A Few More of My Favourite Things...

Talking about my favourite things makes me happy...which is good for the soul, in my opinion :)
So here are a few more of my favourite things:

My favourite hobbies:

Photography (photo by Naara Lee)

Painting (photo by me)

Watching movies (photo by me)

Photography is my passion. I love it. I love film cameras and digital cameras. I love, love love it! :)
Painting is also a passion of mine, but it is not quite as deep as photography. Painting allows me to escape from the world, and makes me happy (most of the time).
Watching movies is another way of escaping from the real world. I enjoy watching movies when I am painting or scrapbooking or even when I am all snuggled up in bed on a rainy afternoon (especially then :) )

Seeing as we are talking about watching movies I will tell you my favourite movies. There are so many to choose from, so bare with me, as the list may be long :)

The Sound of Music

Singing in the Rain

Moulin Rouge

Strictly Ballroom

Notting Hill

Where the Heart is

Love Actually

Ever After

Music and Lyrics

The Man From Snowy River

So there are a few of my favourite movies. I know they look like they are all from fairly similar movie genres, but I do like all kinds of genres. I'm just a chick-flick type girl most of the time :)  I love Australian films. I think they are under-rated, which is sad. They have some very good stories and actors in them. I also love musical type films, as you can see. Not all musical movies are good, some just have too many songs lol. I also love English films and TV, they are usually the most funny.


Which leads me to my next favourite thing, TV shows:

SeaChange

The Simpsons

Friends

Dawson's Creek

Ed

Gilmore Girls

House

Keeping Up Appearances

Kath & Kim

I don't watch much TV, even if it does look like it. Most of these are older shows which are no longer on TV, I watch most on DVD now. I like the older TV shows, new shows on TV don't catch my attention as much as they used to. But I do enjoy watching TV shows because you are envolved with the characters a lot longer than you are in movies.

Well that is all I have for now on my favourite things :) Until next time...

A Few of my Favourite Things...

Ok, so I know that is a very over used phrase...But I wanted to share some of my favourite things. Things that inspire me, and things that I enjoy and love :)

The first thing that comes to mind are my favourite artists. They inspire me and I love their works.

 

 

Claude Monet  (Photo from unknown source)

 

 

Frida Kahlo (photo from Fashion's Most Wanted blog)

 

 

 

 

 

Some of my favourite artworks from my favourite artists are:

The White Water Lillies by Claude Monet

Water lillies 1919

Water lillies 1914

Family Tree by Frida Kahlo

Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo

My Dress is Hanging there

Henry Ford Hospital by Frida Kahlo

The reasons for liking these works are the emotions that come with them. When I was in High School, my art teacher asked me to do an assignment on Frida Kahlo and she expected me to come back to her and tell her I didn't like her, but I came back to her filled with inspiration. I loved her works. They convey emotions and stories that you don't find in many works. I felt an imediate connection to her. 
As for Monet, it took me a little longer to appreciate him. I can't remember what drew me to him, maybe it was his use of colours and his techniques. After going to Paris and seeing his works up close, and going to his garden in Giverny, my love and inspiration was renewed.

That leads me to my favourite places in the world:

Paris, France (photo taken by me, 2009)

Monet's Garden, Giverny, France (photo taken by me, 2009)

Sydney, Australia  (Photo courtesy of Bridge Climb, Sydney)

Because I haven't been to very many places in the world so far, I haven't got a very wide range of favourite places. I am sure that will change once I have been to more places though.

I shall leave my favourite things there for now and will come back to them some other time.
I hope you enjoy :)

Finding Positives :)

I said in my last post that I needed to start finding positives in my life. So here goes:

• I have a place to live

• My parents charge me less for board than I would have to pay if I had a place of my own. 
• I have food to eat

• I have money (even if it isn't very much)
• I have a family who I believe love me
• I have friends, even if they are far away
• I am very lucky to have technology of my own, such as a computer and camera
• I was lucky enough to go to university and get a degree in Art

This is all I can think of right now...If I think of more I will add it to my next post :)

Until next time...:)

Thoughts and feelings

I didn't want this blog to be all negative, but I guess I'm not feeling very positive at the moment.

Life is not how I expected it to be at my age. I thought I would be loving it. I'd have my diploma, my freedom, my independance, a good job, a little place of my own (a rental of course), maybe a boyfriend (this is not so important). I have my diploma, but that is all I have.

I shouldn't complain. There are people who are a lot worse off then I am. But it's so easy to think the worst of your life when you look at others around you who are your age and younger who seem to have a better life than you. If I were to take a closer look at their lives, maybe I would come to a different conclusion, but maybe not.

I'm going to set a goal for this next week:

• I'm going to try to find the good in things. Be a bit more positive. Play the 'Glad Game'.