Treasure

Treasure your short time here on earth...

Treasure the time you spend with those you love...

Treasure the small moments that make you smile and warm your heart...

Reach

Note to self:  Reach and reach and never stop reaching...

Mom

My Mama and me

Spring

This morning I took a drive down this old country road, just a mile or two from my house.  It was sunny (but cold) and I came upon this barn with a big green field.  The field was full of mama sheep and their brand new babies.  They were the cutest little things.  They just melted my heart.  It was such a vision of Spring.  I will go back later today or tomorrow and try to get a good picture, so I can share with you!

Patience

I'm telling myself that time is only an illusion.  And I do believe that to be true.  But it' never feels that way when you're trying to be patient.  I think that is one of my weak areas-patience.    Not such an easy thing to work on, but I have no choice...Still, I don't know if it is improving at all.

Seek

Seek and ye shall find...Seek what is real and true. Open your heart and let it guide you-if you follow it, it will be right.  Don't be afraid...just listen...

Right Now

Ok, so how to live in the moment seems to be the hardest thing for me...I always find my mind wandering to other people or places or feelings. It's hard to stay in the present. That is my goal right now...to enjoy exactly where I am and exactly what I am doing, right now. Much easier said than done, thats for sure. I know when I'm doing my art, I am totally in the moment, and time has no meaning, and it's pretty much wonderful. I need to incorporate that into some of the other parts of my life too. Life is short, and basically, "right now" is all there is...how can that be so difficult?

Pink!

I dyed my hair PINK today!   It makes me happy!

Mermaid at the Beach

These things make me smile...

I found the mermaid  just lying there, so peacefully and beautiful.  The sun was going down and people were leaving the beach to go home, and she was all alone.  I thought she was so lovely...

Pretty Things

Pretty things...

Squirrel in the Tree

Im just sitting here trying to figure out something worth writing...My little dog Cooper (the very cutest little dog in the whole wide world, by the way) is barking at me because he wants to go out and yell at this squirrel.  The squirrel is trying to build a nest or something, up in this huge pine tree.  He keeps dragging a branch, that he broke off, way up high to his "spot".  But then he drops it and has to run back down the tree again to pick it up.  He keeps doing this over and over.  I hope when he finishes his "nest", that it is wonderful for him, cause there sure is a lot of effort going into it!  Good luck little squirrel.

44

Yesterday I turned 44.  I'm okay with that fact...I wish I knew all the things I know now, way back when.  Life would've been much more fun.  But I'm thankful to know them now, none the less.  Life is good.  Complicated sometimes, but still good.

Peace

These things bring me peace whenever I look at them...

Good Morning World!

February 21, 2009

When I was a kid  (elementary school age)  I would finish eating my breakfast and grab my stuff and begin walking down the street towards school.  It would be about 7:45 am and it would be quiet because it was early morning, and I would yell out loud "Good Morning World!".  Now that I'm an adult, I don't ever do that anymore, and I'm sure if I did I would get some strange looks...but I think I will try to throw it in sometimes- just for the fun of it, and see how the rest of the day follows!

GIRLFRIENDS OF THE SEA

Here are some of my "works in progress"  It's kind of fun to watch them come alive.  These are also from the Girlfriend Series.

This one is called Girlfriends of the Sea.

Art Studio

February 20, 2009

This is my art studio.  It's a little messy, but thats the way I like it.  It's just my own little world and I love it.

Dreams

I had a couple of dreams the other night.  One that I need to tell Stacey about...

I recieved a big manilla envelope in the mail.  It was from Giuseppe and Stanley.  There was no note, just some little perfume bottles and makeup and lotion that we had apparently left behind on the cruise ship.  The writing on the envelope was like a messy kids writing.  They wanted to return this stuff to us.  Strange...

I was going to write down another dream, that I thought I had securely held in my brain, but now I'm blank.   How do dreams come and go to our memories like that?- it's sort of  spooky

Destiny

I'll figure it out, maybe, some day....will it take me all my life?  How long will that be?  Some things become so clear with time, or maybe I just think so.  If you knew your true destiny, would it get in the way of living in the present?  Just waiting for "it" to "happen"?  Or would it be a useful tool?  I guess I'll never really know the answer to that.  

Today I went and saw "Slum Dog Millionaire".  It was a really sad story with a wonderful, happy ending.  How can life be such living hell for some human beings?  It's unbelievable what some people have to live through.  How lucky we are just to have been born in a safe place.  A place with some money to let us live with basic necessities.  How truely lucky we are to not have just "appeared" into poverty and inhumane conditions, innocently, not knowing anything better.  God, please bless those less fortunate than us.  Please especially watch over them  and give them strength to get through each day with some sort of grace and dignity.  Please let their heaven be an extra beautiful place...

THE GIRLFRIEND SERIES

This girlfriend series was inspired by all the love I received when I went through my time with a brain tumor and the surgery that followed.  I will never forget all the love that came to me from all the friends in my life-I'm a very rich girl.*




January 2009-   This is my girlfriend series.  Just fun girls I made

up.  I want to use this series to experiment in the "business" world 

and see what I can make with them.  

Poem

This is a little poem I wrote:  I understand it perfectly, I hope you do too...

Dance along in the light of the moon, without a care of how you are perceived by others.  Begin your smile deep on the inside and laugh out loud!  You know the secret of life, if only for that one second, before it disappears ...it will return again.   And when it does, greet it with the warmest embrace, and know that you are blessed.

TILES

These were fun to do.  I used 3"x3" stone tiles and aged them with alcohol inks.  Then collaged them and finished  them with bees wax.  

TILES

MOTHER AND HER BABY

This is one of my favorite paintings so far.

Mother and her baby-I think it is peaceful

and whole.

2008 Acrylic

Some of my art work 2008

Acrylic, ink, collage

Post #1-Love IS my religion...

Well, this is my very 1st blog.  The date is January 31, 2009.  My name is Kelly.  I'm 43 years young :)  Love really is my religion.  I think that word covers all that is important in this life.  

I'm excited to see what blogging brings to my life...we'll see...