Focus On Life Week 5~ Capture Our Hearts

First of all, let me say THANK YOU to all those who have visited my blog lately, and left me comments. I have not yet responded to them, trying to keep my typing to a minimum.
Also, I have not been commenting, although I have visited your blog, for the same reason. Hoping to heal the hand quickly, so I can create and interact in full swing again.

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Made it through 4 weeks of focusing on life, and it was definitely an eye-opener! Here's a recap of what I learned the first four weeks:

Week 1: Self-Portrait: This one made me really think about "who" I am. Deep down, not just the persona I present to the world. Deep down, I am Raggedy Anne :-) Happy, with a quick smile, but a bit, well, raggedy.

Week 2: Your Word: Discipline: Thinking of "who" I am in week 1 brought me my word for this year: Discipline! And thinking more about "how" I would implement this word made me realize that I am never mindful of my time. If I schedule things, give myself reminders, I do much better

Week 3: Make Time: Do what truly relaxes me, makes me happy! And that for me, was getting out of the house, getting a bit of pampering and TRAVEL! Decision was made to go explore new places

Week 4: Create Art: Create something...anything. This week, for me, was a summary of what I had learned the previous weeks. On the first long weekend of the year, I finished all my chores (week1-raggedy-no-more), grabbed my camera and went out to explore a windmill farm about an hour away(week3-get-out-there), scheduled the trip, keeping in mind everything else I had to do that day, and was back at the time I had planned to, and finished everything I had to (week2-discipline-watch-the-time). And I created art! I took photographs of the windmills :-)

Here are pictures for all four weeks:

Coming to February! The prompt for this week was to "Capture A Heart".
I thought about it all week long, wanting to capture something unusual. Nothing came to me :(
And then, yesterday, I captured 14 hearts! They came to me in a medium flat rate box. They weighed 9.6 lbs! Yes, I am talking about the beady goodness that was sent to me with SO much love by my friends. You can read more about it here!

I picked out a few hearts from the stash that was sent to me, and I had my picture!

A shot from another angle...

Nothing can beat this!!!! I stopped looking for my "hidden heart".

After I took these pictures, I went to the bakery to pick up a cake for my colleague's birthday. Since I go that bakery very often, I got one of their "reward cards". 10 punches, and I would get a muffin :-)

I selected the cake, and looked in my wallet for the punch card. And what do you think was on it?

Yup! You capture hearts exactly when you stop looking!

Sally, I am not sure how you pick your prompts, but would like to say this: You are enriching my life! For sure!

Alrighty, off you go to Sally's blog to see her heart and all the others linked to hers!
http://thestudiosublime.com/2013/02/01/focus-on-life-week-5/