Saturday, January 30, 2010

Me Thinks I Like This Color

Such soothing colors! 
I was wandering around, my house, trying to find an inspirational color to 
paint one of my Vintage Moon Boys.  In the realm of fantasy I can choose
any color I want, I know this!  Yet I needed a push.
I started to notice that throughout my home that I have a lot of
the cool blue green colors of the ocean...different hues, hinting to 
my subconscious that I must have a desire to sit upon the sand and
watch the waves ebb and flow.
 
The color was there everywhere I turned.

 
It's the glass, the hue that the light is picking up in the glass.
It is truly one of my favorite colors.  
So it's no wonder that I very nearly always paint 
my Vintage Moon Boys,
 
this color!
Sea glass color!

I think that I shall sit by the waters edge and watch the world go by....

Monday, January 25, 2010

One World One Heart Giveaway!



Welcome to my giveaway for One World One Heart.
The World is Magical, and there are many exciting places to explore.
So hop on the carpet and take a ride.
I am offering this original painting for the Magical giveaway.
My carpet ride took me to a quiet tropical river. I absorbed the
beauty of all around me, and was inspired to paint.

This bold and vivid painting, measures 8" x 8" and is painted with acrylics on
a wrap around gallery canvas.  It's a fun and magical piece and will remind you
of one of the places you visited on your Magical Carpet Ride.


All you have to do is leave a comment with a link or an email address
where I can reach you.  I will take comments until 12:00 midnight on the 12th, of February.
On the 15th of February, I will contact the winner.  I will collect all
the ticket stubs from the riders who stopped at,
Pearl Avenue Studios, and will generate a random count.  If
there is no response from the winner, I'll choose the next in line.

Thanks for hopping on the carpet and stopping by,
and I hope you enjoy your Magical Carpet Ride.

Many many thanks to Lisa.
Your Magic Carpet is an amazing ride!

Magical Holiday Artists is having a group giveaway
for One World One Heart!


has gathered some wonderful artwork.
Pop on over for a chance to win one basket full of goodies!

Comments now closed!
Thank you  

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Giddy with Anticipation!


Look what came in the mail!
It arrived from The French Larkspur, 4 days ago.
I was so excited,


Dare I open it?
No, I couldn't, I had to wait,
because look how pretty it's wrapped!


When I opened the envelope,  little paper confetti birds came fluttering  out.
Delicately and lightly spreading there wings as they glided to the floor.
As I held my precious package,
all else in the world came to a stand still until each and every
feathered friend was accounted for.


But the anticipation was overwhelming!
Slowly I slip off the pretty ribbon and tag, that held
an old page.

I'll never know what book it came from,
unless I learn the French language.  It's beautiful!
So, 

I tear the tissue and get a peek....I'm actually giddy!


My publication of Jeanne d' Arc Living, Magazine.
Yes, all this giddiness was over a Magazine.
I have been after this publication for months. 
They are hard to get your hands on, selling out
from shopkeepers as soon as they get them. 
The style of this Danish publication will take your breath away.
It's white on white, with everything you love. Everything!
And after I cuddle up on the sofa and slowly absorb every page,
I'll take some photos and share the pages,
of something that makes me frivolously happy.
After all, the reason I wanted this magazine was because I needed
inspiration to finish,

this!
My dining room is getting a makeover...don't mind the mess...
the electrician made it, but I'll have to clean up after him.
This is one of the last rooms to be rewired, and then this 110 year
old house will no longer have the old  paper wrapped wire hidden
in the walls and rafters.
I'm Just Giddy!



Thursday, January 7, 2010

White Out!


It's been quiet the last few days.  I've been putting Christmas away, and organizing my studio.
Which is still a mess!  While going through all the paints, papers and what nots, and trying to decide if
I need this, or do I keep that...knowing if I get rid of "it", I'll be looking for it months down the road.
So, keep, yes, maybe keep, yes!
I finally organized all my projects into piles, and in between this, great cleaning task,  I'm working on 3 different watercolor paintings.  I run downstairs, check on the paper maches drying on the radiator, run down to the basement, cut some boards, (working on chalk boards), run back upstairs...you get the idea!  Hope so, because I've worked myself into a frenzy, to many things going on in my head that I want to finish.
STOP!
I did stop.  But, I picked up the camera and started snapping away.  I always get perspective when I see my home through the lenses.  I pick up the nitty gritty of the mess and the camera never lies.  I can see right away where I need to clean or touch up.
Ah, now I have a plan.  I always have a plan.
The maches will go through the last stages before painting.
I'll finish the watercolors,
I'll neatly stack my papers and reference books.
I'll clean off my 5x8 work table, (amazing how I can work in a 2 ft. area, because there is so much stuff on that big space.) !

I did stop to enjoy the White Out!


Out side and inside!
...and then I need to strip down these chairs and reupholster them for a good
client.  She trudged them all the way down from Kansas City, in the snow!

Oh I'll be busy, but I won't over do!

Friday, January 1, 2010

Time to Go!


It was so pretty!
But as with all things, this too must pass.
It's always very hard for me to toss the tree out, after I un-decorate it.
Maybe I don't want to let go of what it represented. 
I worked hard to make it beautiful, each ornament in it's place, the twinkling lights
dancing back and forth, like little pixie fairies hiding in the branches...oh  well!
But I'm not throwing it out, I created it, and it is now logged in that part of my mind
where memories are forever kept.
So it's not out with the old, it's on with the new!

Happy New Year!
Be blessed in all!

Saturday, December 26, 2009

A fitting End to a Merry Christmas!


After all the pretty presents were opened and our bellies were full, my youngest daughter had one more gift for us...she passed out silly mustaches.  She labeled it, donning our gay apparel. And to all a Good Night!
Hope you all had a Very Merry Christmas!

We did get our first snow on Christmas Eve! How perfect was that?  I didn't take any pictures until this morning. 

It isn't packing snow, but so pretty!
Now it's on to a brand New Year!

Friday, December 25, 2009

The Gift


I received the gift of remembering, and knowing.
My gift came several years ago, but I was reminded by Sarah, a few days ago.  She sent good will to her friend, Renee.  
We all link to blogs, read a bit and go on.  But Renee, hit a sore spot. Renee gave me goose-bumps.  Renee, made me remember.  So in turn, Sarah and Renee, gave me a gift.
Let Fly!
So here is my gift.
 I haven't told many, about what I experienced.  It was mine to know.  And it's what I believe.
11 years and 2 months ago, my husband was diagnosed with Multiple Myloma. It's a cancer that develops through the bone marrow. (a gift from his stint in Vietnam and  agent orange). Our world as we knew it changed forever.  When Richard, (husband), found out, he was devastated. At that time he was told  that there wasn't a lot they could do besides chemo and radiation.  Big whoop! He was given 18 months.  And I thought, how dare they tell him that. That is not going to happen.
My husband, had said to me, "what if it is all that I have left to live?" And all I could tell him was, "well it will be the best 18 months you will ever have".  I wanted him to know that he had to think he had a million years ahead of him.  He had to Know!
We got through the first round and the second round...etc.that lasted a year, we even left home and lived in a sterile  hospital room for 3 months.  He had a bone marrow transplant that WORKED!  Of course, there was daily and monthly  treatments to keep his cancer repressed, but he was living again.
I always believed and always asked, to keep my husband strong and healthy and safe.  But, to whom am I asking? 

I am not a highly religious person, but I've always believed in the power.  It was this power within me that helped us get through this change in our lives.  I asked for guidance and strength, but from where? Heck if I know, I just knew, I believed. If I could take on his or anyone's burden I'd do it in a flash.   But let me get to the nitty gritty of the gift I received, with another slight detour.   My husbands, Mother was a very gifted soul.
We had our ins and outs, me being the "daughter-in-law"... I wasn't taking her son away.  We became very close through out the years,  after we stopped competing for the love of one human being.
6 years after my husbands transplant, the cancer started moving again. While dealing with this, my mother-in-law passed away.  It was totaly unexpected and I didn't know how my husband would handle it.  He did okay, I was the one who went  bonkers.  Who was I going to confide in, who could I talk about the things we studied, the spirtuality, the path of our lives?  I truly loved her.
 Two weeks after her passing I asked for a healing for my husband, I didn't ask for guidance or an orpportunity.  I was adament, I wanted a healing...that's what I got.
I went to sleep telling not asking!
I felt myself awaking, like I had to get up, and as I turned over to get up, I heard a voice in my mind,  don't open your physical eyes, watch and listen..I envisoned my eyes opening, but yet they were closed.    The air around me went quiet.  I felt the stillness.  The sounds of the outside world went still.  Yet I felt an air of silence.  It's a feeling, just a feeling.  My body was turned on it's side facing the door of my bedroom and then I felt the presence of an overwhelming light.  In my minds eye I saw the precesion of the High Holy Healers enter, into my bedroom, with an amber glow like candle light.  They were led by my Mother-in-law.  I only knew it was her because of her small height.  Yet just a feeling.  Knowing.  She was clothed in a white gown of simple cotton, how do I know, I don't, I just know.  She is followed by the 3 Holy men.  How do I know, I just know. I know they are there to guide her to heal.  I know they are the High Holy Healers.  The air has a scent of insense, I hear the chanting in Latin.  I know.  But how do I know?  I see them wave their hands over my husband, speaking, chanting, blessing.  I see my Mother-in-law look directly into my eyes, she doesn't say a physical word, but I hear her speak the words.  "I am a healer now! I simply am.".
I knew in that very monmet that my husband was healed of that particular cancer.  I knew it with my whole being.  I also knew that she came as a healer and not as the Mother, that he knew. I felt that the High Holy Healers were there to guide her in her first healing, I just believed.   And in that knowing, I learned that the power of my thought brought the healing of light and unconditional love.  I just know.
A light in someones eye, a smile, the mention of a friend in a blog post, that touches someones spirtit.
A gift.
We are many, we are one!
Merry Christmas


Shhh sleep now!