point of view

when you look at him do you see abject sorrow or do you see meditative prayer?

it's saturday?!?

it's bluebonnet season in texas.

this is the holly bush in our backyard.

and just one of the many pieces of milkglass i own.

i also did a little painting. i have prints of this one, above, available at etsy and i did some work on some new ones. the new girls will be a series entitled "mother, sister, lover" and will portray survivors of breast cancer. they will show women who have undergone partial mastectomies. they will be available at normal price or a special sale price with a donation to the breast cancer association of your choice, i think. i'm still working out the details on that part.

oh, wow. i just realized it was saturday evening and not sunday. :D i'm off to enjoy it.

playing catch up

yeah, i pretty much suck this week at blogging. and i'm getting yesterday's picture up a day late. but i have a bonus picture. :)

the skeleton and eggshells are from a a little cabinet of drawers full of weird things like kids' teeth, a dead lizard, butterflies and feathers, quartz, and a dead locust. oh and a rabbit's foot keychain. but no ordinary one. this one the fur came off years ago and it's just the poor little skeletal paw. it might seem a little creepy but i see it more as an appreciation of things formerly lovely. my kids bring alot of these things to me. like the skeleton. they felt they had hit the jackpot that day. it was in a little hole between some bricks in a wall, poor thing.

the stamps are my most favorite ones in the whole wide world. :) they were a find in a junk/antique store a few years ago. i fell in love with them and my sis in law bought them for me for my birthday. a few letters are missing so many times i mix upper and lowercase together. the hand is what kills me. love it. the rubber is dried so you have to really press hard to get an impression but i wouldn't trade them for anything.

the things i would lose if there were ever a fire. what would you miss?

shells and say "cheese"

the top one is my macro photo for the challenge but i think the second one is the better composition. i'm really enjoying this challenge. i think i'm learning quite alot, not only about my camera but about photoshop, both of which i've only had about a month and a half.

no time, no words

just a photo for the challenge.

what i do for fun

when i'm not sewing (which isn't much lately), painting or drawing, i like working in a visual journal. somtimes it's just a paste-up of inspiring images or stuff i want. sometimes it's more scrapbook-y. i started this one at the first of 2008 and it's rather large and in an existing book - 9" x 12". later i'll share some of my 5" x 8" ones. i have books and books filled. the heart sticker on the cover is from wolfie and the sneak.

carrying on AKA macro monday

the above is a little case/pouch i made for my ipod nano last year. it has a a swirly embroidered pattern that extends around the side to the back. i drew it on paper first so i could tweak it then drew it directly on the muslin. the inside fabric came from purlsoho or reprodepot, i *think*. i made the case because i needed a place for earbuds to fit, too. that's one of my main complaints about ipod/mp3 cases on the market - no place for earbuds and their tangle of wires when you want to toss the whole thing in your purse or gym (yeah, whatever) bag. perhaps they expect people to never take the earbuds out, just like the plugged-in people in the commercials. hmmmm.

normally my ipod also has a skintight black bodyglove case on it as well so it fits the pouch a little more snug than it looks in the picture. however, the bodyglove case wasn't as photogenic as the pretty blue. ;)

i completely forgot about taking any photos yesterday. oops. it was just a lazy, take-it-as-it-comes sunday. guess i'll not beat myself up about it but i'll try to do better.

i'm very saddened about the olympic torch situation. on the one hand, i feel for for the people of tibet. but i'm also disappointed for the athletes who had a once in a lifetime opportunity to carry the OLYMPIC torch for crying out loud and the rest of the relay in paris had to be cancelled because of protesters. it's a no-win situation.