tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243760632011-04-21T20:03:14.368-06:00thoughts, words and art shared ~ with this creative spiritwinnsangelsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6531100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24376063.post-10431439394575053782009-01-10T21:22:00.002-06:002009-01-10T21:25:46.405-06:00

my new blog - please find me blogging at winnsangels.blogspot from now on.angels be with you,Wendy

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"Believe and you may see miracles all about you"Read on to learn of a fantastic 29 days of giving that a friend of mine is doing. If you've already heard - read on anyway."Believe and you may see miracles all about you"I wrote these words a number of years ago after realizing that the huge challenges our daughter and we, were facing could be turned into something totally different.I have shared

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"Where is it written that we should be so serious all the time? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that."Catherine Marshall (Adapted)American AuthorMore Quotes About 'God' Today's Story: 'The Pretty One'from "Inspiration Peak"

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taking time for art, occasionally, while preparing for Christmas: I try very much not to get all wound up in a knot about Christmas preparations but still it is a busy time of year. We are almost done putting the house back together after nearly everything had been removed following the fire in May. The flooring people are actually here redoing the tiny back entrance as what they had done was not

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wonders of winterland: please come to visit at this delightful new blog I have created to celebrate the winter season and all of the holidays with which it is bursting. The blog has only begun so plan to visit often and mark yourself as a follower. I chose to do this partially because of the invitation from Karen who celebrated Christmas fair at her blog, I guess yesterday. I will tag along a bit

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I love inspiration boards. I sometimes think I might like to use all the walls of a room for inspiration. I have just a small board in my basement studio room and need to determine what else I can do to remedy that lack of inspiration space there. I think I have an idea but it will probably have to wait until spring. In the meantime I am pleased that Greg had an idea to put ceiling tile on this

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November:This is a very difficult month for me as I also try to proceed through a very difficult year. I've been trying my best to not get pulled down and if you know me at all you know that creativity - art - has been huge in guiding my path. I have not told you that I had a fall about a month ago. I slid down a few stairs. I got up and proceeded with my schedule - went on to cook a turkey a few

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CANDLE MONTH: for quite a number of years I have thought of November as candle month. True to form the day entered with a cloudy sky. I am grateful now that as the days are getting shorter and shorter the sun has once again triumphed and is bringing us another glorious autumn day.I was a little bit slow, as usual, but finished late last night, Halloween day, the little book I had been planning. A

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I choose couragethe previous week's prompt at inspire me Thursday was nervous. these days I have a hard time relating to that thought. I decided that the opposite of "nervous" would much rather suit my present state of mind. this art journal page reflects that choice, together with a tiny touch of what "nervous" has done to me in the past.a couple of journal pages from recent days. we've had very

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Contemplation - cereal box art for Inspire Me Thursday:One of the more recent prompts was to use a cereal box. I decided to investigate Carla Sonnheim's lead regarding what she has done. I chose to use some of Carla's techniques and some of my own. I have been enjoying using my own handcarved stamps and also Tsukineko inks so used both. I also love doing gel transfers so used one of my own

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"Out beyond ideasof wrongdoing and rightdoing,there is a field.I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies downin that grass,the world is too full to talk about.Ideas, language- even the phrase “each other” -do not make any sense." RumiThese glorious words by Rumi were the prompt for this past week at Inspire Me Thursday. While I am very late with my entry I could not resist this

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Finding inspiration:with bluesand goldsoutdoors and inwith my eyesSusan Tuttleand with my ears"The Prayer"inviting you to visit my shop and to watch for angels all about you

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LOOKING TO ANCESTORS FOR DIRECTION - FINDING SO MUCH MOREart journal page for collage play with crowabout I loved the images provided and actually used every single one. I DID cut the nose and original "hat" off the princess.background page I took that one tiny circle and "pasted" it probably about a hundred times using photoshop. two copies were printed and then I cut around and glued. let me

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journalling:remember the above page? I decided to sketch on ita journal of journeysthe next page started as many - papers glued to the journal page. I had painted pale pink over top. when I glanced at the page one time I immediately thought of the beautiful face on the cover of the May/June 2007 issue of cloth, paper scissors magazine. I love the picture which is from the creative hand of Anahata

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that one leafand then manycaught my eyethe time for contemplation was pastsomeone else wantedto play What better place to do a “tribute to nature” than the outdoors? We had wonderful summery weather this past week even though it is the beginning of October. I had to spend some time enjoying it because in Saskatchewan you never know when the weather will turn wintery. And so for this week 8 of

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Trying to upload a video I made today but with no success. Instead I'll share these images of a portrait I'm working on. I've never really done a portrait like this but decided I wanted something of my own to use for transfers and such. The initial image was from a 60's magazine. The eyes need to be finished yet and I plan to use pencil crayons for that. The rest of the colour was achieved with

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"LOOKING BEYOND" - gel transfersI have completed a video which is about my experiences with using gel transfers. It is a tutorial of sorts. Please find it here: If you are not able to view the video and would like the tutorial in a typed format please contact me through flickr mail or you can leave a comment here telling me you are trying to contact me through my profile here. I believe you

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the point is ... it's OK to PLAYVery late with week 7 of collage with crowabout BUT as Nance was busy with moving this past Saturday I was still able to do it before the new collage page was presented :-)It doesn't really matter as I'm not much into following rules and directions these days. It does present an extra component of challenge if you are trying to meet a deadline for a submission :-)I

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Playing with wearable art ideas:I'm still feeling sew very unsettled BUT thought I should share with you a couple of pieces of wearable art I've been working with. The video on the gel transfers is well under way and I should be ready to share it in a couple of days. Till then, here are those items I was mentioning - more about them down the road too.

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transfers: I had promised a tutorial about gel transfers a while ago and I am working on that at this moment. In the meantime I thought I'd present a bit of info about tape or contact paper transfers. These are so simple to do and are really terrific for someone that cannot get their hands readily on golden gel medium. I had been doing tape transfers quite some time ago but was left frustrated by

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"I had only to look. She was there - always?"This art journal page was started in February for valentine's day lol I did the background in the colours that were my faves at the moment. I was once again surprised to see, very clearly, parts of a face within the background which I had done so randomly. I had sketched in the face exactly as I was seeing it. The page was then set aside and forgotten.

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ART jourNAL pAGes from last week:"about doubting ~ about drawing""bluebird girl"And a little glimpse of "autumn approaching" taken in Saskatoon on Saturday.

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Lessons of Life:This week I have been working mainly on altering two composition books for a challenge offered online from Cloth, Paper Scissors magazine. I have had a terrific time with this challenge - getting to use much loved layering techniques. I also love to embellish. I tried to get a balanced effect with feathers, buttons, torn fabric, and charms. I am showing just a couple of photos

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slow going but finding time to createThis is a tiny spot that I can show from the upstairs room which is mostly mine. It is the only room upstairs besides the bathroom which has not been painted since we moved into our house over twenty years ago. I am planning to paint it yet, sometime, but we first need to get the rest of the house more in shape. I am planning to have an inspiration wall, or

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history:Printed images and background page. I often choose to use recycle type paper for printing if it is something that the back does not show.Just the paint colour I happened to grab after gluing most of the images down and adding words I had written for the piece. I could tell immediately the colour would need MUCH toning down.For the next layer I used a fave stamp and red ink to cover the

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about procrastination and panic - These two words can really play havoc in my life lol - so tell me you don't have a clue what I'm talking about and you'll have me feeling VERY envious. There is a project I have to, REALLY want to, finish by Thursday evening. Consequently you will have to again accept my apologies for my lack of response to you and posting this next few days. I will be making

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TRYING *** HAPPY THOUGHTS and LAUGHTERI ran out of time. I did not use all the elements. I am also not really pleased with the final result. I really liked the background. I was also very happy with the transfer. If I'd had more time I would have liked to do transfers of all the elements except maybe the birds. I would have used larger stamps for the words.Regardless, I had a great time doing the

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a bit of this and a bit of that:I'm trying to bring some organization back into my life as the final work is being done on our kitchen. For part of tomorrow yet we'll be using the bathroom sink and counter for small bits of food prep and dish washing. Hard going back to that for a couple of days but great knowing it is so close to being finished. Today I actually emptied some boxes again too.

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You have a solemn obligation to take care of yourself,because you never know when the World will need you.Rabbi Hillel, 30 B.C. - 9 A.D.Inspiration Peak

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looking watching searching for a paththe right pathFor week 2 of crowabout's collage challenge I have altered quite radically some of the images. I used photoshop to do a smoke effect on lots of the images and then I took a chunk of the page of images and used a stained glass effect also. I glued most of the images to this scrapbook journal page and used just a bit of ink to balance the colour in

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Bringing a smile to my heart:The above are more photos I took last week when I was thinking of Chrysti's prompt. My first post about it is here.Something else which caught my attention last week was the hummingbirds flying around in the garden pausing for occasional samplings from the flowers. I love those beautiful little creatures.about joy:Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they

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CHERISHED SURROUNDINGS:Chrysti, a much loved artist whom I have encountered over the past couple of years, is running a contest asking participants to blog about something in their surroundings which may at first glance be quite ordinary but with further observation be unique, perhaps even beautiful. I have tried this week to take a few moments to do that even though the week has become very

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COLLAGE PLAY:I have started in a new challenge group, collage play with crowabout, which my friend Nance is running. You are presented with collage images and can use in whatever way you want in a piece of art. I chose to use the images and many of their transfers, together with words, to speak of how I'm feeling these days. It was great to take time to do art though I was being crabby with my

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announcing:1)the winners of the first giveaway:Sarascreations wins the first item of the book and braceletSuze wins the book and small containerTammy's studio wins the "right to be me" postcard. justthesmallstuff wins the small flat canvasKaren of A scrapbook of Inspiration wins the photo cardI was not able to find links for Sara or Tammy so hopefully they get back to me to let me know where to

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ferris wheel:some days feellike I'm going round and aroundon a ferris wheelit seems to stopwhen I'm atopI gaze aboutand seewhat is happeningat the bottomit never stopsto let me offso I might do somethinganythingit just keeps going roundand around© Wendy B BurtonThanks for all your comments towards the giveaway. Please accept my apologies. I will definitely do it early next week.

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so little time, so many ideas:I'm practically chomping at the bit to dig in and do much more creating. Ahhh - someday I will again find time - just not quite yet.These are a couple of photos of some fabric I've been working with. The darker flowers were done as rub-ons with Shiva paintstiks. The more subtle shading is done with a bleach resist. That one will require more painting, I think.Over

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Kitchen delays = giveaway delay AND "I LOVE COLOUR":Unfortunately the first part is pretty self explanatory. It's frustrating. The main frustration comes from delays in time for me to be creative. For you it allows extra time to enter the give away if you've not already done so. I'll try to do the give away draw next week even if the cupboards aren't quite done. If you want to tell others of the

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Reminders to self:I have been intrigued by a couple of friends who have done a workshop in which no glue is used. Other methods were incorporated instead. I found this easy to do in a small place and then pick up and put away. Our space is still very cramped as we try to unpack and organize after the huge amount of smoke damage.some sample pages:I have also made a new video about the journal.

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Giveaway announcement: I had promised a giveaway for when our kitchen cupboards are replaced. In case you are not aware we had a fire in our house on May 7 - as I've said "small fire, big smoke". Nearly our whole house had to be emptied out. Much laundering, washing, and ozonating had to happen. Fortunately we had an operating smoke detector which we are told saved our lives. Fortunately

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SNATCHING MOMENTS for metwo photographs from last evening's walkJust a glimpse of something I've been doing on the creative side:I'll be announcing the give away tomorrow. Stay tuned.Angels be with you.

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plenty of pink and some purple too:They caught my attention. I must find a time to savour their beautybefore they were gonebefore they were only a memoryAnd as purple is one of my favourite colours, very representative to me of spirit, I have chosen to share the beauty of magnolia pearl with you today. This image is from "Country Living" magazine, I believe the March/April issue.I really love her

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Overwhelmed but looking to calm:Before we zip off again I'll share just a couple of images of a vintage quilt I purchased at Manitou. Parts of the quilt are in rough shape. I don't mind. I really like it.Part of the overwhelmed is from everything I want to share with you. Part is lack of space and time for creating. I will get back to it. Wishing you peaceful relaxing moments in the days to come.

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Golden Haze:Back to Manitou for a couple of days. We have a long holiday weekend and are going to Saskatoon from Manitou on Wednesday. These are just some images, background pages, from my retreat. I'm planning to do a little book. I got a binding machine the last time I was in Saskatoon so want to make my own books.Slowly, slowly things are starting to get back to place in the house. One of

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reflections of Manitou:At the cottage one of the rooms still has the original wooden walls. Magazine photos were glued on for wallpaper. There are some fabulous vintage pictures. This is one I played with a bit. I will be anxious to use the numerous images I collected for my art.I managed to capture some further reflections also.

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Art Journal Book retrieved: I did a little dance this evening when I opened a box which Greg found in the stacks that came back yesterday. It was marked office. To my delight the journal was right at the top. Also in the box were my journal quilts which had been upstairs and a new little mini stapler with coloured staples which I had recently purchased. I don't think I had shown these pages which

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my retreat: I had a wonderful time last week when I was by myself for my little retreat. I was able to get some art started and some reading done also. I picked up a couple more vintage books and other pieces and found some more vintage at the cottage. Sigh.A couple of images I love from the February/March 2008 issue of Canadian Home and Country. We actually have a claw foot tub in our garage but

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"Be still and know that I am God"Must remember these words which keep appearing to me when I most need them. Sometimes that feels like every moment of every day but i just must hold them in my heart. I got a bit panicky as I was ripping tape off the boxes where I thought I'd find my journal and rummaged through to no avail. I'll be OK. We'll find it. Just not today.Much commotion around here

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Billy and Blue:Of course these are not pictures of them. These are images from a couple of vintage school books I found.We are going to the farm to bring back our pets. I have missed them so. As of today it's been exactly a month since they've been at the farm. I can hardly wait. We are able to bring them home because we've been back in our house for a week. AND the painting is finally finished.

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recreating our house while remembering that home is in my heart:You can see photos from our house which show some of the empty spaces there. I've also shared some of the things which have brought me comfort and the feeling of home while being displaced from our house. The painter has been working diligently. I believe that all of the items which had been at the dry cleaners will be arriving

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Creating and design:The painter has finally started in our house today after 20 days have passed since the fire. Our patience has been wearing thin. In the meantime I decided to rip the wall paper off the one wall in our bedroom and paint all the walls there. Insurance is paying for painting in the kitchen, living room and back entrance. We have decided to paint two of the bedrooms and the main

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biding time:I'm working on a new video but until that is done I'll share this celebration of a wonderful young lady who directs our St. Peter's Chorus. She celebrated a special birthday a couple of weeks ago. We surprised her with a song for her birthday at our spring concert. Greg was able to videotape it and one of our members put together this video for youtube. Please watch to the very end to

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Home is in your heart:This is the mantra I'm trying to hold in my head at the moment. We're trying to get the bids in for just the painting as we can't really move back into our house until it's done. We got frustrated when we learned on Friday that the insurance adjuster had taken the day off and we'd have to wait until today, Tuesday, to get approval to get just the bids for the painting in AND

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carry on:while feeling kind of low at the moment i am trying to find some calm midst choosing paint colours and flooring for the house. i've picked up some magazines and books from the library as well as lots of brochures on flooring and paint colours.guess i should mention that if you don't know what i'm talking about you need to read my last post. Elena has brought my attention to Jessie Marion

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Life is truly good: The past week met us with some new challenges but we are all safe and fine. That is the important thing. Last Thursday morning at 4 a.m. we woke to the sound of our smoke detector. I ran out to find the dishwasher all in flames. We were able to go out the front door. Greg put the fire out with a blanket and I phoned 911 on the cordless phone which Greg brought to me from the

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Creative every day: sometimes I lose track of what I've done, shared and completed. These are some sketches, some from quite a while ago. They were mostly done while I was waiting for appointments of one kind or another, as with the journal page with lots of rub on letters. I ran out of my fave black letters. I guess I should have known better. That's OK. The message is still the same. I

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On a May day: These photos were all taken on last Thursday evening. I was at St. Pete's with a friend. There are no classes at this time. The beautiful wooden floors, the tall old windows, the light at just the right height shining in - a fabulous set up for photos. Ummm - I feel so pleased to know, to recognize, these opportunities and take advantage. I hope you like them too. I've some more.

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Just wanted to say:HAPPY MAY DAYI also wanted to share with you another fabulous blog which I had found a few weeks ago and then forgotten about. The blog is that of "the colour guru" from Australia. I especially love the most recent slideshow Keron recently completed. AND I am totally green with envy because she mentions something of an art retreat with Misty Mawn. Sigh.I was hoping to

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Postcards: newly introduced to my shop:I'm hoping you'll stop by my shop and fave it if you've not already done so. I will readily return the favour (:And please check my most recent post if you've not seen it yet.Later,Wendy

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I am following the lead of the lovely Karen who gave the idea of putting the little photos at the beginning of sections. And as I'm always thinking of angels I thought what an appropriate way to embellish my posts. I have also been sent so many angels I wanted to share some of them with you.I am in a place where I have so many works in progress at the moment and I am feeling uncertain of where

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still here: I have been quite tied up the past few days because our daughter has been needing to complete a major home cooking project for homework. It is due on Wednesday. She needs much help and I am trying to help her so she can impress the teacher. I doubt she would ever see this so will tell you we are making a little video. Cat did most of it. I've been teaching her how. I also helped with

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earth day Part 2:Of course I have to keep reminding myself that I CANNOT do everything at once, even if I think I can. And so I am working very slowly at trying to introduce more items to my shop and do networking. I really wasn't sure what I was going to do for my dear friend Suze - today is her birthday. I thought of something to send her and I truly hope that she likes it. I wish I could have

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Earth day Part 1:Getting quite late so I won't take time to tell much today. I'll show you a couple of photos of some works in progress and some earth day projects. I'll tell you more about everything tomorrow or as soon as I can.I should mention also that I saw the optometrist and she reiterated my thought that the changes in my eye are very normal. I have two areas of hypo-pigmentation in my

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Wishes for today:1. that I could dance - more like this:2. that I could speak my comments to people's blogs and videos and etsy and pictures, and have them automatically typed. Even better would be if I could think them. Ummm - it would automatically be able to pick and choose the appropriate thoughts to type :D - typing with just 2 fingers sucks (and takes a lot of precious time) : (3. that the

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Getting excited:The first good news is our daughter did a complete (for the time being anyway) turnaround. This was Wednesday. Cat also sees Naomi and had just seen her last Saturday. It takes a few days sometimes to notice positive effects. Also the proper consequences set in place make a world of difference. Prayer probably had a huge impact too. Thanks if you were one of the many people

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PEACE GARDEN art quilt:I've posted a new video and a new item to my etsy shop. The quilt is not actually new but perhaps new to you.Stay tuned. Hopefully I'll have another video and more items for etsy in next day or two.Please see yesterday's post where I mention More cheerful things

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So much happening lately but trying to take time to relax also.In the process of cleaning our folks house I've found a number of vintage items. We've also been trying to clean at the farm where we need to make space to put the things they want to move from the City. I am trying to organize even more in my studio space so I can have things in a place AND have places to put everything we brought

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One more week - I want to let you know that I am doing fine. The challenges keep coming at me when I least expect them but I have learned some excellent coping skills and I have some wonderful helpers. I started a longer post earlier today but was nearly knocked off balance again after school today.Now I have chorus practice to go to. Our final concerts are Friday and Sunday evenings. I also have

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a man in the universe -I had an appointment yesterday with a new endocrinologist (diabetes specialist). I wrote a piece about it which I am sharing at my other blog.I hope you'll take a moment to read it.And here's a photo of "my faithful friend"Angels be with you,Wendy XO

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blue ladyI just completed this journal page today. I'd done the background a couple of weeks ago. It was done with words, light blue acrylic paint, possibly a mask with words in oil pastels, blue ink over top and then some stamping with a hand carved stamp and metallic paint. I drew the face a few days ago in pencil. Today I used a bit of watercolor pencil and then caran d'ache crayons with water

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Taking some time to recuperate. I was feeling quite uncomfortable on Sunday but in my way, kept going, through the morning anyway. Yesterday was better and today even more so. My family commitments should be diminishing somewhat, I think. My main area of discomfort seems to be in my jaws. I could barely open my mouth on Sunday. I carry on though as I know there are folks much worse off than I. I

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Breezing by to say all is well and I'll be back to you next week.Remember to take time to smell the roses.Angels be with you,Wendy

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Bits and pieces:If you haven't already, please take a moment to check the pink artist doll. I believe this is a spectacular project to raise funds for breast cancer. Love Squared, as she is known, has been a wonderful collaborative project of Monica and many artists. Thanks Monica. I have chosen to put my blog in pink for a few days to honour those who have lost loved ones to this painful

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another busy day:These are not new. I can't remember exactly when I did them. I just thought they were something different to show that I've worked on in the past couple of weeks. They are backgrounds for journal pages in case you didn't realize. The two with blue I actually used watered down ink. I had tried with undiluted blue and they got way too dark. I love playing. Unfortunately I often

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canvases and plans:Above is a photo of a canvas I started working on last Friday night. It measures 16 x 20 inches. I want to put some words on it and more texturing before I put a person on, blah, blah, blah.Last Friday I purchased this book by Claudine Hellmuth. I got it at the arts and crafts store, you know the one I mean, in Saskatoon with my 40% off coupon.I had borrowed Claudine's more

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CREATIVE EVERY DAY - WOW, I can hardly believe that it's so close to April and I've hardly been doing any creating. I think I'll have to peruse what I have all created for creative every day 2008 and for myself. Maybe I've forgotten. More so I've been busy creating organization from what often seemed chaos.I've been busy the past 3 months with lots of cleaning. Initially I was doing major work in

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I'll just take a moment to show this Easter arrangement I set up in my studio last Friday. I'm making great progress with it's organization. Note I've decided to call it a studio after all. Should mention the little yellow outfit belonged to baby Wendy :DI hope you all had a happy easter. Ours was lovely followed by major busyness. I'll take a moment to share another day.Busy day again tomorrow -

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For those who love etsy and those who love art: I just got this link in one of the etsy newsletters which I have been receiving on a regular basis. It leaves me drooling just looking at the post. I can hardly wait to visit the shops. I am familiar already with a couple of them.I am also left chomping at the bit to get much more creating done and to think seriously about what I might do for my

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eyes and voice:I'll only take a few minutes now to introduce a couple of new links. I have decided to start a new blog which contains only my photos and slideshows of my art. I'll get a link in the sidebar shortly. Take a peek and let me know what you think - windyangelsEyEs.You can find a link to St. Peter's Chorus, the group with which I have been singing for many years, at this site. It is a

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Dreaming for spring: Over the past days I have put together these journal pages as well as doing a video surrounding them and the idea of waiting for spring. One of the pictures on the video actually shows the journal on top of snow. I fear we may have snow for many weeks yet. If we are fortunate it will disappear sooner. If not, well, I'll just keep dreaming. I had so much fun with these

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angelsdreams.etsy.com is open for business. Amidst all the March madness (yuck, I kind of hate this month) I have managed to put some items in the shop. Please stop by for a visit and bolster my self esteem by hearting me and viewing the items :-) I have many shops bookmarked and will get around to hearting you as soon as I can, hopefully even ordering some items. Please be patient as my circus

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Etsy - I AM REGISTERED! Now I have to get my shop set up. Hmmpphhh. We have to go to the farm for the weekend and as usual I have run out of time. Would have helped if dog hadn't met up with a piece of metal in the yard last night when we were playing fetch and gotten a couple of nasty gashes on his leg. He's been very good about going to vet and getting a bandage put on. It's not infected so

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Talk happiness; talk faith; talk health. Say you are well, and all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true.Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850-1919 American Author and Poetfrom Inspiration PeakI truly believe the above words. I'm not sure why I so frequently forget them.While spring is probably a number of weeks away yet (four - six at least), I am enjoying the warmer weather

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About self love, self esteem, loving what you do, what you create, what you are.These are some of the art journal pages I have been starting in the last couple of days. What can I say about self love? I can say that I am really starting to love what I am creating. It really doesn't matter what others think - the best is when I can feel comfortable with what I think.I needed to share this

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Now is the time when I get REALLY tired of the snow. I'm not at all interested in taking outdoor photos. Even the sunrises and sets hold little interest. We finally had a warmer day last Saturday and then later it was pouring rain. That was followed by back to the freezer for a couple of days with wind chills - YUCK! So now even on the days when it is finally warming a bit there are hard drifts

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Creating an art quilt tutorial: Many months ago I promised a tutorial of how I make an art quilt. I think it was last June. I have started doing videos for youtube so decided to use all the pictures I had taken for the tutorial and put them into a video format on my vlog. Let me know if you have any questions and I will try to answer them. The video does not go into a great deal of depth. I

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From the top of an old cupboard in what I'm calling my art room. I choose not to call it a studio because I don't think I'll be doing much of the actual art here. I am storing supplies and hope to find inspiration, dreams, a place to relax and think.More photos:My apologies for not being with you in your own blogs, dreams. I've been doing humungous job of cleaning our basement. I'll share more of

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The weather AND my almost ready to dance in art room:I am practically humming with excitement, even though we are having bitterly cold weather. The windchills are something like -49 degrees C which is, I believe, about -58 degrees F. I haven't stepped out yet. Might still take the dog for a few steps down the back lane (alley) ;-)Have you found that in order to organize many diverse pieces you

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THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS:I am so very excited. I have put my very first video on youtube. I had so much fun making it. I hope you will take a few minutes to watch it. I would be very pleased. As always, any comments are very gratefully appreciated. I should point out that the windyangels on youtube is not me. I'm known as windyangels4u.You can find "Don't Cry for me Argentina" on The Romantic Guitar

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About being creative:I guess I mentioned a second video from the farm. I'll post it while realizing folks are probably more interested in seeing my other art. I started another journal page, just the plan, and did a tiny clip from that tonight. I'll be trying to combine the art with the other clips in the future.About this video - I would recommend having your speakers turned to loudest position.

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Creative Every Day:I don't think I've taken time to say that I joined a group about being creative every day. It is for this year and started by the wonderful Leah who has done art everyday month (November). This is for the entire year. I know that there is rarely a day that goes by in which I am not creative, in one way or another, but this will be more about trying to document that more

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Identify God's emissaries By the light in their eyes, By the lilt in their song, By the glow of their skin And the joy within; Not with the face of a dried-up peach, And a voice that would teach Of doom and sin.Elias Penn-Smith Inspiration Peak

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January at the farm: The last time we were at the farm, just the past few days, I decided to record some of my walk so I might share with you the beautiful surroundings. On Thursday the wind was very brisk. It was also a cloudy day. I will share the following day's walk once I make the second video.Just a reminder to click on the little speaker on bottom left side of "wondering" if the music is

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permission to smile to laugh to cry to create to breatheto expressto bemeAnd most recently I've been giving myself permission to stay away from this technology a bit so I might have fun clearing my art room and creating containers for putting tools in - mainly stamps that I am decorating the boxes for. I'll share as soon as I have an extra moment.In the mean time I have done this journal page

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Organizing and playing:I've been trying to create while also continuing with the organizing. I don't know why I get bored so easily, not even sure if that's the right word. I decided, probably quite some time ago, that I would like to try making videos. It's lots of fun. This is my first attempt so please don't be too critical. :D Please note: On the slideshow called "wondering" there's a little

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"You make my day award" - Quite a number of days ago my dear friend Suze presented me with this wonderful award: Thanks Suze. I would like to present it back to you and I would also like to give it to Elena, Susan, Darcy, Mandy, Debra, Mary Ann, Lisa, and Karen. While Elena does not have a blog she is very dear to me. I'm not certain if Lisa has one now either. Regardless, she also deserves the

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Unfortunately our modem died last night and I was unable to submit this for Inspire Me Thursday as I would have liked. That is quite fine. Fitting to my resolutions I laughed and will share it here with you now.Resolutions: while I am not much for New Year’s Resolutions I have decided to share with you a couple of hopes I hold in my heart for this year. I realize that it is also quite late to be

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Winnie and January: This is typically a very difficult time of year for me. I think I am doing quite well though in looking to "spring" within my heart. That will be the story for the blue flat canvas of which you can see the background. I've put the start of a sunshine as well. I'm not certain yet of the other one. The green was started probably in November. As usual the scan does not do the

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Laughter - where were you hiding?

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Another brightly sunny filled day, while cold, and yet again filled with treed hoar frost. Yummm.Yes, I've been writing again. This one has been tough but it is finished in about its first draft. It is about Winnie. I am presenting it tonight with my writer's group. I will decide what to do with my story then.Here is a picture which I worked with for quite some time the day I was playing with my

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