer Juniper.

I like the bits in french and I make sure I sing them in an extra loud voice just to make myself feel tres francais!

When you are five and a bit feet tall, and a bit of a short n' dumpy brunette, you listen to the words, and begin thinking about the girl - Jennifer in the song.
I realised that Jennifer embodies the fantasy woman inside of me, and wish I'd been born a willowy, svelte, blonde, who rides a dappled mare. I'm well within the realms of reality with the horse bit, having been a bit of a rider myself, I can imagine myself cantering through some Olde Worlde English village. No dramas on this score.
Lilacs in my hair...now we start to have a few problems. I love lilacs to bits, but would probably have to take my hayfever meds before hand, and if you read any hayfever medication it always instructs not to operate heavy machinery. So that precludes the dappled mare.
Jennifer lives on a hill. I live on a coastal plain...so not a lots of hills about here. Never mind, the song goes on to say:

Jennifer Juniper longs for what she lacks.

Maybe Jennifer really wanted to be a short n'dumpy brunette?

Good.....Butt
Way too small for mine! lol.


So here it is - Not only...

Butt also....

When I saw this yesterday near the Expo 'rest area', I thought of David - re: recent comments, ( lol - about Lakeside) and wondered if there is one situated in Joondalup somewhere?

Good...but....



I did wonder rather hard, at what the expo organisers were thinking when they set up their entrance prices structure. Personally, I thought that the entry fee was rather steep, especially for two people, one of whom was almost dragged to accompany the other, kicking and screaming,under duress. The entry fee was just another insult adding to the injury, And 'partner' (ok..it was dh!)seemed intent on reminding me of this fact at least every 10 minutes or so!

The whole event itself was extremely well organised - no gripes there, the stands well grouped, nice products, nice people, nice everything really, v pleasant and relaxing experience, except - yes you guessed again, the prices charged for products and services I feel were again not at show prices or at least they didn't try to be expo friendly.

I think that, what could have been a more hands on experience, giving us the chance to try more of these unsusual and alternative therapies and products were priced out of reach.

Having just spent $30 just to walk thru the entrance , I then went onto spend... $25 on an aura photograph, complete with reading and interpretion...this I felt was money well worth the service I was given.

I wanted to have at least one tarot/card reading, so looking out for a tarot or card reading that I could afford, I chose to have a sitting with Linda the Laughing Witch, who not only made me laugh too, but spent a lot of time talking, gave me a very interesting and accurate reading,and all at a laughably low price. She was brilliant, she was value plus + plus.

As a conscious living 'newbie', I would have loved to have sampled more of what was on offer...alas I was beaten by the wallet monsters who grabbed my cash at the door, and left little for later. Shame.

Expo continued
This was taken at the end of the day - feeling tired and holding armfuls of conscious living advertising bumph...here is moi, more than ready to go home and put my aching feet up!
(still in the blue t-shirt)

Thats all I have time to post in for now - more details on what I did, and what I saw there later!

Conscious Living Expo
We took our camera to do some 'city shots'while driving to the Expo. I thought that my non Oz readers would maybe like to see 'big smoke' (lol) Oz style.

Here we go....the journey begins....

Into the tunnel that cuts under the city....

Down...we go.....

And out at at the other end...I think we've reached our destination.....Conscious Living Expo...here we come!

(That's me in the blue t-shirt)