Bamboo Swap

Over at ATCsforALL I enter a swap of Kats I believe she called it HD/HP Bamboo Swap these are the 4 I came up with.

Host Card

The next 3 went to individuals in the swap.

The next one I kept for myself

Medium: Watercolor

Crazy Quilt 2 ~ 4x4 Chunky Page

Another 4x4 in my crazy quilt series.

Crazy Quilt 1 ~ 4x4 Chunky Page

This year is the year for 4x4 Chunky Pages and Art Journals

Combination of Drawing and Repetitive Patterns

Zentangle with a Twist Social Group

This week challenge we are to design a new pattern. Well I kept looking at my kitchen curtains noticing the filet pattern. Which most of you know is basically a crochet pattern. I took this pattern then added circles to go around the edges to give it that finish off look. This became my new repetitive pattern as some call  it today zentangles.

Filet Flower

Medium: Watercolor, Ink and Pastel Chalk

Crazy Quilts

So many ways to make a crazy quilt

Now you are thinking of course there is

Again you are thinking of fabric

Here I am thinking paper

These were done for a 4x4 chunky swap

Over at ATCsforALL.

Crazy Quilts

Of course I did keep one maybe two for my

Chunky 4x4 Book

..*smile*..

Happy New Year 2011

Oh my!

You say

Aren't you a little late

..giggle..

Better late than never!

Celebrate

A little challenge over at

 Zentangle with a Twist Social Group

 before I left to go down to visit my Mom.

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We were to zentangle something that reminded

us of or something we did on

New Years Eve

***

What do we all do on New Year Eve?

CELEBRATE!

Designing Your Own Repetitive Pattern

One of the things we like to do over at

Zentangle with a Twist Social Group

at

http://www.atcsforall.com/

Designed our own patterns

Every so often we take time to come up with something new

To refresh our artsy muse

~Ranie Patridis

HOPE

Black n Blue

HOPE

When Life Issue

Tends to get in the way

There is always hope

When you put your faith in God!

~Ranie Patridis

The Leafy Dragon

Did you ever hear about the leafy dragon

That gracefully floats below the water?

The like to stay down by the ocean floor

Blending into the plants there in

They come in many different colors

They are a little shy but oh so graceful

You are thinking those are

SEA HORSES

Yes

Your are right!

They are sea horses known as the

Leafy Dragons!

~Ranie Patridis

Tomorrow: The Future

We're Not Supposed To

See Too Far Ahead

It is a mistake to look too far ahead.

Only one link in the chain of destiny

can be handled at a time:

~ Sir Winston Churchill

It is seldom in life that one knows

that a coming event is to be a crucial

importance

~Anya Seton

Zentangle with a Twist

ZWAT

Zentangle with a Twist

Have you been to ZWAT

Over at ATCsforALL

There in the Social Group

We have a new challenge every week.

What so special about ZWAT

We like to take repeptive patterns

Turn them into art either by Free-Form or Picture-It

The art of Repetitive Patterns

Have been around since the beginning of time

All you need to do is open your eyes

Look at the Master Works

Notice the repetitive patterns that enhance their art.

Come on over to ZWAT

We love to admire one's another art

Giving encouarging words and tips galore.

This challenge was all about fish just one ole fish

See what you can do with it.

~Ranie Patridis

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Let Me Be A Giver

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God, let me be a giver, and not one

Who only takes and takes unceasingly;

God, let me give, so that not just my own,

But others' lives as well, may richer be.

***

Let me give out whatever I may hold

Of what material thing life may be heaping,

Let me give raiment, shelter, food, or gold

If these are, through Thy bounty, in my keeping.

***

But greater than such fleeting treasures, may

I give my faith and hope and cheerfulness,

Belief and dreams and joy and laughter gay

Some lonely soul to bless.

~MARY CAROLYN DAVIES




Happy Thanksgiving!
May your day be good
Enjoying love from family n friends
Be thankful for what we have.
Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving Day!
~Ranie Patridis

Evenings

Nightly Assessments

We should every night call ourselves

to an account:

What infirmity have I mastered today?

What passions opposed!

What temptation resisted?

What virtue acquired?

~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca

What is in your Crow Closet

Oh my what is in your Crow Closet

You say crow closet!

Yes your crow closet a swap that I was in

At the time these thoughts went through my mind

How could I draw a crow that has a closet

The first that came to mind I thought

He will like bright colors maybe a fire red

Next thing I knew Mr. Crow became a fireman.

Now as I went onto the next crow

I was thinking what shall become of him

And what is in his closet?

It dawn on me how they fly from here to there

Squaking as the go

Sending of messages to the other crows

So henceforth came the Messenger

As the messenger goes here in there

I got to thinking he needs a place of business

The next thing I knew what was in the crow closet

was a crow in uniform taking care of the

Crow Station

Now what does these crows have in common?

..giggle..

Tis one Crow dreww up in 3 different outfits

Now you know what is in your crow closet.

~Ranie Patridis

Tomorrow

We're Not Supposed To

See Too Far Ahead

It is a mistake to look too far ahead.

Only one link in the chain of destiny

can be handled at a time.

~Sir Winston Churchill

Boring Days!

Average Days

Normal day let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.

~Mary Jean Iron

Whimsy We Are

We are a whimsy lot

So gay and happy

You never know what we shall do

Or what profession we hold.

Being a Chef

A bit of mischief I can be

Some think that Chefs are grumpy and sour

Not me I like to put a bit of spice

into my life.

Now my friend is a bit different from me

We walk in two different life style

Me a chief my friend a Cow Girl

Cow Girls are so sweet and lovable

Can be a bit tough too

I don't know how she does it

But then she does not know

How I do it since she does not like to cook.

We get together from time to time

We make a point to do this

Living in two different worlds we do

She being my childhood best friend

A very special person she is to me even today.

 

The two of us have another friend from childhood

that we both keep in touch with

Who became a Nurse

She travels all over the Word

Since she is in the Service.

She has help many a service man find his way

Always sweet and so patient

She has seen many things that she does not talk about

Life is not easy being in the service

But oh how she loves helping our Service men.

 

Us three try to meet several times a year

Our friendship from childhood is that special

 

When I think back to how or what we become

How we each took different paths

There is one thing that keeps us all tie together

We are the Whimsy Twins!

~Ranie Patridis



Positive Thinking

POSITIVE THINKING

and

SELF-FULFILLING

PROPHECIES and ACTIONS

Our Faith and Belief Create Our Reality

Belive that life is worth living,

and

your belief will help create that fact.

~ William James

What a Day!

What a day it is

Mr. Wind is in a fix

He so busy blowing here in there

He doesn't realize how strong he is

I'm out trying to gather some flowers

Be so nice to give to someone special

Oh my goodness gracious!

I lost hold of that corner

There goes my net and all my flowers

Oh dear! What am I to do?

Needless to say with my flowers gone

I was not able to give to anyone special

My intentions were good

If only Mr. Wind had not blown so hard.

Once Mr. Wind settle down

Up to the North what is that Grumpy Clouds

Oh no!

Now what!

I must go get my umbrella

I still have flowers to gather.

Off I go

Goodness gracious what is wrong with

Mr. Grumpy Cloud

He is already letting a tears fall so grandly

I must not complain for we need the water

But oh! I want to save my flowers!

So off I go to gather my flowers

To give to someone special

~Ranie Patridis



HOPE

THE IMPORTANCE AND VALUE

OF HOPE

It is characteristic of genius to be

hopeful and aspiring.

~Harriet Martineau