The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: May 2020

Sunday, May 31, 2020

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Maria and Josh!!!

♥♥♥♥♥♥

Saturday, May 30, 2020

Reopening

Today was the reopening of BUY THE SEASON where I have had a booth for 10 years. As vendors, we were permitted to work our booths all day Thursday and most of Friday. I spent many hours in there both days cleaning, purging, putting in new items, and being miserable with a mask covering my face for all those hours.
However ~ I just checked my sales today online and I am crazy happy - I sold 48 items!! The bulk of them were smallish items, but I am so pleased that my hard work paid off.

Saturday Evening

This evening. Finding joy in the little things.

Clematis

I planted this Clematis a good 8 years ago. It only ever grew maybe a foot high and never had a flower.

For some reason, the vine took off this year and it is flowering. Love it.

Friday, May 29, 2020

10 Years

Sending loving wishes your way!

HAPPY 10th ANNIVERSARY, Casey and Amanda!

Celebrate this day and remember the happiness and excitement we all experienced on May 29th, 2010.

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Art

This "Houses" painting and journals by Elizabeth Tichvon arrived yesterday! I LOVE the painting and the journals are perfect. Elizabeth's packaging skills are wonderful. The painting was well protected and arrived with no harm. Now to find the perfect place to hang it.

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Mac and Cheese

With the threat of more rain, it was a good day to make baked macaroni and cheese for lunch!

We must have a ball with us at all times!

Monday, May 25, 2020

Journal Jam

Monday Journal Jam with Effy Wild.

Prompts pulled:
1. Fingerpaint with blue and purple
2. Add pretty paper scraps
3. Add a tinge of silver paint
4. Cover something up
5. Sketch something
6. Add something smudgy

Sunday, May 24, 2020

And yet another deer.

This evening, we ran out to pick up subs for dinner. Saw this sweet girl. Jake even likes watching the deer. We are seeing them almost every time we leave the house.

Bath Time

Somebody we all know and love rolled in something stinky outside, so he needed a bath.

Rain Storm

After beautiful sunshine most of the day, at 5:00 we had a big storm with heavy rain. Not needed!

Another Young Buck

This young buck was in the back yard this afternoon. He has short little antlers.

Mid Morning Snooze

Saturday, May 23, 2020

May Evening Beauty

It has been a beautiful evening.

The Freedom Bird Project

I made and painted this bird today. He is now packed up in his envelope ready to fly to Australia for The Freedom Bird Project where he will hang from a huge tree branch installation by artist Helen Platania.

helenplataniaart.com

On Facebook - The Freedom Bird Project

#thefreedombirdproject

WORLD TURTLE DAY

Photo Credit: National Wildlife Federation

It is WORLD TURTLE DAY!!
World Turtle Day is observed on May 23rd every year as a way to help people celebrate and protect turtles and tortoises and their disappearing habitats around the world.

Turtles are threatened by plastic pollution. It is estimated that over half of all sea turtles have ingested some form of plastic in their lifetime. When plastic is in the water where sea turtles feed, they can easily mistake the trash for food. Ingesting ocean plastic can cause internal blockages that lead to starvation or death.
The risk of plastic ingestion is especially high for sea turtle hatchlings that encounter microplastic pollution in the sargassum, or floating patches of algae, where they live and feed during their first weeks of life.
Sea turtles also have a significant risk of becoming entangled in ghost nets, buoy lines, and other plastic fishing gear, which can be life-threatening.

Young Buck

This young buck was the highlight of the afternoon!

There must be something really tasty under the guardrail. We stopped the car right next to him and he didn't leave.

More Rain

About 5:30, it got dark, cloudy, and started to rain again.

The river is HIGH!

A large lake where there is not supposed to be one.

Ugh! The sunshine was so uplifting.

Friday, May 22, 2020

Sunshine

Thank you, God, for the blue skies and sunshine this morning!!

A Fond Memory

This memory popped up on my Facebook page this morning.
A lifetime ago. What wonderful times I had being involved in Canton Players Guild.

May 22, 2014 Throwback Thursday
My fifteen minutes of fame!! I was active in the Canton Players Guild when I was young. This is a scene from HANSEL AND GRETEL (1961), I played the part of Gretel and Hansel was played by Jim Taggart. I remember this being a very exciting time in my life.

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Flooding

Day 3 of non-stop rain was perfect for making a big pot of pasta sauce. After lunch, we took a little ride to check the river.

Many manhole covers have water spewing out, the river is raging, people have been evacuated from their homes in some areas, apartment buildings flooded, and many roads closed. Water is everywhere. Rain in the forecast through Friday. It is awful.

On our return home, Jake had the right idea - hide in the warm covers on the couch.

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Masks

Thank you Joe Stanley for the great "doxie" masks!! If we have to wear a mask, we should make it fun! Joe owns UPCYCLED GIFTS at Towers Mall and has been working hard day and night sewing masks.

Monday, May 18, 2020

Journal Jam Spread

My spread from today's Journal Jam with Effy Wild.

Prompts pulled:
1. Use different shades of one color
2. Stamp with bubble wrap
3. Draw a leaf
4. Use a color you love
5. Add some tape

I added some closeups to show the gold shimmer.

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.