Sparkling Party Glasses I

 

I gifted myself these Sparkling Party glasses, when I received an e-gift card for Amazon from a dear blogger friend. Bob and I drop everything we pick up, and these colorful, sparkling glasses make me happy to see the water in them, and liven up our lives, and not if but when we drop them, they are shatter proof and there will be no picking of glass our of my feet. 

PLUS they are Excellent Targets for my Moodling with my cell phone.

I asked myself, is taking photos of my new glasses a waste of my time? Back to Google I went. I stumbled on The Art of Moodling, on a Blog named Thirty Thousand Days.

She wrote these  words,

One lesson I learned from my diagnosis of cancer was to “stop what I was doing.”

In A few words, this is the message I heard.

Stop,We can practice doing nothing. Resisting the urge to fill every minute productively.

Stare out the window at the cardinal.

Lay in a hammock and read (I choose my bed)

Sit, Watch the dog or cat or baby sleep.

this one hit me between the eyes. 

Playing with my sketching pencils and watercolors. (no longer wanting to get good)

You all know how much I love painting in procreate. and showing it to you. I actually thought of stopping my blog, so I could Get Better and watch videos, and make them look more professional. NOT GOOD... moodling is doing what you love, for the joy of it. Stop trying to be better at it and just enjoy doing it.  

Look out, more moodling is going on now that I know its ok that I don't have to compete with other moodlers to be as talented as they are, in writing, drawing, reading a book because THEY said read it.

Can you see that each of these photos has a different shadow? I played with these glasses for a full HOUR.. loved every minute of it

MOODling - from my sofa

  

I sat reading others posts and opened Cheerful Monk.     (follow the link to see her post for her thoughts.)

moodling — long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

–Brenda Ueland

I remembered that just a few minutes before I read her post, just about  4, I sat moodling on the sofa, idly tapping the screen on my phone to change the lighting of my view of the nook sparkling.

changing the light focus, lighter and lighter of what I see

Suddenly I tap compose text,send to myself, take a photo  to send, and when it asks, Remix? 

Why yes, I think I will, I aimed the lens at the same view and typed Add Beau great Dane,to this photo, 

Google AI did it and did it well...  I have been moodling and did not know it.

My Dive down the moodling rabbit hole, causes more hours of moodling.

Do you moodle? Are you a moodler? Which of the below are you?

Did you know moodling is a valid word? Even for Scrabble. Have you heard of it before now?

1. Moodling is a creative practice of aimless, imaginative daydreaming and idling, often used by writers for inspiration (as defined by Brenda Ueland),

2.  "Mindful moodling," a calm, doodling-focused activity for mental well-being, using stamps, stencils, and patterns without pressure for a final product. 

(this one fits me the best, but I am some of all)

3. Moodling is unstructured, happy dawdling, allowing ideas to surface, or simply relaxing and enjoying the process of creating without an agenda.

4.  moodler is a word and is a verb, meaning to doodle, or dawdle mindlessly