123 mingle for yahoo swap

Lady's in Waiting

Tip in Altered Page

This is the Front of a tip in page for one of my yahoo swap groups .

The lace, feathers and flowers give it a

great shabby chic look! This one will be hard to send off!

This is the Back of the page..

Romantic Gothic Arches just in time for Valentines Day!

First Love

Meet Me at the Chapel

Longing for Love

Cat Collage ..my gracie girl all dressed and ready to go!

This is a watercolor I did of my gracie..it was auctioned off for charity at the annual art show and silent auction for Alzheiemer's Respite and Resource , the non-profit that I work for. I added an Antique jewelry brooch ,feather,letter tiles and wonderful hand made paper . It was hard to sell!I wanted it for myself!!!

Today

Today I actually got my craft room organized! YAHOO! Now I will attempt to create something awesome to share in all it's glory. I think I have been avoiding creating because the room was so jumbled. While watching an episode of "Clean House" today , I bit the bullet and plunged in, put all my collage stuff in one bin and embellishments in another, filed paper and new stickers etc.,put my new atc's in an album and threw out junk (as we all know there was not much to throw away! HAH! My junk is my treasure!).

Picture for your creativity,

feel free to borrow this!

It is a photo of my great grandmother

Appolonia Arnes.

New Year New Thoughts

Reflection is one thing I do too much of, so am going to do my best to live this year with my focus ahead and not in the rear view mirror. Seems I need to go forward and stop thinking things are always clearer in the past. I embrace the new and out with the old, AMEN! Happy New Year to all!

ATC Christmas Spirit 2007

Traditions in the Ukraine

New Art Trading Card for a swap on one of my yahoo groups.
We were to chose a "Christmas around the world tradition" and create a card ..I chose the Ukraine and Love the meaning of the Holy Supper. Read on for a little history lesson!
"Sviata Vechera OR "Holy Supper" is the central tradition of the beautiful Christmas Eve celebrations in Ukrainian homes. The dinner table sometimes has a few wisps of hay on the embroidered table cloth as a reminder of the manger in Bethlehem.
When the children see the first Star in the eastern evening sky, which symbolizes the trek of the Three Wise Men, the Sviata Vechera may begin. In farming communities the head of the household now brings in a sheaf of wheat called the didukh which represents the importance of the ancient and rich wheat crops of Ukraine, the staff of life through the centuries. Didukh means literally "grandfather spirit" so it symbolizes the family's ancestors. In city homes a few stalks of golden wheat in a vase are often used to decorate the table. A prayer is said and the father says the traditional Christmas greeting, "Khristos rodyvsya!" which translated is Christ is born!, which is answered by the family with "Slavite Yoho!" which translated is Let Us Glorify Him!.AMEN!!!!