So this is the fortune I got after treating myself today to a delicious sushi meal at my favorite restaurant. I collect fortunes from these cookies, I ask everyone to give them if I can have their fortune that they throw aside or on their dirty plate full of soy sauce. I collect them with the intentions of using them on day, not like a hoarder or anything, but hopefully for an art project I have yet to create. I have to have hundreds of these scattered throughout random boxes where you put the things that don't have a place. I find fortune cookies to be whimsical in a way, whether it be words of encouragement like this one, or a fortune that is may be impractical to fit your lifestyle, or my favorite the ones that are so grammatically incorrect they just make you laugh. The essence of these cookie fortunes are to remind yourself to stay present. Everyone who gets a fortune cookie opens them, and if they don't, then they must be from a strange far out planet or something absurd like that. Anyway, people do this because they find it entertaining for a little paper within a cookie to help you explain your life. Whether we dismiss these claims inside of these cookies, or like me, find many inspirational is another subject that I won't get into. I just find the ritual of fortune cookie to be quite interesting. What I also found interesting is that I got this exact fortune today "You are coming into your own power-enjoy!" Maybe I'm crazy, but I think it was the most appropriate fortune I could've gotten. Either way it put a little spring to my step to keep me motivated, and that I did today.

I was very productive today. To keep things short, I treated myself to sushi and took my dog Luca for a enjoyable ride. I also started reading The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, which I think I am going to enjoy. I enjoy feeling transported to another era, especially when it takes place abroad. Then, I did a paper cutting craft that I will post after this. And I ended my day with a bike ride and on top of that continued my rigorous exercise routine that I am following, I'm sure I'll feel the consequences of that tomorrow. But enough of that. Here is the craft I worked on.

Let me start off by saying I am not a master of paper cutting, it is a very intense craft that requires a lot of patience especially with delicate paper. Also this design was from a template from a book I purchased that has many interesting designs to help me develop my paper cutting skills. So, the one of the left was traced and then cut by exact o-knife with plain computer paper and put on a yellow card stock type of paper. The bird on the right was from the pieces  I cut out from the bird on the left.Then I glued those little pieces onto the same type of yellow paper I used in the one on the left. I thought it would be interesting to make a negative of the bird. Which left me with no trash which I believe is pretty awesome. I am pretty content with how these came out though, I really do enjoy this process and it's something I would like to explore more.

So go me! This long post was appropriate for how much I did today and how accomplished I feel :)