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The start of a doodle...the sketchbook challenge for January.

What Today Has Taught Me

Okay, maybe it wasn’t today that taught me this, but today I was struck by the fact that our family - our sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, aunts, uncles, cousins – blood relatives - are the most important things we have in life.  The love of family… it outlasts separation and divorce, bad choices, illness, destructive words and arguments, and even death.  The lineage passed down from one generation to the next, those connections that tie us together – strong family bonds – that’s what matters.  Love, so strong and so pure, because the Source is Emmanuel, God with us.  God, who is Love, is the source of light, and love, and life in us.  And we’re family, and we’re strong, and our love for each other will be there when there is nothing else. 

Tonight I am so thankful for my Christian family heritage.  For my grandparents, my parents, my brother, my sisters, my daughter, my aunts, uncles, cousins, my nieces, nephew, and on and on it goes.  God instituted the family as our source of support and love, and when God is the basis of a family – when His love flows through the generations, then these are the ties that bind.

Today my brother gave my mother a window frame from her home church that’s over 100 years old.  This church and the fundamental values and beliefs, the love, the heritage has stood the test of time.  My grandmother’s faithfulness to it and then my mother’s provided a firm foundation for all our (my siblings’) lives.  And no matter what comes – the foundation stands sure and strong.

To my family – I love you all and you are the true treasures of my life.  Thank you for loving me – always.

Part 1 in Culmination of Creative Chronicles

Here is part 1 of the culmination of my Creative Chronicles.  Months of creative ideas and work come together in one of the finished products - a mini art quilt, wall hanging for Christmas gifts.   I have been sewwww busy (pun intended) since October making these mini art quiltsand other projects (more to come). Sewwww much fun!  I got my very first sewing machine at a Black Friday sale, taught myself to thread it, and sew. Been a crazy, fun two months at my house! I'll be busy finishing up projects (I hope) all day tomorrow. Then finishing up gift-wrapping and cleaning house on Friday and Saturday.

 Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas

and

God Bless Us Everyone...

Just Checking in with a Quick Sketch

I did this in a new sketchbook during lunch in the rain in KFC parking lot!  You gotta do what you gotta do. Life is hectic.  I hope everyone is having a lovely Christmas season.  Busy...but lovely.

Something Different

This is part of the “Creative Chronicles”.  Creativity has just taken over and the ideas are flowing faster than I can make art.  Love it when that happens, but I would love it more if I could get it all out of my system and spend at least 12 hours a day creating art.  This is a gift to my friend’s son, who is like a nephew to me.  He is an aspiring artist – so talented.  I want him to encourage him to continue creating.  He likes graffiti type art and I thought this just looked like him.  I bought him the book “Journal Junkies” as part of this gift. 
Creating this piece was so much fun and totally intuitive!  I started with a black canvas (had been painted previously with black acrylic paint).  Then I began to add the stamped circles from stamps I’d made from various things around the house, then I began to cut fabric shapes and scraps of painted paper and just kept adding and collage and stamping until I had the composition I wanted.  I titled it “Controlled Chaos”.  Merry Christmas, Houston!

I Have SO Much Catching Up to Do!

I am way behind in blogging, because life is so much fun right now, I don’t want to miss a minute to sit down and blog about all the minutes that are making up my life right now.  Make sense? 
I have spent the past 4 days with my daughter, literally almost every minute.  I cannot think of a better way to spend these days.  She will be all grown and on her own way too soon, and she is a source of pure joy to me.  Wednesday afternoon we cleaned a bit and decorated the Christmas tree,



then completely pooped, we left the mess we made and went to bed.  Thanksgiving morning, we made pumpkin pies together and watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.  I was so proud of my first homemade pie crusts that I asked Grace to take pictures.




And Grace made Oreo Balls – crushed Oreos, mixed with cream cheese, rolled in balls, and then dipped in melted white chocolate chips… yum!

 
Hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving. I think mine was the best in all my 42 years.

I’ll tell you in my next post about our Black Friday shopping – a first for the two of us, and well worth rolling out of bed at 1:30AM.  Now it’s off to bed for the back to work after Thanksgiving Monday.  Uuugh… But thankful for a job I love!

Is it Really Almost Thanksgiving!?

I cannot believe almost a month has gone by since my last post.  Life gets busier all the time.  My daughter (almost 16) recently discovered basketball and loves it.  I spend what time I am not at work either running her here or there, or collapsing, or creating!  My studio is taking over my kitchen, except for this weekend when I felt a penchant toward cooking – homemade buttermilk biscuits at that, and next week it will be pumpkin pie baking day – Thanksgiving, my favorite day of the entire year.

Now back to the studio.  Following are some of the little peeks inside to see what’s been “cooking” in my kitchen…

A Rainy Cold Late October Day

Perfect Day for a Hot Steaming Cuppa

Spiced Chai, or Coffee, or a Latte, or Hot Chocolate or… what’s your favorite hot beverage for a cold, rainy day?

This is a small 4” x 6” drawing using the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen and colored pencil.