This Face

This face belonging to this old dog loves me. She does not care if I am overweight, over stressed or over tired. She would do anything for me. Anything to make me happy. I love her with all my heart and know that her days with me are drawing to a close. The cold rainy weather this morning made her groan in pain with getting up from the floor. Her tail never stops its happy thumping. She understands what I am saying when I speak to her. She will still try to dance with me when I play music for us. She will sleep all day contentedly in front of the heater in the studio while I move about making things. She is a joy to behold, a delight in my life, a laugh when I am troubled. The best friend ever a girl could have!

A Doodle a Day...

I have decided that I need to do a doodle a day to keep myself feeling creative, energized and alive. They may not all become major works of Lois art but they will keep me limber in ways that only another creative person could understand. Viewing doodling as a daily vitamin will keep me healthy in my soul.

Lois Likes to Doodle

I can't be on the phone or watch a TV show or have a piece of paper put in front of me, without doodling on it. From this absent minded doodling or drawing; I get designs for my charms, jewelry, paintings and embroidery pieces. The hand draws what the mind wanders.....

Times they are a changing...

I hate to leave my blog and the writing that it encompasses on a negative, sad note so I am following up my last post with this thought. " I expect to have a bunch of new paintings, drawings and even charms designs that will spring from the loss of this friendship. A better word than loss is of course, a time found for me. Creative time in my studio alone with the changing scenery of friendship. An ending is but a beginning after all ......

The Meaning of Friendship

When I was married to my ex husband ( 19 years from barely an adult to a grown woman ); he would say that you do not have friends, that you have acquaintances. That some of these acquaintances would last longer than others but eventually they all end. So this seems to be happening in a long term friendship of mine. This makes me sad, it feels unwarranted and I need to stop the nervous tic in my eye and move on. But damn! It hurts. Not a word, no explanation, no rationalized, justified cause. Just an ending. I am trying to be the Phoenix here who rises again from smoking ashes into something new, better, stronger. We will see and maybe as time passes; things will begin again. Until then, I am left looking for strength, wondering why and feeling ultimately wounded and angry. Sigh, sometimes we are doomed to repeat the same life lessons over and over. I suppose this is our journey on earth and rewards are small and daily with a better reward lying beyond. I will survive, I am strong.

Spring Images from Around Home

New BEADS in the shop!

I have actually been hoarding these lovelies for a bit now but since new ones have arrived; I am going to let some of them go. These are the new daggers made in the Czech Republic with dichroic glass. The Czechs tell me it is one of the most expensive and time consuming glass bead techniques they do and brand new, too. I think they are just wonderful and certainly stir the imagination! Dragonfly wings? Fringe? Hoop earrings? Stitch work? Embroidery? Stringing? You could do ANYTHING but mainly have fun with these beads! I am in love and bead lust... again!