EXCITING CHANGES TO COME!!!

Dick and I have made some big changes for the year to come!! We are downsizing to free us up to do the things we have always wanted to do ..... that is.... free to travel, spend more time together, follow His lead for new adventures, no more retail store after 27 years, more time with kids, but still MORE ART and probably some sewing classes for girls ..... that is a dream right now ..... but the ART won't stop, it will be here on the blog as soon as we finish remodeling our NEW/OLD smaller home about 20 miles away. SO STAY TUNED ... we'll be having a big sale and beautiful house and property SALE in the SUMMER!! MORE FREEDOM ON IT'S WAY!!! WooHoo!!! And THANKS for all your support the last twenty seven years in my shop!!!

Thursday, January 2, 2014

ACCIDENTAL FUN !!!

Not sure why there is always a space here...never happened before...but check out this NEW FUN!!!
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Peyton painted (with copics) her manikin! Cute! Now all the kids want one!
Elena's ,5 yrs,drawing of the "good boy"....she said.

My decor and doodling and journaling around Elena's work in my journal. And below her sideways cat and flower....


Olivia, 12 yrs, and I made rubberband bracelets....they are too fun!!!




I drew him and Elena, 5 yrs, wanted to paint him....made a great conversation!!  I am HOOKED on doing these!!!




Then this conversation between two women....about an up coming Bible Study...




Before all the black was filled in....

I gave my artistic grand daughter a manikin for Christmas and this is what developed!!!  I instructed her how to use it to draw people, she wanted to paint the doll instead, BUT THEN we began to draw and journal and doodle along!!!  Well, I am hooked and going to do a whole journal of these people and their conversations!!  It is copyrighted now.....NOT!  Ha  So fun!! I might submit it to a magazine!!  ENJOY!!! I DID!!!....and AM!!! Blessings to you ALL for 2014....a new year for new beginnings!!


She was collecting nests and didn't realize there were eggs in it until Mama and Pappa Bird began attacking her!  She DID put the nest back promptly!!

Monday, December 23, 2013

A SMALL TREE - A MAJESTIC MESSAGE OF HOPE




























SMALL ..... small is okay.  Ordinary is okay.  Common is okay.  God used the small, ordinary and common to share HIS MAJESTIC MESSAGE OF HOPE.  This world takes and takes ultimately all you have and all who you are ... but there is a Savior ... a message of HOPE.  There is hope beyond hope, there is life beyond life.  There is forgiveness, second chances and new beginnings.  These are real things.  Do we under estimate the value of how significant it is for us to have the privilege to be the the ambassadors or

messengers of that HOPE through FAITH and GRACE? Redemption is offered to us....paid for.   How majestic is it that God wasted all that GLORY on common ordinary man?  SO it was with the shepherds who pursued the birth of a Savior in a stable.  HE invites us all who are ordinary and common to do uncommon extraordinary things.  It is OKAY to BE SMALL.   During this Holiday Season when we are supposed to feel good and make others feel good....and with that sense of unmet expectations and the disappointments, the longing to be with those we can't be with right now, the sense of uncertainty of the future, ... all of those things come together to portray to us how ordinary we are, how common we are, because when you strip away all the stuff, the trappings of success, the outfits of significance that we put on to try and represent how important we are, how uncommon our lives are..... when you strip all of that away, what we all have in common is that this life is beyond our mastery and hopefully what we realize is we all need a Savior.  And that is the point, because in this Holiday Season God whispers to us as He displays His Majesty .... He invites us to do uncommon things and He says "It's okay to be small." Bring us all healing and hope ....A CHANGED HEART by Faith is more majestic than a heavenly host appearing before us. To see a changed heart is incomparable in it's power.  I heard this similar message from a speaker at a church and it really hit home.  Merry Christmas and my HOPE is that you see His Majesty and you search for it.

Thursday, December 19, 2013

OFF THE SUBJECT, BUT BUCKING FOR ART IN JANUARY!!

 FOR THE CHRISTMAS UPDATE GO TO MY FACEBOOK PAGE DIRECTLY ON THE LEFT........ Watching Pilar draw horses put me in the mood to do some of my own...
 Doodles done with Tombo pens and copic markers....




 Saw this quote and thought very interesting....the doodling was fun too..pens and copic markers...










Just needed to post some doodles or color....I have been sewing my fingers off for Christmas for the Grand Girls in my family and I am done...finally.....SOOO GO TO MY FACEBOOK BELOW LEFT (ABOVE LEFT!) to see all the work I've done, and the history behind the before and after's.  FIRST, I want to say MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all... and my prayer is to be more into the art in January 2014....I SOOO miss my art doing! Here are a few fun pieces I did recently.....ENJOY!! MERRY CHRISTMAS and GOD'S BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL!