February 6, 2013 ~ True Love Is Forever

#21 ~ Just Believe

“We have to learn to be our own best friends 

because we fall too easilyinto the trap of being our own worst enemies.

~Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive

Believe in yourself , be brave, and you, too, 

will be able to walk down that Yellow Brick Road to happiness and success.

This post is linked with the art group “Color Me Positive 2016 ~ Weekly Journal Challenge”.

#15 ~ Don’t Forget Your Lemons

“As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, sour auras! The good thing is that if you don't want to be a lemon, you don't have to be! Just don't let those lemons rub themselves all over you! And you don't even have to save them! Let lemons be lemons! One of the most important things that I have ever learned, is that I don't have to save people.” 

~C.JoyBell C.

Buddy and I go to the same physical therapist...him for his hip problems from all the running and me for my back. It was her beautiful yellow home that I posted a while back s being for sale. About three weeks ago, she said she wanted us each to take 1/2 lemon, put it in a cup of water, and then microwave it until it was boiling. Let it cool, strip the innards from the lemon into the water, and then drink it. Do this daily. She has found for herself and her patients it helps with mobility of the joints and the back. So we would not forget, I painted us a little sign of the lemons with my reminder....Don’t forget your lemons. Tonight I decided to take a photo of it and see what I could do with layers. Here is the result. The background layer is from Julie Mead.

The lemons came from this first page of my art journal.

I am joining Paint Party Friday this week.

Collage created January 15, 2016

#13 ~ High on Coffee in My Favorite Tree

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as 

sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”

~John Muir, The Mountains of California

Go to Skywatch Fridays to see more beautiful skies from around the world. Thank you Yogi, Sandy, and Sylvia for hosting the meme.

#11~ Cats and Eyes

      Thank you for all of your kind comments about my Children’s Series somewhat focusing on the Oklahoma City Bombings and how I expressed my sadness with the loss of those 19 little innocents  using art. The thought that went into the words you wrote to me meant more than you will know, and I have read all of your replies over and over again. I was very hesitant to post my cards, but after a lot of thought I decided to just go ahead and do it. My feelings were I should be posting these to my other blog, "Buttons for Baga", because these were not photography, but I reminded myself that I have been posting my sewing and quilting to this site for a long time.  

Today I am posting two...one from 1996 and a new one. I hope they make you giggle. The first one is about four women who met each other every summer for a week in Charleston, SC, year after year after year, and as our daughters aged they were included, too. Now, only two of us are out and about. One has been in and out of the hospital for quite a few years with serious problems, and the other is in an extended care facility. One of the daughters has the scrapbook of all our happy years together, so our girls will have that to look at in the years to come.

“A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.”

~William Ralph Inge

“If you want me to fall for you, you have to give me something worth tripping for."

         ~Author Unknown