art every day...a touching reminder

i love to create. 

i really do. but it can get a little lonely sometimes. when i am in the process, there really isn't much else i am aware of. but when i am done and i am doing the other stuff...photographing, describing, measuring, listing, sending things out into the world, it can be a solitary process. 

this morning i received notice that a pair of earrings in my shop had sold. yay! i do love sales!

but this one will stay with me, i imagine, for a really long time. this note was attached to the sale...

"My father's name was Ellie (Ellis) and sadly, he passed away last week at 93. He loved birds. I will give these charming earrings to a family member. Thank you." 

my heart goes out to this thoughtful person and their family. i understand only too well how hard it is to lose a parent. and yet this note filled me with gratitude...that this man was loved so much that he will be missed and that his child chose something created by my hands as a positive reminder of someone important.  

if i ever forget that my work matters to someone, i can think of this note. 

i know that i will think of this man when i see birds, as i do with my mom when i see clouds.

art every day...falling deeper in love

did i mention yet how much i am loving this new camera? still haven't learned how to use it...i will get to it eventually. this was a shot from just after nightfall and the moon was laying there all come hither like. who could blame a girl? 

today i am grateful for my eyesight and ability to more fully experience nature.

art every day...red dog, blue dog

today i am grateful for my pups (who don't look anything like these) and their always ready love.

art every day...a blond, a redhead and a brunette

today i am grateful for the how much fun it is to find my style!

art every day...life finds a way

today i am grateful for the fact that 'life finds a way'.

art every day...THE BIG LAUNCH!

today i am grateful for people who don't just dream...they do!

i made this fine silver pendant to celebrate the big launch of the new company name, logo (can you guess what it is?) and website of a wonderful friend and 

FABULOUS coach, author and speaker, 

Mary T. Scott!  

check it out...MaryTScott.com

 

art every day...gray clouds

today i am grateful for a sunny outlook and a warm home.

i think that i will have to scan these little paintings as photographing them at night doesn't seem too effective.

art every day...bluebird and sunflower

today i am grateful for raining saturdays.

art every day...friday night lights

today i am grateful for the way lights melt across wet, night time streets. sigh!

art every day...top to bottom

today i am grateful for our library and that they have a book that i really, really wanted to read!

art every day...my new zoom!

today i am really grateful for the optical zoom on my camera because i would never have been able to see this beautiful bird as more than just a little black spot! i am also grateful for red lights so i had time to snap this photo!

art every day...something's fishy

today i am grateful for the ability to shop at great local shops like ornamentea and great online shops all over the world. i love how connected we are.

art every day...what?

today i am grateful for precious, quiet moments.

art every day...window shopping

today i am grateful for the beauty in life and how it seems to reveal more and more layers of sheer beauty the close i look. i am grateful for perfect moments.

create art every day...free air

today i am grateful for great signs in store windows.

art every day...outdoor cat

create art every day...watercolors

today i am grateful for time with my sister.

art every day...full moon, new camera

 today i am grateful for my fab new camera and my inability to wait to learn something before i do it.

art every day...cow belles (or what i do instead of sleep)

last night i simply could not sleep.
no pillow arranging, no visualization, no nothing was going to make me go to sleep. finally, i felt i could fall asleep and POP! there she was...my muse. i have been toying (a little pun intended) with the idea of making some dolls. she has a fat body and long funkified skinny legs. attitude that just won't stop...in the delightful way.
and there it was...cow belles.
so i had to get up and do a sketch of one.
allowing for the fact that i was sloppy, exhausted and not drawing the way i wanted to, at least i got it on paper. finally, around 530am i was released to sleep.

today i am grateful for my muse, however ill-timed her visits.

art every day...off and running

today errand day. had i used bigger paper, i could have included more of what i did.







today i am grateful for my little
red car that takes me everywhere
i want to go!