aftermath...

~the sweet aftermath of the season...it truly is all a blur to me...
finding some solitude is my way of celebrating...the snow is falling gently right now ...showing me what I need...slow and gentle...a wonderful week to just let go of everything...xo

a little film...

a cat..a dog..& two girls...too cute...

~my sweet little nieces...Haddy & Alli...oh and their cute pets...xo

making calendars...having so much fun!!!

Personalize a free calendar design

~the world i am in today...

Happy weekend ...xo

~collection of holiday bears..for my Sydney...

~generally I am not the traditional type...but each year my daughter Sydney receives a holiday bear ornament...she has 14, and must say she looks forward to her bear each year...her 13th is at the bear repair shop(no photo)

hope all are keeping this season simple and full of love...xo

vitality...

~the quote sums it up...all about the girl...xo

something about fabric...images

~creating ....fabric images...something soft, full of texture, hang them around anything, they are just 5x5 in size...I loved creating them, back to using my hands...makes me at peace...I will be showing them this weekend at Laura's open house...see the post a couple down...xo

be still...&...just listen

~when i let go

of

what i am,

i become

what might be.

Lao Tzu

you are invited...

Saturday December 11, 10am-2pm at Laura's home 3526 Cook Ave.....she makes amazing all natural skin products...I love her soap!! and her candles are the best!!! I will be there with some new art and some new creative holiday gifts i have made...

~sweet little lady...

~little Sam...warmed my heart...full of creative energy...a true pleasure to capture..xo

opening of my holiday shop....& a special for you...

~some new images...some old favorites are featured in my online shop just for the month of December...and a special for all of you that follow my blog..., when you order one print from my shop,you receive a second print free..just indicate which one you want on the comments below with your name and email..
Happy shopping...

just...

Breathe deeply....and watch things fall into place.

~a room of one's own...

~a room of one's own

to listen..

to move..

to create...

to read...

to dream...

to sing & dance

~the studio gives me all...to loose myself in the nothing..this week it gave me a special beauty...it opened up , just in time ...as the inches and inches of snow and cold piled up out in the garden...I received my own garden...in my room of my own...

b.lamphier

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

the animal merely makes a bed, which warms with his body, in sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light, and with a lamp lengthen out the day. Thus he goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the fine arts.

from Walden..ch. house- warming...D. Thoreau

~first snow of the season...gives me inspiration to move into my fine art and find peace in that simple pleasure...xo

~return to the beginning; become a child again...

the wise are Children who know...their minds have been emptied of the countless minute somethings of small learning, and filled with the wisdom of the Great Nothing, the Way of the universe.
~from the Tao of Pooh, Chapter.. Nowhere and Nothing

~just having awareness...to see all that surrounds me, gives me peace and freedom to be who I need to be...at this moment.

“The idea of deserving love. And then watching love being given go people who did nothing to deserve it.”

~i am so full of gratitude...this cloudy Monday morning, for all the simple gifts of life...

Joe Bonamassa - Mountain Time

~this sweet sound...makes my heart full and content...so stay tuned in to your emotions...they connect you to the moment...xo

views of my world...arrangements...

"the beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums."

Fernand Leger, painter