Happy Mother's Day!

My most recently a baby child and the gift he made me for mother's day. It was a school project, I think his teacher is awfully clever, and is a painted flower pot with an alyssum planted in it. I LOVE it! Alyssum is one of my favorite, blooms all summer here little plants. I am thrilled that over my lifetime that I got to be the mother of such fine boys. A nice long phone call with Michael, my oldest also capped off the morning. It struck me how he IS an adult and I am treasuring our talks. I only wish he lived closer. Mothers ... where would we be without them! :)

FLOWERS for Mother's Day!

Flowers! From Paula, Nathan and the kids! Waiting for me at the shop on Friday! What a lucky girl I am to have such wonderful family thinking of me on Mother's Day! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!

This was on a friend's facebook page and I thought it was funny and a good thought to leave a Saturday with. Sometimes, I feel exactly this way!

A Horoscope thought leading to an Epiphany

In today's paper my horoscope said, " ....honesty sometimes hurts but it is the only way you can stay true to yourself and eliminate the negative people from your life. " This has happened recently to me. This elimination of negative people or in this case, person. My best friend from childhood has become so negative, mournful of his life, unsympathetic to anyone around him; not willing to listen to any voice but his own; that I stopped calling him, stopped writing, stopped sending him things. He could not see or refused to see the depth of pain I felt over my mother's death and in passing over me in conversations, told me over and over the same stories of his own traumas that I have heard from forever ago. I love him dearly but we had to take a break. I had to eliminate the negative. I never wanted to to tell him this so in the end it became " his " idea and we have stopped communicating. I am still figuring out how to proceed. He is the only person who truly knows me from the child I was. Sad. Sad. For both of us.

Well, if it were not so gray and wet today and COLD!, the dandelions would be open in the yard and the entire area would be a lovely sunny color. Cooler temperatures are fine by me but this wet, gray day is not inspiring me to get much done. I would really like to just curl up and read, sleep, knot or watch an obscenely juvenile movie! Jacob will be home soon from school and I can tease him.

New Painting

I do not get nearly as much time to paint and draw as I would like but I had some free time in my Seattle hotel on Thursday evening so I painted. I had brought along with me a few paints and markers plus what I call my underpainting. It is the basic outline of a painting filled in with " paint marks." It is what I like to think of as the bones of a piece. Phil fell asleep so I was able to stay up and in the solitude of a strange room, air conditioner humming in the background, couch as stiff as bedrock; I painted and found my muse.

Home from Seattle, Part 1

Yeah! I have charms included in Interweave's new Beads 2009 magazine! See my charms on page 17. I have Normal is Boring, A Sacred Hand and a new Sunflower featured. Also on page 70 and 71 is a terrific necklace designed by Marlene Blessing using some of my charms! thanks to Marlene! Check me out and then order some charms!