An award

My good friend Lisa gave me this award. Lisa is a wonderful artist and soul collage facilitator. Its been wonderful to see her follow her dreams.

Meaning Of Award from the originator:
"What this Friendship Award means:
This blog invests and believes in Proximity- nearness in space, time and relationships.
These blogs are exceedingly charming . These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends .
They are not interested in prize for self- aggrandizement!
Our hope is that when the ribbon of these prizes are cut ,even more friendships are propagated.
Please give more attention to these writers! You are suppose to pass this award on to 8 fellow bloggers, to include the above text in there blog.

Here are 8 ladies whose friendship means the world to me. That includes you Lisa but I felt silly giving the award back to you but know that you are treasured too. It was hard to choose just eight since there are so many more of you who I hold in my heart.

Violette you have shared your art friendship and advice. It was so wonderful meeting you and that we continue to connect.
Sharon you have encouraged me and helped me so much in growing as an artist. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself.
Olivia I met Olivia through being brave or maybe before that but sharing that journey with her really has made our friendship grow. I am constantly amazed by your courage.
Kai you have such a sweet soul and kind heart. I feel connected to you, it was so great to meet you this past year.
Kelley I met in Taos at the writers spa and never have a I met such a gentle beautiful soul. we continue to connect and I feel our friendship is one that will last years.
Gemma I feel closer to you since we met and drank Mohitos together. You are always there with a kind word and great wisdom.
Mahala I love your sweet smile and warm heart. I feel a greater bond with you over this past year. Thanks for sharing so much with me.
Claire I admire your courage so much, its such an honor to be friends. I know we will meet in person some day soon. Thanks so much for staying connected even though you have enough to deal with on your own. I treasure the emails and the sharing.


















This is my 19th page for January and its focus was on using embellishment. I had a difficult time getting any of my pens to work over the paint. That was a little frustrating. I saw this page as a statement about making an occasion whenever you can. To celebrate life. Tomorrow is the inauguration and I am going to a ball in my town. Its at a hotel, I don't think there will be dancing but they will replay the ceremony and have food and such. I do plan to dress up as if I were attending a gala in Washington. Yes pictures will follow. It is a day to celebrate.

Art Jounal Challenge

I decided to take on another challenge. Misty Mawn is doing an Art journal challenge, you just commit to doing a page a day.


















Day 1 this has no special meaning other than thinking about my wishes for the coming year.


















Day 2 is a homage to my hands who do so much for me. I would find it hard to do all that I do without them.

I am headed to Missoula in the morning. The girl wants to head back to college a little early. We picked what we thought would be good days weather wise so I hope that holds out. This afternoon we made vision boards together, that was fun. I need to add some more to mine. Sarah already packed hers so you only get to see mine.

More Mail Art

I got some Mail art today or I should say it must have been Saturday since there has been no mail delivery today, I just never looked in the mailbox all weekend,










Kai sent this lovely letter and included a wonderful story from when Madeleine L'Engle was writer in residence for Victoria magazine. She's a favorite of mine. in fact a few years back I wrote to a few authors and she is the only one who ever wrote me back. I kept the letter, its safely tucked away. I relaly thought it was nice to get a hand written letter from her.













I got this from Sioux, this is truly amazing, I think its called a zentangle.

















I also got this ATC to match, well not really match but they do complement themselves.

A heads up to all Misty Mawn fans, she has a video on Youtube where she is painting a face. Its amazing to see. I have always gone light to dark and she seem to go the other way around. I am going to have to try that technique and see how it works for me.


















and last but not least is todays drawing.