{on dreaming - blogtoberfest day XXXI}

Time

Acrylics, spray paint, inks, Pitt pens and collage on canvas

8 x 12 inch

"Since I re-started my creative journey in August 2006 so many things have changed in my life.  The single thread that winds through all the change is dreaming that it could be so.... The thing that I've really learned in the last couple of months is not to limit my dreams.  Not to decide that my small dreams can manifest but my big dreams aren't really for me.  It's taken a long time to get here but I'm starting to know in a real way that it's true.  The deepest, truest things that you wish for yourself are also meant to be." 
                                                                                    October 29, 2009 

Do you remember the painting above?  I used it in my post on day I.  What I didn't tell you at the time was why I created it.  Monica mentioned that a call was out for artists to submit work for Patti Digh's next book.  They had such an overwhelming response to the call out that they decided to randomly select 200 people who would have the opportunity to submit their work for consideration.  I was one of the lucky ones chosen.  'Time' was my submission in response to the essay I was given to work with.

In April 2011 'Time' will be published in Patti Digh's new book 'WHAT I WISH FOR YOU: Simple Wisdom For A Happy Life'.  I am absolutely over the moon.  Getting my work published has been a dream for so long.

I am so excited that I get to share this news on the last day of blogtoberfest.  It somehow seems so fitting.

What an amazing month it's been.  Topsy-turvy and all kinds of crazy mixed in with lots of exciting news, big lessons, simple happiness and realisations aplenty.  Just like life I guess.  My life anyway.  My big, dreamy, wonderful, topsy-turvy life.

I hope you've enjoyed Blogtoberfest 2010.  I hope you've enjoyed the challenge, found some lovely new blogs, made some new friends and maybe, just maybe, planted or manifested some dreams of your own.  I hope you'll come back again next year and do it all again.  Just think, in 12 months time we'll be another year along in our journeys again.  I wonder where this time next year will find us?

For the grand finale I've got an extra special giveaway.  If you would like to win a set of my limited edition '3 Parts Faith' & '2 Parts Hope' prints then just leave a comment.  For a runner up you can have your choice of any single print from my shop.  I'll draw the winners on Thursday.

I might not see you tomorrow peeps, but I'll see you soon.