truly spacious

sweet formations

1. Green and White Angel Ornaments, 2. Christmas Garland Inspiration Mosaic,

3. Wouldn't this pretty up an empty space?,

4. Butterflies, 5. IM000304, 6. Busia's snowflakes,

7. Tulpe, 8. scan0002, 9. Häkeldeckchen

First time I've included another mosaic in my mosaics... and the thing is: there's another mosaic within that one.
Teeeeeenytiny leeeeeetle pictures of lovely hanging things.
Probably good to click on in there to see the details, eh.
As always, big thanks to my new flickrfave artists for generous creativity.

It seems rather surreal to be posting snowies already - feels a little early, and only minutes since the last balmy breeze breezed on by...But, the impulse has come upon me. And far be it from me to deny such a Beauty-full impulse.
I have a long-standing, and well-documented, love of Snow and snowflakeness. As evident in Snowy Anoracks On, and Snowy Love. That latter one has so many good links that I could run them all again unabashed. I could, but since you can visit them by clicking on thru there, here are simply the best ones to play at:

The astonishingly good snowflake maker - 2d, and 3d. I swear.
And the rather lovely Make-a-Flake.

I am so delighted to find them both still upandrunning.
I hope you'll enjoy them too - and show me what you make! Send me your snowies!

And once again may I salute the mighty Snowflake Bentley. The man knew Passion.

I may have to post more of my Snowflake Bentley Love on here, too... tis the season...


Welcome Sagittarius time, 2009. Already.
And on we go.

xxx

testing testing

Trying out my new onscreen editor. ecto.

The copied+pasted info for the mosaics was messing with the linespaces in the Typepad editor, and after some helpful mailhelp, this seems like an option.

Excuse me while I post in an exploratory manner... can't seem to shift the indent... or the line spacing...

There is another mosaic waiting in the digital wings, but for now, this recent collage play, in a little 6x6 inch book.

xxx

imbued

1. 40_prayer_flags_zhongdian_DSC_8330, 2.07 注連縄 shimenawa , 3. Prayer flags on Renjo La,

4. Guirlande, 5. Budhist prayer flags..... Faith #3, 6. Icy Spiral,

7. Fortunes Around Two Trees, 8. Izumo Taisha, 9. 05 おみくじ omikuji

The impulse to festoon abundantly isn't always simply about decoration, eh.

xxx

more deer Love

1. Fallow Deer - Post Card 54, 2. My deer, 3. paperchase xmas card 2,

4. Deer Card, 5. Oh Deer, 6. Bud's deer head,

7. Deer, 8. alert, 9. Venado Deer

More h(e)arty Gratitude to my latest flickrfave artists for generous sharing.

Click pic for clearer mosaic, and links to visit each image.

xxx

red+deer

1. Outlandish Antlers, 2. Deer, 3. Polymer Clay Deer Artifact,

4. Pazyryk deer, 5. Capitol Reef heiroglyphics detail, 6. A star Mexico,

7. Carpetita 7375 - Valles SLP México 2007, 8. Greek key squircle, 9. nytt med gamla tidningar #5

The Wintery Thing is really beginning to happen. Red begins to call me again. And Deer, this year.

Something is brewing overhere. Something wants to be made. I can feel it in my Bones.

So after pulling sumptious stash of red and~and~and fabrics out of storage, I went Hunting, at flickr...

Thanks to all the generous DeerArtists.

As always: click pic for clearer mosaic, and click links for each image, (some of these have such interesting info), and the Pools and Sets beyond. 

Happy Creative weekend wishes to us all, again already.

O! And ~ my friend Rosy has begun posting in her new blog; melting ice. There's lots of red overthere, too.

It promises to be Quite a Voyage.

xxx

Splendid Things

New Love.  Or, really; Love Rekindled: My seventh-son-of-a-seventh-son Grampa used to bring me precious gifts: wallpaper sample books from his work, when I was about six. To match my body size to the book, now as then, I'd need a book at least a metre square.  Wouldn't that be something...

These are recently acquired samples, of somewhat lesser proportions than the anaglypta delights of my childhood, but nonetheless swoonworthy. They've brought me memories, and good dreams. Wallpapers have evolved Beauty-fully, I was delighted to find. Textures, colours, patterns. Altogether marvelous.

  

And in an ecstasy of photographing, earlier, I got around to snapping pics of some recent playing, too.There are more, of course. For now, these. (Pics click clearer.)

 

And if I can get another of my dreams to come on thru, I will make a new cyber~gallery soonsoon, specially for this new wave of play-produce. The more collage I do, the more I recall having done, all through my Life, since I was Quite Wee.

Seeing Mary Ann's sublime pics today reminded me some more, too. As did a browse thru this gallery.

Talking of Our Lady Of Dispatches, it was she who pointed me in the Tattered Angel direction recently.

So now I await Glimmer Screens and Glimmer Mists. Even the names are Splendid Things.

Awaiting also tonight's last session in the Mother Night series. "Mining the Mother Lode: How to Bring Diamonds from the Darkness (for Working Artists and People Who Want to Create)"

I imagine the recording of this one will be especially good for listen-while-u-work mode, thru the Winter. The download will become available (to buy) in a few days - at Sounds True.

"Our work is not to criticize, condemn, or complain. Our work is to do. And then do again. And again, and know for once and for all, that seeking perfection is the abject enemy of "done." " ~ C.P. Estes

xxx

congruently

Saying Thank You to Rho for bestowing the 'Kreativ Blogger' award upon me... I am honoured.

And..... deep breath... in the spirit of aiming to let congruence lead the way now ~ I'm going to let my initial wince guide me, in terms of not Exactly following 'the rules' with which it arrives. I trust Rho will forgive me, with that grand Aquarian heart of hers...

As to the seven bloggers towards whom I would have aimed you, were I to do this Properly - let me simply aim you to those in my 'real cyberpals' sidebar (for seasoned GoogleReaders; you will find that overhere). Splendid creative bloggers galore in there.

Ok. I'm done. 

Handled. 

Care Taken... everyone's needs attended to...

Integrity intact. 

Just gotta go with That Thing these days, and nights.

xxx

in the details

1. staffan wirén v, 2. staffan wirén ö, 3. mary blair,

4. Mary Blair, 5. 'Suddenly it was Spring', 6. Untitled,

7. hérissons, 8. Pocahontas End Papers, 9. Cinderella-Florence Harrison--Bird Version

...And in the composition; in the suggestions of space and rhythm and allsorts; and in Just Something, in each of these, which sings harmoniously to me today.

Hearty Thanks to all the generous flickr artists for making the original artists' work visible, and available.

Click pic for clearer mosaic; click links to go to each pic, and to the worlds beyond.

My flickrfaves are all snuggling together here.

xxx

one more one more

One more in this Scorpionic vids series:

From one of my fave films: Himalaya, L'Enfance d'un Chef.

Ok. Make it Two more in this Scorpionic vids series:

My thanks to Lionriver who made these, and other vids, available. 

Wishing us all enjoyment of a Creative Sunday.

xxx

Crows Brought The Message...

Continuing the Scorpionic vids season overhere.... 

I've loved this song for a Long Time, listened to it several million times, driven far away roads to it, danced in it, and tonight I find a Beauty-full vid of it to share. 

With thanks to the kind fellow who put the images so exquisitely together with the song.

xxx

seasonal

Pic from a while back, found while snuffling around on a previous back-up device. 

Nice to find things thought lost.

Candlelight seems entirely necessary just now, while the nights pounce dark, early.

Tears flow easily these days and nights; my own Autumn creeps in stronger now, too. 

xxx 

ps - here is a song, for our Scorpionic now. 

Singing along always clears the air, I find:

xxx

with one simple touch

"May your spirit feel

The surge of true delight

When the veil of the visible

Is raised, and you glimpse again

The living faces

Of departed family and friends.

May there be some beautiful surprise

Waiting for you inside death,

Something you never knew or felt,

Which with one simple touch

Absolves you of all loneliness and loss,

As you quicken within the embrace

For which your soul was eternally made."

 ~ from 'For The Dying' by John O'Donohue, in 'Benedictus, A Book of Blessings'.

And. An exquisite programme to glimpse: The Ghostman of Skye. Handkerchiefs will surely be necessary...

xxx

El Espiritu de Hallowe'en

How I love the cover of this book;  El Corazon de la Muerte, Altars and Offerings for Days of the Dead.

 

(click pics for more juicyness)

Hallowe'en, Dia de los Muertos..... I'm a Big Fan. Here are more books to Love.

These 3 kids books are wonder-full:

The Spirit of Tio Fernando

Day of the Dead

a different Day of the Dead.

The Skeleton at the Feast is deeply delicious. It's the one topright of second pic.

And 'Pagan Mysteries of Halloween, celebrating the dark half of the year' looks good, tho I never yet got to reading it thoroughly...

I'm sending Thanks to Rhomany, and to Mary Ann, for bothering and corazon-ing like they do. Inspiratrices, both. Dunno where I'd be without you both...

Here's an Eerie Doilie for today from Basic Grey:

And finally, for now;

May I and all my Ancestors wish You and all your Ancestors, Very Well Indeed.

xxx

glint

I forgot. I forgot this thing I have that lets me put something from inside onto the page. Deep, strong. Made visible, palpable, with a few simple gestures and pure focused intent.

I remember. I got a little scared. But it's time for courage again. Time to bring it on thru. "Something Is Being Learned."  

 

 

The lighting is a bit late-night in these pics - but I am impatient to post. I'll post more daylit versions too...Rekindled enthusiasm is such a sweet delicious thing.

 

And further sweet deliciousness ~ scone-making is being learned, too.

Is it just me or is this scone also smiling?

xxx

True Diamonds

A few hours in the cyber-company of Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes last night,

thanks to Sounds True and the Mother Night (Learning to See in The Dark) course,

has brought me greatly renewed Heartyness. 

Diamonds In The Dark is a free podcast of a chat between CPE and Sounds True's Tami Simon.

                                      * * *    * * *    *   * * *    * * *

And these wonderful illustrations come via the kindness of Liam Quin at fromoldbooks.org

xxx

gettin a wiggle on

Suddenly seeing echoes, between my new Proper on-Canvas Painting, and this pic of my splendid black hose.

The latter I just posted in a Medley over at My Lovely Garden, with some other lovely wiggles.

It's spiral-Love time again. Once previously, I posted about my SpiralLove, in 'flourishing'.

I have a bunch of new swirling stamps winging their way to me too. 

Creativities brew, as the chill Autumnal winds come twisting on thru...

xxx

Just Put

Once again, dear Mary Ann catalysed some creativity overhere.

Her links today gave me that gottogettoit artistic jealousy that is the only good kind of jealousy I know. The one that wishes it was doing it's own thing too. So I got to it, and did my own thing too, and here are some views of what the product of that process looks like.

With warm Thanks to the Divine Ms Moss for keeping on keeping on so very bright heartedly; keeping me keepin on too. 

 

 

 

 

There are Archetypal Autumnal pics galore, and some Proper Painting beginning to happen, overhere. More of all that andandand as and when...

(all pics click clearer)

xxx

Germination Anniversary Whoop

Happy LovelyNewHomeBirthday to me!

One Year here already. September 19, 2008, to September 19, 2009.

And what a Lot of changes overhere, these past few months, too. So much newness, so much Beauty and expansion and settling now after the slow storms of workmen. Germination, indeed, alongside the evenings drawing in, and the leaves beginning to leave, again.

The quote above is from Wayne Dyer, whose wise words often help me towards comfier alignments.

I had that quote printed out and constantly around in the times leading up to having this new Home manifest, and while the World in general wasn't sure it could happen... I remained utterly convinced throughout. And here we are now.

And as I looked around me the other evening, I saw a new wheelchair which came to me since I got here, and a completely renovated wetroom, and a whole new accessible zone in My Lovely Garden.

It is all quite astonishing. Really.

My big Thanks to Life for giving me all this loveliness in which to play.

And here's to the next phase of My New Life.

The one in which I intend to go adventuring further into my surroundings.

In this reality.

xxx

synergy swoon

1. enchanted forest, 2. Pecos Ruins 3, 3. Cabin Corner,
4. Castelluccio 1, 5. Castelluccio 2, 6. white door; old adobe,
7. Canyon Road Door, 8. _DSC5052, 9. Undry The Sky

Oooh my big thanks to today's mosaic's generous flickrphotographers.
These images are each so lovely. And together, the colours, textures and shapes make me swoon.

This last fortnight I've had building renovations going on overhere in my sweet Cabin; my nearly-a-year-here-already New Home, and the sight of dugup floors and drying plaster has me adobe-dreaming again. 
I'd like to leave my new wetroom so much rougher round the edges than the building regulations allow. I may get away with bare copper pipes left as-is... that's something... Builders are generally flummoxed by my taste for the 'unfinished'.  WhatcanIdo? I like it like that! But rules is rules, and things have to be 'finished properly'...

As always, click pic for larger mosaic, and click the links above to visit the individual pics,
and the worlds, sets, pools and streams beyond.

New Groups discovered along this morning's trail: Doors and Windows in Decay, and Trees & Tree Bark - from around the world. 

How I love flickr.

xxx

Like Stars

It seems the Summer Break is upon me, in terms of not posting much overhere....

So for now, here are details from a card which I made for a Star-like friend recently, 

and a stitching, finished in new-departure style onto canvas, for a recently-met Stellar pal.  

Who was kind enough to fall in Love at first sight (of said stitching) and ask to purchase it. 

Flattered and delighted, I rustled up a way of making it hangable for her, 

which may prove to be a fine way to finish some of the stockpile of stitchings-in-waiting....

Some stitching-and-stencilling speriments will be happening soon - with some happy encouragement from The Divine Miss Moss.  

Hallo to my new playclassmates peeping on thru from there!

I'll be twinkling around not very far away, and will shine on through here again, 

flapping stencilry and allwhatnot around, some clear night afore very long....

And, Yes. That is indeed a Broomstick. And a Drumstick. Andandand.

Click pic to see clearer.

XXX

Disintegration Collaboration

(All pics click larger + clearer.)

Wayback in February 2009, the bundle was bundled.

I'd found Seth's invitation to disintegrate and document, and o it seemed like a fine thing to do.

bundle love was my first post of it, Feb 11; followed by this one on Feb 23rd.

On May 1st, the bundle came inside again.

Not hugely disintegrated, but thoroughly imbued with the experience. 
Time passing.    Weather happening.   Buds and warmth coming, after coldcoldcold days and nights.

And today, August 1st, 2009, is the Disintegration Collaboration final reveal day.

Sitting in the Sunshine, on July 31st, with a Blackbird eating the already-ripe Rowan berries overhead,
I made a little Something from some of the weathered treasure:

Thank you for visiting. Thank you, Seth, for the sweet Inspiration you bring.
Thanks to all the Elements who contributed so Grace-fully to the making of this, along the way.

It's been a joy, indeed.

xxx