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Strangely Energetic

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Wow… Today is strangely energetic but in a great way… I have done a lot! and crossed many items from my to-do list. I’ve received some wonderful news about work that is lined up from a UK client and I’ve also received a very enthusiastic response with regard to the presentation website that I’d finished. It would be absolutely fabulous to get this assignment in so keep your fingers crossed for me please!

I also received an email for another interview, I applied for it last week, it’s the education/job option that I wrote about a while ago. The interview will be on the 22nd this month, as they say in the UK: don’t put all your eggs in one basket… So this is just one of a few baskets that I’ve been putting my eggs in *wink*. This Thursday I’ll hopefully meet up with the manager of the City Auditorium (another one of them baskets).

Feeling a tad under the weather since yesterday: I have a serious cold so I’m drinking lots and lots of Sweet Chili tea* with slices of fresh ginger to heat up my bones. Tomorrow I’ll be visiting the hospital again, nothing serious, just a chat I need to have as part of the skin treatment which is going extremely well. Still have to prepare some papers for this though and send one more email to another UK client to discuss their design.

So I’m off again, to enjoy the energy and getting things done effortlessly, I love days like this!

*Ingredients: Liquorice, cocoa shells, spearmint, fennel, anise, ginger, peppermint, nettle, chili pepper 2%, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, black pepper.

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Origami Wishes

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Today I’m working on my New Year’s ‘cards‘ that I will send to some close friends. I don’t do xMas cards anymore, call me a rebel but I try to make a difference and not follow the crowd blindly so I craft my own ‘cards‘ and try to turn it into something special each year instead of the regular stuff that is out there in the supermarkets. I want those that are special to me to receive something special, it’s about making the effort…

I’ll use my favourite paper that I bought in London at the Chinese wholesaler where I used to get my Asian groceries. I bought loads of the coloured kind and only a few sheets of the paper I’m now using for the ‘cards‘. The girl at the till asked me why I bought that much paper so I said to her that I’m a graphic designer and I just love the quality of it. She just responded with a quiet ‘oh…’ but I realised what she was thinking.

You see, this paper has a totally different meaning to the Chinese than it has to me, to me it’s ‘just’ another piece of beautiful paper that I can use to design something special. Paper made of rice or bamboo fibers with a beautiful coarse texture of ‘laidlines’. To the Chinese it’s ‘ghost money’ and used as an offering to worship the ancestors and to ensure that the spirit of the deceased has all the good things in the afterlife.

I don’t see why I couldn’t use it for another purpose: I think I’m only complementing this beautiful paper. I’ve chosen to hide my New Year’s wishes inside a cute Origami design and since it’s all handmade I’m only gonna send a few to a select company of people. Only those who will appreciate the effort, so instead of the ‘usual’ twenty five xMas New Year’s cards, I’ll reduce that to ten this year. Why only ten people?

Because I’m limiting some friendships… It’s time to shift the focus from others to myself and some of these so-called friendships simply seem too unbalanced so I’d rather nurture the more rewarding ones. I’d like to thank those who sent me a (digital) xMas message, some came as a total surprise to me *happy smile* Mine is -as you can read- still in the making and soon on it’s way around the world *wink*.

‘This above all: to thine own self be true.’

~Shakespeare

©Zesty Gal Beautiful paper… waiting to be cut and folded

©Zesty Gal Beautiful paper… waiting to be cut and folded