One World , One Heart Giveaway!!

WHAT IS ONE WORLD ONE HEART?
This is an opportunity to meet and visit lots of other bloggers from all over the world and see what kind of art or blogging they are doing. This is a wonderful event that has bee taking place for a few years now. My giveaway is this sweet little pincushion made from a vintage baby shoe. Leave a comment and you will be added to my giveaway taking place on Feb. 15th. You must have a blog and remember to leave an e-mail or address so that I can reach you when you win.
Click on the OWOH logo on my sidebar and go and sign up your blog and your own giveaway.

Tortilla soup recipe!!

Wow! This is one of the best soups I have ever made, here it is:
2 tsp olive oil..........1 med. chopped onion........1 T minced garlic.....1/2 green pepper...2 large chicken breast, boneless and skinless......2 cups frozen corn.....1/2 cup white wine....1 1/2 tsp chili powder.....1/2 tsp/ red pepper flakes...1 tsp basil....8 cups water and 8 chicken bouillon cubes...1 can tomato sauce..2 cans diced tomatoes...1/2 tsp pepper....One bay leaf. 1 tsp celanto or 6 or 8 coriander seeds.

Saute onion, and green pepper and garlic(all chopped in olive oil-add all the rest of the ingredients except corn, Simmer med for 40 minutes, shred chicken and cook for another 40 add corn. Serve topped with crushed tortilla chips and corn bread. This has a bite, if you want more heat add more red pepper flakes or cayenne pepper.

New project!! Art blocks

Something I saw and thought would be fun to make and it was:
Roses On My Table

Also ATC Love birds challenge for PID.

Up in the air!!!

Three Muses something in the air challenge

embossed sunspots with gold embossing , brass corner deco, silhouette boy. Balloons from google, background paper from collection.

Up in the air!!

This is my redition for the "Up in the air challenge". The background is a watercolor mix that I made , the kite is a drawing and the child is from a book of vintage images that I purhased.The kite poem I found on the internet with no name.
Three Muses challenge

Mixed Media Monday

this is my piece for the "Wings" Challenge.
Mixed Media Monday

Hearts and Flowers

ATC card for "Hearts and Flowers Challenge" On PID.

Gothic arches

Gothic Arches challenge
This is a piece for the Gothic Arch Challenge "Shabby Chic" Hope you like it.

Sunday postcard art!!

Sunday postcard Art Challenge
This is an image I have wanted to use for awhile and this seemed appropriate for the challenge. I love the look of vintage pieces and vintage images.

Blizzard by Barbara Reither-Meyers

Gale warning hail warning
Sky sifts high drifts
Finding bright blinding white
Snowball snowfall
Moonscape snowscape
Frostbite dost bite
Rococo swirls hot cocoa curls
Icy glove spicy love
Huddle in cuddle in
Rock salt clocks halt

Journal 365!!!

This is a journal kit with 365 prompts and label for your notebook and your journal jar. Every day you take a prompt from the jar and answer the question, at the end of the 365 days you have a wonderful personal journal, You can add pictures , drawings or what ever makes your journal yours. You can buy this kit from Studio Girl( scrapbook graphics) for 5.99.

Journal 365!!!

Recuperating

Since my stay in the hospital( trying to control a fib) Had a blood clot in my leg and am still trying to get back my leg strength so walking is an effort. Every day I try more but it is a slow process, So much for that , did finish a book and did a couple of swaps for PID. Going to do a Valentine banner swap today so will post it later. Also working on an personal journal.It is so cute ,can't wait to share it with you. You are going to love it and want one for yourself, I did one for a friend and one for a friends teen age daughter for Christmas.

New work and altered book!!!

Not great pictures but here is my book and a piece for a Paper imagery design swap.The book is up on etsy. It is a french themed book with about 12 pages.

The Best Thing I ever ate!!! Desserts!! Giveaway!

I saw this on the food network channel, thought it might be fun for people to comment with the best thing they ever ate. Here is mine:

Jello chocolate pudding (the cooked kind) Put small brownie on bottom of bowl. pudding next( hot) ice cream bar pushed into center and take stick out , cover with whipped cream, eat now!!!
let's hear yours: My favorite will get a piece of art from my collection. will post picture when my batteries charge.

Recuperating from my Hospital stay!!

Still laying low and trying to get back strength from being in the hospital most of Dec. Was able to come home on Christmas Eve, Feeling OK and hoping to get back to my self very soon.
One of my Christmas presents was from my daughter (Vicki) My blog made into a book , I will post a pic of it later, What a wonderful gift!!! I won't have to worry anymore bout all my posts and pictures dissapearing one day.

Theme Thursday!! PID challenge

Here is my theme thurday piece: Holiday challenge
Here is mine

Love book artists, Watch this!!

Love books and book artists?? Watch this!!

Sharing my favorite poems with you!!

A quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.................
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”Why the caged bird sings........

The free bird leaps
on the back of the win
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings
with fearful trill
of the things unknown
but longed for still
and is tune is heard
on the distant hillfor the caged bird
sings of freedom

The free bird thinks of another breeze
an the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing

The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.
by Maya Angelou

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Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein..............
There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.
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A line or two from :
Splendour in the Grass
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind...

Favorite winter things!!

Children's christmas sings
Smell of wood fires burning
Seeing the fall leaves on the ground
The crunch of the leaves walking to the mailbox
Decorating for Christmas
Wrens visiting the front porch
Pine boughs and holly berries

Real sausage and sage stuffing
Waking to cool, misty mornings
Hearing birds and rabbits scratching in the leaves
Afternoon tea by the fire
Evening cider by the warm hearth
A wonderful book
The touch of a familiar hand
The smell of bayberry and cinnamon
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Wonderful winter Childrens Books*************
When it looks like cold, snowy weather is here to stay, curl up with your children and some books and warm your soul! Reading aloud is a wonderful way to spend time together.


1. Snow day by Lester Laminack
2.One Winter's Day by M.Christine Butler
3.Sranger in the woods by Carl K. Sams II (about a snowman)
4.The Snow Bear by Miriam Moss

5.Danny's First Snow by Leonid Gore
6.Snow by Uri Shulevitz
7.All you need for a snowman by Alice Schultz
8.Snowballs by Lois Ehlert

The opening of the Christmas Village!!!

On Thanksgiving, I open the doors to the Christmas Village,I started this 13 years ago on the mantel with 6 houses and some lights and trees, it graduated to a large 7 by7 foot rustic cabinet my husband made and every year we would bring up the boxes and I would slend about 40 hours constructing all the parts of the village. The grandkids were a big part of that and loved to help with it and even made parts of it. About 4 years ago my son had an idea to cut it into the wall so it could remain year round with a quilt wall hanging over it. We then added the doors a couple of years ago.It has been a source of beauty and part of our holiday decorations for quite a long time. It was published in our local paper once. the schools and businesses have the names of the actual schools the kids have went to and the busineses they work at. Business cards for our family members that own their own businesses are used as billboards on the streets of "Miller Town, USA" I hope you enjoy a peek with me into this traditional part of our Holiday. Hope you have a wonderful Thankgiving!!!

Holiday seasons Challenge!

This is a Challenge for PID group. The theme was Holiday season. This is 4 x 6.

My entry for Sunday Postcard Art

This is my rendition of the flourish challenge for Sunday Postcard Art

COLORS THEME THURSDAY CHALLENGE!!

This is my skinny colors piece for the theme thursday challenge. Theme Thursday

My Shrine for Gothic Arches

Here is my piece for the Gothic Arches Challenge Gothic Arch
The quote says: When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder--who stands a chance against us. Pam Brown.

Stars!!! Gothic arch challenge

This is my piece for the Gothic arch challenge. Gothic Arch

A sweet little pincushion!!

Here's a little project for you, a used baby shoe, painted, distressed, stuffed with batting , a ribbon, a beautiful hatpin and some vintage buttons, a lovely gift for a sewing friend. I got the shoes on ebay. Hope you love it.

Love this Anonymous piece!!!

I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family
for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become kinder to
myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend. I don't
chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for
buying that silly cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avante
garde on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be
extravagant.


I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they

understood the great freedom that comes with aging.

Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM
and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of
the 60 &70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ...
I will.




I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body,
and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the
pitying glances from the jet set.

They, too, will get old.

I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as
well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things.

Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break
when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers? But broken hearts are what give us strength
and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and
sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.



I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and
to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face.

So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could
turn silver.





As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what
other people think. I don't question myself anymore.
I've even earned the right to be wrong.

So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like
the person I have become. I am not going to live forever,
but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have
been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day.

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Hope you enjoy this as much as I did!!

Wreath made of book pages!!!

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Is this just too cool???

A SHORT LESSON ON PRINTING ON FABRIC

There are actually many ways to print on fabric-this is my way, so here goes-buy freezer paper from the grocery store, it must say freeser paper and have a wax coating on one side cut it exactly to the size of your printer paper, choose your fabric, muslin is best and press it to the waxy side of the freezer paper, trim all edges and leave no strings attached. Decide on your image and print. cut out and peel off paper . I have had 2 HP printers and this one is a canon, never had it mess up in 10 years. These images are not washable , but perfect for altered art, fabric postcards etc. I also have what I call sticky paper that I bought on ebay actually called mactac that works great in place of the freezer paper and it was cheap. Remember if your image has writing-flip it before you print it so the words will be right.Give it a try and let me know how it works for you.
PS I bought this collage sheet from Vikimouse on etsy.
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In the august post about picnics is a picture of a pillow ,done with a picture printed on fabric.