• About
  • Buy Prints
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Home

Good Fortune Studios

Beauty. Attention. Creation.

You are here: Home / Life / A Week of Noticing

A Week of Noticing

April 19, 2019 by Rayna Diane Hennen

Daffodil in full bloom
A beautiful daffodil spotted while walking along the sidewalk
  • This podcast episode discusses the “messy and hard and awkward” period that transformation is and how adjusting our expectations will help us be less self-critical and stressed.
  • I read about subway cars being dropped in the Atlantic Ocean to become artificial reefs years ago. I have, from time to time, wondered what happened to them and I finally got my answer.
  • This Buddhist monk explaining mindfulness for times of conflict emphasizes our co-creation in our world today. Some of it is uncomfortable, all of it is true.
  • I recently finished The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin and am loving how it’s helping me think about communicating with family, with clients – with everyone. As an Obliger, it’s helping me think about how I can get more done for myself and further confirms we don’t all think about things the same way.
  • This delicious orange chicken stir-fry recipe. I’m pretty sure this is now part of the permanent rotation.
  • On repeat quite regularly on Spotify, this sleeper hit of an album has scooped up awards left and right despite not having a lot of popular airplay before hand. I just can’t get enough of it. Have a listen below.
An Evening with… Gretchen Rubin
A Week of Noticing

Hello Lovely Creative Human!

Newsletters are sent out around once a month and could include recent blog posts, photos listed for sale and other musings about art, books, photography, nature and life.

  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Disclaimer

goodfortunestudios

Experiments in creativity and cringe. Join me!

This is the photo I'm referencing for the painting This is the photo I'm referencing for the painting I sketched out. This is available for purchase - links are in the usual spots. 📷 🌺 

#cherryblossoms #floralphotography
I am at the point where I have to be vigilant. I h I am at the point where I have to be vigilant. I have been here before, trying to capture an idea. ✏️ 

These prep steps are necessary, for sure. Trying to dive into some things with no prep or planning 

But.

Prepping and planning can go on forever as a way of not ruining the idea in your head. In fact… writing this post is a way of productively procrastinating. 

I am at the point where I could draw an outline of the flower shape that I want to do but my brain is like OMG you’re going to ruin it because you have no idea what I'm doing (I don't). Welcome to perfectionism - my arch nemesis! 

This is productive because I am working through my thoughts to stave off perfectionism and creating a post to share on social (which I'm really consistent about...) 

Now about that painting outline... 

#creativityandcringe
Welcome to August! Did you know that August was on Welcome to August! Did you know that August was once the 6th month of the year and the first-ever sandwich was created by.... the Earl of Sandwich. Lunch just wouldn't be the same without it! ☀️ 🥪
I have pulled off the side of the road to grab a c I have pulled off the side of the road to grab a close up of a flower but every now and again, I'll get a scenic shot that steals my heart, too. 

The Sentinels.

#winterphotography
#snowypines
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes - including you. - Anee Lamott

Softness in Winter

#snowypine #winterphotography
Instagram post 18146261077459334 Instagram post 18146261077459334
Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible. - Joyce Brothers

#snowymoss
#snowymossontrees
#winterphotography
Continuing with the Bluebeard collage. After doing Continuing with the Bluebeard collage. After doing this I changed the blade on the xacto – the edges of the chair had white rough edges.

Bluebeard is originally a French folktale though many countries have a version. In the spirit of IMDB unhelpful, one-line descriptions of movies: A man with a deadly secret, intent on luring a young woman to be his new bride. 😄 🤷

A little more specific: The tale is about a wealthy man in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of the present one to avoid the fate of the previous wives. 🫣

This will be for the first spread, the ‘romance’ – truly, it’s not romantic, he’s trying to sway one of the sisters into, what will be a not so sweet marriage.

There will be 5 spreads total: the romance, finding the little door, the bloody key, the brothers to the rescue, and (kind of a gruesome end) the vulture.
Follow on Instagram

© 2026 · Good Fortune Studios