Merry Christmas 2022

 Merry Christmas

Ornament made from my collection of rubble

Tea Stands for Tuesday 12/13/22

 We are having a wet December here in NoCA.  That is my excuse to stay in and drink tea.  I think I should ask Santa for this tea pot, isn't it lovely.

I did have a bit of time for art this past week.  Nothing holiday related.  Kind of dark in my workspace and no tea, just my trusty water bottle.

I'm working on my Altered Playing Cards again.  If you look closely you can match some of the paper bits to the cards below.

I pretty much failed at photographing these three.  The ones left and center have gold  that I painted on tissue paper and then tore out and glued to the background.

Lets go visit Elizabeth's blog and see if anyone is into holiday ideas.

Second on the Second 12/02/22

 Here we are on the second day of the last month of 2022.  Sometimes I read the number I've written for the year and can't believe it.  Here is my entry for the Second on the Second hosted by Elizabeth.  A little T stands for Tuesday throw back.

TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2013

T stands for Tuesday - Sunflowers

Elizabeth at Altered Book Lover is hosting "T stands for Tuesday".  I thought I would be fun to add a poetry reading to the tea party.  Sip your morning cup of tea and read along with me.

hand painted individual tea set

I even have a coordinating tea spoon holder

THE SUNFLOWERS
by Mary Oliver

Come with me
into the field of sunflowers.
Their faces are burnished disks,
their dry spines

creak like ship masts,
their green leaves,
so heavy and many,
fill all day with the sticky

sugars of the sun.
Come with me
to visit the sunflowers,
they are shy

but want to be friends;
they have wonderful stories
of when they were young -
the important weather,

the wandering crows.
Don't be afraid
to ask them questions!
Their bright faces,

which follow the sun,
will listen, and all
those rows of seeds -
each one a new life!

hope for a deeper acquaintance;
each of them, though it stands
in a crowd of many,
like a separate universe,

is lonely, the long work
of turning their lives
into a celebration
is not easy. Come

and let us talk with those modest faces,
the simple garments of leaves,
the coarse roots in the earth
so uprightly burning.

Welcome December

We end the year with a busy month.  May all your baking be delicious, all your gifts get wrapped and all the memories you make be great ones.

free clip art