Heather Foust

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Bewitching Hour

Bewitching Hour

Happy Halloween!!!

This is my most favorite time of the year!

When all the trees are changing to orange, red, purple, brown.

Piles of leaves to jump into.

Candy Corn, Caramel Apples, Popcorn Balls.

Smells are wonderful, Burning leaves, Apple Cider, Candy

Witches on broom sticks

Pumpkins made into Jack o Lanterns.

Hay bales, Corn Stalks on porches, dried corn hanging on the doors and Mums in pots.

I remember the Halloweens of the pasts and the future ones to come

Costumes, Masks, Face Paint.

Children with smiling faces coming to my door.

Chill in the Air

Squirrels and chipmunks running around gathering nuts preparing for the winter.

Oh how I love it!

In our family there are so many Birthdays! Steve(today), Jamie, Keely, Isaac, Dad(Halloween Baby), Reece, Darylanne, Betty's Birthdays.

We have been singing Happy Birthday Every week it seems!

So blessed by my family!

Here are some of my other Halloween Prints that are available in my Etsy Shop

I would rather have the treat

It is also the Anniversary of my Mothers death.

11 Years I have been with out her.

It seems like yesterday.

I would like to dedicate this post to her.

She is why I am the person that I am.

I was watching Soul Sunday on OWN and I saw this short film

Super Soul Short: How a Long Hike Led One Man to a New Passion

When architect Brad Goldpaint's mother died suddenly from a routine surgery, he was left with a huge void in his life. He decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail in search of answers, and he found one—in the night sky. Watch to see how Brad turned to photography to process his tragedy.

I watched this on the day of the anniversary of my mothers death. It was so poignant.

Please take the time to watch it.

It is very inspiring.

Everything that happens in your life, good or bad adds value to your life.

Use it!

Much love to all!

Thanks for stopping by.

I hope that somehow I can add value to your lives!

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Listening to the Moon, Stars and the Sky

Listening to the moon, star and the sky

That is what I will be doing for the next week.

Listening

Steve and I are going away for a much needed vacation

We celebrated our 25th anniversary this year (Nov 14) and we told ourselves we would go somewhere fun where we don't have to think about anything.

He is my Greek God with a Beer

He's a good man.

When he was younger we would be strolling along and someone would stop him and they would ask him "Did anyone tell you that you look like the Statue of David?? (In the beginning we would laugh but then it got a little old.)

Believe me the man has the same body that he had when I first met him

Me not so much........

So we are going to the Hard Rock Resort in Punta Cana. ( My Dad is going to stay at the house with Lulu, We wish we could take her along)

Sooooo

I will be listening to the moon, stars and the sky.

And think about how grateful I am to have been with this wonderful man for 27 years. (including our dating days)

He is my love and my light. He can also be my frustration (German stubbornness)

Things I love about Steve

He works hard and plays hard

He understands me

He lets me be me.

All he wants is for me to be happy.

He has made my dreams come true in so many ways.

He is a good Father to our Daughter.

He is a great Grandfather.

He takes the trash out without me even asking him

He can build and fix anything. So talented

Everyday he tells me he loves me at least 2 times a day.

He makes me laugh at least once a day.

Now I could make a list of the other things that drive me crazy but I won't.

I choose to think of the positive today.

So I will see you in a week.

And forgive me for rambling on about my husband. I can't help myself!

Have a lovely, fullfilling week!

Do something you haven't done before!!!!

Prints of Listening to the Moon, Stars and the Sky are on in my Etsy shop now.

Come and visit at shfoust.etsy.com

(I just showed him what I wrote and he asked......"How many people are going to read that")

He had a smile on his face and asked me if I wanted to go out to dinner......Things you got to do to get the man to take you out to eat.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

You Are Safe - Cancer Awareness Month

YOU ARE SAFE

Nelly and I went to the "I Can Do It " Hay House Conference. It was wonderful.

We saw many speakers the whole weekend.

So up lifting!

Cheryl Richardson, Anita Moorjani, Nick Orner, Kris Carr, Brian L. Weiss M.D., Caroline Myss,

Iyanla Vanzant, Kate Northrup. What a line up!

Also we stayed at the Gaylord Resort. It was a city in itself!

Anyway

I wanted to describe what happened to me when Brian L. Weiss MD hypnotized us.

I know this is going to sound bizarre to some of you but I can only tell you what happened to me.

It was mind blowing!

First he told us that 50% of us would be hypnotized and 40% will not, other 10% will fall asleep.

I meditate so I don't know if that is why I could go so deeply. But I did.

If you are familiar with Dr Weiss he believes in past lives. You need to read his book for his whole story.

His story is amazing.

Well first he had us go back to a point in our childhood.

I vividly could remember a time in my mothers cousins basement with my cousins and my sisters. Laughing. I wanted to laugh out loud. It was so real. Who knows maybe I did because I was out of it.

He then told us to go deeper.

This scared me a bit.

I felt like I was sinking

But I remember what Dr Weiss said " Just let it happen, you are safe and you are going to be OK, just go deeper, You will come out of it, you won't stay there"

I could see a orange glow.

I was surrounded by grey smooth stone building.

( I assume a castle)

And then I saw her. A beautiful long black hair, with ribbons in her ponytail, hanging down her back. Long beautiful dress. She was holding her hand up and out like she was waiting for some one to take her hand.

Now I was thinking to myself "I always told Nelly that I knew I was a queen in my past life"

This must be her!

But then all of a sudden I realized with shock, I was not the Queen. Oh Nooooo! I was the King!!

I was in a mans body!

Can you imagine!

I was a huge man with a big bushy brown beard, I had on some kind of red breast plate. Huge feet!

I was tenderly holding my beloveds hand, walking

Well then Dr Weiss told us to go deeper, to a moment in that life (The King) that was very meaningful.

At that moment I went to a memory of my Beloved in this huge wooden bed.

She was dying.

And I was across her bed holding her hand.

I was sobbing!

I felt the real emotions in my body.

I was devastated.

I could feel his pain!

REALLY!

Dr Weiss then asked us what did we learn from this life experience.

I realized that I learned Love from this man.

I know, I know , I know, It sounds so crazy!!! But it happened to me.

Could it be a dream???

My imagination??

Who knows??

All I know is it Shook me up!

When we finally woke up.

I looked over at Nelly and I said "Nelly I wasn't a queen. I was a King"

And you know what my kid said to me??

" Doesn't surprise Me!"

Made me laugh!!

She knows me so well.

There were people all a buzz when I woke up.

You could see the people that had similar experiences.

People crying, People telling there stories to other people.

He was right, half the people had some kind of experience.

WOWZY!!

Nelly, fell immediately asleep. She said she could hear him counting. She asked me if I heard the guy fall off his chair. Didn't hear it???

She said when she heard the guy fall off his chair she immediately woke up, she said her head was bent all the way back and her mouth was hanging wide open. OMG! That made me laugh!!! So typically Nelly. She can sleep anywhere! I asked if she was snoring??

We giggled on that one!

Anyway, It was a great weekend!

So many wonderful moments spent with my daughter.

My painting this week is a mixture of the lovely women that I saw and the Mantra that I say to myself all the time. "You Are Safe"

I said that mantra to myself when I was being hypnotized when I was going deeper into another realm.

I say that affirmation almost everyday of my life.

It soothes me.

"You Are Safe"

When I am driving done the highway

When I am going in a group of people

When ever I feel uneasy, I say it to myself

I am a firm believer of affirmations.

I adore Louise Hay.

My life changed after I read my first Louise Hay book.

I am a firm believer that you are what you think about.

Change your thoughts. Change your life.

I did, so can you!

If you ever have the chance to read her story, please do.

It is amazing

Sorry that I went a little long.

I just wanted to tell you about my peculiar experience.

If you are still with me and reading this.

Thanks for being there.

Also I wanted to remind Everyone that it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

Everyone if you can give to the Cancer Society

I lost too many people in my life from cancer.

Please help them fight the fight!!

Give hope to her!

Wishing you all Love and Peace!!!

Friday, September 27, 2013

Renew

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Ralph Marston

Renew

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Ralph Marston

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Ralph Marston

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves;

Otherwise we harden

~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

I am constantly changing and renewing my life.

I tend to get really antsy if I do not have some kind of change in my life. I know a lot of people that do not like change.

I thrive on it.

It makes me feel alive.

This weekend Nelly and I are going to the Hay House DC Conference.

I am so grateful that I can go to this conference and to spend the weekend with my daughter.

It charges me up. It makes me live a better life.

It rejuvenates me.

I have read a lot of the authors books that we are going to see.

Wayne Dyer

Cheryl Richardson

Kris Carr

Nick Ortner

So this weekend I am going to renew my life

I guess that is how I would put it!

Remember why I am here on this planet.

Not that I forget.

But these things are like a big cheer leading rally for me!

And I also get to spend it with the love of my life, Nelly.

Can't get much better then that!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and that you find someway to recharge and renew your life.

Love and Peace

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Ralph Marston

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Ralph Marston

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Ralph Marston

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Ralph Marston

Thursday, September 19, 2013

New WIP/Stop and Smell the Roses

Stop and smell the Roses (Work in Progress)

STOP!!

Live your life now. I know a lot people around me that are content with just waiting for IT.

Whatever IT may be

But I am not satisfied with that!

I am going to reach out and grab IT!!!

My IT!

You have to take action!!

IT may never come!

You find out that you have been wasting your time just sitting and waiting for IT to come.

A really great quote from the father of Self-Improvement is:

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

We are all dreaming of magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside their own windows today.

~Dale Carnegie~

Get out there and and smell some roses!!

Just wanted to let everyone know it is that time of year.

2013 Fall Festival West Reading!

Come and check it out!

You'll have loads of fun.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

We Are All The Same, Just Different Dresses

We Are All The Same, Just Different Dresses

We are all the same yet we are all different.

We may have different cultures, religions, ideology

But

We all feel the same emotions.

We all love and want to be loved
We all cry and hurt sometimes

We all have hopes and dreams

We are women

We are all the same, Just different dresses.

We are all different but we need to except our differences
and realize how much we have in common.

We need to unite as Women!

If we would all embrace wouldn't the world be a much better place?

This piece is dedicated to all the Women in my Life!

And I mean YOU!

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Don't let anyone take your light

Don't let anyone take away your light

When we worry about what others think about us that is when they can take away our light

We become what they think we should be.

Not what we are.

It happens all the time.

In Schools

On the playground

On the job

In our marriages

In our families

Be who you were truly meant to be.

Don't let them take your light away

Don't allow it!!

LET YOUR LOVE SHINE

I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

~Marianne Williamson~

Let your love Shine through!!!

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Listen and you will see

Some people probably do not know that I meditate.

But I do, as much as I can fit in.

Some weeks not so much and other weeks everyday.

I sit in my quiet space

And I listen

I can always tell when I have not meditated for a while by the way that I feel.

That talking in my head

I don't think clearly and I am not in the present moment.

I think off the cuff.

I don't sit with what I am feeling at the time.

I act impulsively.

And sometimes I get the outcome that I am Not seeking.

So I painted this painting to remind me to Listen and you will see.

I will hang this painting at our vacation home just to remind me.

Listen and you will see

Slow the chatter in my head

Listen to what I am saying to myself

Think good thoughts

Change the negative talk to the positive.

Think good thoughts

You become what you think you are.

Positive thoughts in, Positive results are created

Law of the Universe

This is how the painting started.

It was an old painting that I was constantly working on...

I have no problem painting over other paintings.

(much to the chagrin of my family)

Never get attached.

Cover all of that other painting

Lots of circles

Starting to take shape

some more details

Didn't like all the pink

Complete

Still may tweak it a bit????

Also painted another portrait

My favorite thing to do!

Had a wonderful art filled few days!!

Hope everyone is doing well!

Have a wonderful rest of the week

And remember to just..........

Listen

Thursday, August 22, 2013

What the World Needs Now

The world needs love.

I think that we all need to stop judging each other.

Let people be.

Stop trying to conform them.

Let them love who they want to love.

Let them wear what they want to wear.

Stopping judging.

We as humans are hardwired this way.

I am going to make it a conscious effort not to judge.

I hope you do too.

It will make the world a much better place.

We all need love in our lives. Not criticism or judgement.

Love is everywhere you look.

If you look for it you will find it.

What the world needs now is love sweet love!!

Corney but true!!!

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some but for everyone

Lord, we don't need another mountain
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross
Enough to last 'til the end of time

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some but for everyone

Lord, we don't need another meadow
There are cornfields and wheat fields enough to grow
There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine
Oh listen, Lord, if you want to know

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some, oh, but just for every, every, everyone

What the world needs now is love, sweet love

Friday, August 16, 2013

Portraits and Crossroads

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy;

for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves;

we must die to one life before we can enter another

~Anatole France~

Hello Everyone!!! I hope you remember me!!! I have been missing for awhile from the Blog scene.

I have been very melancholy of late.

August is a sad month for me.

My mother and I share a birthday month

I miss her sooooo.

I go through these periods now and then. I always know that I will come out of it sooner or later.

This too shall pass.

Big changes in my personal life.

Good but still changes.

I just need to know how to handle them.

(Nothing is wrong with Steve and I. We are great! We will be together for the rest of our lives, going on 26 years, Love that man)

Now I have to think about Big changes in my Art life!

My art life has come to a crossroads.

I do not know what I will do at this point. Do I want to start teaching on line classes?? Or teaching in my community? Do I want to do different venues to sell my art? Branch out?? Do I want to go digital? Do I just want to do nothing and just do my art for myself? I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. I still have not found my voice.

I haven't stopped making art. I couldn't stop if I tried!!

I will just continue to do my art!

I just am confused about the direction I want to go in.

I think it is more fear then anything.

Out of my comfort zone.

Fear of failure, Fear of Success

Plain old fear!

Feel the fear and do it anyway!

Right!

I have been back to doing portraits lately.

Here are a few of them.

This is my favorite thing to do