I officially launched my online apparel shop on 11/11… MARS ZEN Creations – Where Art & Spirituality Unite. It has been a wild ride getting the website running smooth and creating unique designs for my products. So far it has been fun and exciting to see all the likes and engagement while in this infancy stage of promotion. I love seeing all my favorite ZEN words out into the Universe, bringing awareness and serenity one t-shirt at a time! And with each order I am donating $1 to OneTreePlanted.org one of my favorite organizations making a difference in the world – planting one tree at a time!
So grateful for a lovely Thanksgiving with new friends and my “adopted” family here in Colorado. Enjoyed many nature outings, walking snowy Labyrinths with a ZEN Deer, meditating in nature “nature bathing”, and getting in the holiday spirit with all the fun neighborhood festivities. I can’t believe this year is down to it’s last month! I continue to have a gratitude attitude everyday, not just for Thanksgiving.
Attitude is everything!
I wish you all a wonderful holiday season with friends and family. May you create joyous memories that will live in your hearts eternally.
Is it possible that this month has almost come to an end? It was another whirlwind of adventures here in Colorado, in the life of MARS! It all seems like a blur! Thankfully I started a project at the beginning of 2023, each week on Sunday evening I create a special six photo collage of my fun outings and highlights for the week! I have done this project 34 times, since there have been 34 weeks out of 52 weeks so far in 2023. Some weeks picking only 6 photos takes a lot of discipline, there’s so much I would like to share! I am known to take an exorbitant amount of photos! I just can’t help myself….when I see beauty I must document it! I will share my four collages for this month below. I will quickly describe each weeks events beginning with week 31/52: Visited Boulder for an Ariel Dance Festival, checked out the historic Boulder Dushanbe Tea House, and found some great murals there. My beautiful pink Dahlia, and out for First Friday Art Walk in Denver. Week 32/52: Gorgeous outdoor venue, The Manor House, for another fun summer concert, a stop at the famous Wheatridge Carnation Festival, found a great sculpture called sweet grass, an evening in the neighborhood, Belmar plaza outdoor concert, and my flowers in a vase, saving my roses from being devoured by Japanese Beetles! Week 33/52: Golden, Colorado Fine Art Festival, amazing talented artists, it was a very hot day! Found more great murals in the area. Walked at my newest favorite Labyrinth, and went to Majestic View Park for Meditation in Nature class. Treated myself to purple gladiolas. Week 34/52: Went to Denver for the annual Art Students League of Denver Summer Art Market, enjoyed meeting many talented artists. Found more cool murals along my path. Enjoyed the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra Concert at Heritage Lake Park, Mother Nature was teasing us with rain, but we were prepared and then the gift of a double rainbow! Last but not least, I made my favorite summer dish, Capellini Pomodoro!
Week 31/52
Week 32/52
Week 33/52
Week 34/52
I also have a fun new project in the works, ZEN Daily Words by MARS. It will begin with a T-Shirt line featuring all my favorite spiritual words that I love, with artsy graphics!
My tag line: ZEN Daily Words by MARS – Where Art and Spirituality Unite. Explore the collection and take a step closer to inspiring positive change through art, words, and mindfulness.
It is a work in progress right now, but I have some designs available for purchase on Printify. Click the photos below and it will take you to my store! New designs and new products will be added weekly.
I don’t know where this month of August disappeared to. Thankfully, I have a lot of photo art creations and fun memories to look back on. Much of the month had to do with learning my new cell phone and fun camera editing apps, causing many challenges, but also a lot of serendipity along the way! I’ll post some of my favorite photo art and a serendipitous video of my first rainbow sighting here in Colorado. I enjoyed so many glorious nature outings and of course taking photos along the way! I also enjoyed some fun cultural outings with friends. We went to a one-man comedy production in Lakewood, Colorado at their lovely Cultural Center. It was a laugh riot entitled: “My Mom’s Italian, My Dad is Jewish, and I’m in Therapy! It resonated with me since I happen to be all of those things! Also, with friends we enjoyed some live Americana folk music at La Dolce Vita, a cool coffee house in an eclectic part of Arvada called Olde Town. Just the other evening with one of my newest friends, we went for a walk along the labyrinth and out for dinner back in Olde Town. And last night a belated birthday dinner with my housemate, and girlfriend at my favorite sushi restaurant. My life has been so enriched during these almost 6 months of living in Colorado, making new friends and sharing in such fun cultural and creative activities.
Fun with photo filters! A view of the Rocky Mountains!
The labyrinth with the Rocky Mountains in the distance! Another fun photo filter photo art creation!
Out for a lovely evening sunset walk in my neighborhood, with the Rocky Mountains in the distance! This was my first attempt creating photo art with my new filters!
Photo Art Creation – August Full Moon – Supermoon
I took more enjoyable walks in the neighborhood savoring the amazing clouds and sun after a few thunderstorms. The month of August has been extremely hot here with thunderstorms almost every afternoon it seemed!
Amazing clouds, sky and sun!
An afternoon of Meditation in Nature at Majestic View Park a few weeks ago.
My new cell phone camera surprised me with this video of a time-lapse rainbow, the first rainbow sighting I’ve had since I’ve arrived here! Apparently it’s just something my phone does if it finds a landscape photo that it can turn into a time lapse with music in the background! Quite serendipitous to say the least!
Serendiptious Rainbow Video!
I’ve also had even more fun with my new camera apps, experimenting with new techniques, and lighting, which I am calling painting with my camera!
I found a beautiful heart cloud in the sky and then I used my filters to create it into an ethereal looking cloud!
And last but not least some other interesting sites and new furry friends I found along my walks in the neighborhood in the month of August!
MARS ZEN Creations & ZEN Daily Words & MARS Mindful Moments 