Happy First Birthday baby Ronan ! x0x0
- At July 8, 2011
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Ronan, we online casino L O V E you dude ! Uncle Zach, Papa Matt, & Aunt Bess
June. 2011.Atlanta.
"Love is Patient, Love is Kind."
- At July 8, 2011
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A delighted client with her new custom wedding floorcloth
- At June 22, 2011
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Susan Elliott had this floorcloth custom designed for a friend’s wedding. Susan said Glenna is like a daughter to her and she wanted a special present that would last for years as a heirloom of their beautiful wedding day..
Visit My Booth at the Wedding Day Hooray – Indie Craft Experience
- At May 15, 2011
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I will be at the Wedding Hooray Show put on by the Indie Craft Experience with my wedding gift floorcloths and some special jewelry items for your bridesmaids. This is one I just finished commemorating my own new marriage. But don’t you think they’d make a gorgeous wedding gifts?
Here is a detail from the above floorcloth.
Friends Indeed
- At May 13, 2011
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This is a picture of Judi I did in about 1999.
Photo of me taken by Judi Knight in about 2000
Here is a picture of the two of us a bunch of years ago!
“Fun is the goal, Love is the way, Truth is the path.”
- At April 29, 2011
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“Fun is the goal, Love is the way, Truth is the path.” Vic Baranco, phd
These heart pins are for the upcoming : Indie Craft Experience, Wedding day hooray
Today, the magical wedding of Kate & Will, royalty we can actually identify with, they are a couple that is authentic and real in their Love, & intention to make a difference in the world they touch. Which will be a very big one. I’m sure Princess Diana is smiling, any Mom would be.
pins are priced at: $52.00 each one is unique
Coming attractions: RubySlippersStudio.net
- At April 28, 2011
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Today a busy and gratifying day in the studio, also working with printing labels for my ‘heart art’ artist jewelry pins, a work in progress.
Judi Knight at New Tricks is working on launching new website for me : RubySlippersStudio.net that will eventually merge all 3 of my websites. Will be much easier to view both galleries and blog without having to click links all over the place.
High Notes of Clarity
- At April 26, 2011
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I’ve been up since early morning, in the stillness, time in the studio produces focus and clarity. I’ve been re-reading Love is letting go of fear, by Gerald Jampolsky, M.D., I intuitively turn toward his words, thinking of the contrast: simplicity of stillness and solitude versus connection and complexity. I am reminded then, as Dr. Jampolsky, states :
” Peace of mind as our single goal is the most potent motivating force we can have. Instead of having a single goal, we are all tempted to try to juggle multiple goals. Juggling can only serve to deflect our focus and increase our conflict.”
Again and again, first within, Peace of mind, my single goal, then all else. My moment to moment choice. Then: High notes of Clarity.
Rabbit in my basket
- At April 24, 2011
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What a glorious Easter Day here in Atlanta. If Easter represents re-birth, this day does it justice. Last night I saw the Documentary, “I Am”, written and directed by Tom Shadyac, also the director of numerous successful hollywood comedies, such as Bruce Almighty. I mention this because Tom was living high on the hog in Hollywood with “lots of stuff”; 17 acres, 3 homes in L.A. etc, when he had a life threatening accident that motivated him to review where he was, where he is, and life. Out of this process, the movie “I Am” was created. He started out with the question “what’s wrong with the world” and came to “what’s right with the world”. In both cases, the answer is: I am. We are in need a re-birthing of Spirit individually and globally. “I Am” points in the direction of co-operation and oneness.
“Everyone needs to see this film!” Bruce Cohen, Academy Award Winning Producer (American Beauty)
Monday, April 25 in Atlanta, there will be a special viewing of “I am” to benefit the non-profit movement: the invisible children. Showing at: King Plow arts center 7pm -10pm. Prior to the film, the band ‘O’brother’ will be playing. This will be an evening of community, art/film, comraderie. Importantly all funds will go toward helping the thousands of children who roam in packs, alone, in Uganda.
Also, if you cannot make this viewing it is also show at Tara theatre.
Have Happy Easter.
"Know now that we have always been in danger in our separateness"
- At April 22, 2011
- By Callahan McDonough
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My friend and colleague Sharman Colosetti, was visiting yesterday, we are doing a peer study series on EFT, I love learning with Sharman, she has an innate curiosity about life, a wise woman. Sharman was asking me about the story behind this painting, and said she loved hearing the stories behind my work. This painting is 5″ x 7 1/2″ and was done in 1986. This was a time of change and growth for me, my online casino son was 8 years old, I was a single Mom and struggling to keep afloat. After leaving my marriage, I started a house cleaning business, which I called my single Mom”s and artist”s survival kit. I did well with my business and also was able to continue painting, as well as support myself and Zach. This was also a time for self-reflection and maturing spiritually, emotionally, for me. This painting represents my experience at that time, the feeling of aloneness, reaching out for connection, feeling the response in community that sustains. The two small figures at the bottom are copied from my son”s drawings of his “Ninja” figures, they represent for me, and are totems of protection as seen through the eyes of my child. What Carl Jung, named, ” the luminous child”.
The title is a quote from : Adrienne Rich”s, Dream of a common language (the title itself an affirmation) : ” Know now that we have always been in danger in our separateness”.
‘I am who I am’
- At April 20, 2011
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This is a painting I did for my friend Judi Knight, Popeye’s quote is perfect for her painting title. Why? She IS who she IS. She is a Renaissance woman with many careers, therapist, designer, builder, mom, currently, Urban Oasis bed n’ breakfast & New Tricks social media marketing.
Namaste’ April 2011
- At April 20, 2011
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I have just completed this piece which I began in 1985. Many times I will work on a painting for years, I get to a point where it needs time, yes sometimes years. A metaphor actually for my life, that being here now, is a result of the many layers I laid down earlier in my life. Its a gratifying place to be for me. I’m also quite pleased to report, that all paintings do not take years and some just simply snap together. I still attribute even those to the many layers preceding. Namaste’
Art: floorcloths and paintings
Painting - Time present time past
Wedding Day Hooray and Indie Craft Experience
View Ruby Slippers Studio at the Indie Craft Experience: Wedding Day Hooray event
painting: The Color Purple After doing this painting I also did several floor cloths useing similar imagery/theme.
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