for Esther.....

Kenna and I are heading west on july 1st............we will be in Sacramento for 3 weeks! I am really excited to see my Dad, stepmom and my Best Friend Kris!!!!
i made this necklace for my stepmom, Esther. It is an amethyst point with fresh water pearls, and vintage crystals. Amethyst is a very healing crystal and no one can ever have too much healing. I sure hope she loves it.
I am really looking forward to my trip...I get to meet JoAnnA...an incredible artist whose blog i have been following for a very long time....i sure hope we can take a moment to create together!

wait..one more

this one has an old beaded glove on the front--a great place to hold pens and maybe a glue stick--it is chock full of papers that i have made and collected.........
i really love these.....making them is really making my heart sing...as i add each old piece of lace or doily i think about and bless each previous owner and wonder what their life was like and how it fit in....

and i made this one

it has a store bought journal in it.............


it's called ........ i hope you dance..

i have been busy

creating! and it feels sooooo good-
I decided that i needed to use some of my old laces and other goods that i have been collecting.....
so i made this journal cover that can hold a spiral notebook..

my guilty pleasure......

Our last catalyst for "Creative Therapy" group was--Our guilty pleasure...



My most guilty pleasure is shopping! I LOVE to shop! Shopping makes me Happy! I don’t need anything. And I know that, yet I still find myself out and about …in the stores,at estate sales.the farmers market. My husband says I’m gonna nickel and dime out family right into the poor house……….but that won’t happen because I have enough “stuff” I can sell if I need to. We have a teenage daughter that has caught my disease-so now there are two of us! Besides spending too much money, my husband really hates to drive my car……my license plate reads “LVSHOPN”!

she is gone....

Here is a picture of a doll that I did for a challenge that Belinda sent out--she sent us a 2x2 canvas and we were to art it up and send it back--I think she was sending them in for a submission, but have never heard a word back--kinda wish I would have kept her--she's got the key to Bliss in her hand--

crown swap

I hosted a crown swap for one of the yahoo groups I 'm in--just wanted to share mine--It is in the mail to a friend way north!

2nd catalyst for Creative Therapy=something from my childhood

My Papa-I loved him so–he always worked in a hardware store and I loved to go visit him there. It’s probably why I love hardware stores and tools so much today. He used to take me to the ice cream store and sit me up on the counter and and fill a little white bag with candy-yum. Our favorite flavor was chocolate shower…..He always hung out in his garage just fiddlin around–and listened to country music. Funny after growing up in Sacramento, CA and listening to country music I would be living in Nashville,TN!

I used one of his old watches and his picture standing in front of his garage as the center piece and put some hardware pieces inside of the watch. The dangle has a fishing lure piece, cause he LOVED to fish and a blue fabric bead-as blue was the color of his eyes. I called him Papa,so I made the metal tag, and there is an old key—-He was always cutting keys at the store…my wire wrapping is a bit rugged this time because I wanted the hardware/wire to really stand out..

I wanted to share...

This is a birdhouse by my driveway and a beautiful cherry tree that is in full bloom..........
There are so many other flowering plants in my yard--
I just love all of the colors--and the pollen--

catch up?

Never! It's been way too long--but I have no excuses--
so
we begin again!
I am proud to be part of the "Creative Therapy" team that Karen put together. We are a group of artists that are given catalysts every week and are to create art with the weekly catalyst! In the theme of catching up=I will show you the first one I did--and give you the link to the site-
http://creativetherapy.wordpress.com/
the catalyst was" where do you go to find your center?"

This is definitely where I go to find my center. Two fold….The Beach and The Ocean… What a wonderful place! Home of some of the most beautiful creatures that ever lived. Dolphins, seahorses, starfish… Every color of the rainbow is found in these waters. And salt water-ahhhhhhhh…..so healing….and waves..crashing waves, mesmerizing, calming, peace-filled. The smell………………..YES! The smell………….. Seashells…I love to collect seashells. Often I go to this place in my mind to fill up on energy and peace, as I am landlocked in Tennessee. When I lived in Southern California a stroll on the beach was a joy and easy to accomplish. Now, once in a while we are able to physically go to “the beach” and it recharges my spirit.

I made this necklace to remind me of the bliss that the beach brings to me, with abalone, coral, a dolphin, a starfish…The turquoise stones represent some of the beautiful turquoise waters that I have witnessed ..in Florida, Hawaii. Mexico…..off to the beach in my mind….

my charms got there.......

doin' the happy dance (yeah, sure) over here! my charms just got to kecia today-that was over 1 week-priority........ugh! i was sweatin' bullets. but, i was emailing a friend this morning and i told her that even if my charms never made it and went to charm heaven that these charms helped with my healing. i got back to creating, and it felt good....
creating is good.

my charms are lost....

i'm in the valentine charm swap that kecia is hosting and she just emailed me last night that my charms have not reached her---hubby mailed them priority a week ago-please Universe-deliver them to kecia today--52 charms took a bit of work and i was really looking forward to recieving this bag of goodies........

please help bernie........

My friend bernie berlin is in the contest of her life.
she runs an animal rescue here in tennessee..
and if you can possibly donate just $10
it will help her and her furry friends win-

please visit her blog http://aplacetobark.blogspot.com
alot of artists have donated goodies to give away
and it's a wonderful place to follow her story...
the angels are with you bernie...

the buck starts here...

my good, talented friend Pattie has a new blog called "the buck starts here"..she has been shopping at the dollar store and found some cool items to art up! she made an awesome work of art out of a dollar note book--and challenged her readers to do the same--so here is my dollar notebook--i got mine at michaels-they have a great dollar section too. thanks Pattie-what's next?

a snails pace...

my healing is progressing...but i feel like it is going sooooooooo slow. i got my cute pink cast off and now have a "moonboot" i can take it off to shower-ahhhhhhhh! and to start moving it, but it doesn't move very much -still can't walk on it or drive-but there is light at the end of the tunnel!. i had a very creative day today, and it felt awesome. i am sending in my proposals to teach at an art retreat and needed to make samples and then i tried to write a bio and class descriptions.which did not come as easily as the art! .i called my dear friend goddess diana and she helped get me going in the right direction...thank you friend!

heart journal swap

i signed up to do the heart journal swap with belinda--my page did not turn out at all like i planned --it just kind of took on a life of it's own...........i guess i needed some happy art in my life! and i think i accomplished that- she is sending the pages to cloth, paper, scissors...so we shall see what happens

i'm borrowing this...

my dad has suffered from some heart problems the last few years-last summer when we were visiting him he had open heart surgery...he is doing so much better-although his heart is aching today as his sister-my auntie pat- passed over last night. she was a wonderful, giving, loving, strong woman and she will be very missed by many......

i made this piece "take time to heal" for my dad when he was recovering and now i am going to post it today to remind him, myself and others that we must take time to heal...

love and light...auntie pat--we love you