Tag: creativity

• Self Portrait during the Salon

  

  naptime 🙂

  01/24/2023 12:05 pm

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• Vacation

  

  Peeko listening to a naptime story rest, sit, meditate, paint a little, walk. look at the sky, draw, notice scenery, sketch a scene, yoga stretch, continue to eat tangerines, tomatoes, drink green tea, make scrambled eggs with baby spinach, dinner meals. See how many cups of water I am actually drinking in the day, dawned […]

  01/12/2023 10:43 am

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• May Ziadeh, a Biography by Jade Nicole Beals

  

  July 21, 2022 (completed Jan. 2023) featured photo, Miss May A biography I wrote about the author, May Ziadeh, an author I’ve written of often on the blog, with biographical facts, and immersive writings in my own experiences beginning in May 2021. At the end, a summary and reflection of the book My Life With […]

  01/10/2023 10:11 am

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• The Dream of Your Ex

  The dreams I’ve had with your ex, you are not in them, and he’s floated in…And he is unusually still, like a potato on my counter-type of presence, does not speak—any conversation already begun, stops. He seems to operate by a different law of gravity. I never met the man or spoke to him either. […]

  01/05/2023 6:56 pm

  creativity, dreams, my dreams, poetic

• My Short Story Printed and Ready, and an Author from Mississipi

  I had started writing my novel, which will be a longer length project, but I have been kind of following my desire and writing poems and this “gift” story in between. As I had written previously that I was writing a “secret story” to be given to someone as a gift at my family’s Christmas […]

  12/22/2022 4:30 pm

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• Just Two More Things: A Secret Story to Gift and a Novel Read

  

  (This is my fortune cookie today, featured photo: I could have written it! You know 😅And maybe I did, indirectly, with “algorithms.”) I said I would go on my blog vacation, then I left on a sad note and with my original blog theme needing to be restored, and it is working fine now…that has […]

  12/20/2022 4:48 pm

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• A Glam Christmas Party, at the Party

  

  This was such an original idea by my cousin in law to have a dress up glam Christmas party and definitely my kind of fun. Pictures in… a photo of a selfie happening 💋 I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season…who knows, maybe you’ll want to have a glam party yourself….Break up the […]

  12/18/2022 9:53 am

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• “Dream Catcher”

  “Dream Catcher” by Jade Nicole Beals hear me read the poem: You are a few years younger than me, and you’d already felt much wiser. I remember when you sent me a poem; I thought, is this by William Shakespeare? It can’t be for me? It is so good. It was in the days of […]

  12/09/2022 4:25 pm

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• A ‘Lost’ Recipe Found and Made for Dinner, Delicious

  

  (my photo) I am not an 👩‍🍳official chef, but I cook plenty, and I made this Armenian-Lebanese dinner tonight. I am happy with the creativity you can find in cooking and wanted to share some. I’d heard of this meal sometime ago on a list, a rare or forgotten Armenian-Lebanese dinner recipe…It involves lightly stir-fried […]

  12/08/2022 7:37 pm

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• My Art Projects in Progress and Ones I’ve Noted for the Future

  

  Wednesday, November 30th, ‘22 Yesterday, there were about 4 writer and book events happening. I went to 3 events :), and my cat Peeko attended 0 of them by his choice. (…He just made this expression like me, as if with humor, mid-groom and bathing himself for a long while; I tried to get a […]

  12/05/2022 10:10 am

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• NaNoWriMo Write Together at Barnes and Noble

  This was my first NaNoWriMo meeting at Barnes and Noble this evening, Sunday. I’d arrived a little later than everyone else and was glad to write together with this very welcoming group of fellow writers, and the leader even gave us beautiful flower stickers sent from the NaNoWriMo organization as a celebration, I placed mine […]

  11/13/2022 6:51 pm

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• Music to Walk to and More, Two Songs I Am Listening To

  I walk to this 🥰😍🎶🌤🌅 another one 🙂 for today, writing! I want it I do it 📓I’ll read the book; I’ll write one too😊☺️😊 Great beat to walk to 🎶🥁😊🕯…✒️💕 Jade

  11/13/2022 3:08 pm

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• My First Novel Begins…Now

  

  up and up brand college ruled journal jumbo size found at target Here you can see my supplies, the notebook now written in some first pages (but not to see the words written, a surprise, of course). This paper calendar happening to match is for the story’s timeline, but I am not really near up […]

  11/10/2022 11:07 am

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• Abstract for Jordan

  

  SOLD—by Jade Nicole Beals 9 x 12, acrylic on wrapped canvas, commissioned art, abstract I looked up ideas of relaxing colors for babies and found these, but I also found that I wanted to add interest of intricate subjects. I added a coat of light acrylic varnish to seal it at the very end, and […]

  10/16/2022 8:25 am

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• Google Tells the Trees and Me that I Can Do What I Want

  Just now after I wrote the post The Culprit, I checked the current moon sign for fun. A notice from Google: Gemini October 13, 2022 at 2:00 a.m. Moon Alert: After 1:15 a.m. EDT today, there are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The Moon is in Gemini.1 day ago 😉 This is the kind […]

  10/14/2022 12:47 pm

  creativity, fashion, fun, memoir stories, moon

• An Art Gallery Weekend, A Reflection on Beauty, Luminosity, and Happiness in Art

  

  featured artists, Rich and Shana, this weekend, and me centered Saturday I spent the afternoon at the local Art Gallery and Studio and it’s been a busy, connected time with the artist friends there, and those words don’t always come together in other ways, which I love about this. I had just finished my recent […]

  09/12/2022 12:07 pm

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• Poetry Books: Goldenrod and The Book of Love, and More

  

  The title poem of Goldenrod by Maggie Smith reminds me of my time as a very novice student of nature last year. And I’m not purposely or only picking gold-colored things for the blog :), but I won’t outright deny a gold-colored thing for variety either. My brief reflection of the book: Goldenrod by Maggie Smith (2021): […]

  09/07/2022 6:38 pm

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• “This Is…”

  July 5, 2022 This Is… Humidity. This is the red flower moon full of… This is an anonymous lady shouting out (while grilling me) “Don’t be sorry, honey!” [to a man with her] of me, after there was no altercation, but only kindly manners, as he’d come quickly around a hidden bend, jogging toward my […]

  07/05/2022 4:25 pm

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• …*

  

  …as if I’d dreamed the tea cup, but found it first and remembered the dream in my own fancy when I received it and picked it up in my hands and looked… The design is just what I would wish…Green I often turn to and admire, green that feels like new sprouts and grass and […]

  06/06/2022 2:49 pm

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• Not My Door, But I Got My Classic and My Bright Bookmark

  

  I finished reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte (1853) last night, felt I could remain within its mists even after the book ended, a ponderous read that I feel safe within… I took these photos on the spot yesterday early afternoon walking around after reading, was still in the middle of Villette. 📷 … Not My […]

  05/21/2022 8:30 am

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• From Love Sonnets of Proteus, poem by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

  I am reading through poetry in a pair of anthologies I’d found at the library…here’s one, the first in the book. * From Love Sonnets of Proteus by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt I see you, Juliet, still, with your straw hat Loaded with vines, and with your dear pale face, On which those thirty years so […]

  05/13/2022 2:06 pm

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• “The Castle Tower”

  

  April 25, 2022 The Castle Tower a pantoum by Jade Nicole Beals You’ve said I am entwined with the numberless. The castle tower trades its lace for the sky. All night, the tower climbs in secret, spinning its uppermost lace into the finest clouds. Please place your hands upon mine. The castle tower trades its […]

  04/25/2022 7:36 pm

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