Happy Halloween!!!!

Every Halloween friends of ours have a Halloween party. Sandy always has some kind of great invitation. This year was so unexpected.  This is what I got in the mail. When I first read it for one split second I thought what is this? The blood rushed from my head. Then I realized it was one of Sandy's great invitations. See last years post and invitations. VOODOO Dolls. 

Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Then a week later when I did not RSVP. Because I am really bad at that!

This is what I got!

YUCK!!!!!

Sooooo clever!!

Here are some highlights and costumes from the party!!

We had so much fun!

Care Bear Tamer!!

Clock Work Orange Guys.

Check out the cups.

I love his eyelash!

 

Tara and Don!

A lot of spanking going on!

Roller Derby Girls.

The Hosts!

Brian's boobs would stay up.

Where are the rollor skates??

Maren and Ken

Cow People!

Peanut butter eyeballs! Yummmm!

Hulk and Jailbird.

Punch!

Mod Squad

Zombie Jenn

Lori the Ninja

Cave People

And the whole party was blessed by the Nun and the Priest.

Everyone have a safe and Happy Halloween!!!!!!

Feels Like Home

Journal Page

I am a firm believer that home doesn't just have to be were you hang your hat or live ..........like.............. It

Feels like home when I see my friend Pat, even when I don't see her for a few months.

No matter how long we are apart it always feels like home to me. Like we have never been a part.  We just pick up were we left off.  Feels like home...

Feels like home when I go to Port Townsend WA to Artfest even though I am thousands of miles away from home it feels so familiar to me with all my friendships I created through that journey. Feels like home.....

Feels like home when I go to Ocean City Md to our condo on the beach. And I hear the Ocean waves. Feels like home.....

Feels like home when I go to a Wilson High School Football game. Feels like home...

Feels like home when I go to Panera's and have dinner with my sisters, daughter and grandson. Feels like home....

Feels like home wherever I am with Steve. Feels like home.....

Say Happy Birthday to Steve! It will be his 51st Birthday week!!

We celebrate Birthday weeks in this household.

(Use to be month but we had to cut down)

Don't forget to visit everyone at PPF!

This week I am reading 2nd book of the Hunger Games.

Catching Fire

 and listening to Ryan Adams new album Ashes and Fire

Favorite songs are Rocks and Do I Wait.

Have a fantastic week!!!

New Paintings, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Oprah

Such a busy week! I have not been able to visit very many Paint Party Friday Members please forgive me!!

I started 2 new paintings.  I started a very large one. I love working large! (Above peek)

and a smaller one. (below)

Working full time, going to football games, painting and taking Oprah's Lifework Class. So many Bing Bings and Aha's. Wow have I grown in the past week. Do yourself a favor if any of you are seekers like I am go to Oprah.com and sign up for the after the show webcast.  All I can say is fantastic. I have learned so much about myself.

I had taken the Oprah "New Earth" with Eckhart Tolle class a while ago and it changed my life. I don't think I would have gotten out of my "I am afraid to show anyone my art" funk if it where not for that class.  So powerful! It was funny when I started that book I read the first 2 chapters and thought "what is this s***".  But as soon as I started reading that 3rd chapter I had such a shift that it totally changed my life.  POWWW!!! Just like that! I could not get enough of it!! It really helped that my sister and daughter where doing the class also.  We had so many discussions.  Heidi and I went to the beach and we took our books and discussed everything we had highlighted. What a revalation!! One of my dreams is to one day see Eckhart in person.

Also again I wanted to remind everyone that this is Breat Cancer Awareness Month.

Don't forget to give your Donations to Breast Cancer Society

I am donating my painting to the Berks County Breast Cancer Society. She will be auctioned off at a silent auction at a fundraiser.

Also this week I am reading The Creative Habit by Twyla Twarp. And I am listening to

Laura Marling. Can't get enough of this song!

Have a great week everyone!!!

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I think it is a really important thing to discuss.

And because it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

 Early detection is the key to Breast Cancer. 

Give your donations to the Cancer Society

I lost my sister-in-law Darylanne to cancer. She was 42 with a 8 year old little boy. 

That was 12 years ago.

She was the bravest and most courageous  person I have ever known.

Unfortunately she was not a miracle but you can be!

Get your mammogram!!!

I care about all of you!!

XXOO

Please!

One Day At A Time

"One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering."

~Ida Scott Taylor~

Sometimes I forget about this and get caught up in the day to day.

Remember to live in the moment.

Don't forget to visit everyone at Paint Party Friday!

I hope everyone has at least one moment of joy and happiness this week and everyday.

It is there!

Look for it!

You will see it!

This and That

I had a fantastic week!!! It started with Fall Art on the Ave. It was wonderful!!!

So many family and friends came out to see me.

I also ran into my very first boyfriend. He said he was looking in his parents attic and he found some big eyed girls I had done when I was 14.  I told him he better get them for me so I can scan them I would love to see them. What a hoot!!

I sold some of my pieces and lots of prints and cards.  It was so much fun!!! It is so great to meet people that you meet though your blog or facebook.

Could not be able to do this without my wonderful daughter Nelly.

People on the Ave.... 

The magician that was making a flea disappear.

I think I saw this show about 20 times.

He was a very nice man. From Atlantic City.

One side of my stand.

Time ticking piece. Found a fantastic frame for it. Perfect!!

I finally traded out my Leaning on a Friend Painting from Alex at Hello Bluebird. I gave her the "Look Within" for a while. Have to change it up!

She said that there is a lady saving up to buy this. Ahhh I feel bad.

My postcards and prints.

I have been working on a piece for my Circle Journal.  I will just show you a bit.   The theme is "Time"

Just a little taste of it. Not completed yet.

I bought these Clock faces and gears from Ebay they are so cool to work with.

I am really into the Steam Punk stuff. All the clocks and gears.  Love all the assemblage art.   I want to take a class with Michael deMeng someday. He teaches at Artfest but I  would have to trek all that stuff all the way across the US.  Not so easy.  But someday!!!  So fun!!!

And to top the week off I went to see the Avett Brothers  last night with my sisters.  It was so fun!!!!!!! If you haven't seen my facebook page. Go check it out my sister took a lot of video of them.  They were soooooooo good!!!

They are one of those bands that I knew I had to see once in my life. The energy that they bring is so unique!!! When you leave the concert you are changed!!!

Every video she has is of the mellow songs because when they do there fast songs you can't help but to start jumping.  Wayyyyyy Fun!!!!

I am still high!!!

Thank you Heidi for the use of your video!!!

Please join the  Paint Party Friday. See all the pretty art!

Good Enough - Art on the Ave

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

~ Lao Tzu ~

Hello everyone! This is a journal page I did.  I have been very busy this week getting ready for Art on the Ave.  I have not been able to do much else. If anyone is interested come over, down, up (which ever you are) to West Reading and join the fun this Saturday!

I am so sorry that I did not get to everyone this week at Paint Party Friday.

Kristin and Eva are always the most wonderful hosts.

Also stop by Jenny Doh's CRESCENDOH

I Always find inspiration there.

May everyone find some kind of joy this week and everyday!!!

Love you all!!!!

Time Ticking in My Head

Sometimes I feel like time is just ticking away. I don't mean to be negative but sometimes it scares me. I feel that I will not be able to do all the things I wanted to do. 

Being that I think I just woke up from a long nap!!( I mean from life).

I want to make a difference in peoples lives somehow.

How can I make a difference??

That is why I call this piece " Time is Ticking in My Head. When I  look in her face she shows just a bit of fear.

 

That is why you all have to live everyday to the fullest. I am trying!!

Live to the Fullest. It sounds so cliche.

Live now don't wait! Waiting is for the birds. Act now. Not tomorrow. Don't wait for your life to come to you!! You have to make your life.

ACTION!!!

I am so jazzed about my foot being healed so I can exercise and get some of the excess weight off!!! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!

Covered an old canvas with paper

Completed

Sketched a face

I always start the face first.

Added background stamps and wash of paint.

When I get that face that is when I decide what the piece will be

Some hair

Band for the hat and ruffle around the neck(book pages)

Embellishments

Old clock face, leaves, old chandelier piece, crystal.

A few details.

Face close up

Completed piece.

Don't forget to visit Paint Party Friday!!!

See you soon!!!

Healing, And taking a wee bit of a break

(This is my art journal page. That's me and my boot)

Hello everyone! I am going to take a break for just a short while. I will be back next week. I have to concentrate on my resting and taking care of my foot! It am getting a little weary but it will be so worth it.  Its a bit of a long recovery.  I must complete some frames and painting for a donation to a local nursing home that CNA(My other job) is hosting. They are going to be painting walls and making murals(Can't do because of foot). What I am doing is framing some of my prints and we are going to hang them in there reading/meditation rooms.  I am also going to be having my 2nd Art show in the end of September.  A lot to do! And I still need to heal.  So I am going to give myself permission to walk away from my blog and my computer for a week.

I will miss you all.

I will not be participating in Paint Party Friday this week. But go visit all the other wonderful artists. They would love for you to leave them a comment.

Also if you did not get to read my ART SAVES story on Crescendoh. Check it out! so exciting!