Are we there yet?



  When is it the "holidays" in your home?
I've just finished hanging lights in the windows and on an outside Maple.
I have a tiny Christmas tree (2ft) in my bedroom because I still have plastering and painting to do on the main floor of my home.
I was lucky enough to find a lot of vintage glass bulbs in the weekend's flea market flurry.
I did a sweep of the markets before any other looking to find them.
So cheap too. I spent about $8 and have 50 or more...Photos to come.
 I am making Christmas presents tonight, listening to CBC's "Wachtel and The Arts" upstairs and Christmas music downstairs, drinking espresso (after 10pm!) and dancing about feeling happy.
I hope you are happy and dancing too!
xoxox




"My Precious..."



My version of those Christmas bulbs catching every blogger's eye...

I gathered twigs and branches
and herbs and seeds
and grasses and tiny dried flowers
all fall.
I had no idea what I was going to do with them...
Photography has given me new eyes
and I am falling in love with the minutia of my world.
The small pieces that were oft over looked.
With camera to eye they become looked over and precious.
So, like the fallen hobbit, I was constantly grabbing and hording "my precious..."
My camera bag the coffin of the dead flora.

So when I saw these I knew...
This is what the hording was for.
You really should see them from the original makers, (Land-Rich) click the link under the photos above. Mine have less in them because I liked them that way but the ones after the jump are sublime. A word rarely used...

xoxox

Kreativ Blog Award

I have been given a Kreativ Blog Award from Guillemette whose blog GREY LEMON is one of my favourites...Not only because it is in French with a translate feature, which helps because I am trying to learn French...But also because it features interesting art and cultural items.

La règle du jeu: Dévoiler 7 confidences et nominer 7 blogs.

So here are...

My 7 secrets revealed...

~ I am a lover of feet. I love my feet. I love to draw and paint feet. I love photos of feet. Such hardworking and under appreciated things are they. Which leads to...
~ I root for the underdog. I always hope the least likely will win and so one day I root for one team, the next day someone else...Luckily the party I vote for, in Canada, is always the underdog!
~ I am a perfect mix of my parents. Mostly their bad qualities! And in some ways I am more like my step-parents!
~ I have skeletons in my closets...They play dress-up with my vintage clothing. They sometimes dance across my floor playing their xylophone rib cages and doffing their feathered hats. They are loud. They have made me a light sleeper.
~ I had to leave a beautiful, sweet, tender cat behind when I left a controlling relationship. I still cry about it, 12 years later...(the ex brought him, Bailey, to the SPCA. I feel he must have been adopted because he was fixed and healthy and beautiful and orange...But deep down I know I may be wrong...)
~ I feel old. Creaky. I am not old. Or creaky.
~ There are so many things that I will never see and it bothers me a lot. I watched "Out of Africa" (LOVE), a couple of nights ago, and it opened a hole in my soul...The sights, the time period. I may get to Africa but I will never see enough.

My 7 Nominations for the Kreativ Blog Award...

  1. Meg from The Wild and Wily Ways of a Brunette Bombshell for her honesty and writing.
  2. Nancy*McKay ...Tea and a Little Photography... for her Haiku and beautiful photos.
  3. Tia Bailey of 1000 beautiful Things for her inspirational, ethereal fine art photography.
  4. Inhae of My Milk Toof for her creativity and light hearted creations.
  5. She of Speaking for Herself because she calls herself "she", and is enigmatic and honest.
  6. Jenny of Wikstenmade because I love her creations and the way she photographs them.
  7. Tena of Shrink to Fit because she is brave, creative and a friend.
Sometimes I ignore awards because of time constraints, or other, but I felt like taking this one on. And so I have no issue if those I nominated above respond as I sometimes have...Do take a peek at the blogs though they are lovely, and the woman, phenomenal.

xoxox

pssst...hey santa,
if you are reading...
i want a hippo for christmas.
please...
xoxo

Snowed Under!

Maple Tree in Winter

Snow much to do... ;)

Taking a little break to prepare for Christmas. I have many things to make! I've been neglecting those who have left comments and have been absent from my usual visits to those blogs I love.

Not gone for long, just a few days and until then...
Much love...
xoxo

B.S.T. #19

Beautiful Simple things #19

Snow stopped falling at midnight

Alone

for tonight I am happy this is so

Cocooned
in woolen warmth

...as the branches in the snow

I walk
~crunch crunch crunch~
~crunch crunch crunch~
singular sound
except
the wind
whispering
whispering
whispering
in a voice I recognize as my own...

What exists but tonight anyway?