some arty=ness

I did this sketch at the Cocohatchee Preserve...en plein air.(while i was having my morning coffee from Dunkin donuts..hahah)  I am not a 'drawing kind of gal" .   After buying  Danny Gregory's book Every Day Matters to try and improve  I finally gave it away...... it drove me crazy to try to draw every seed on a bagel..haha believe me, you won't see many sketches from moi.  I have been doodling with my extra fine point sharpie quite a lot in my journal..Above..   And these 3 panels below are a paint and pass  I am doing with 8 friends!  It is really cool. Each person paints a background and it gets sent to the next one in line to add something!  I added the turtle on one.....  THe Palm Trees.... and the green shore/bank   It is cool to see what each person adds!

Full moon!

The moon is gorgeous right now!   I know I have been really slack in my postings as of late.   Also slack in my art...and also slack in getting out some swaps!  Just call me Mz. Slacker .  The weather  is so nice right now I cannot stay indoors.  Soon it will be too hot to be out for very long., so I must get in all the outside activity  possible ..haha.  Summer time is caliente! I will post some doodles and dweedles  tomorrow.  Go  Run out and Howl at the moon now>>>>>Oooo00OOOooo  !

Ahhhh....Hope you are having a great Sunday!

I had a great Birthday yesterday...

Thank you all for the sweet BD wishes! Last night I had a giant slice of chocolate rasberry cake and a glass of vino.  Look at the wine lable  !!! Love it !

Woo hooo! It's my birthday! I love my birthday..I used to have a Spring Fling birthday party every year. This was taken 3 years ago at my house. This time of year in Charleston is spectacular ..so it was always fun to start  Spring with a partay with all my friends. Looking at this photo...I see all the 'stuff' I got rid of when I left for the West Coast. I had so much junk it was unreal..it took me months to go through it all and purge  myself of piles of  this and that.  I don't miss any of it except my chandeliers and garden.  My lifestyle has changed...I've paired down to just a few things. ..now that I lead the gypsy life. I have to say I am a lot happier with a lighter load. It was overwhelming me to have so much stuff.  I was beginning to feel like one of those hoarder types..haha.  Happy Spring everyone!!!!

Mangroves...

One of the main reasons I love to ride my bike everywhere is to discover all the secret places that one would miss if driving a car!Actually this is in a gated community that you can only get in by bike anyway.  There are beautiful trails for miles.A long wooden pier meanders through the Mangroves and it is so peaceful and serene. At the end of the pier..this is the view...

Rarely do I ever see another person...but I saw dolphins chasing their dinner! no matter how crappy things might be sometimes...this is bliss.

I painted a piece of cardboard ,then folded it in half...it is going to be a cover for a journal I'm making out of watercolor paper and some other papers I have lying around. I think the flamingo is from a card .. an Anahata Katka card...

Belly Dance....

A few of you who know me  also know that a few years ago I took belly dancing.  I loved it. My instructor moved away and that was that.  After listening  to all this gypsy music ..and having some vino last night , I pulled out my belly coin scarf(scared the dogs , they ran the other way...which is probably all well and good!)Thses photos were taken 4 yrs ago: btw.

Anyway, there are classes in Naples! Yay . I think I'll sign up soon.  Belly dance is fun.... great music  and costumes...fun exercise.. .  You can let your inner 'Goddess" out to play. My favorite style is Tribal Fusion, of course. Chek it out  HERE

Some art and shock! A photo of moi ....

I finally have an up to date photo  of myself.  I hate having my picture taken.  I took this one ..it isn't too bad. I am totally not photogenic..hah I took a ton of pics and this was the only one that looked decent!  I've been in Florida a year and I can already tell that the sun is aging my skin, even tho I use sunscreen. Being outside is a major part of who I am and it is very hard to stay out of the Sun.I worked on a mixed media painting..I realized that many of my people have hats  or scarves !   It just happens..hah. I a malso working on an ATC swap  as well as a round robin Pass and Paint with  my Glitter Sister  blogging friends.   Ciao for now and keep dancing!!!

Check this out fellow gypsies..happy Easter !

A Gypsy Documentary with Johnny Depp

If I were a....

If I were a month, I'd be April.

If I were a day, I’d be Sunday.

If I were a time of day, I’d be  late afternoon

If I were a font, I’d be curly .

If I were a sea animal, Mermaid  

If I were a direction, I’d be SOUTH.

If I were a piece of furniture, I'd be an old vintage gypsy trunk..

If I were a liquid, I’d be Pinot Grigio.

If I were a gemstone, I'd be a ruby.

If I were a tree, I’d be a Foxtail Palm.

If I were a tool, I’d be a Swiss Army Knife.

If I were a flower, I’d be a   rambling rose climbing ..climbing.

If I were an element of weather, I'd be sunshine.

If I were a musical instrument, I’d be a Saxophone.

If I were a color, I’d be  tUrQuOiSe.

if i were an emotion, I’d be peaceful.

If I were a fruit, I’d be a ripe , luscious Comice pear.

If I were a sound, I’d be waves on the shore.

If I were an element, I’d be SILVER.

If I were a car, I’d be a mint condition VW camper.

If I were a food, I’d be Belgian Chocolat.

If I were a place, I’d be Tahiti.

If I were material, I’d be a CRaZy quilt.

If i were a taste, I’d be fresh raspberry from the vine.

If I were a scent, I’d be patchouli

If I were a body part, I’d be EYES.

If I were a song, I'd be Three Little Birds~ Bob Marley.

If I were a bird, I’d be a Hawk..soaring over the Grand Canyon.

If I were a gift, I’d be exactly what the giftee desired.

If I were a city, I’d be Paris.

If I were a door, I’d be wide open.

If I were a pair of shoes, I’d be flipflops.

If I were a poem, I’d have to say, even tho cliche....

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that, the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

two roads diverged in a wood, and I --

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Happy Easter Weekend

It's April, my favorite month.