I was thinking the other day, (as you do!), how very grateful I am to have such a vivid imagination.  I'm always daydreaming, even now at 36, and I refuse to grow up and act my age, always trying to channel my dreams into my writing, photography and sculpting.  I realised that I simply wouldn't be me without the dreamer in me.  It is a part of who I am.  Anyhoo, my pondering led me to some great quotes covering the imagination…so I thought I'd share -

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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. ~Theodore Geisel

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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London

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Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring. ~Leslie Grimutter

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Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. ~Norman Podhoretz

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ~Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora"

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I think the world really boils down to two types of people - those who see shapes in cloud formations, and those who just see clouds. ~Danzae Pace

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. ~Albert Einstein

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When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. ~Tuli Kupferberg



So keep on creating y'all…be it in your writing, photography, sculpting, painting…whatever!  Keep dreamin' those dreams!

P.S...As always, thanks for the interest in my work.  For the comments, favs and watches.  I try to thank everyone individually but if I can't for any reason, I do so here.  



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Some of my favourite Deviations from my own gallery...





And my DD -





Some of my sculptures still for sale -





I can take pond commissions, to a specific design if desired. Just note me for details. Prices vary depending on style/size but my rates are quite reasonable

I can also take ballet shoe commissions.  In different colours, as wall plaques, fridge magnets or birthday cake toppers.  



My Ebay shop where I sell all of my clay odds and ends - search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZuk…



Things I especially -

My husband, TOPIARY, hugging trees, mazes and labyrinths of every and any kind, cats, nature, Red Dwarf (especially Rimmer!), squirrels, cute rodents like mice, rats and voles, toadstools, TREES!!!, forests, waterfalls & streams, Lara Croft, surreal and fantasy art and manips, Escher's Relativity, J. Waterhouse, Halls of Doors Alice-in-Wonderland style, cute wooden bridges, watching movies especially - LABYRINTH, Legend & PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, tasteful outdoor nudes, Robins, blue and purple flowers, redheads,  long hair, pre-Rathaelite art, drawing, sculpting, painting, writing, walking, yoga, castles, ruins, Broken Sword (games), dragonflies, X-Men, Wolverine, Queen's - Who Wants to Live Forever, summer, spring, being immature, secret gardens, ivy, abandoned overgrown places, chocolate, hummus, picnics, DAYDREAMING!!!, photography, ALAN RICKMAN, Snape, Rufus Sewell, Kevin Smith (Ares), Frankie's - Power of Love;, Angelina Jolie, wistful beauties, quaint thatched cottages, English villages, hearty mugs of hot weak tea, baking cakes and biscuits, um...and I will add more as I think of them!

My Picnic at Hanging Rock dedicated Livejournal - forestina.livejournal.com/

My Redheads favourites folder - uktara.deviantart.com/favourit…



PLEASE NOTE: That the photos in this gallery are NOT stock. I offer plenty of stock pics at my stock account -   Thanks.



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Some of my Favourite Quotes...

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)



Everything begins and ends, at exactly the right time and place...

Picnic At Hanging Rock



Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.



To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour

William Blake



Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?.

Edgar Allan Poe



Fill yourself with desire and see only illusion,
Empty yourself of desire and understand the great mystery of things.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu



Do not fear to hope, for every time we smell the autumn's dying scent, we know the primrose time will come again.  

Samuel Coleridge



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