Once in a blue moon

The last blue moon on New Years Eve was 20 years ago . A blue moon is a full moon that happens 2 times  in a given calendar month. I think this is a very good sign for us all in 2010 .....Once in a blue Moon!!!

Party Angels

It is said that  how you spend your new years is how you will spend  the rest of the year. I am spending mine  creating fun art  and filling my heart with thoughts of those I love. It  will be the BEST, oh  and calling my sister to  see how   she likes the "thrown' her husband gave her for Christmas.  V-day better be the diamond crown to go with it as his "thrown" was a toilet  all wrapped and   under  the tree with the excuse that she said they needed a new one. Can any one top that story !!!!  He is  a good man, but a bit off center. ( maybe more then a bit).  So anyway, how will you be spending tonight? I am wishing  for you that it  is the  way you want to !!!

Art saves Lives

Jenny Doh has a theory ( Jenny is the editor  of Somerset Studios and Stampington ). She is leaving to start her new project Crescen-Doh . Jenny says many times "Art saves Lives"  this  has so often been true  for me. 17 years  ago  I went to Upstate NY and took the  Skidmore College Summer Six  ( art program) and did it in Metal Smithing . You stayed in the dorms and ate in the cafeteria. I was the only on in the program and had the studio all to myself . I worked 12 hour quite days, way into the wee hours of the night creating without anything to bother me  . Just  creating !! I had access to all the campus had to offer. I could wander off to  the fine arts painting, printing and ceramic studios and  library .Watch and visit with  other creative souls  doing the same thing. It was the best  6 weeks of my entire life and helped me focus on what I REALLY wanted from my life. I then went back home and got it!!! Fast forward 13 years and on a much shorter scale a few days at Art Fest and  the magic   happened again.  Now this coming  year I am teaching art Art  Fest a dream come true. These events pulled me out of a stuck place and helped me focus on what I wanted. It happens daily in my studio on an even smaller scale. Once again I would love to have  you share "art  saving" stories  of your own  and P.S. This photo posted today is one of the tiny pieces I made at Skidmore  College Summer Six so long along ago and  no, I did not use PMC it had not been invented yet!! Darn.... wish it had .

I measure mine in art ..

Some reckon their age by years,
Some measure their life by art;
But some tell their days by the flow of their tears
And their lives by the moans of their hearts.
- - - -Abram Joseph Ryan

Question of the day?

An old saying /question came to mind this morning.  "You can either be happy or right"  I am one of those people that is passionate and thinks totally with the creative side of her brain ,so much so that I can never remember what side that is ?!? . I  grew up in a very small town in the Midwest in a time and place where no one knew about the different ways creative people live  and learn in this  world. It was just the  3 R's  go to church and  always  wear clean underwear  and you did it that way or you were considered  a slow learner. To make up for this "slow learning"  I   needed to try extra hard to be" common sense smart" so that I could earn peoples respect even if I was not book smart. All my life I have tried to "do it right " and it has turned me into a controlling, self righteous B*&%H at times.  It has not made me happy when I try so hard thinking "what will others think?"   and it has made lots of people unhappy when I am in my self righteous frame of mind ....wow and my  voice  that goes with it !!. The gift I am giving my self this year is the gift of just doing it  with my heart be a "happy fool" and with  passion. Doing it " right" has not seemed to make that much difference in saving me  from life's painful lessons  and maybe just the opposite, as life keeps telling  me  " let go of the CONTROL you self righteous B*&^#H" .So why not just try  being  happy rather then right? This may be a bit tougher then I think but I am going to give it a try . I would love to hear any of your thoughts as to this question as it is an interesting one that I think many creative souls  struggle with.

Hope

When my  husband  Mark was dying , Hospice had to be called in. The two of us  did not want to face what  that  meant.  I told the  Hospice workers that having them on board took  our hope away. The social worker told me ."  No, you just have to learn  to hope for something different" . I learned so much from Mark's  death, that being one of them. I learned to look to the unkown in Mark's case . Maybe his dying was not the end for him and I had to "hope" that some thing was still ahead for him, something I could not see or be a part of  but still something good for him . As I deal now with my " friends"  loss I have to face that maybe for  her I must hope for something different too. Maybe  instead of life with this man  there will be another life for her without him.  I thank you for your prayers as I think they are reminding me of that lesson about life. There is always  hope you just  need  to adjust  your focus. 

A prayer

A woman whom is  very close  to me is in deep pain . She and her husband have gone through a very tough year . The husband  lost his business and his  emotional health . They then  lost all they had worked for   and have had to start over. They have both felt much  fear, pain and  insecurity . The insecurity of both  has lead the husband  to believe that   he has lost his love for her and  so a few days ago he left her.  Please if you believe in prayer would you take the time to say one for  both of  them and ask our  Spiritual  Creator to give her  the  courage to face the loss of him and find her way. Thank you so much my dear friends  and Merry Christmas .