Entries by Robin

To everyone who is a mother…

Happy Mother’s Day!

I bought my Mom and

my husbands Mom

 a scented hand creme and

fragrance spray.  They both love blue

so I made them blue dresses for their bottles.

Every spring we have two sets of baby geese.

These are the first set of babies this year.

This collage is about what to do when your

dearest wish starts to unfold.  Is it too good to be true?

I have always thought that when a door closes

a window opens.

My horse of 17 years died in February and now

less than 3 month later I have found and

bought another horse.  Was this the right

choice… will we develop a partnership?

Who knows…all I can do at this point is

fly through the window of my dream.

The other quote “A bird doesn’t sing because

it has the answer, it sings because it has a song”  a Chinese Proverb

seems to fit with my theme.  I think we have to follow our hearts.

Sometimes the thing we love to do doesn’t seem to have

a purpose it’s just a thing we love to do.  They

make our hearts happy and that is a gift to us and

those around us.

I  just wanted to do a drawing of

a bird on my dog’s head.

It was a fun project.

Does it make you smile?

Just for fun I have been making

these bottle dresses.  They are easy to

make. Coming together quickly to give me

an instant sense of creating something (such as it is).

I am planing  to use them as wrapping

for any gift that is in bottle form.

(I used one for a bottle of olive oil the other day).

 These are some I have made…

With the loss of my beloved horse

I am at a crossroads.  I can finish my life without

horses.  Less work (no more getting up at 5:40),

more time for other activities (maybe my bicycle

in the barn with 2 flat tires) and more money

(a new bicycle?).

  With this in mind I have decided to

look for another horse.

I just finished the book The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

my book club book of the month.

There are two quotes that resonated with me…

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true

that makes life interesting…”  and

“To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only

real obligation.  All things are one.  And, when you want

something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it.”

This is the collage I created to help me with my decision.

As Kermit the frog sang…”Why are there so

many songs about rainbows and what’s on the

other side…”.  That was on my mind when

I drew this picture of Hercules.  I am sure he

is in a beautiful place and happy.

I still miss him.

The mural honoring Amanda at Wood library is finished.

There was an article written in the Canandaigua paper

about the project.

The newspaper article

My horse Hercules died

last Saturday February 9th.  It was

very sudden and from when he collapsed

to when he died was 30 minutes tops.

He died as he lived…never making

a problem for anyone.

He was the best horse ever.

My daughter pointed out that the drawing I

was working on was a horse running away.

I finished it yesterday..

My next drawing will of course be of Hercules.

It has been an honor…fun and

rewarding to work on the painting in

Amanda’s room!  I will truly miss working on it!

Here is a closeup of one of the flowers…butterflies.

Because of the doors at the bottom of the fireplace

Mary, the children’s librarian, wanted a mouse…

This soul collage addresses that

age old question who are you?

I mean really…not your job…height and weight

status in the world….

Do you ever feel like you are not

who you thought you were?

Or maybe you could be anything

you wanted to be?

This is my latest drawing…

of Cowboy and Kat.

These are the two photos I used to get this composition.

These are some of the photos that were just not

right for the drawing…

I finished my latest soul card

here it is…

I have finished two more quilt blocks.

They take a lot of time so I was considering

just taking the other two I did (as shown

earlier in this blog) to make a

small quilt…for now I am going to stick to

my original plan to make nine blocks.

With the holidays over I am starting to do

more art work.  This is my first drawing of the new year.

This is showing the flower in card form.  It will be folded

down the middle with my logo on the back.

This is another version I did with photo shop

and layers.  It will also be folded down the middle as a card.

I belong to a book club that my daughter

started.  If the book of the month was chosen

by you…you are responsible to bring refreshments.

My book this month was The Art of Racing in the Rain

by Garth Stein.  It is a wonderful book and I

recommend reading it even if you don’t like racing

  or dogs.  Did I mention it is written from the perspective

of a dog.  Anyway my refreshment was dog bone cookies.

The other evening I noticed the sun setting.

It was beautiful.  I tried to take a picture but missed it.

The next morning the sunrise was just as beautiful.

I took a picture out my kitchen window.

This is what I saw…minus the fact that you can

never really capture the beauty of a sunrise

with a camera.

We continue to work on Amanda’s room at the library.

The butterflies and flowers are done.

Some work to do on the books…

They hung the picture of Amanda.

What a difference that makes.

My daughter Kimberly wanted a  Christmas dress

for her  puppy Kat.  She wasn’t finding what she

wanted so I said…”I could probably make you something

if you found me a pattern.”  (I made many of their clothes

and their dolls’ clothes when they were little.)

So she found me a pattern and we picked out fabric.

Here is Kat in her new dress.  (She is the kind of

dog that seems to enjoy clothes)

I had some fabric left over so I made Cowboy

a bow tie.

Hope you are enjoying this festive season!!

Using these two pictures I drew

my Christmas card.

So to all of you from my elf dogs and me…

May the holidays

bring you lots

of reasons to smile!!

Happy whatever you celebrate!!