Reflecting on the day…

August Break Prompt – Reflections

Digital art piece by Linda Davies.

 

I had my first house guest in the new Apollo Beach house.

My dear friend Linda is here in FL staying with her mom about two hours south of us.

She made the drive up to have a day of girl friend time and art making.

We reconnected, chatted a lot, had a lovely lunch,

played in our art journals side my side,

and ended the day with a yummy BBQ dinner at a local restaurant with My sweet Hubby David.

It was so nice to have a playmate here !

I have got to get to work on building a tribe here. I love sharing my space with good friends!

Linda gifted me a lovely framed piece of her digital art (Vision – shown above).

It fits in beautifully with my new seaside(ish) home. I love it !

This is the page I worked on in my art journal while we hung out together:

It started out as a kind of mono print spread created with glimmer mist and spray inks and some stencils as well as some india ink dripped on the page with an eye dropper.

Now I have two cool backgrounds to work on.

This first page was done with Sepia India ink and a dip pen and some Distress Ink markers and a blending pen.

Some very cool doodle stories emerging here…

Love the worlds that get created when I let go and let the pen and imagination take me…

 

I hope this fine Wednesday is treating you well, Beautiful Ones !

Big love !

 

Hosted by Susannah Conway

Ibis on your lawn

(Happy and Free Circle card by Deb Taylor)

Boo, black and white and shiny all over…

Boo, my oh so black black kitty cat,

came to visit in the studio as I sat down to lose myself in doodles today.

It would seem that since I was working in black and white

he thought that his blackness would be of help to me.

The black was inspiring, but the chewing on my pen and the lying down on my page was not.

In spite of Boo’s help,

this little black and white doodle emerged.

As I was doodling, I was listening to Pandora radio.

I was suddenly filled with thoughts of my friend Joe Spado who passed recently.

This favorite song of mine by David Gray came on the radio at that moment.

I wrote a note to Joe on his Facebook page.

I saw that some other friends and family are still writing to him there as well.

He is no longer here in the physical world,

but oh how I could feel his bright spirit shine today.

Sending love and peace out there to you and yours, my friend Joe.

Shine on, Man.

Quick Art - Your Heart Knows.

New mini-watercolor journal.

3.5 X 4.75”.

Easy little pages to fill in an hour or less.

Page inspired by today’s meditation from Deepak and Oprah’s Desire & Destiny 21 Day Meditation project.

A bit of collage, a bit of spray ink, a bit of doodle and draw,

and the question of the day is documented.

Kimbo was here.

Happy Hump Day, Beautiful Ones !

Morning Gifts

From where I stand this Monday morning, November 18, 2013.

New art doodles, new Rock Beings, new day…

 

Centering Thought : A gift resides in every moment.

(From Deepak Chopra)

 

May your Monday be full of light, Beautiful Ones !

Haiku My Heart–Instead of Fear

Please don’t feed the fears.

Instead, nourish your spirit

With thanks, joy and love.

5 things I am grateful for :

1.My cozy house.

2.My Husband.

3.My family and friends.

4. My eyes, hands, heart, lungs, body that lets me travel this sweet journey.

5. The colors of this cold Fall day.

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This week has flown by !

I returned home from Quebec on Tuesday and the laundry, household tasks and time change adjustment seem to have stolen the days.

I was happy to take some creative time this morning and create a cool new doodle page on a piece of blotter paper, and a new, precious Rock Being.

Isn’t she lovely in the Fall light ?

She even has some luscious permanent gold ink detail on her done with gold India Ink and a dip pen.

She will be in the Etsy shop tomorrow if anyone needs her sweet Rock Being energy for themselves.

I have been enjoying reading many posts on Facebook and on some great blogs about gratitude.

T’is the month for it here in the US, right ?

I have been rediscovering how much gratitude helps in times of worry, uncertainty and chaos.

When the waves of scary stuff build, plunging into a list of what is right, what I am grateful for, what is truly okay right in this minute,

really does allow the wave to break over me but not knock me over completely.

I am able to keep swimming and even find lots to be joyous about !

So I’m working on keeping to that place of nourishing gratitude.

How about you, Beautiful Ones ?

Wishing you a Friday full of things to be grateful for !

Big Love !

 

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Halloween Doodles, Birthdays and Love !

This doodle spread began when I was on the phone and started finding shapes on the scrap paper I use to protect my current journal page around the edges, and for  over-spray with spray inks.

My fine black Faber Castell pen discovered all kinds of beings…

Then today, after I had spent a few hours painting Rock My World rocks,

I needed to escape into journaling for a bit,

so I cranked up the tunes and doodled and filled in color here and there and made this piece, with its Beings, Birdies and even a little garden of sorts.

Today is Halloween and also my hubby, David’s birthday.

We won’t actually be donning costumes this year,

and we kind of celebrated the birthday a day early since we both were really in need of a dinner and drinkie out last night.

There will be cake and candles today though !

Happy Birthday, David !

I wish you every happiness and buckets of love, love, love !

Happy Halloween from the Rock Fairy, Beautiful Ones !