Warm Nights Bright Days

The chilly nights are finally over.  Summer is coming to take us away from the bone aching gray skies.

Now I can get a little painting done outside...just enough to finish my shop inventory.  

Just got through wolfing down a salad and planning to make some muffins for breakfast tomorrow.

For my next shop project I am looking up herbs, trees, and flowers to do in colored pencil.  My mission is to make Pagan greeting cards eventually but first the art.  When that's all turned into printed cards later, I've accomplished something.   

It kinda makes me uneasy since all the technology has exploded for others to get HD drop dead exact copies of pictures from the web. 

 Still, the artwork comes first.  Cards are a long way away.

Love it but Cry every Time I See it

The show "Nashville" is one of my favorite shows but every time I watch it I start crying.  I miss my home state that much.  Tennessee is a lot of things to a lot of different people but to me it's this:

1. Dried Apple stack cake

2. Beautiful trees

3. Beautiful clothes

4. Best coffee anywhere

5. Best restaurants

6. Best honey from the best clover

7. Good music

8. Laid back folk

9. Spiritually magickal Smoky Mountains

10. and Most of all the rest of our little family

Love it or leave it.  I came up here to be with my husband in his near retirement years but I can't lie.  It has broken my soul.

How do I make this o.k? 

Metamorphosis

I feel something wild budding in my soul.  I'm beginning to realize my true freedom as a crone.

Big changes are coming that will rock this place.  I have a prediction that has come to me in a vision.  It has to do with the state of Ohio.  I see things are turning around.  I believe the Republicans are going to dump the Trump and go with the governor of Ohio as their candidate for president. If this happens I believe he will be our next president and it will be the best damn thing that has happened to us in 60 or more years.  The return of the middle class my friend.  I feeeeeeeel it in my soul.

Finally! Shop is opened.

O.k.  So I don't have a whole lot in the Etsy shop yet but....we're getting there.

After all the painting, shellacking, etc. I realize I cannot, without a doubt stand that much paint fumes in a small apt.  I know I've bitched about this a lot but that was what held me back time wise.  

No more.  On to better things now.  I am working on 2 big projects currently that involve my daughter with the use of colored artist pencils.  The rest of my stash of goodies will be polished off with pretty shiny things and maybe some things from nature!

My beloved Goddess Cerridwen.

For some time  I have settled with one Goddess in my crone yrs.  Cerridwen.  She keeps me young and on my toes for sure.

Pencils VS Paints.....Hmmmmmmm

Well after much contemplation, we decided on Prismacolor colored pencils.  Living in a cramped city apartment has made "painting" impossible.  The winds off Lake Erie have made painting outside way too much of a hassle.  I don't know...Maybe I'm a wimp.  

Anyways. Valerie got us a pretty good set today.

I'm still working on things for the Etsy shop too.  I managed to get some painting done on those items but it was really a challenge.  

I'm also considering trips to the closest Metropark and possibly getting some painting going there.

Maybe if I surround myself with enough trees the wind will not be a big issue.  Who knows?!

Birth Of A Team

My youngest daughter and I, together, designed some images to form some crazy unusual art.  I asked her today if she would be interested in collaborating with me to do a series of works about nature.  She said ...drum roll...Yes!  We both felt like "o.k., now we're on to something!"  Starting tomorrow we will be drawing some sketches.

This will not only get us out of a bit of a motivation slump...It probably will help us both to focus on more proactive challenges.  

Ah, leave it to art every time to bring out the best in those who wish to make a difference.

Art can change your perception in a profound way.   LOVE IT!!!

Update to Last Post!

I woke up this morning to make an epic decision...."So what if it's grey sky ugly here in the city...The metro parks are great and I would def spend all day in one."  There, I said it.  I'm giving this region of America a fighting chance.  It's time to get PROACTIVE !!!