Mandala

Mandalas are defined by Carl Jung as

magic circles, containing certain design

motifs that he found to have universal

nature across cultures, across

I did my first ever mandala.

My ended up rectangular.

What does that mean?

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Graduation hats

My hairdresser’s daughters graduated

from high school this spring.

I found these cute gift card boxes

and jazzed them up a little.

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Pebbles with new head

I did a new head for Pebbles the cat and used

photo-shop to add it to the first drawing.I think it looks better.

I might end up doing a whole new drawing

but for now I am going with this one.

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Domestic leopard

I have been working on my second children’s

book.  Because I am not ready to post any of

those illustrations yet I guess it looks like I

am not doing much artwork…but I am.

However I did take a break from the book to

draw a domestic leopard…just for fun!

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Dogs love cat food

I don’t know why but dogs love cat food.

In order to keep the dogs from eating the

cat food  I have little doll tables on another table.

I recently found this round one at a little antique store

in Canandaigua.  I made the black chair covers

so they would better match my kitchen.

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Listen to your intuition

What do I do with my life?

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

They somehow already know what you truly want

to become.”  -Steve Jobs

I don’t really understand my love of horses…

it is just there.

When Hercules (my horse of 17 years) died last

February I had to make a choice to give up

riding or continue.  My heart felt sad when I imagined

a horseless life…so I pushed ahead

and found Eli.intuitionandheart It has been scary to start over

and I don’t ride like the young girls at the barn

but I am proud of how far I have come.

I am excited about where I am going even though

it is out of my comfort zone.

Singer sewing machine cover

I made this sewing machine cover about

fifteen years ago.  I did all the embroidery and

applique.  Since then it has gotten very faded.

This is a photo taken of it when it was first made.

I wish i had taken a picture of it before I tore it apart…

but I didn’t.

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This is the new cover I made with parts of the old.

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Tulips and sewing machine cover.

So I have my Mom’s sewing machine

that my sisters and I all learned to sew on.

It must be at least 60 years old…

I took one of the small quilts that she

appliqued and made it into a cover for

her machine.

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This is the quilt.

This is the cover…momsewingmachinecover

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My Mom said…

On October 31, 2013 my Mom, who was 96 died.

She had a good life and was ready to move on.

I miss her a lot.

This is the first piece of art work I have done since

her passing.  I found a picture of her when she

was young that I used in this collage.

I feel this is the “how she is in now”.

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I also used a picture of me when I was young.

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This is the collage I created…

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The fortune cookie saying was sitting at my

desk when I went back to it after she died.

Coincidence?

Happy Holidays!

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I would like to wish everyone a very happy holiday!

Whatever you celebrate at this time of year…may it bring you joy

now and throughout the coming new year!

Dog in Puffin costume

So I thought it would be fun to dress

the dogs up as puffins for a card.

All I could find was a penguin

costume.  Here are a couple photos of the dogs.

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This is the card I made using the photos…

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War ponies

At the barn where our horses are living they had

a Halloween party and invited people to dress up

their horses.  My daughter and I decided  to make our

horses into war ponies.

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We used finger paints and they just brushed out later.

Where are my stripes?

I thought I would do a plaid zebra just for fun.

When I started working on it I ended up with a

checkered zebra…

Note the zebra glasses on the checkered zebra.

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I put a robin on my near sighted zebra….

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I think the birds on both zebras look good.

I hope they make you smile!

Both zebras have bad vision.

(You can tell because of the glasses).

Why are we here?

Why are we here?

Are we spiritual beings having a human experience?

And why are dysfunctional families the norm?

But what is the norm?

So this soul collage is about family…

letshavetea-

“You can’t change where you came from

but you can change where you go from here.”

from The Perks of Being a Wallflower