The earth is the LORD'S, and all it contains, The world, and those who dwell in it. -Psalm 24:1
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Don’t forget to clean out your pantry this week as part of my Simply Nesting challenge. I hope you will join me tomorrow in posting about your organizing and simplifying efforts! ************************************************* All the boys have had rooms that reflect their dad’s greatest interests. Number 1 had an airplane themed room complete with a runway. Number 2 had a woodsy, hunting and fishing room. 3 and 4 both slept beneath a mopane tree I painted in their African themed room. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we’ve decided to give Cinco’s room a makeover, for his sake and ours. The Preacher loves owls, which makes for a great nursery theme. Just think what I’d be coming up with if The Preacher was an avid BBQ-er, a brilliant computer programmer, or a beer brewing enthusiast. Yes, I think owls make a fine theme. We said goodbye to Zimbabwe, where The […]
For Jessica, the winner of the 500th Post Celebration Giveaway, the long wait is over. I’ve finally finished her custom painting. Though my offer was to paint anything her little heart desired, Jessica opted to hand me the reigns and be surprised, sending only a photo of her living room color schema, and a request for flowers. Well, I do like to paint flowers. With rust colored sofas in mind, I painted a bouquet of vibrant icelandic poppies against a luminescent and variegated gray background. To me, it feels like an October’s day…warm sunshine on snow-capped mountains…fire and ice…a blood orange with vanilla bean ice cream. Yup…Artist, poet, and chef…that’s what I am. Congratulations, Jessica. I hope you like it! (And, you can own one of your own if you so please…)
A warm thank you to all who commented on the previous post with encouragement and love. I’m so grateful to each of you who read this blog, and am humbled by your friendship. Painting is cathartic for me. It offers time to think, to create, to correct, and to begin again, and again, and again…each layer covering over the old, but revealing something of what was there previously. A painting is the sum of its parts; the accumulation of all the strokes, textures, colors, and movements of every moment up to the last. Sometimes the unobscured messy layers that lie beneath are what make it a work of art. Not unlike people.
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