Good day lovely people. I am going to see "The Vinyl Cafes Christmas Show" in Calgary on Thursday. I am so excited...if you aren`t sure what it`s all about have a listen to the show. I put up a link. Stuart is a true Canadian and travels around our beautiful country and helps us to remember why we are proud Canadians. He writes the ongoing stories with Dave and Morley and their two children Stephanie and Sam. He is a master story teller and has brought me to tears on more occasions than I care to say. They are heartfelt family stories that only he can tell. He is a gifted writer and storyteller and as you can see I can`t seem to stop singing his praises. Listen and tell me what you think... Christmas is like ....25 days away, my goodness when it comes it certainly comes fast. Why am I never ready? I really try hard to be. I shop all year instead of the week before, I usually make most of my gifts and even that takes time and time is going so fast that I can hardly keep up. I'm thinking its because I am aging. I just realized that half my life is over..or that I have lived half of my life. I suddenly got scared and had to sit down and take a deep breath. I am 44 years old...I can't believe I just wrote that horrendous number, I really am shocked because in my mind I don't see myself as that old so it is really hard to accept. It doesn't help that I work with a bunch of young people, so it is a constant reminder of how old I really am. They are beginning their lives of bright futures with marriage and children etc. and I am on the other side of the cycle of life...the "in-between", no man's land, not young and not old. Mid.....Life. I guess that's what it's all about figuring out your place when there doesn't seem to be one anymore. Youth = Opportunity. Middle Age = ______? Help me fill in the blank. Would love to hear your comments.
So now that I have depressed myself...this week I have been busily trying to paint ornaments for my family for Christmas. I usually make about 9 hand painted ornaments and I haven't even completed one yet. Here are some that I have done in previous years.
They are so fun to do. These were done on thin metal discs given to me by a friend. I used acrylics on them and sprayed them with Krylon when I was finished.
These ones are painted on 1/4 wood cut out by my bestie. She was a master scroll saw cutter. Now she quit and the saw is tossed in the heap. Well it was good while it lasted.
Again I used acrylics and sprayed them with matte krylon. This year I am trying to do mixed media ornaments and they are going to go on wood as well.
Here are a few sketches of upcoming ornaments. I don't always use all my sketches, I do a bunch of drawings and I pick my favorites. Color choices are always challenging for me. I try and pick the colors that the person likes and go with that theme. Right now my fifteen year old loves yellow and black, can you believe it? I told her that it is wasp colors...how fitting ha ha.
These three are 3 dimensional wooden ornaments that I bought for 75 cents each at Michaels, good deal eh? Right now I am playing with faces and personality. I kinda like them.
Well that's all folks. Have a good week and I will tell you all about my wonderful Vinyl Cafe Concert next week. Be safe dearies :)
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." Margaret Young
They are so fun to do. These were done on thin metal discs given to me by a friend. I used acrylics on them and sprayed them with Krylon when I was finished.
These ones are painted on 1/4 wood cut out by my bestie. She was a master scroll saw cutter. Now she quit and the saw is tossed in the heap. Well it was good while it lasted.
Here are a few sketches of upcoming ornaments. I don't always use all my sketches, I do a bunch of drawings and I pick my favorites. Color choices are always challenging for me. I try and pick the colors that the person likes and go with that theme. Right now my fifteen year old loves yellow and black, can you believe it? I told her that it is wasp colors...how fitting ha ha.
These three are 3 dimensional wooden ornaments that I bought for 75 cents each at Michaels, good deal eh? Right now I am playing with faces and personality. I kinda like them.