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New RAIL Class at Roses On Table

Lot's of fun with paper, and pennants! Loved creating this work with a variety of techniques. Can't wait to see what the students do with their projects!

Tiny Tin is coming to life...

Flowers just radiate energy and vitality and they always seem to be filled with a certain determination to grow, to sprout and to blossom. It makes me think about how how we 'naturally' are wired to create and grow as human beings. We truly can't help ourselves. Though we can put ourselves in a dark corner where we won't get much from the sun. Shame it is when that happens...never growing to our full potential. Get out...get in the sun and be a flower!

So this Tiny Two Inch Tin is progressing and slowly she is letting me know who she is... maybe one of those flowers who is reluctant to come into the sunshine, but she is coming...and I'll be working to get her there.

Tiny Tin

So I am working on this teeny tiny tin that I plan to do something inside of. It is developing...and the tin is only 2" tall. I love to work small.

 The funnest part of this was working small, and then holding the tin far away from my view so I could see what it looked like when I wasn't hovering right up close to it so I could see what I was doing. I want to add more touches to the top and then I have some great ideas for it's completion, so hopefully, if life doesn't throw a wrench in my way, I'll have more pictures as I go.
Toodles for now.

Transformed to Jounal...

 Okay, she is in my art journal now. I'm still working on the final details and then I'll be ready to share this in my Art Journal group. She is almost good to go...to fly where ever she likes as soon I'm finished, off she goes..into the wind..!

Remains of the Day...

A few weeks ago my daughter found a damsel fly outside on the driveway. It was no longer alive but it was perfectly preserved. I looked at it thinking about all the insects in our day that go by unnoticed. They never stand still long enough for us to appreciate all the beautiful details of their living bodies. I know that I could not create such a thing...so perfect in every way.

What an interesting thought to consider, that laid bare for all to see are the remains of a damsel fly, fully preserved for someone to study if they might notice before the wind blew her away.

I thought that if I were to choose...I'd be a bee and not a dragonfly. This is what I might look like if I stood still enough for anyone to see me before the remains of the day carried me away with the wind.
oxoxo
Zinnia

Friends and Healing Art

Sometimes we hear the word Healing intertwined with the word Art, and we think, "oh, no" not that again! But if you are pro active and you believe that healing takes an effort and takes work and a desire to "do something" then, do it for someone if not for yourself, for no other reason than because it will make someone else happy.


Think maybe that is too corny? Well, what if you have enough people caring about you and you receive something like these...two beautiful books of gothic arches, created by some 20 gals.

Maybe, maybe, maybe you might feel a little better? Right? Page by page there is a wish for healing, and caring.
A hope that things will get better.
One page. That is all. And then add that page to another and another, and now you have two books!

Healing can be something you do internally, but it can also be external, and it can be about someone else besides ourselves. And, in the tending to another's ills, sometimes, maybe...we feel healed as well...just a thought!

Thank you to All the Healing Angels at Roses! My adored friends who contributed to this project from their hearts. YOU ARE AWESOME...and Dear Bobbi, get well and hurry back!!!