Exciting news re my DJ'ing on 89.7FM Radio Program

I am broadcasting live on 89.7FM radio and in discussions with the management about giving me my very own ALL THINGS WOMEN segment!

In preparation, I have been asked to pull together a list of possible topics and range of speakers for my program. So I though it would be great to get some feedback from all the women that pop by my blog. Please post your ideas and/or pop me an email to let me know what you are interested in.

I'm thinking about doing a monthly focus on a broad topic, eg health, family, career, money, business, creativity etc. Who would you like to hear interviewed? What topics would you like discussed?

89.7FM broadcasts via the airways but can also be listened to live online. You can request your favourite song or just send a cheerio. Simply go online and fill in the form.

Post your comments or go online and give me some feedback please.

Community Weight Loss Challenge

Exciting news!

Today I started the Community Weight Loss Challenge where I have a goal of losing 15 kilos in 12 weeks.

There were a wild group of women gathered who are determined to overcome their weight issues. With personal coaches on hand to weigh them in and get them fired up and motivated, the morning got off to a great start.

A few quick pics of the morning...

The Art Studio - A day with Heartwork Heather

Our lives are layered, just like a photoshopped Fine Art Composite

You probably do not realise it but each of these pictures is a collage of more than three images layered to create one. Like our lives, each layer adds some depth, some colour or some texture to the overall effect. Without even one of the layers the image would not be the same.

How many situations in life do we go through that are dark? These are our contrasting moments, our opportunities to grow, to learn and to expand our understanding. Without them our vision of life would not be the same. So too, the light areas are our bright lights that lift us off the page and highlight our characteristics, our thoughts and our ideals.

What is the image of your life looking like right now? Is it like one of my pieces where I had many of the layers in place but it just didn't feel finished because it was missing a layer or two?

Whatever place you are at just know that today you are building a complex composite of your life. Today is the accumulation of a thousand yesterdays. You are all of those yesterdays. They are what defines you, what makes you special. They are your story! They are the image of your life.

The beauty is that you have a role to play in what the next layers are that will be layed upon your life. You can choose their opacity, their colour and their placement. Build wisely the image of your life that you will be able to view with pleasure, just as I view these and sigh in satisfaction.

The Challenge is on...

Finding your passion is one of the greatest journeys in life.  For some, they have a very strong sense of what that is as a child.  For others, it is something that becomes clearer with time as life is experienced. For me, I have been passionate about so many things through the years but most have been within the realm of the creative.  I don't know why, I just love to create.  Be it, music, song, photography, graphic arts or poetry, I just love being able to get a picture or an impression of life and to transform that into something that others can admire and consider.

So it is with delight that I was referred to RedBubble.com, a site for artists.  And on that site I found so much to inspire me in my photography and my artwork, that I have been on a bit of a creative bender to work out how others have achieved what they have achieved.The colours, the images, the textures...all of these layers of creating are important and to see them clearly is just an amazing journey.

And I liken this experience to life.  If we examine life, layer by layer, identifying the things that are important in our daily interactions - our heart, our spirit, our body and how it connects with the world - and we start to connect what we see to wisdom, then this is where the joy of learning evolves.

I just wanted to encourage you to not be a spectator of life, but a participant.  Study it by all means but make sure that you also connect with it.  It is far too easy to be in the judgment seat, reviewing both yourself and those around you.  Live in the moment.  Breathe in the richness that every breath affords you.  Laugh lots.  Love lots.  Enjoy all, because you are not guaranteed a long life.

This texture image is one that I have been given in a challenge to create a fine art composite.  It will be just one layer that I have chosen to use.  I'll post my final product here soon, so check back in a week to see how I transformed one, ordinary image, into something extraordinary.  Just as God is transforming this ordinary life, into something extraordinary.