Works in progress--2015 DLP journal cover and black pages

the cover of my 2015 DLP journal (so far)

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The Black pages...

I  am in love with black Gesso!  It is SO black. so MATTE black that everything is just sucked in.

these are works in progress, you may see them again...

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three Muses--Playing with photos

the original photo here is of a sculpture of a mother and child, and stands at the entrance to Hadlock Field, a minor league baseball park in Portland.  There are many sculptures there, celebrating children, play and baseball.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Fred Rogers

Sunday Postcard Art--continuing thoughts for the new year

Images from Google and my stash, and the quote was found on Twitter, if all places.

something new, indeed!

Some thoughts on the turn of the year

It's been a rough one this year.  I won't bore you with details, because, compared to other lives, it feels like so much whining, but my stuff is as real as anyone's.

So looking ahead, I choose--

 Not to stress so much about what I can't change

To work on the changes I can make

To not want so much the things I can't have

To rejoice as often as I can for the things I do have

So I have chosen my word of intent for 2015, and it is

CELEBRATE

Happy Birthday, Jesus

SOSS Christmas

This year I made Christmas postcards for my mail friends
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Take a word--red and green

SPA--Christmas song

Mostly Christmas is a happy holiday, family and friends gather close to home and share their love and joy!  This card is not for them, except as a reminder, it's for everyone far from home and family this holiday... We miss you and wish you were here, we send you love and hope and prayers for safety...

I'll be home for Christmas

You can plan on me

Please have snow and mistletoe

And presents on the tree

Christmas Eve will find me

Where the lovelight gleams

I'll be home for Christmas

If only in my dreams

SPA and Take a word--Winter

Winter friends

Tag Along--Reindeer

Three Muses--Gothic Arch

T'is the season

Collage Obsession--Little Black Dress

Image from Google, background made with pieces from Media Militia and Karen's Scraps.

Christmas postcards--outgoing

Take a Word--Angel

a little reminiscence...

My Mom loved Christmas above all other holidays.  In my earliest memories she would send my dad and me, ans as they came, my sister and brother, out in the first week of December with a detailed description of the Christmas tree she wanted.  My dad tried so hard, but some years he had to break out the saw and drill to "improve" our tree.  There are ornaments on my mom'c collection that are way older than me--including one that my dad made in grade school in the 1930's.

But, her favorite Christmas decoration of all was angels!

She had dozens, maybe hundreds (one year I gave her a set of 12 ceramic angel candle holders--they were cream colored and when holding red candles they graced a shelf for several years.  Over those years , our family members gifted her with new angels every year, ceramic, spun glass, wood, straw, cloth, yarn and anything an angel could be made of.  once I gave her one quite like this.

Every time I see Christmas angel these days I get a little teary, and a little smiley for my mom who is surely a Christmas angel in God's heaven.

ihanna's Spotted Photo Theme--Winter Trees

This month's spotted photo theme at ihanna's blog is Winter Trees. I took these photos in 2010, in my neighborhood in Boston.

The first is a shot through the front windshield of the car while driving down the VFW Parkway (I wasn't driving).  The parkway's median strip and both sides are home to quite possibly hundreds of huge old oak trees.  It's a beautiful sight any time of the year.

This shot is the parkway again, this time a view down the sidewalk..

This one is a branch of the hydrangea tree that grows outside my front window,  the dried bloom is dusted with snow and framed against the winter sky.  It's one of those photos that I look at and think..."did I really take that..."

SPA--Krampus

This Christmas we are exploring the "naughty" side.  Images from Google and RHD Designs; quote found on Pinterest.

There's a snowman for everyone@

Found on Pinterest, pinned from buzzfeed.

tag along--Vintage Santa