decorating

Been spending my creative energy on decorating at work... trying to cover ugly gray cubicle panels with cheap stuff to look festive for thanksgiving... we bought plastic tablecloths for $1 and i made little swags of bittersweet, pine, dried oak leaves, a few silk fall leaves and the painted pods from this tree below, (again, i don't know the name of this tree)... turned out pretty good for cheap, you'd agree if you saw the walls before we started...

 Happy Thanksgiving!

Cemetary Inspiration

 I love cemetaries

not just in october...

always.

They are quiet, peaceful, still...

The best way to get away into nature, almost alone while still being in town.

I love the patterns on the worn stone,

I love imagining the lives lived,

and feeling sad for the lives lost too young...

Happy First day of Fall!

sharing the joy and the winner of my tiny giveaway...

I numbered the comments from saturday's post and popped them into a white pot that looks surprisingly like the one the Teller of Tales used in the forest in my video.... and drew number 13! that's Pyrie!

She is the winner of the tiny pocket talisman below and the origami star that says "the answer is yes" inside!

 

 This rock is Really tiny, like 1/2 inch or so...

and now for the JOY....I am finding joy in the fall leaves this week, my yard is a solid carpet of orange and yellow....

 

 so much raking to be done... hopefully we'll get a sunny day this weekend. That would be perfect!

and since I asked for questions for something to blog about... Cameron asked if I was planning to paint animals on any rocks? I actually was... I was thinking about fish, and birds and possible insects, maybe a snail or two. what would anyone out there like to see on a rock?

also, if anyone has a question I can answer in a post let me hear it. I still have to answer Natashas's question about wierd dreams soon too and a couple other questions i got yesterday...! there's always tomorow.... see ya!

Coi and crow, the new mother painting

It's mandarin orange monday and i promised a painting video...well it is lost in youtube, it seems it takes more  than 1day of being uploaded to youtube to make it visible even when i am typing the exact tags. I seem to have two accounts and can't sign into the correct one from google... All this makes no sense to me............. so today i just have photos of the painting, maybe tomorow the video will be available....

I can't exactly say why all these mothers are naked, it's just the way i see them. You can read into that what you will, and the same for the coi and crow, i had no actual symbolism in mind, it's just what I saw. This was actually reworked over and over, i had such trouble with the hair. I saw it as a mass of swirling moving coi getting tangled in her hair and I think it's finally like my thought but it took a bit of changing things to get there. I took out at least 2 more crows that were originally there. I wanted the leaves to be swirling away from the new mother, all energy coming from her.....


I am linking to mandarin orange monday, and creative everyday...