When I Grow Up I Want to be Creative!

As a very young child of three I began to get the idea that I was an artist in wait. My mind was so anxious to grow and learn I could hardly stand it. Dreaming, scheming and planning how it would happen and when it would happen.

Just waiting on that wondrous day when my two small hands not only fully understood what my brain was telling them but that they could also perform upon command!

Then one day it finally happened... I sat down with a crisp, clean sheet of white paper and black ink pen and drew, and I could and it made me the happiest I ever knew I could be to that point in my young life.

From that moment on I was sure, absolutely positive, the life that lay ahead of me was going to be gloriously filled with artistic endeavor and creative adventure. It was certain... set in stone... thats all I really wanted! Well, that and to be totally honest candy!

I hoped that everything I saw and did would be colored with an aesthetically inclined slant. That I would have the courage and it would be ok and allowed... for reality and imagination to happily and cleverly co-mingle.

My wish was that art would define my point of view... especially in the times I knew would inevitably come when I would think it was no longer there. But it was, it was there, it was just waiting for me to catch up!

I discovered my art was always faithful to me, I know my art is honest to me and I will be in turn forever grateful and thank the powers that be for allowing it to be so!

Here's to a Brand New Year of Creating... Exploring our tender hearts and soaring souls and pouring out every little bit of what we encounter right onto a waiting canvas.

Cheers to us, you, me, them, those and the other little bitty ones who yet lie in wait for their creativity to find them too!

2 0 1 1 Here We Come!

Her hair is Harlow gold,

Her lips sweet surprise,

Her hands are never cold...

All the boys think she' a spy,

She's got.... Well.... you know the rest! THANKS FOR JOINING ME FOR ANOTHER YEAR OF FUN AND FOLLY!

Merry, Happy, Cheery, Christmas Seasons Greetings!

.... Just then there came a knock at the door.

It was a small package,

delivered by hand

to the house of Doctor Starbuck.

On the outside was written,

'For the attention of Miss Clara Starbuck'

Clara opened the package

and read the note inside.

This little gift may not excite you,

But remember,

all is not as it seems.

For it has the power

to invite you...

Into the land

of your dreams!

It's... it's a Nutcracker!

What a strange present.

Does it say who it's from? No. How mysterious. Oh, well...

Come on, everyone, there's lots of food and drink in the next room. I'd better put down the nutcracker.

As Clara bent down to put the nutcracker beside the Christmas tree... It seemed to twist in her hand!

Oh my! Sugar Plums, Gum Drops, Lolly Pops and all that is good... I wish to you and yours a very Merry Holidays, some Happy Season's Tidings, a Cheery Christmas Greetings to one and all and a Jolly New Year too! And BTW Congrats to the winner of my Giveaway, Tristan Robin Blakeman! See you all bright and early next year!

Play Time....

Now I know exactly what they mean when

they say "She has a porcelain like complexion!"

I have been working on this doll for a while, tending to her now and then when I get a free moment, here and there.

It's funny but the medium I use dictates the way in which I paint. If I am using watercolors... it's very light, airy and delicate, with acrylics, its bloppy, sloppy and smooshy and when I paint on porcelain I tend to be very heavy handed. But I'm happy with the way she looks!

She is going to be a lady doll, dressed in fashionable period garb from the 1900's, a little horse hair stuffed bustle, black stockings that sport tiny embroidered white flowers on them that will sit just above her knees, a wasp waisted silk gown and tiny handmade leather shoes.

An antique leather opera length glove was used to create

a beautiful, shapely soft body for her that will rival her faint complexion!

Old cotton stuffing to plumpen her bum,

and just a few stitches on the toes to seal her all up!

There, languid, long and lovely!

Two pretty, dainty porcelain hands with teensy painted accents to create a slight hint of realism.

I do love a fancy girl with a far away look in her eyes, don't you!

I can't seem to make up her mind... shall she be a dusky hued Brunette?

I think this little mohair wig makes her look very sophisticated,

but she might be need'n to wear

a pair of glasses with this choice!

Lets see...

Maybe an innocent, sugar sweet angel haired blonde?

See how much it changes her personality.

Or she could even be...

a strawberry fiery Redhead!

Which color to you think suits her personality best?

Well either way, one day very soon she will be a prim and proper lady and I will bring her back and share the finished doll with you.

And now, in the Spirit of the Holiday Season

and in salute and tribute to all of you Creative Women out there...

I'm having a Giveaway! Just leave a comment telling me which color hair you like best, and on the 19th of December I will announce the winner of my "Creative Woman" print, it is on a 9" x 12" canvas and finished out in delicate, blue clouds of smooshy dabs of acrylic paint! And just in case you are interested I do have 2 of these available in my Etsy Shop, see you soon!