OPEN YOUR EYES

Open your eyes that you may see

The beauty that around you lies,

The misty loveliness of the dawn,

The glowing colors of the skies;

The child's bright eager eyes of blue,

The gnarled and wrinkled face of age,

The bird with crimson on his wing

Whose spirit never knew a cage;

The roadside's blooming goldenrod

So brave through summer's wind and heat,

The brook that rushes to the sea

With courage that naught may defeat.

Open your eyes that you may see

The wonder that around you lies;

It will enrich your every day

And make you glad and kind and wise.

Emma Boge Whisenland

WHO LOVES THE RAIN

Who loves the rain

And loves his home,

And looks on life with quiet eyes,

Him will I follow through the storm;

And at his heart-fire keep me warm;

Nor hell nor heaven shall that soul surprise,

Who loves the rain, 

And loves his home,

And looks on life with quiet eyes.

Frances Wills Shaw

Mystery of a SnowFlake

This was my favorite of all the zentangle snowflakes I made. This was traded right away, guess I was not the only one that like it. ..*smile*..

Snowflake

Ah, a mystery of a snowflake. 

It gently falls from the sky as silent as can be.

As each one falls each one is different

So delicate that it is impossible to see the

beautiful pattern of each snowflake.

Zentangle Snowflake

 

Over at ATCsforALL Nataliee was our Host she came up with a challenge that we should make a Zentangle snowflake. 

 

It was amazing to see all the different snowflakes that our members made. Not one was a like!

 

THE HUMAN TOUCH

Tis the human touch in this world that counts,

The touch of your hand and mine,

Which means far more to the fainting heart

Than shelter and rbead and wine;

For shelter is gone when the night is o'er,

And bread lasts only a day,

But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice

Sing on in the soul alway.

~Spencer Michael Free

POST CARDS

One day I was thinking, yes I was thinking can you believe that? My husband wanted to know what the noise was ..giggle.. well, as I was thinking I thought it would be nice to make up Post Cards of my Art maybe try to sale them or send them off in the mail to friends and family. 

A while back I was making these Fabric Chunkie Pages. Digitally I made a photograph of the pages then tweak them a bit for post cards here are my first 2 cards I want to make a set of 5 or 6 different views.

In the Garden are my Funky Flowers

here is the 2nd one...

Amazing what you can do with digital pictures!

THE RAINBOW

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began;

So is it now I am a Man;

So be it when I shall grow old,

Or let me die!

The Child is Father of the Man;

And I could wish my days to be

Bound each to each by natural piety.

William Wordsworth

I bet you thought this was going to be a beautiful poem about rainbows, this poor fella must have been very down when he wrote this poem.

Have a Beautiful day!

YOU NEVER CAN TELL

You never can tell when you send a word

Like an arrow shot from a bow

By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind,

Just where it may chance to go.

It may pierce the breast of your dearest friend,

Tipped with its poison or balm,

To a stranger's heart in life's great mart

It may carry its pain or its calm.

You never can tell when you do an act

Just what the results will be,

But with every deed you are sowing a seed.

Though the harvest you may not see.

Each kindly act is an acorn dropped

In God's productive soil;

You may not know, but the tree shall grow

With shelter for those who toil.

You never can tell what your thoughts will do

In bringing you hate or love,

For thoughts are things, and their airy wings

Are swifter than carrier doves.

They follow the law of the universer-

Each thing must create its kind,

And they speed o'er the track to bring you back

Whatever went out from your mind.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Zentangle 150

I love making Zentangles here is one in the free form using the Verdigogh pattern along with other patterns I dreamed up. 

Zentangle 150

BLING CHUNKIE PAGES

My friend ArtstandingStranger a while back hosted a BLING Chunkie Page. I wanted to participate but at that time, well, my health was not the best I did not feel I should obligate myself. To my amazement one day visiting her admiring everyone chunkie pages she gave me one that she had made. Oh it's beautiful! So since I'm one of these people that says I'm not making chunkie pages I decided to make her one hoping it will come out okay. I'm not a Bling person more of a tom boy and shiny things don't always grab my attention. 

Ranie BLING for Diane

 

I base my BLING on a Couple of Lovers I use embossing powders, pearl ex, glitter, bling, beads, lace, clipart, metallic watercolor paints, threads and yarns. I had so much fun making this that I made myself one too. Now I have a total of 3 different chunkie pages for myself. This is so addicting. 

Ranie Bling Chunkie Page

 

Well, they are almost just alike a little different not much. I like to make an extra one for me. To be able to show off my work in person. Always looks so much better in person than a picture. I tend to give most of my stuff away. Now I beginning to have a nice display of my art.

 

Quote for the Day!

WE SHOULD REMEMBER MORE OF THE GOOD 

THAN OF THE BAD 

OR 

THE DIFFICULT

Vanity plyas lurid tricks with our memory.

Joseph Conrad

Fabric Chunkie Pages

Well I have said over and over again. I have NO intention to start making chunkie pages. Guess what I'm making chunkie pages. These are 4 x 4 pages made of fabric or paper. We take these pages turning them into a book. Well here are my fabric pages. Our Host over at ATCsforALL wanted them chunkie. I had come up with an idea then I suddenly decided I better re-checked and see if there was a theme we were to go by. ..giggle..oh my there was boy did it turn my idea up side down. The theme was In the Garden, my mind started ticking in the garden then I had a great idea ........

In the Garden are my Funky Flowers

I started out with 2 pieces of fabric with batting. Then I sewed a design hoping to make it stiffer, I wasn't too happy with it then I took some silk flowers and hand sculpted a bunch of  nylon faces. Then I attached a few on each page I made 8 pages. Once done with that I decided those funky flowers needed something more so I went into my stash found some fuzzy yarn putting that around their faces now that dress it up a bit. Still something else was 

needed oh my goodness they were bald needed to fix that! I got some glue and glitter out gave them a funky looking cap still looked a bit plain, decided to add beads and buttons and so much more. My first chunky page and it had to be fabric. Lots of hand sewing a lot of work. I kept 3 giving one to a friend of mine here at home, two for myself, that means I sent 5 to UK. Now I am patiently waiting to received four pages back from four different artist. Once I get them back I get to turn them into a book. Now that is going to be interesting!

SATURDAY NIGHT

This is a cute little poem dated 1852 about a young child taught that she could not play on Sunday!

Now Dolly, my dear,

I pray you come here;

And work is all done;

I'll put you to bed, for to-morrow is Sunday,

And I'll not see you again until Monday.

you don't want to go?

But you ought to know

That it is by right;

So, Dolly, good-night:

You must lie without noise or crying till Monday,

For you know we ought not to play on Sunday.

author unknown

GOD BE WITH YOU

May His Counsels Sweet uphold you,

And His Loving Arms enforld you,

As you journey on your way.

May His Sheltering Whings protect you,

And His Light Divine direct you,

Turning Darkness into day.

May His Potent Peace surround you,

And His Presence linger with you,

As your inner, golden ray.

Author Unknown

Zentangle

Another Zentangle I have been seeing different artist drawing an object turning it into a zen. It is so neat. I went one step further I drew an object in this case a teddy bear which I zen then zen the background. I really like how they came out.

Zentangle Teddy Bear

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

One of my favorite times of the year is Fall with Fall comes Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving, my husband and I always spend it alone coming from split families and everyone so far away from each other it is not easy to get together. This year Thanksgiving is different for all of us, with times being rough so many have lost so much. Yet, there are so many things to be thankful for now and each and every day!

Thanksgiving is a time of gratitude to God,

Our creator and Provider,

whose guidance and care go before us....

and whose love is with us forever.

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the changes,

to remember that we, too, grown and change

from one season of life to another.

Thanksgiving is a time of changing seasons, 

when leaves turn golden in Autumn's wake

and apples are crips in the first chill breezes of fall.

Let us remember the ture meaning of Thanksgiving.

As we see the beauty of Autumn, let us acknowledge

the many blessings which are ours....

let us think of our families and friends...

and let us give thanks in our hears.

~Author Unknown~

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

may your day be special!

 4X4 Collage Chunkie Page

 

One Day to Thanksgiving

Times are rough, yet, we have so much to be thankful for!

Collage by Ranie

2.5 x 3.5

Two Days till Thanksgiving!

Here in the USA we are getting ready to Celebrate Thanksgiving which is on Thursday. A special day to remember our inheritance and a time to reflect be thankful for what we have.

 

Collage by Ranie

2.5 x 3.5

REMEMBRANCE

Over in the Flickr group the challenge for that week was REMEMBRANCE oh my I thought what should I do? As artist started turning in their cards they were all referring to love ones or soldiers that have pass on. Each had a comment which made me shed tears. A little emotional I am. As I thought about it I finally look up the word in the dictionary. Learning that Remembrance is also consider Memories, ah! I came up with something that I thought would be special and a bit different. I decided to collage a scene with a two-fold memory. A young girl standing before Yia Yia (Grandma) learning to do needle work as they are working the you child said to her Yia Yia, tell me a story when you where a little girl? Hence a young child forming a memory and Grandma looking back on her life sharing a memory of hers.

REMEMBRANCE

 

Wish Upon a Star

Wish Upon a Star

The beginning of a series that I will be working on, this one is ATC size. I also made one of these in the ATC size for a fellow artist in the November 1/1 trade.

 

Medium: Watercolor