wishing you good madness.....

"may your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. i hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful....and don't forget to make some art...write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. and i hope...somewhere in the next year...you surprise yourself."

~neil gaiman

wishing you a year of 

magic

dreams

and

good madness....

happy

new year!

the ancient law of life...

"trees are sanctuaries. whoever knows how to speak to them...whoever knows how to listen to them...can learn the truth. they do not preach learning and precepts...they preach undeterred by particulars...the ancient law of life."

~ herman hesse

angels among us.....

i just wanted to share a picture of the angel i made for my brother and his wife for Christmas. i'm always using found objects and pieces of nature in my art.... and after digging thru my stash i laid out these pieces and began assembling my angel. the rock i chose for the head was the last thing i added. as i was positioning it in different places to see where it best fit i flipped it over and noticed the 'face'......do you see the face in the rock? how cool is that?

Christmas 2011

I hope everyone has a very

Merry Christmas!

another kindred soul

 i'm reading richard merymans book on andrew wyeth.

i've always loved wyeths work.

after reading this i'm seeing his paintings thru new eyes.

and recognizing another kindred soul.....

this is his painting called winter corn 

an excerpt from this book reveals wyeths thoughts:

"i can think of nothing more exciting than just sitting in a

cornfield on a windy fall day and listening to the dry rustle.

when i walk through the rows of blowing corn, i am reminded

always of the way a king must have felt walking down a long

line of knights on horseback with banners blowing. i love to

study the many things that grow below the cornstalks, and bring

them back to the studio to study the color. if one could only catch

the true color of nature. the very thought drives me mad."

do you hear the rustling leaves?

i do....

ho ho ho......

i spent my afternoon making gift tags for my 'gran chillrens' christmas presents

 landon.....my little elf

 hailey....well...'nuff said'!

 cambria...one of my little artists

 nicholas....plays a mean saxaphone

 shelby.....my other artist

and another little elf.....preston

(i used kits from crowabout studiob-b and marta van eck designs) 

voice without a sound....

                                                   "voice without a sound"......
                                                  .....how i'm feeling lately
                                                              

owls.........

i've always had a special affinity for birds....

but owls.....

i want to live in their midst.......



dear universe.....

dear universe...

please bring this film to a town near me........

vivian maier

vivian maier....  street photographer
reclusive....eccentric

her work was shared with the world only after her death....

blessings.....

simple country treasures are counted among my

many blessings......

happy thanksgiving

yes.....please!

ready for a little visit to Rye?

yes....please!

wish big!

i've got my cell phone alarm set so i don't miss this!

WISH BIG!!!

(image from pinterest)

playing.........

i remember when my children were little and played

with colorforms. the digital kits available now are much

the same concept....how fun! i think most people use these

in scrapbooking. unfortunately most of the artist i purchase

my kits from don't allow you to use their kits on anything that

you will sell......sigh......they're sooooooooo cute!

(elements from crowabout studio, marta van eck, my own ephemera, texture by shadowhouse creations)

simply smitten.....

a murmuration of starlings....

absolutely AMAZING!

nature smites me with her beauty......

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"i shot the sheriff....but i swear it was in self defense...."


~bob marley





(graphics fairy, image courtesy of b. jackson, my own ephemera)

ahhhhhhhh.....my little chickadee!

i LOVE these smoke detectors by louise van der veld......

want! want! want!

unexpected gifts.......

unexpected gifts.....

i got this one while walking thru the parking lot to my car.

i never could figure out what was causing this reflection....

just the universe showing some love!

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this is another piece in my "inmate series"

i decided to title each piece with an inmate number.

i think these images are fabulous and can't thank

mr. jackson enough for allowing me to have creative

license with them.

(textures by shadowhouse creations, brushes by inobscuro, image courtesy of b. jackson, my ephemera)

unsaid.....

"there's a difference between unspoken and unsaid...."

WOW.....

i picked this book up from the library last thursday...

without reading the summary....just looked like something i'd like...

and read it yesterday. it's about the power of human

and animal relationships. as is frequently the case with

me....it appears i was guided in this choice.

i lost my animal companion of fifteen years this past friday....

to paraphrase a line in the book...

you gave more than you got in return

i miss you little buddy.....