Wednesday, October 14, 2009

White Wednesday

I've decided to join the white Wednesday group so I can keep my blog updated. This will force me to post at least once a week on my blog. The first looks like a shell, but it's a budding flower that I took from my neighbors tree.
This is a fish on the bottom step of another neighbor. She has plants that go all the way up her stairway. Every day I walk past this fish I'll call White Wanda.

This is a rose bush from another neighbors front porch. You can see my flash in the window.


This is a Manet painting from the 1800's. I'm reading a book called "Luncheon of The Boating Party" by Susan Vreeland. It's about Renoir and his friends. She brings to life one of his painting and a personality to all the people in the painting (not the one above, Manet is also painter in Paris). I'm not sure the name on this painting, but she's in white.



Another painting by Manet (not to be confused with Monet) This one is called The Balcony. It fits the White Wednesday theme.




Thursday, October 8, 2009

Sometimes the hands have to create

I'm not very good at keeping up on my posting to this blog. I'll have to really try harder.
Today I made some hand pins for Halloween. The skeleton Hands I bought for $1.00 at the dollar store and the pin attachment I also bought at the dollar store 6 for $1.00. The buttons, string, ribbons, lace and material are all scrapes I would normally trash. I started with plain and each time I made a new one I added more stuff. I think they came out so cute. I just love them.

A few month ago I got painting bug and painted a sign for my mom to hang in her yard. This is the second sign I've done for her the first one said country garden and she gave it to her sister to put in her garden. So this time I put my mother's name on the sign so she can't give it away.