Ella and Ben

Introducing

Feeling the need to flex creative muscles this January.

Hence, a new Etsy shop is born.

Saturday Sunset

“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, 

and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone,

 and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. 

And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon,

 and darkness crept over the land from the east.” 

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

January Day Brightener

With snow in the forecast, 

following a couple of dreary all gray days,

 time for a day brightener. 

 These are the dahlias I wrote of planting in April of 2016.  

They are every bit as magnificent as I remembered.

Enjoy!

A New Year . . . A Fresh (and Organized) Start

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year.

 It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; 

new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. 

Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. 

Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. 

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In the spirit of starting fresh, I set about ordering my workshop, a tiny little gem of a room tucked away in the corner of the basement.  My poor little sanctuary had suffered mightily from Halloween to Christmas.  I am way better at planning, creating, and doing, than I am at cleaning up afterwards.  It was way past time to clean, organize and purge.  The results were even better than I imagined.  I now look for reasons to head to the workshop.  

 Starting afresh in the workshop has already given me inspiration for 2017. 

More to come as inspiration progresses.

New Year

In the waning daylight of this first day of 2017,

 I wish you much joy in the coming year.