more stuff half done

Can you tell I like bird cages? well...empty cages anyway!


I am playing with different materials to hopefully create something new and beautiful.

motivation

from now on this is what I will see every day when I come down the stairs...

it's a good reminder don't you think?

Thank you Jenn :-) Now I can carry it wherever life takes me...

it's sunday at dusk

the absolute perfect time to start some creating...I have been working on our living room, clearing out my usual love for warm reds and earthy tones and replacing with some cooler blues and greens. 


part of that project is recycling some things I already have and making them new.


number one is this mirror that has been in my family for as far back as I can remember...I do remember standing in front of it as a little girl and staring at myself many times!  I decided to keep it after my parents parted ways and got rid of virtually everything from their former lives.


I don't have a lot of physical things left to fully remember my growing up. I think this mirror should live on as a memory...it just needs to be perked up a bit.


Here is the before...a final shot of this family mirror in all it's original glory. I will post the after once I get to sanding and re-painting it to mesh with our living room.

Another project I'm working on is some wall decoration for my art room. I have a lot of words and ideas floating around so I decided to incorporate some words into a few small paintings.


This will be a work in progress because it is a little tedious but here are the beginning stages...

it's been a little rough

The new year high kind of wore off quickly. Immediate exhaustion set in, too much work, not enough time and when there is time...just so tired.


so tired.


stuck in my head again and searching so hard and deep for my heart. I know the answers sit in there somewhere just waiting to shake me awake.


one thing that stuck with me the first week of the new year was my resolution to laugh more. I did laugh more and I know because I thought about that resolution every time I laugh. 


suddenly there was sadness and sadness tends to stay with me. Maybe it's the Pisces in me that absorbs emotion like water in my gills, I'm not sure. All I know is when there is heightened emotion it weighs on me for a while.


for now I am focusing on the things that have made me smile lately...or feel something outside of myself. Is that even possible?




I do love this video:

we started our memory jar for the year...I saw the idea on pinterest and wanted to try it. You write down memories and funny stuff or whatever you want throughout the year and then read everything aloud on new years eve.

I keep looking at these beautiful decals Jenn sent me for Christmas...I know exactly where they will go in my art room so Jeff just needs to hang them up since I am not allowed to touch the walls :-)

a thousand years later I finally stretched "Jalaine" from my women's series. Now she can actually hang it up!

I took a break from reading about research and writing to paint this frame a rough green. I am in love with it.

A in a frame and it makes me smile.

Jeff's Dad and his sweet Grandmother as she looks at photographs of her family. She is the sweetest and funniest, saw a very young David Bowie on PBS and said "who is that woman?"

This is something that made me cry and smile...cry for the powerful words and memories of Veterans and also smile that my brother is able to have some creative outlet for his own experience. To learn more about Warrior Writers or to purchase a copy of the collection check out the website. 

and of course when all else fails...who always makes me smile?