The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist

Monday, November 11, 2019

6 Years

My sweet Angel Mother, you have been in Heaven for 6 years. You are loved and missed every single day. Keep watch over us until we meet again.

♥ ♥ ♥

Saturday, November 9, 2019

Went to the Holiday Open House at Black Dog Salvage today. It is quite the event every year! Had to stop and collect hugs from my friend John Reburn. He was helping the little people write letters to Santa Claus on his letterpress Santa stationery!

Also got hugs from Katherine Devine. She was painting pretty things on the faces of little people!

There was marshmellow roasting at the fire pit, refreshments, music, and a lot of interesting things to look at.

Always a fun event!

Appalachia Press ~ John's booth at Black Dog Salvage

More of John's Booth at Black Dog Salvage.

Katherine Devine at her face painting station.

One of MANY gorgeous stained glass windows.

There is a little train running around the track on this Christmas tree.

Interesting metal flags.

Marshmellow roasting.

Hello there!

Almost Full

Just got home from church. It's cold out, but it's a beautiful clear night. The full moon isn't till Tuesday, but it looks close to full, so I had to snap a photo of it.

Morning View

Outside my bedroom window on this chilly November Saturday morning.

Friday, November 8, 2019

Holiday Open House

Annual Holiday Open House tomorrow (Saturday) and Sunday at BUY THE SEASON! Please visit my booth #2173. It is filled with Christmas! I made the 4'5" snowman (for porch or home) this week and have another in the works.

Christmas ~ a wonderful time of the year!!

Foyer at Buy the Season

Booth #2173

Mr. Snowman

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jim!!

You are the best brother-in-law a girl could have! I wish you blue skies, good health, and many many more rounds of golf!!

♥

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Autumn 2019

One last look at some of the beauty from Autumn 2019.

DST

I hate this early darkness!

Sunday, November 3, 2019

Time Change

Out back at 5:30 this evening. The view is fading fast with the time change.

Day of the Dead Party

Ready to leave for the party.

Arrival.

A pathway of candles greeted the guests upon arrival.

The food was outstanding. There was food on the table, on the buffet, and in every room. There were chicken tamales, pork tamales, chicken empanadas, shrimp, dips, chips, beautiful tasty cookies (some in the shape of bones), candy, and beverages. It was all delicious and no one left hungry.

Porch Greeters

Lantern lights

On the porch

Tony and Amanda's altar with ofrenda.

La Catrina in Amanda's kitchen.

With sweet friend, Tricia. We went to the party together.
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Thank you, Amanda and Tony!! What a GREAT Day of the Dead party! The decor and food was amazing. What fun sharing the evening with so many costumed interesting people. I loved being a part of it.

Saturday, November 2, 2019

Day of the Dead

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal."
~From a gravestone in the Republic of Ireland

"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die."
~Thomas Campbell, "Hallowed Ground"

November 2nd ~ ALL SOULS DAY

Friday, November 1, 2019

Artist Trading Cards

On the way!! ~ I just mailed my 9 mixed media art cards for the group's "Gifts of the Sea" September/October theme. I've always considered sea shells as beautiful gifts from the ocean.

November 1st ~ ALL SAINTS DAY

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.