30 today
Posted on | January 26, 2008 | 37 Comments
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Things I am currently inspired by:
The really cool people I follow on TWITTER. The Talks. Line Juhl Hansen's studio + works in progress. The potential of green drinks. Misty Mawn's Instagram photos. And YOU.
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Current crushes {an ever changing list}:
35 before 35 (A list of things I am attempting this year):
1.Walk a slack line
2. Shoot a double exposure series with my holga
3. Learn to develop film in a dark room
4. Watch: Darjeeling Limited, and The Artist
5. A successful, joyful, profitable New England book tour.
6. Teach an e-course or workshop.
7. Explore the process of screen printing.
8. Paint with encaustic.
9. Run a 5K in 25 minutes.
10. Watch the sun rise from the top of a mountain.
11. Write 5 short essays or stories.
12. Host a interview series on my blog.
13. Spark curiosity.
14. Read: Contents May Have Shifted, and A Visit from the Goon Squad, and The Lover’s Dictionary.
15. Do one tiny creative act every day + keep a record.
16. Hear Elizabeth Strout read her work.
17. Buy flowers for myself. Especially pink peonies.
18. Do another small art tag sale.
19. Launch my new website.
20. Give unexpected presents.
21. Collect pretty plates.
22. Yoga. Do more of it.
23. Leave the country.
24. Paint a corner of my house aquamarine.
25. Say no to things that don’t ignite joy, spark creative potential, or fill my well.
26. Paint the rooster series.
27. Start trends, make waves, and create opportunities.
28. Teach Clover to heel.
29. Paint the large-scale canvases I’ve had in my studio for 3 years.
30. Make time to just be quiet every day.
31. Call my sisters regularly
32. Attend TEDx.
33. Throw a set of bowls on a potters wheel.
34. Ride the State of VT
35. Rock climb again.
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January 26th, 2008 @ 10:29 pm
Happy Birthday! Beautiful photographs, especially the one of Bean enjoying your roses. The rosy evening light is lovely.
January 26th, 2008 @ 11:16 pm
Beautiful birthday roses! The very happiest birthday to you…may it be the beginning of your best decade yet…
January 27th, 2008 @ 12:02 am
BEAUTIFUL roses!
ADORABLE son!!
STUNNING you at 30!!!
Happy Birthday…
January 27th, 2008 @ 1:14 am
Happy Birthday! You look fabulous!
January 27th, 2008 @ 2:19 am
Beautiful roses! Happy birthday.
January 27th, 2008 @ 4:02 am
Happy Happy Birthday! Such beautiful roses and the blue of your earrings too. Enjoy your weekend and I wish you as much chocolate and tasty coffee as you could hope for!
January 27th, 2008 @ 4:12 am
Gorgeous. Everything. Everyone. Happy Birthday! I hope this is a really good year in your life.
January 27th, 2008 @ 5:12 am
You are surrounded by and filled with gorgeousness and love!! I hope your day was wonderful
Happy Happy Birthday, Christina! XOXO
January 27th, 2008 @ 8:09 am
Beautiful photos! Happy Birthday!
January 27th, 2008 @ 9:40 am
Happy Birthday!
January 27th, 2008 @ 11:56 am
Happy Birthday!
January 27th, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
Happy Birthday! Thanks for giving the gift of beautiful photographs. Enjoy the day and the year ahead.
January 27th, 2008 @ 1:32 pm
Happy Birthday!! Pretty roses for such a pretty woman (inside and out!). And may I just say – that kid looks SO much like you – your smile, your eyes – what a cute little boy he is becoming, no longer a baby.
January 27th, 2008 @ 2:05 pm
A very happy birthday to you – you look fantastic!
January 27th, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
Happy Birthday! May your future be as sweet as the scent of those roses! Wishing you the very best:)
January 27th, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
And still as beautiful as ever. Welcome, girl. Your 30′s can’t help but rock.
January 27th, 2008 @ 3:43 pm
Happy, happy birthday! Hope this is a wonderful year for you.
January 27th, 2008 @ 4:19 pm
happy birthday!
January 27th, 2008 @ 5:13 pm
happy birthday
to a beautiful
birthday girl…
hope you have a great one!
January 27th, 2008 @ 5:39 pm
happy birthday! here’s to a wonderful year.
January 27th, 2008 @ 5:47 pm
Happy Birthday, Christina! Those roses are almost as beautiful as you:> The thirties are an awesome decade… and you’ve only just begun!
January 27th, 2008 @ 7:57 pm
*magnificent. happy, happy, happy birthday!
warmly,
gem
January 27th, 2008 @ 8:13 pm
A very happy birthday, to one of my favorite bloggers. May the year ahead bring every good thing you never even dreamed of wishing for.
January 27th, 2008 @ 9:33 pm
happy birthday
January 28th, 2008 @ 12:03 am
Love the picture of Bean “smelling the roses” – lovely shot.
Wishing you an enjoyable, relaxing and happy birthday!
January 28th, 2008 @ 9:41 am
A very happy birthday to you!
January 28th, 2008 @ 1:53 pm
Happy happy birthday!! And as my father-in-law told me, 30s are the new 20s.
January 28th, 2008 @ 2:28 pm
Happy belated birthday! Hope it was magnificent and thanks for sharing your life and all its adornments with us.
January 28th, 2008 @ 4:21 pm
Happy Birthday!!! Wishing you fabulous thing in your new birth-year & birth decade!
January 28th, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
Happy Birthday!! Here’s to a wonderful year.
January 28th, 2008 @ 8:53 pm
“here comes the SUN, doodendoo doo . .” HEEEEEEEEEEEe
You are Sunshine, baby– and all magical things. So glad you are surrounded in roses and so may it be ALL. YEAR. LONG.
bisous—
January 29th, 2008 @ 5:44 am
Beautiful, all of you! Happy Birthday girl! This is just the beginning. You are headed for a fabulous time!
January 31st, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
happy belated birthday!!! hope it was a good one…from those pictures it looks like it was!
February 4th, 2008 @ 6:05 pm
Happy belated birthday, beautiful.
xo
February 6th, 2008 @ 8:40 pm
Came here from Wannabe Hippie’s twitter (i think), but gorgeous photos – and happy birthday!
February 11th, 2008 @ 7:34 pm
Sorry I’m so late to the party (got swamped at work…that time of year at school…master scheduling for next year already). Hope you had a wonderful 30th! Best wishes for a GLORIOUS decade!
These photos are GORGEOUS. xoxo
July 12th, 2010 @ 9:51 pm
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