Wyld Creativity: Dreams In A Box

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Dreams In A Box

I have been listening to all of my Chantal Kreviasuk albums lately, and I have been falling in love with the music all over again. I am listening to "Under These Rocks and Stones" Right now, "Surrounded" is playing.

Chantal wrote this song after the guy she was seeing committed suicide, it talks about a bomb dropping and and that she is surrounded in her life by these thoughts of him still to this day.

It's pretty amazing how significant our lives as people are. We don't always know it but we impact people a lot with our lives. Sometimes we don't even understand the impact we have, we feel like if we were to disappear one day and never return no one would notice we were gone.

That is so far from the truth!

I know this because I have had thoughts like that before, I think we all have but the important thing to remember is that as little of an impact we may think we're making around us through our life IS significant and God has put us here on earth FOR a PURPOSE. SO even if at times we feel like the people around us don't understand who we are, or we feel unappreciated, or like no one is there we need to remember that there is something stronger and deeper within our spirits that was designed by God, a purpose that is bigger and brighter then what others might label or see us having.

I think it's important that we remember this during times in our lives when we feel alone or defeated. There is a purpose bigger and brighter than the sadness we feel today.

Another reason why I love listening to these albums is because they remind me of different moments in my life. I remember when my good friend Jessica first bought the Chantal album " Colour Moving and Still", She had it playing in her car, this was back while I was still living in Lethbridge. I remember loving it so much, I can't remember if I borrowed it but I know I eventually bought my own but every song was ratable to my life. I could understand the way she talked about something so simple as the colour blue and using that as a reference for a song, explaining "you have never seen the colour blue" in lyrics .

Well, I think I have talked enough about music for one morning. I am at school, I just finished a test and I will be meeting up with my plan & prep group to talk about our retail business we are launching from scratch in a little while. We developed the concept of a store by visiting local downtown businesses in Oakville to see what was needed. We decided to make our new company a Spa. we have been spending months now researching, writing our report about all of the elements surrounding the spa industry in Canada. Now we are moving finally into the fun parts where we get to be creative.

Yesterday we had a huge break through and came up with our " Big Idea" which is "Dream's In a Box"

That will be the name of our Spa. But more than that it will carry through in all of our design plans. We were thinking about jewelry woman get in those pretty blue Tiffany boxes and that is was sparked this concept.
Our Spa is a getaway within a city, so customers can feel like they are experiencing their dream vacation without having to pay a fortune and take a lot of time off work.

Part of the project is a full presentation in class, that is happening in 2 weeks time. We are going to put together a box ( blue tied with a ribbon) that we will use like a press box to give to each customer after they leave. We are going to do one up for our presentation and put products from our spa inside, like an eye mask, a scented candle, rose petals, essential oil, a business card etc.

We have talked about our Billboards that we will have across the region. They will be on a white background, with a big blue box as the image with a different theme "dream" next to the box. for example if it is a theme of the dream being rejuvenation we will have an illustration of a woman pampering herself and the image of the box with small dots coming out of it and the woman illustration as the result of the dream that came from the box. The only words on the boards will be " Dream's in a Box" SPA and maybe a website.

So that along with boards with colour schemes, pictures of furniture, textiles, textures and samples which we will also be presenting is just a little taste of what I have been working on for ONE of my classes. In my first year we learned how to research and launch a product from scratch now we are learning how to do that with a business.

Every class is pretty indepth right now, I have two new campaigns I have to work on for the Keg, to relaunch it in a new and innovative way and a new campaign for fed Ex. These are going to be 6 very busy weeks before Christmas but I am excited and looking forward to getting everything done.

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The Story of a Prince and a Girl who Dreamed of finding Her Prince.

Once upon a time there was a young woman named Ruby; she lived in a far way kingdom where only the stars in the sky could light the way. The kingdom was tall and made of stone. Inside, it had all of the finest linens and tapestries with winding stair cases, golden mirrors and exotic flowers that stretched the kingdom’s stone walls. The kingdom was surrounded by a large creek bed and had a large wooden draw bridge outside the tall black iron front gates. Beyond the kingdom were many forests, pastures, rivers and hills.

The young woman lived in the kingdom with only her two servants Nigel and Jasmine. They had been with Ruby ever since her mother gave birth to her and have cared for her and loved her since the great royal war that took her family tragically away from her. Years had past since then and Ruby was a young woman now. Since the great royal war she had not seen another person beside her servants. The lands had been deserted as other kingdoms were destroyed and abandoned. No one knew this kingdom existed. It stood in a far off place that only one deserted over grown pathway in the forest would lead to.

Ruby spent her childhood growing up playing with all the animals in the forest, she had names for all of them and would spend her days dancing in the pastures and walking along the creek bed throwing stones into the water. She was content those days as she lived free and enjoyed every tree, every stone, and every pathway near the kingdom. She loved her home but she missed her family and many times she felt alone.

As Ruby grew older she began to stop playing in the pastures and instead she spent her days walking along the creek bed dreaming of finding love and not being alone anymore. Every night outside her balcony she would spend time looking out into the stars and making wishes that one day soon a wonderful man would find the unmarked path in the forest that would lead him to her kingdom.

Nigel and Jasmine were very old now; Ruby took time to care for them and tended to their needs. She would gather food from the garden and make them food to eat and get them blankets to make sure they were comfortable when it was cold. She was not sure how much longer they would live but one thing she knew was how much she admired they’re love for one another and she hold that in her heart for as long as she lived.

It was a warm fall evening; the leaves from the trees were lightly falling as the sun began to set. Ruby was standing on her balcony in her long white silk night gown. As the dark sky began to shine, a light breeze bustled against her gown and her long brown hair blew lightly in the wind. She stood with her hands on the balcony ledge and wished to the stars like she had so many nights before singing” Star light Star bright bring my prince home to me tonight” She stared up into the dark blue sky and began to talk more to the shinning stars.

Just as she was looking up into the sky, talking to the stars a man was following the pathway from the forest that leads to Ruby’s kingdom. He was beginning to approach the edge of the pathway he had began journeying on earlier that day and was about to step on to a beautiful white shiny stoned pebble walk way that would lead up to a draw bridge and to Ruby’s kingdom.

The young man had been travelling for months only eating what he could find along the pathway. Henry was a prince from the golden city of Persia. He was on an expedition when he was captured by rivals and taken to a far away land where he was imprisoned in a place he did not know. Months ago after many nights planning Henry escaped while the guards were sleeping. He thought he would be able to journey home by recognizing land marks but once he had fled the guards he realized that he was further from home then he ever imagined and much to his dismay he did not recognize any of his surroundings. He had been following the sun in hopes of finding his way home. Each day he walked further hoping that one day the pathway would lead him to his family.

Earlier that day Henry had been walking though the forest with large green bushes and fruitful trees around him when he saw a small unmarked pathway that was ragged and old. There were no fruit trees, only old tall trees and an old pebble pathway that seemed run down and abandoned.

He was going to continue to walk on the pathway he had been but something caught his eye as he walked past this abandoned trail. Henry saw a small red ruby attached to a ring lying in between some wet leaves. The sun was shining on it and it glistened and shinned at him. He bent down and lifted the leaves around it away and dusted the ring off and looked at. The ring was prestigious and fit for a princess. He thought about continuing on the main pathway road through the forest but he was drawn down this unmarked pathway. He wondered if this ruby red ring belonged to someone. He put the ring in his pocket and began to walk along the jagged unmarked pathway. He noticed that there were no markings along this pathway so it appeared that no one had walked this pathway for many years.

To Be Continued…

Wyld Creativity

Overcome.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Dreams In A Box

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