Happy Boxing Day
I just can’t resist showing you this photo of the first cottage where we lived in England. It is such a sweet photo and also might remind some of you of a summer day. Thank you for all of the lovely holiday greetings. As you can see, I have not gotten to my comments or [...]
Happy Holidays!
I had to share this little photo of dancing holiday lights in the window as it looks out onto our back garden. Over the next few days I am going to be up to my eyeballs in holiday prep, so I wanted to take this time to say I wish each of you a VERY [...]
You May Have Heard…
Mike from Devon, England has sent his two sheep, Esmiralda and Ermintrude on a tour. They first visited Andrea in Paris, then they decided San Francisco was calling them and visited Lynn. Recently they spent a few days with Cris in Oregon where they had a tea party with Annie. Today, they decided to make [...]
The Euphoria of Creativity
San, who writes A Life With A View, handed out this award. I am going to hand it out to anyone posting a comment to this post. Enjoy and share the love. Last night some thoughts kept nagging at me – again…I have got to get these things out of my head so I can [...]
Asking Questions/ Searching for Answers
Because so many of you responded to the previous post I was inspired to draw more of these faces and evaluate what different lines might mean on the face. These simple lines of the basic features bring to mind so many things and I am reaching into these lines to come up with some meanings [...]
Sending Out Love
This is another bit of canvas I have worked on. What you see is bits of metal foil attached to the painted canvas with clear glaze. In Andrea’s post today she talks about how sketching her Metroheads becomes an act of love for her. As she sketches and really looks at each subject, she feels [...]
More Faces
Today I share with you a few more faces I am trying to get out of my mind. As I was playing with these I thought about how a second line at the mouth can completely change the expression of a face. I had not even thought of that before. There is another reason for [...]
A Little White…A Little Blue…
On Saturday night we had our first snow fall of the season. I was not at home, but my son grabbed a few photos for us. The snow was only a dusting where I was, but it was pretty anyway. I have been waiting for a little snow to fall… and this was a little.Of [...]
Apologies
My apologies for the post below appearing as it does. I have tried 5 times to upload it. I can read everything clearly in the other parts of blogger…like “edit posts” or “create post”. For now, I am going to go with this. Who knows, maybe it will show up later! Have a Beautiful Weekend! [...]
Weekend Fun!
Today Jess gave me a fun little gift to share with you. Here are 100 “things you may have done” in your life. When you are finished here, visit Jess’ blog for some incredible color! The answers in bold are the ones that I have done: 1. Started your own blog 2. Slept under the [...]