GET A TRANSFER

If you are on the gloomy line,

Get a transfer.

If you're inclined to fret and pine,

Get a transfer.

Get off the track of doubt and gloom,

Get on the Sunshine Track-there's room-

Get a transfer

If you're on the Worry Train,

Get a transfer.

You must not stay there and complain,

Get a transfer.

The Cheerful Cars are passsing through,

And there's lots of room for you

Get a transfer.

If you're on the Grouchy Track,

Get a transfer.

Just take a Happy Special back,

Get a transfer.

Jump on the train and pull the rope,

That lands you at the stateion Hope-

Get a transfer

~Unknown

Zentangle

Come! See my Flower Garden

Zentanlge with a Twist

Zentangle

Ah my favorite form of art right now the Zentangle. Over at the Zentangle with a Twist Society Group our challenge was to make a tree. I don't know what came over me but I had a great time making these trees!

...and...

Looks a little wild but loving.

Quote for the Day!

What we love to do we find time to do.

~John Lancaster Spalding

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

~Anon.

Autumn Blessing

 

Autumn leaves are here again...

BLING

My Bling card for Maggie Monday Musing group over at Flickr. I am learning how to emboss my cards very interesting technique. As you can see bling is shiny items of jewelry or beads.

THE FAIRING

Oh dear! What a beautiful Doll

My sister has bought at the fair!

She says I must cal it "Miss Poll",

And make it a bonnet to wear.

O pretty new Doll! it looks fine;

Its cheeks are all cover'd with red;

But, pray, will it always be mine?

And, pray, may I take it to bed?

How kind was my sister to buy

This Dolly, with hair that will curl!

Perhaps, if you want to know why,

She'll tell you I've been a good girl.

~Nancy Sproat

THE CROSS WAS HIS OWN

They borrowed abed to lay His head

When Christ the Lord came down;

They borrowed the ass in the mountain pass

For Him to ride to town;

But the crown that He wore and the Cross that He bore

Where His own-

The Cross was His own.

He borrowed the bread when the crowd He fred

On the grassy mountain side,

He borrowed the dish of broken fish

With which He satisfied.

But the crown that He wore and the Cross that He bore

Where His own-

The Cross was His own.

He borrowed the ship in which to sit

To teach the multitude;

He borrowed a nest in which to rest-

He had never a home so rude;

But the crown that He wore and the Cross that He bore

Where His own-

The Cross was His own.

He borrowed a room on His way to the tomb

The Passover Lamb to eat;

They borrowed a cave for Him a grave,

They borrowed a winding sheet.

But the crown that He wore and the Cross that He bore

Where His own-

The Cross was His own.

~Unknown

Zentangle

 

Medium: Ink

~ Ranie Patridis

Zentangles

 

Medium: Ink

~ Ranie Patridis

AGE AND EXPERIENCE BRING CONFIDENCE

Such to me is the new image of aging;

growth in self, and service for all

mankind.

~Ethel Percy Andrus

Black n White 

MAMMA MONDAY MUSING

I drew one of these for the challenge and swap it out. This one is mine, I always like to make two one for me I seem to always give my art away.

AZALEAS

 Medium: Ink and Watercolor Paint

Zentangles with a Twist

ZENTANGLE TAG

 

Medium: Ink

 

THREE GATES

If you are tempted to reveal

A tale to you someone has told

About another, make it pass,

Before you speak, three gates of gold.

These narrow gates: first, "Is it true?"

Then, "Is it needful?" In your mind

Give truthful answer. And the next

Is last and narrowest, "Is it kind?"

And if to reach your lips at last

It passes through these gateways three,

Then you may tell the tale, nor fear

What the result of speech may be

From The Arabian

IS IT TRUE?

Is it true, O Christ in Heaven,

That the highest suffer most?

That the strongest wander furthest,

And more helplessly are lost?

That the mark of rank in nature

Is capacity for pain?

And the anguish of the singer

Makes the sweetness of the strain?

Is it true, O Christ in Heaven,

That whichever way we go

Walls of darkness must surround us,

Thinks we would but cannot know?

That the infinite must bound us

Like a temple veil unrent,

Whilst the finite ever wearies,

So that one's therein content?

Is it true, O Christ in Heaven,

That the fullness yet to come

Is so glorious and so perfect

That to know would strike us dumb?

That if ever for a moment

We could pierce beyond the sky

With these poor dim eyes of mortals,

We should just see God and die?

Sarah Williams

Fall Apple Harvest

I enter the Fall Contest over at ATCsforALL 

Fall Apple Harvest

 

After the last look at the voting mine not making it. What was I thinking about Fall, me Harvest look like everyone else was thinking Halloween. Oh well, I had fun painting this in watercolor.

 

Gold Award

Thank you Diane for the Gold Award. Friends are special and when we start surfing on the web we tend to forget the miles between it is like we are right next door!

 

From what I understand I am suppose to send this gold card to four friends, one of the being out of them to be out of my country. Four wonderful Artist that I have enjoy becoming friends with.

The first one I am sending this Gold Card too is CattyCat check out her blog she is doing the Monster Mash over there a great place to visit.

The second one I am sending this Gold Card too is Hazel Rose Looms a wonderful friend of mine so much like me who is into all sorts of Arts n Craft. Hazel and her hubby makes the most beautiful looms. Please go visit her blog she is always sharing her beautiful photographs.

The third person I am sending the Gold Card too is Artyfax - An Artist Blog who is in the UK a very nice gentleman a wonderful Artist. John has a flare that sometimes make me shake my head he is always bringing a smile to my face.

The fourth person I am sending the Gold Card too is Pause-ablity a wonderful delightful artist that is a person of her own. I am always amaze how she comes up with the most delightful art that she creates.

I consider all these individuals and so much more my Internet friends. Now my friends it is your turn, click on the picture copy it to your computer then pass it onto 4 friends one of the must live outside your country. Have fun! I did!

IT MATTERS

In matters of principle

stand like a rock

in matters of taste

swim with the current.

~thomas jefferson

Vintage Tag #2

Here is my 2nd vintage tag. I have a friend here that is also involved in a lot of art groups. She is mostly into chunky books right now. I'm trying to stay away from them. Anyway she just host a Blink Chunky Book swap. Well I wasn't sure what bling was, the other day I went over to her house admiring everyone chunkie book pages. Some marvelous work there ladies! After viewing all that lovely work seeing what they use for bling ..giggle.. I have bling, oh how funny. While working on this 2nd vintage tag for the challenge swap over on the flickr site I just couldn't get that bling out of my head.

vintage tag #2

 

~Ranie Patridis

Oh my, once working on this card I started adding bling in the form of beads, lace and button. The clip art I painted with metallic acrylic paint add lace to hang the tag by. When all done and said, I couldn't let this go either. This was my 2nd tag and my first bling ..giggle.. I kept it!...and NO I did not attempt to try to do a 3rd one I decided that 2 attempts were enough. Hopefully when I enter the next challenge swap I'll be strong enough to let go....

 

Vintage Tag

Over on the Flickr site i belong to a group of artist that once a week we have a challenge swap. At this time the challenge was making a Vintage Tag size 2.5 x 3.5 Well I made one, loved it so much I kept it. After all it was my first tag I had ever made. 

vintage tag #1

 

~ Ranie Patridis

I love Fall I love seeing the changing of the colors not to say the harvest from all your grow. Pumpkins are my favorite squash I love pumpkin pie and soup. Can't you see a child carving faces into a pumpkin at harvest time? I can. This is a collage I alcohol Ink the background then I added vintage clip art that I had layering it. I like to cut my figures out and mix them up. Then I cut up some straw very small then last not least like to take my paints and touch up the clipart. I then add a bunch of yarns and ribbons to hang by. I kept this one and thought to myself  you can make another one for the challenge to swap. That you will see tomorrow.