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Soul Songs for- SoulCollage Newsletter February 2, 2006 February 02, 2006 |
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Welcome!Greetings and welcome to Soul Songs, the official KaleidoSoul newsletter, and the only newsletter which features SoulCollage® artists and ideas. A special welcome to the many newcomers who've subscribed in the past month. We're glad you've joined us! Our goal is to fill each issue (and your life) with inspiration, challenge, and delight. Whether you are new to SoulCollage® or already immersed in the creation of your deck, Soul Songs is for you. Please feel free to forward this ezine to any friends or family members who will enjoy it as well. May we continue to allow SoulCollage® to transform us from the inside out, so that we are able to sing the songs we were born to sing, every day of our lives.
I wish you peace and joy on your journey,
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Contents of this issue:
Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. --- Kahlil Gibran, On Self-Knowledge, The Prophet
Hi! I’m Anne Marie, the creator of KaleidoSoul, and a SoulCollage® facilitator in Massachusetts. If you’re just starting to sing your song with SoulCollage®, then this column is especially for you!
Organizing Your ImagesWhen you first start out gathering images for your SoulCollage® cards, you might just enter the land of Overwhelm! This is when you have so many cut-out images that your lap, desktop, dining room table, and closets are literally flooded with them. I believe it was Mae West who said too much of a good thing is wonderful. All right, I know she wasn't talking about SoulCollage images, but she might as well have been! So you've collected all these images and it can be overwhelming. Now, if you're an organized person to begin with (and maybe you'll need to make a Committee card for this part of you!), you'll begin sorting them out and creating some kind of order out of the chaos. But if you're not an organized person to begin with, the piles of images might be so overwhelming that you shove them all in a drawer and just forget about them. Well, we don't want you to do that! Here are some simple suggestions for organizing your images:
Suggestions for Newcomers to SoulCollage:
Idea of the month:
Question/Solution of the Month:
Dear Margaret, Thanks so much for writing. I still feel new to SoulCollage sometimes too even though I've been practicing it for more than a year. I think it's a good thing, because it always brings me to the place where I can learn something new. As for the sizing of the images..... once in a while I will take an image to the local copy center to make it smaller or bigger if I need it to fit on the 5 x 8 card. I rarely do this, but I know some people who do it a lot. Personally, I like the challenge of making the images that I like fit onto the 5 x 8 card, even if they seem too big or too small at first. Just take it one card at a time and watch what happens!
If you have a suggestion, or cardmaking tip that you'd like to share with our Soul Song readers, please click here. If you’re new to SoulCollage and have questions you would like to see addressed in future issues, please send your question to Anne Marie. Soul Symphonies with KarenMy name is Karen Mann and I’m a SoulCollage® Facilitator from Melbourne, Australia. This column is for those of you who have already made some SoulCollage® cards and are ready to discover the symphony of voices inside of you and around you.
Last year I spent a number of months "clutter clearing" in my house...sorting through 30-plus years of accumulated stuff! Like many artists I struggled with staying tidy & organized. Over the years there were many things I had kept "just in case" it might be useful in a piece of artwork later. On some level there was also a part of me that felt being organized & clutter-free meant becoming boring and anal! When I started this task I hadn't realized how emotionally exhausting it would be. Every decision I made about what to discard (or keep) was really making a decision about the person I am NOW and who I hope to be in the future. When I made this “Clutter Clearing” SoulCollage® Card I was still in the midst of sorting out my house and I didn’t like this card very much at all. Then I wrote about this card: I am the one who is letting go of “rubbish”. I am the one who is sorting out my life. I am rearranging my priorities. I realize that being organized doesn’t have to mean being boring…I can be creative AND tidy! I have learned that clearing clutter is about so much more than my physical environment… my external environment reflects my internal experience!!! An out of control house is a reflection of how I feel on the inside (and vise versa). I choose to be in control now and start afresh! Making this card his helped me to clarify for myself that as I sorted through my stuff I really was letting go of the old & making room for the new! I was preparing myself for the next phase in my life! I was then able to look upon this task (& my card) more fondly! Questions:
Karen Mann is an artist, art teacher, Lifestyle Coach, and yoga and meditation teacher. Karen is a SoulCollage® facilitator, and was trained by Seena Frost, the creator of the process. Karen has been working with SoulCollage® cards for more than two years & facilitates a variety of SoulCollage® Groups as well as working with individuals. Karen is based in Melbourne, Australia. For more information please visit her website, Flying Colours Creativity or email Karen at info@flyingcolourscreativity.com.au. KaleidoSoul CaféGrab a cup of your favorite hot drink and cozy up to the computer while you browse around our website. Here's what's new and exciting:
KaleidoSoul Creations
As promised, we are featuring four SoulCollage® cards from readers in each issue. Here are this month's cards.
KaleidoSoul Notes
This column is for note-worthy books, CD's, movies and websites, which come tested and proven worthy of our Soul Songs readers!
If you know of a website, book, cd, or movie that our Soul Songs readers would like, please send an email to
Anne Marie.
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