I picked up a hot glue gun about 6 years ago, and learned to paint a few years before then at those painting parties you go to with your girlfriends.I do have a variety of art supplies. I keep them in cloth bins on a large bookcase. I LOVE to organize things.
People send me their unwanted/broken jewelry and buttons. I also frequent a few thrift stores and pick up beads and paint, glitter and other items to use for next to nothing. My art originals, and art gifts (...mugs, calendars, t shirts, 2 children's books I recently wrote, and many more items...) are artfully stacked in the corner of the spare room.
I am fortunate to have been hired back to an after school art job, and teach art in the summers at a local camp.
Some of my art work is for my private collection. (Don't be too impressed... I'm only talking about decorating the house) I have hopes of one day having one of my pieces of a close to life size goddess displayed in a museum. That's my whole bucket list I think!
I have no formal training. My mother is a great artist in her own right, and is and was my greatest inspiration.
She cutely viewed one of my "Opulent Birdhouses", which are birdhouses I collage with all sorts of objects, and asked, "Did I have something to do with this?" Yes mom, You had EVERYTHING to do with this. :)
@cindy ? ❤️ Love it!
I can’t remember who I had the conversations with but I think it might have been @enkasongwriter
only a few weeks left before the “the wheel of time turns and ages come and pass…”
And we finally have some trailers!
let the dragon be reborn on the winds of time!
full trailer: https://youtu.be/3Fus4Xb_TLg
Moiraine’s Quest: https://youtu.be/gp9kTVhIWwU
The Moiraines Quest one is even more amazing than the full trailer!!!
I love a miracle. I have a friend who nearly died. She was in a coma for many weeks. They thought it was toxic shock syndrome. Before she fell ill, she had left a lucrative business career to ride horses and operate a horse barn. While she was in the coma, a riding friend showed up and started talking to her, telling her she should wake up so they could go riding together. Deep in the coma, she heard her friend and after a few days, she woke up so she could go riding again. The friend's words were the only words she remembered hearing while in the coma all those weeks. She believes the friend's call to ride horses awakened her.
Well, I just read about another miracle that happened early this year when an unvaccinated pregnant woman contacted Covid and, unable to breathe on her own, was intubated for weeks. During that time the doctor performed a c-section birth while the young mother lay unconscious. The miracle happened weeks later, after they started bringing the newborn to lay against her, skin on skin, every day.
“It’s like her body just knew she needed to fight for her baby,” Borkowicz [the nurse who cared for the child while his mother was on life support] says. “I honestly have never witnessed anything like that before.”
Spoiler for those who hit a paywall: the mother recovered. She tells people to get vaccinated.
Here's your Monday moment of zen, courtesy of the Instagram account SubwayCreatures. I couldn't stop laughing when I first saw this video.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGFcxKQBMn_/
@ghandigirl, I love collage and mixed media pieces. How cool that you and your mom share that talent and love of art. Some of your pieces made me think of an exhibit I saw a few decades ago in DC of New Orleans/Creole primitive art. Among the various paintings and sculptured pieces were different-sized chests that were elaborately decorated and painted inside with scenes and symbols that chronicled the story of one's life. It was the artist's generous invitation to peek inside his/her psyche, and how they processed their history and life experiences. We all have a story to tell, and I thought it was a beautiful way to communicate it.
@coyote, totally kooky! What's especially funny is how everyone is ignoring him. Just another day on the subway!
Here's a youtube video I received yesterday and thought y'all might enjoy.
How animals would run if they were people:
https://youtube.com/shorts/DlqXePe4Hpk?feature=share
What's especially funny is how everyone is ignoring him
I know, right? New Yorkers doing what they do best. I especially start cracking up when he/she starts whipping the American flag. (I think the person wearing the Trump mask is a woman?)
@deetoo I loved this video and watched it five times, laughing so loudly that my husband had to come over and see. My favorite is the deer who stops short and stares then bounds away. It's so deer.
@deetoo I've watched this over and over and over again and it makes me laugh every single time. Thank you! I have to say the "chicken" running was my favorite. That's exactly how they move.