MY MANTRA OF LATE...

HAPPY WEEKEND EVERYONE...

Working

and

working...

 layers...

 and

drying times

 dyeing days...

 cardboard

fabrics

cheese cloth

plaster...

 torn and dyed papers

stencils

fountain pen writing with ink (so fun)

 new

loves

born

 going

wayyyy

outside the box...

and LOVING IT ALL!!!

 OLD ALBUM PAPER

dyed

and written on

 definitely

LAYERS OF LOVE

 Around the homestead, we

 caught these little critters on film!

Pepe!!!

LITTLE OWLETS, AND SUNSHINE!

 Most of these little owls are 4" x 7"

Except for 2 that are 4" x 10"

I used FW Inks, pens, own painted collage papers.

They were such fun,

I just kept going

and going till

I ran out of substrates.

I hope you enjoy them as much as

they delighted me to paint them.

I kept finding myself,

giggling,

chuckling,

and laughing

right out loud!

 I ran out to take this photo one evening, as the sun was already down and not much of it all day long.

It was soooo BEAUTIFUL!

 And finally one day,

the sun peeked out

just as it was time for it to go down.

 The next day it came all the way out and only rained in the morning!

As I was reading, I looked over on the wall, and thought

Man oh man,

it's been a lonnnng time since there was a shadow on that wall.

YAYYYYY

This was yesterday out one of our windows...

I felt like jumping up and chasing that

sun over the hills.

I didn't want it to go away!

Tomorrow,

the sun is supposed to peek out and then rain

is predicted for over a month.

I sure hope there are some little in betweens,

when the sun peeks out.

If not, I will have to make some phone calls and see who has the sun shining on their face and

GO THERE.

HAPPY NEW JANUARY...

 Needing...

 craving...

 sunshine and

WATER to dive into...

 Doing a series of little owlets...

WHOO

would of thought!?

 close up of a larger piece...

 another

close up!

You have to look close up

at this tiny writing, hahaha

 painted this last night in my

art journal.

it has rained for so many days I have lost count...yes

after a 6 year drought...yes

we need it...but now it's flooding (not us).

ERGO...

FLOWERS for you and me.

 And now this morning...

DYEING

CHEESE CLOTH

AND

DYEING

for

SUMMER, SPRING or FALL!

just

not the bleak

winter here

with

NO

SUN.

WELL NOW...there is SUN inside of our house and a little bit in my heart.

WARM LOVE FROM ME

NEW YEAR, NEW START, HAPPY....

Hoping this is a sign

for my

evolving

art work.

I've been

all over the

map lately.

Some pieces work,

some are only

okay.

Such a long ways to go yet,

but thinking,

I finally have my finger on some

certain pulse.