Watercolors and Ink

Meet Blossom

My Hippie Giraffe

Watercolor and Ink on Multimedia paper

9 x 12
FOR SALE at any one of my shops!  Prints or fun stuff!

9 x12

Other People's Words that I love

"Even a broken clock gets to be right twice a day."

Anonymous

Zen Girl

Reworked this art piece and I am loving it more!

Zen Girl

Watercolors and Ink on Multimedia paper

9 x 12

FOR SALE at any one of my shops!  Prints or fun stuff!

Let's Give Them Something To Talk About . . .

Movie Critique

TAKING LIVES

5 Stars!

A female detective on the trail of a psychotic killer discovers love in a dangerous time in this thriller.   Illeana Scott (Angelina Jolie) is a special agent with the FBI who has a reputation for using offbeat methods, but also boasts a strong record as a criminal profiler. Scott is called in by a former Quantico colleague (Tcheky Karyo) to assist two Canadian police detectives, Paquette (Olivier Martinez) and Duval (Jean-Hugues Anglade), who are on the trail of a serial killer who has been doing business in and around Montreal for close to two decades. The murderer has a history of assimilating many aspects of the lives of his victims after he kills them, but there's been a witness to his most recent crime. Art gallery owner James Costa (Ethan Hawke) saw the killer during an assault, and now finds himself working as an only marginally willing decoy for Scott. As Scott and Costa follow the killer's trail, they find themselves becoming attracted to one another, which is not necessarily a comfort to Scott as she finds her quarry moving closer and closer. Taking Lives also stars Kiefer Sutherland and Gena Rowlands.

How Successful People Think

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life 

(Resource: John C. Maxwell's "How Successful People Think")

Good thinkers are always in demand! (Introduction page).  Love this statement - so simple. 

It's hard to overstate the value of changing your thinking (pg x).

1. Changed thinking is not automatic
2. Changed thinking is difficult
3. Changed thinking is worth the investment.

How to become a better thinker:

1. Expose yourself to good input
2. Expose yourself to good thinkers
3. Choose to think good thoughts
4. Act on your good thoughts
5. Allow your emotions to create another good thought
6. Repeat the process.

More to come as I continue to read. . . . . . 

Book Binding

Took a Ribbon Book Binding Class

at Scrappnsavvy in Spring, TX  (scrappnsavvy.com)

L.O.O.K what I made!  

It's a Photo Album!

Front View 

 Side View

 Inside Cover and photo pages (sorry for the glare but the light just insisted on bouncing off the plastic photo holder pages)

Best Class Ever!!!  $30 ALL (yes ALL) supplies included!  We did get to choose our own paper for the outside and inside covers and the binding.  When we arrived at class our stations were ALL SET UP with all our supplies packaged neatly for us!  Plus and ladies this is a major plus - the book covers were already measured and cut for us! (And we all know what a difficult chore that is!).  What a deal!  Can hardly wait to take another class!  Oh My!

And kudos to the most patient and fun teacher ever: Jane Andrews!  

Come into my Rose Garden . . . .

Garden 

Won't you come into the Garden?

I would like my roses to meet you!

(Reference:  Richard Brinsley Sheridin).  

Decorating the Table for Fall Y'all!

I love changing things up when the seasons change!  Just a touch her and there makes quite a different look to your place. 

So I start in my dining room with the table.  This table has given my family and friends so much joy as we shared so many birthdays, holidays, Christmas, and any other special occasion meals.  I love to cook and I love to feed people!  I share my new recipes and home baked goods not only with family but neighbors too!  Someone once said "hang at Theresa's home for an hour and she will be feeding you!"  I love that!

So first I started with some inexpensive burlap.  Cut the four edges and fray them.  I actually saw this done at Pottery Barn years ago and of course - instead of buying their product - made my version of it myself!  A DIY project!

Next I folded a full size table cloth that I purchased at Target in three's, and then ran it down the center to work as a runner. 

Now to go into the storage area and get my Fall decorations!  Will post finished table!

Watercolors . . . .

Messy?  Not really!  Loving this!