AND NOW IT IS MARCH AGAIN...

 Just

when

I

think I am finished with a piece...

I wake up in the morning, noticing that little green/brwn

semblance of a building on the horizon.

So back to the drawing board.

I am going to add a few other little tidbits down on the bottom portion...

 Close up of the abstract tree

 Cardboard, sewn painted papers..

The papers are from the 1980's.

They are so fragile until I add soft gel, I can barely pick them up. So fascinating what was published back then.

 Book binding materials and excerpt from old newspapers!

 Mark making yesterday...

 to use in my collage pieces.

EXTREME (not skiing)

joy in painting.

 Remember the old photo albums I found in the good will?

Well that paper is DIVINE...

BACKGROUND COLOR

TEXTURE

TOOTH...

It lends itself to such a different avenue and feeling for me!

 This one came as hail and rain poured more today.

My way of dealing with NO SUNSHINE here in the Northwest.

It's a good way...

pouring paint and sewing little new skirts for my stick girlies.

Flowering Plum

out through the screen in my studio.

It is magnificent this year!

Signs of spring that shall come one day soon I hope.

HAPPY MARCH FRIENDS!

SHARING WITH YOU...

 Here I was fighting

no sun for weeks

and beautiful rain...

WINTER BLUES!

 SEWING

fabric on the petals,

and

bringing the sunshine

INSIDE MY VERY SOUL.

And gave this to a niece that admired it full of excitement...

I

ADMIRE

her and love the way she "parents"

her little darling boy!

WIN WIN

 The very best of

HAPPY ACCIDENTS..

 While blobbing and saving extra paint...

 These 3

BEAUTIES

APPEARED...

I plan on using them some how, in a collage!

 Today,

while it poured rain...

I went crazy and made

giant stacks of collage papers.

(as if I don't have enough of them)

I went to town with

FW INKS!

 And you can tell,

I have been stuck inside...ugh...

Black out poetry...

read it slowly, one little white section at a time...

INTERESTING, huh?

I sure thought so and kinda humorous as well!

 YESTERDAY...

the only time we knew

THERE WAS A SUN SOMEWHERE!

I don't know about you, but when I was a little kid, I would make sun's at the top corner of the paper I was using and then made those big ol' rays pouring down?

I never knew they really existed until we moved here to Northern California...

GLORIOUS!!!

This one photograph portrays

the entire day yesterday!

It was wild...

THUNDER

LIGHTENING

DELUGE

and more.

EXCITING AND INVORGORATING...probably why I got so much done inside.

HAPPY WEEKENDER

FIRST DAY OF SUNSHINE in a lonnnnnnng time...

 I painted some little ditties

one night...after deciding to PLAY.

We all know by now that I

LOVE

TO

PLAY!

 They are all done

on an old black photo album paper

I found at the Goodwill.

 Doing a little series like this,

got me thinking...

to possibly do a large series along

these lines.

 A black background

lends all kinds of new ideas!

 Much

FUN!!!

 She came out of nowhere...

 And now she's somewhere, hahahaha

 As I wandered in a back door

to a dumpy store...

I fell upon this little beauty!

No one had pruned it,

it didn't have a name...

Except for

"MINE"

A little pink and yellow blushing

BEAUTY

for

$2.50.

She is planted and will be pruned tomorrow.

Oh what wonders when she flourishes!

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.