It’s that season, the time of celebrating Sweethearts, Lovers, Mom’s, friends we love and cherish. Valentine’s day is my most favorite holiday because it is just simply the day to celebrate Love.  My newest heart pins are fresh from my studio, now nesting at :  the indie-dependent  drop by.   Each heart is hand painted, unique, one of a kind.  When I wear my private collection of  heart pins, people stop me, where did you get this?  Yours is waiting too.

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 the indie-dependent ‘preview opening’

today Dec.10 from 5p.m till 9:30p.m

 Also  showing are photographs in  the upstairs gallery by Marty Maxwell entitled: Rock, Paper, Scissors. 

In the Virginia-Highlands area, 1052 St. Charles Ave. N.E., Atlanta, Ga. 30306 (the alley next ten thousand villages shop).

Come by and say hi & congratulate Beth Lord as she demonstrates her support of artisans and artists in creating this wonderful addition to the Atlanta craft/art/shop scene.

from:

the Atlanta Opera Series

prints available

Cat Woman

d’arches paper, mixed media

I love cats. I love dogs too.  Cats are of course, cats, and dramatically different than dogs. They seem much more self contained, they are curious, detail, at times like a piece of  moving sculpture, at other times (when they are ready) they are responsive to us, and cuddle, playful.  The stillness of cats represents for me the moments within myself  of  what T.S. Elliot called : ” The still point of the turning world”.

source: wikipedia

The Stonewall Riots 1969

The Stonewall Inn, taken September 1969. The sign in the window reads: “We homosexuals plead with our people to please help maintain peaceful and quiet conduct on the streets of the Village—Mattachine”.

The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when people in the homosexual community fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.

American gays and lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s faced a legal system more anti-homosexual than those of some Warsaw Pact countries. Early homophile groups in the U.S. sought to prove that gay people could be assimilated into society, and they favored non-confrontational education for homosexuals and heterosexuals alike. The last years of the 1960s, however, were very contentious, as many social movements were active, including the African American Civil Rights Movement, the Counterculture of the 1960s, and antiwar demonstrations. These influences, along with the liberal environment of Greenwich Village, served as catalysts for the Stonewall riots.

Thank you Jane.
Oct 11.11    Jane Fonda blog:

Had dinner with Joni Mitchell Saturday night. Never met her before but she’s known Richard for ever. I can’t remember when I’ve had a more intense, far-reaching, multifaceted conversation (right from the moment we sat down…no small talk with Joni)—from Christianity, Buddhism, the Gnostics, different forms of meditation, Ego as the original sin, to living in the wilderness north of Vancouver, the beauty of blue herons, our Black bear encounters (mine more dramatic than hers), medical challenges (hers more dramatic than mine), Georgia O’Keefe (she stayed with her in New Mexico when O’Keefe was 90), painting (Joni paints), innovators versus copy cats and music. It thrills me to listen to musical people (Joni and Richard…or Keith Richards in his autobiography) dig into the minutia of creating musical art. Much is Greek to me but they got into what it meant to have started on the banjo (Joni) and how that influences chords and tuning. She talked fascinatingly about how she always liked to do what hadn’t been done musically–unresolved chords, etc, that often made the music honchos nervous. I should have taken notes.

Sunday morning I found myself on a plane (major delay!) to go to San Francisco to speak at the San Francisco Ultimate Women’s Expo. I was there to speak about my latest book PRIME TIME, and what I’ve learned from writing. I’ve spoken on this quite a bit over the last few months or more and I’m still enjoying seeing all the heads nodding (especially the gray heads…and nodding, not nodding off!). My PRIME TIME brand has created quite a community, which is why I’m excited to be able to continue the conversations from my book here on my blog, on my Facebook page, and on twitter now that my book tour has wound down.

Tonight, I’m having a small gathering for Bonnie Raitt. Joni will be there and Robbie Robertson, Eddie Olmos, Steve Bing and Paul Allen. I look forward to another fascinating and intense evening…if I make it back in time!

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$40.00

 All my jewelry is one of a kind, my pins resin, sequins, mixed media.  This pin is luminous with rich colors that sing.

This piece is resin and handpainted with luminous beads + glitter.  It functions as a necklace or can be a decorative wall piece.      $75.00

Make Art, Live Life, make a difference.

my post this a.m. on Citizen Kerry

This Fall morning, very early, stillness & coffee, all is simply well. Sketch fabric from my skirt. 2011

This morning is one of those perfect, I mean really perfect, Fall mornings.  I was up at 5 a.m., drove to ‘yoga boot camp’ listening to Eckhardt Tolle’s the Power of NOW, then 7:30 a.m. walk with my friend Judi (aka my chosen Sister).  Our walks and talks, like most gals’, are filled with a dozen topics, weaving in and out all over the place; a guy would have his brain in a  total spin. So many years of talks, walks, reflecting on the essence, what to do next and how, etc. etc. Concurrent to figuring out all this is to figure in life; how we enjoy ‘the hood’ , nature, each other.  I did this painting for Judi in 2001, and remember our  walk exactly. I bent down to pick up the tin plate in this piece and Judi said ‘what do you want that  for?! ,’  My answer: ‘don’t know – it will probably end up as art’!