These little guys were made to scatter about to friends or the community, as part of Love It Forward.
Each one is a painted, 2×2 inch canvas with an air dry clay heart. Each one has a magnet on the back.
If you would like one of these little guys, post a comment and I’ll randomly pick a winner on Monday.
I have a lot to be thankful for today…
Oh the simple things… they are the best things!
Warning, this is kind of a graphic account of my migraines…
Those who know me, know I suffer from migraine headaches. I can go months without them or like this past week and a bit, I can have them every day. I’ve been suffering since the Thursday before last. I had a break on Valentine’s day – I got up and dipped over 3 pounds of luscious strawberries in chocolate, to give away to my friends. Then when Sunday rolled around, it was back and stayed with me all week. Yesterday might have been one of my worst days.
I think what I feel the most is relief. I mean… for those lucky people out there that don’t get them, you have no idea how un-nearving it is to feel that if you just poked those scissors, or that screwdriver into your eye or ears… to let the pressue out…. oh that would feel so good. It’s a freaky feeling to think you would get so much pleasure out of something so horrible.
When I’m laying there with my eyes closed, every tiny sound feels like some toddler is banging pots and pans beside my pillow. Even the sweet sound of my cats purring comes across as like a horrible buzz saw. It feels like I’m trapped in nightmare that I can’t wake myself up from. When I was kid I used to dream that I was kidnapped alot – and he would make me think I was going to be set free, and then he would do something terrible. That’s exactly what it feels like when I think it’s gone… I’m free from that pain and I think all is well, then boom – I just turn my head the wrong way or look at my computer for that 1 minute too long and it’s back. The horror is real, the pain is real, and there is nothing I can do to stop it.
So here I am this 7:20 am, and I’m feeling hopeful for this new day. But I am cautious. I’m going to sign off the computer now, so I don’t trigger it back, but I just wanted to account my experience, because I write my blog for me… and I read it like a paper journal. It’s just online… for the rest of the world to peek at.
Hey, what do you think of the new digs? I put this new theme up just now, but I’m still tweeking it – so if stuff is funky, hang in there, it will get fixed.
One thing I probably wont do is go back and resize my photos… sorry folks, just too much work, so you will have to put up with them stretching into the side bar. Any new uploads will look better, I promise. maybe, lol.
There are certain things that should just not enter my home…. because they always have an untimely death: those being indoor plants and glass domes.
I’ve alway wanted a collection of glass domes, especially old ones, but I can never, ever find them at yard sales or thrift shops, so I have purchased them here and there in stores. They somehow always end up broken. My most favorite of all was a huge one I spent way too much money on… and I put it over my gingerbread house last year (keeping it safe from kitty cat tounges) and I forgot it in Canada (took it up there for our Christmas dinner table). Drat – it broke before they could send it back. All year went by and then this fall I found a sweet one, that had a mosiac base it sat upon, in the garden center of a local dept. store. Today it went sailing off the coffee table, at the speed of light, along with picture frames, coffee cups and the bird and nest/eggs that were on display inside it. Yes, my darling horrible cats were chasing eachother and sailed across the table and took everything with them. Uugh.
But I didn’t dispair for long…. I looked at this little, naked, mosaic base and could see nothing but the base for my new cage skirt I’ll be making for a new art doll. Yes – from tragidy came creativity and nothing could have pleased me more because I’ve been fresh out of ideas for months. I am off to sketch my new ‘garden’ girl out now…. she’ll be just what spring needs to arrive with a bang!
I took photos of my sushi today, for the ‘dynamic duo‘ theme at art*essence. My ‘duo of deliciousness’ are spicy crab rolls – yum!
Correction…. I saw the ad for Caroline and immediately though it was a Tim Burtan film, but it’s not… it’s directed by Henry Selick, who also directed A Nightmare Before Christmas. Thanks to Karen for setting me straight.
It’s not even playing in my tiny town… I have to either go to Coos Bay or Eugene to see it.
Coraline.com is the movie site and there’s cool things to do on there, like making neat-o flowers or giving yourself button eyes. {In the movie, the villiness likes to steal children’s souls and sew buttons in their eye sockets}
Here are my creepy pictures…
I never get tired of going to the beach. No matter how I enter, I always leave happy. The weather is incredible here right now – t-shirt weather in town, sweatshirt weather at the beach… been going every day for a week a now and it is so good for clearing the mind, mending broken hearts, keeping the lungs pink.
I have been so blessed to get in touch with positive, inspiring, ‘go getter’ people in the past few days. It’s been such a treat and a very welcome change of pace!!!!! Living in a town of tired, retired or ‘wanna be’ retired people is getting so old and draining. I’m tired of hearing how tired everyone is, yet they want such big things for themselves with zero effort. I can’t be surrounded by these people anymore – they are bringing me down and I did not even realize it until I spoke with the 2 talented, vivacious women, during the past few days. That’s where I belong, with them – living life, loving life, and being part of it all – not sitting in the sidelines ‘wishing’ with the rest of the wallflowers around here!
Snug as a bug and safely in his new car seat... The chew man is ready for the road.
