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After a long day of work and or errands what do you like to do to ground yourself and get yourself calm once again? I love to read and create different things when I can. 😊

What is your favorite thing to do to ground yourself?

I muri i te rā roa o te mahi me ngā mahi, he aha tāu e pai ana ki te mahi hei whakatū i a koe anō, hei whakaiti i tō wairua? He tino pai ki au te pānui me te hanga i ngā mea rerekē i te wā e taea ana. 😊

He aha tāu e pai ana ki te mahi hei whakatū i a koe anō?

Hello everyone! Hope you're having a good day today! 👋👋

Hello, Hi, Hola 👋

Kia ora koutou! Ko te tumanako kei te pai to koutou ra i tenei ra! 👋👋

Kia ora, Hi, Hola 👋

Just thought I'd share some of my artwork Asé ✨

Chakras in alignment expression

Kāore au i te whakaaro ka taea e au te tuku i ētahi o aku mahi toi Asé ✨

Ngā chakras i te whakakotahitanga

I am a freelance artist who specialises in printmaking and watercolour.

My recent designs

He toi whakairo ahau e mahi ana i te hanga tuhinga me te waihono.

Aku hoahoa hou

I made a small mask out of white clay. All that's left is to color it😊

Mini mask

I hangaia he whakakākahu iti mai i te paru ma. Ko te mea e toe ana, ko te whakakākahu i te tae😊

Sunburst

Rāwhiti

My recent art work

Taku mahi toi hou

I never put anything like this together, it plays music as well

Last thing I made

Kaore au i whakakotahi i tetahi mea penei, ka whakatangitangi hoki te puoro

Te mea whakamutunga i hangaia e au

iPad doodle

iPad tuhinga

Colored on stream

I whakakāhoretia i runga i te awa i te wiki kua pahure

I whakakāhoretia i runga i te awa

A stuffed duck it's on a hay bale, wearing a vest and bunny ears headband. A cart and field of sunflowers is in the backgroun

He's a work mascot. We do a fortnightly picture of him, to bring a bit of whimsy to people's lives. Here is one of his Easter photos that did not get shared at work this year!

This is Duxton

He tohu mahi ia. Ka tango mātou i tētahi whakaahua e rua wiki mōna, hei whakakāhiko i ngā ora o te tangata. Anei tētahi o āna whakaahua Pākihi i te tau nei kāore i te tohatoha i te mahi!

Ko Duxton tēnei

If you were forced to watch a movie for the rest of your life and you could pick it what would you pick? 🫩

Rest of your life?

Mēnā ka whakatūria koe ki te mātaki i tētahi kiriata mō te toenga o tō koiora, ā, ka taea e koe te whiriwhiri, he aha tāu e whiriwhiri ai? 🫩

Te toenga o tō koiora?

For a few years been making cat puppets of my own cats and recently started selling comissions as well as other pet tribute items. Including shoes, figures, pins and felted figures!

Cat puppets!

I etahi tau e hanga ana i nga puppets ngeru o aku ngeru ake, a, i te mea kua timata ahau ki te hoko i nga whakaritenga me etahi atu taonga whakanuia kararehe. Ko nga hu, nga ahua, nga pin, me nga ahua rīwai kei roto!

Puppets ngeru!

Takie coś wyszło

Kua puta tēnei

My favorite Pokémon 💥☠️
Who is yours?

Toxicroak use Poison Jab!

Ko taku Pokémon tino pai 💥☠️
Ko wai tōna?

Ka whakamahi a Toxicroak i te Pāwhiri Pōhara!

Image shows a chunky white and grey tabby cat sleeping on the top of a cat tower. One front paw covering his eyes

Hey! If anyone is in the Houston area could you recommend a place to get haircuts? I'm interested in alternative cuts and fun hair color, I have a lot of hair and I want to get rid of it but I'd like to have suggestions of who to research. (Cat for attention, his name is Porkchop)

Local Advice needed

Hey! Mena kei te rohe o Houston tetahi, ka taea e koe te tuku korero mo tetahi wahi hei tango makawe? Kei te hiahia au ki nga kutu rerekē me nga tae makawe ngahau, he nui taku makawe, a kei te hiahia au ki te tango i tetahi, engari e hiahia ana au ki nga whakaaro mo te hunga hei rangahau. (Ngeru mo te aro, ko tona ingoa ko Porkchop)

Tena koutou mo te awhina

Behind the scenes of left behind.

I muri i nga whakaaturanga o te waiho i muri.

How do you get yourself to let the pain turn into art again?

Blocked

Me pēhea e taea ai e koe te tuku i te mamae ki te huri hei toi anō?

Kua Pūtahia

I would want to pick the meteor hammer, even if it gives almost no defense, the offense is overwhelming. Not to mention the beauty in the movements and flow of both the weapon and person

If you could learn and master 1 weapon, what would you pick?

Ka hiahia au ki te whiriwhiri i te pere meteoro, ahakoa kāore e tuku i te tiaki, he tino kaha te whakaeke. Kāore e taea te kī atu te ātaahua o ngā nekehanga me te rerenga o te patu me te tangata.

Mēnā ka taea e koe te ako me te whakahaere i te 1 patu, he aha tāu e whiriwhiri ai?

Creativity Is Thy Name

Ko te Auahatanga Tōu Ingoa

I have pretty dangley things so I'm gonna buy some hooks tomorrow. I'll update with the finished installment.

I want something above my bed

He mea hangahanga ātaahua tāku, nō reira ka hoko au i ētahi hīra i te rā nei. Ka whakahou au me te whakaurunga kua oti.

Kei te hiahia au i tētahi mea i runga i taku moenga

Nothing help makes my day but enjoying some time with my number art painting with a pot of tea to enjoy and some incense.

My diamond by number are hobby I enjoy

Kaore he mea e awhina i ahau i te ra, engari ko te pai ki te noho tahi me taku toi tau peita me te ipu ti hei ki te pai me etahi hinu.

Ko taku taimana e pa ana ki te tau e pai ana ahau

Sometimes as I wonder about the progress of my personality I reminisce about days outside the 9 to 5. When a child could design. An ugly box on a shelf became a vessel for nerdom. A radioshack when it existed could supply the circuits to create. What age do we abandon by indifference our fire to express.

The Tinkering Tick

I etahi wa ka whakaaro ahau mo te ahunga whakamua o taku ake tangata, ka maumahara ahau ki nga ra i waho i te 9 ki te 5. I te wa i taea e te tamaiti te hoahoa. He pouaka lele i runga i te whare putea i riro hei kaipuke mo te nerdom. He radioshack i te wa i noho ai, ka taea te tuku i nga hiko hei hanga. I tehea tau ka whakarerea e tatou, na te kore e aro, to tatou ahi ki te whakaatu.

Te Tīkitipati Tinkering

Just picked some colors for my bed frame. How do we feel

Paint :3

Kua tango noa atu au i ētahi tae mō taku anga moenga. Me pēhea tā tātou e pā ana?

Pena :3

This is example of what happens when I zone out home alone. Add mood music of choice effects.

What others see vs how I do

He tauira tenei o nga mea e tupu ana i te wa e noho ana ahau i te kainga anake. Tāpirihia te puoro i to hiahia e pā ana ki ngā pānga.

Ko te aha e kite ana etahi, i te mea ka pehea ahau

I think I like the way elves look but I like gnomes' sense of humor more.

elves or gnomes

Ki ahau, e pai ana ahau ki te ahua o ngā rākau, engari e pai ana ahau ki te āhua pātea o ngā gnomes.

ngā rākau or ngā gnomes

This is the first and only copper ring I made... it's double layer.

My first copper ring

Koinei te peera parahi tuatahi, ā, ko te mea anake i hangaia e au... he pātea rua.

Taku peera parahi tuatahi

Miała mi wyjść kratka chyba z koszyczkiem na kwiatki ale coś tu nie gra 🫣

Takie coś zrobione na terapii zajęciowej 🤭

Me haere mai te kāri me te kete putiputi, engari kāore e tika ana tēnei 🫣

Tāki e mea ana i runga i te rongoā mahi 🤭

So I just built my second marble run which runs pretty well

Marble run

Nō reira, i hanga e au tāku tuarua marble run e rere ana i te tino pai

As above, so below. As within, so without...

Pērā i runga, pērā i raro. Pērā i roto, pērā i waho...

Here's where it gets weird. 

The Tasmanian Tiger, was an apex predator in Australia, and hunted to extinction by the late 1930s. 

I met my late wife through a personal ad that her mother actually answered... told you it gets weird! Her mother made a date with me, and told her to go.
But she read the ad before she came to see me... and changed my world for 16 years. 

As the sun came up that first morning, we were still on this high from meeting each other. Two professionals in the music biz, who had major label releases of our own. We already knew of each other, but didn’t dream this would happen. I mentioned something about my ad and she said "Tasmanian Tigers". 
I had mentioned them in my ad and she didn't know what they were.

So I showed her a flickering old movie from the late 1930s that showed the last surviving one in a zoo in Australia.
And my thought... that I was the last - how she felt as well... 

So I reprised my original ad... hoping to be that lucky again, as I believe in honoring your departed, to have the best life you can. After all, we've had practice! 

Along with my music, I'm also a romantic. The last of the true and afflicted ones. I know I am not of this world. Not here, at least. I am a Tasmanian Tiger. A thylacine, and I've searched the earth for another... and still am only as one. 

I wasn't always like this, though. My life changed as I saw my mate felled by the new predators that invaded our wood. It's been four winters now and I can still remember the day as I returned to our den and the songbirds that lived above us saw me... my slow gate, my fixed stare... as they stopped singing and were uneasy. 

To this day, they stop as I come back with quarry to share with no one. They are simple creatures, but they live on their intuition... and not just their own, but the thousands of their ancestors that came before, thousands think as one... and their songs are their knowledge which is not learned... but certainly real. 

They've asked me, but they already know... and I know this... it's their way of acknowledging my hurt inside. They see me bringing back my quarry to my den... and see my eyes grow damp. They don't know what that is, and neither do I. 

They are struck by my plaintive yowl. I don't know what it is, either... I don't recognize any of what I do now... it's not something I'm even aware of... but the yowl...hoping against hope that it is answered. Knowing it won't be. All of this land is covered with the simple creatures, SO simple, yet complete... and the whole earth is covered with them... so many as their souls could fill the ocean...but would be so shallow as to scarcely wet my foot pads... 

I don't understand the dampness in my eyes and the disquiet in my heart, when I think of the times past. I never yowled. I yipped, chittered... and made quiet puffs of air to signal my mate... and I still do so, in my dreams. 

The birds told my story to the cranes... and when the cranes came back as the days warmed, they told of a world that was no longer for the thylacine... not a den, nor trace. The watering holes showed not a footpad in the mud... no bones... and the rabbits and shrews were bold... as if they had nothing to fear! And numerous... so numerous as to be diseased and festering carcasses exposed all over... so much that the carrion eaters couldn't even finish them.  

So it would appear that I am alone. And my eyes grow damp as I feel this... and the birds above our den ask me if I am sick, as my eyes are ever damp... I tell them I don't know, as I don't. I truly don't know what is wrong with me. Or this world... That soon I will grow older, stooped as the elders I saw as a kit, and slow... and my teeth will dull and fall out... and then I will lay down my last time. But now my teeth are still sharp, I can take more quarry than ten of my peers... which is why I'm still here and disquiet. I know of nothing else!

But why am I here? My coat is still sleek, my mind and body nimble, as the apex of the hunters. The birds above me paired for life, which is also our way. We are connected in that way... and one day I saw his mate fall... and it distressed me. Much as I think they must feel, now... and saw him out on their branch hopping up and down. It was strange behaviour... and his song... so different. As he did that day and even after the light. It was his way. And he didn't sleep in their nest.  He didn't sleep at all, I believe. Until one day, she arrived. His mate to this day. And I know that is what he thinks I must do. But they are simple.

 I asked him one day if he ever missed his first mate. He looked at me quizically. I tried to ask again, as the one that came before, and he said only that he had always been with his current mate. He believes this. That is his way. I envy him. They cannot conceive of this. 

And they still quiet their song as I return. And they still nuzzle as I walk out of sight, seeing my solitude, feeling complete as they are. And I walk my perimeter, And beyond. Farther every day. Making my plaintive yowl, hoping that it will be answered. And sometimes I lie down and dream... and hope that dreams are not all I will ever have. Or that i awaken and find her there again, as if THIS were the dream, as I had many times before she truly did fall... these always confused me as dreams our life before do now. For what good are dreams in a world where no Thylacine live? And what am I to become that a simple bird pities me? If I didn’t have fondness for them I would gulp them down, not to see that look again. 

Well, my day is nigh, and I must lie down in my den,  again. I push myself beyond my ability every day, and sometimes chew the hemlock leaves, so I don't lie down, but fall... to sleep without pointless dreams... lately of the coming spring and running with my mate by the waters. Yipping, chittering, and nuzzling.

Tasmanian Tiger

Anei te wā e pā mai ana te raru. 

Ko te Tākahe Tasmaniana, he kaipōtiro matua i Ahitereiria, ā, i huntia ki te mate i ngā tau 1930. 

I tutaki au ki tāku wahine kua mate i te pānui whaiaro i whakautu tōna whaea... kāore e taea e au te kī atu he raru! I whakarite tōna whaea he rā ki a au, ā, i mea ia ki a ia ki te haere.
Engari i pānui ia i te pānui i mua i tōna taenga mai ki a au... ā, i huri i taku ao mō te 16 tau. 

I te whiti o te rā i te ata tuatahi, i teitei tonu mātou i te whakangahau i te hui. E rua ngā tohunga i te umanga puoro, e whai ana i ngā tuhinga rēti nui. I mōhio mātou ki a mātou, engari kāore i whakaaro ka tupu tēnei. I kōrero au mō tāku pānui, ā, i mea ia "Tākahe Tasmaniana". 
I kōrero au mō rātou i tāku pānui, ā, kāore ia i mōhio ko wai rātou.

Nō reira, i whakaatu au ki a ia he kiriata tawhito e pāwhiri ana i ngā tau 1930 e whakaatu ana i te pēnā i toe mai i te zoo i Ahitereiria.
Ā, ko tāku whakaaro... ko au te pēnā i toe - pēnā hoki tāna...

Nō reira, i whakahou au i tāku pānui taketake... e tumanako ana ki te riro hei tangata waimarie anō, i te mea e whakapono ana au ki te whakanui i ngā mate, ki te whai i te ora pai e taea ana. I te mutunga o te rā, kua whai wāhi mātou! 

I te taha o taku puoro, he tangata romāntika au. Ko te pēnā o te hunga pono me te hunga pāpā. E mōhio ana au kāore au i te ao nei. Kāore au i konei, i te iti rawa. He Tākahe Tasmaniana au. He thylacine, ā, kua rapu au i te whenua mō tētahi atu... ā, kei te noho tonu au hei kotahi. 

Kāore au i te pēnei i ngā wā katoa, heoi anō. I huri taku ao i te wā i kite au i taku hoa e hinga ana e ngā kaipōtiro hou i whakaeke mai ki tā mātou ngahere. E whā ngā takurua i tēnei wā, ā, ka taea e au te mahara ki te rā i hoki mai au ki tā mātou whare, ā, ko ngā manu waiata e noho ana i runga i a mātou i kite i au... tāku haere āta, tāku titiro pākiki... i te wā i mutu rātou i te waiata, ā, i te mea kāore rātou i te pai. 

I tēnei rā, ka mutu rātou i te wā e hoki mai ana au me te hopu ki te tiri ki te tangata. He mea māmā rātou, engari e noho ana rātou i runga i tā rātou whakaaro... ā, kāore anō i te rātou ake, engari ko ngā mano o rātou tūpuna i haere mai i mua, e mano te whakaaro hei kotahi... ā, ko tā rātou waiata he mōhiohio kāore e ako... engari he tino pono. 

Kua pātai rātou ki a au, engari e mōhio ana rātou... ā, e mōhio ana au i tēnei... he ara tēnei ki te whakaae i taku mamae i roto i. E kite ana rātou i au e hoki mai ana ki tāku whare... ā, e kite ana i taku kanohi e pātea ana. Kāore rātou i te mōhio ko te aha tēnei, ā, kāore au hoki. 

E pā mai ana rātou i taku tangi pouri. Kāore au i te mōhio ko te aha tēnei... kāore au e mōhio i ngā mea e mahia ana e au i tēnei wā... kāore e mōhio au... engari te tangi... e tumanako ana ki te whakautu. E mōhio ana au kāore e riro. Kua kākahu te whenua katoa i ngā mea mām

Tākahe Tasmaniana

I have always had an indescribable urge to create before I had the knowledge and know how now…

Do you luv creating?

I nga wa katoa, i whai whakaaro ahau ki te hanga i mua i taku mohio me te mohio i tenei wa...

Kei te aroha koe ki te hanga?

Made it purple and green but the green looks more teal. Not unhappy with it.

New hair color!

I hangaia hei puru me te kākāriki engari ko te kākāriki e titiro ana ki te teal. Kāore au i te pōuri mōna.

Te tae makawe hou!

This is coconut oil that was melted(left in the car), then when solid again, it formed these shapes. I thought it was cool, so I took a pic.

What do you see?

He hinu kōkōwai tēnei i rewa (i waihohia i te motokā), ā, i te wā i hoki mai ki te āhua pūmau, i hangaia ēnei āhua. I whakaaro au he pai tēnei, nō reira i tango au i tētahi whakaahua.

He aha tāu e kite ana?

This my first day out here, idk 🤷🏿‍♂️. Anyway this is my first sketch with no direction.🤣

Ruskado we can too?

Tēnei te rā tuatahi i konei, kāore au e mōhio 🤷🏿‍♂️. Ahakoa, tēnei te tuhinga tuatahi me te kore arataki.🤣

Ruskado ka taea e mātou?

Soul chart

Tātaritanga wairua

Martial arts 🥋

Toa whawhai 🥋

Hey, just wanted to share something I painted last year. I felt broken after my break up so I've been offline for a few months now, but she cracked and egg who has seen how much i can give. I'd really like to meet someone this year, someone who appreciates romance but also has dark sense of humour, and drive for adventure. She put the work in so someone should get the benefits 😅

Just sharing some of my art work

Hey, kei te hiahia au ki te tuku i tētahi mea i peita ahau i te tau kua pahure. I te mea i raru ahau i muri i taku wehenga, nō reira kua noho au i te ipurangi mō te toru marama, engari i pakaru ia, he hua i kite i te nui o tāku ka taea te tuku. Ka tino hiahia au ki te tutaki ki tētahi tangata i tēnei tau, tētahi e mōhio ana ki te aroha engari he āhua pouri tōna humārie, me te hiahia ki te onga. I whakangungua ia, nō reira me whai te tangata i ngā painga 😅

Kei te tuku kōrero mō aku mahi toi

A Boo community for meeting other Creativity enthusiasts.

Creativity Community

He aha tāu e pai ana ki te mahi hei whakatū i a koe anō?

Kia ora, Hi, Hola 👋

Ngā chakras i te whakakotahitanga

Aku hoahoa hou

Mini mask

Rāwhiti

He mea hanga, he mea kē atu?

Kei te hiahia tetahi tangata takitahi ki te mohio ki au, he tangata motuhake/monogamous i te momo rāngai. Tena, tukuna he karere. Mēnā kāore e taea te tuku karere, tuhia he kōrero

Pātea pekan vegan! 🥧

Ko te auahatanga he mohio e pārekareka ana ⚓

Te Auahatanga

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