Love in my heart

To greet the day with Love in my Heart

and laughter on my Lips,

is what I long for.

A Wounded Soul

I was watching a program on TV about a psychologist who deals with women in prison for murder. She was explaining that most of these women have been severly abused as children. When we are able to 'Embrace our wounded soul, like a mother who cradles her baby', we will not harbour hatred and bitterness toward others. It is when we resist that part of who we are, that we seek revenge.

I am going away for a few days so I will not be blogging until I get back on the 1st April, so I will leave you with this thought.

Jesus

I started this painting last year and had to stop because I had a lot of other art work that I needed to do for the Christmas season. I have been working on it again in the past few days, but I still have a long way to go with this one and I am struggling with it. When I don't paint for a few months I lose the touch, it can be very frustrating. But with lots of encouragement from my friend Sharon I will persevere.

Cross Collection

I love collecting them. Four of these were given to me by my eldest Daughter for Christmas and I love them. The pewter one on the left was made by me for a friend. I wasn't happy with the way it turned out so I haven't given it to her yet! The one in the middle with the stone on top was made my me. The stone is a heart I found on the beach.

Big Problem!

A sure sign that I am stressing. When I was getting divorced and honestly no words could ever discribe my stress levels, my hair fell out in handfuls. It would be all over the floor, my pillow, my clothes it was really  bad. For reasons that I cannot share here, my hair is falling out again.Why am I saving it, well I was thinking of sending it to China and getting a wig made. No seriously, this really isn't a joke anymore. I am desperate for someone to come up with a solution for me. Avocado, mayonaise, chutney what ever..I have to do something. Sorting out what is stressing me would be a good start I guess!

Now what?

This is what I have to deal with every time I have a shower, it really isn't funny anymore.

Butterfly nap

I do a lot of  'dark' manipulations that I purposely try to give strong messages, but in order to keep the balance in my own emotions I have to do pretty things now and again. I was thinking about taking naps when I was younger and I always used to pretend that I was in some sort of fantasy world, so that I could fall asleep. This one pretty much shows how my world looked.

Faerie Garden

I was fascinated with this mask border, I am not sure where I found it, but with my Grand daughter always on my mind, I had to make her a little faerie and then decided to try the border. It's pretty.

Sharons Painting.

I am sure my friend won't mind me sharing her art with you. Take a look at her blog.

Sharon's Blog

When friends share secrets, it's forever.

Don't lose sight of your dreams.

When distance separates friendship.

Crazy Woman

I have been doing a lot of research lately for my website. Understanding the nature of the 'beast' so to speak. I came across the website awhile ago and as much as it is for men, the information applies to both men and woman who are in abusive relationships. There is no difference actually, a Narcissist is just that, males and females operate the same way.  I'm sorry for my sense of humour but I did laugh at this video. How can anyone redeem themselves after this?
Crazy woman Please be warned, the language is not great the behaviour even worse, but this is the other side of the story which has to be told.  Childish immature behaviour but it happens.

Women who abuse men.

I have to remember why I started this blog and that was not only to share my art work, but to share my healing with anyone who might be interested. My book was the last chapter of many years of abuse, but only when the book was published did my healing really begin and it has taken a long time. I am researching information for my website on women who abuse men which inspired this photo manupulation.

Prickly Pears

The other day I noticed that my neighbour had a huge cactus in his garden. He is an old man and doesn't do any gardening so it really is wild in his NON garden. I saw a garden man 'trying' to pick up some leaves and asked him to please pick some fruit off the cactus for me. He used an old coffee cup that was on the ground, yes that is how messy his garden is! The cup was protecting his hands from the prickles. I knew that I would have to be careful but obiously not careful enough.  Serves me right for stealing the old mans fruit!

This doesn't look that appetizing but trust me it was delicious. You really are going to laugh at this one. When I was preparing the prickly pears, cutting away the skin using a knife and fork, I thought I was being sooo careful, but the tiny little prickles were all over the board where I was cutting up the fruit which went into the paw paw! My mouth was watering when I finally got to take a nice big mouthful. It tasted delicious but a short while later, something was wrong ! Very wrong, I had tiny prickles on my tongue, and the odd one on my lips. Now I don't see too good, so I have done my best to try and see where they are and remove them with tweezers, but without success. I have eaten everything I possibly can today, cleaned my teeth and scraped my tongue with my brush, but I can still feel this little tine pricks in my mouth. So now I have to throw the rest of my fruit salad away. I know what you are thinking !

Blaaaah !

This stuff is disgusting. I don't care if it has 25 billion probiotics, it tastes like chicken poop ! yes I know, now you want to know where I have eaten chicken poop? You need to remember, I grew up in Zimbabwe and spent all my school holidays on my aunt and uncles farm. We played everywhere including in the chicken run. Hummm I don't want to go into details but I do remember rubbing something off my foot and wiped it across my mouth by mistake.... Yuk !

Box Journal

Honestly inspired by DJ's beautiful little Fat Books that she makes with the most incredible inspiration and art work I had to make this. Now what?

Goodie Box

I have put some jewellery in the box, but that is not what I would use it for. Because it is supposed to be a 'journal', I would put all the things in it that I would normally glue into a book, wine cork, pen, labels, receipts from a restaurant, post card, what ever occassion it was that I wanted to remember.

Miss Lily

I am giving a workshop on Saturday so I am making up some samples. I wish I had my printer then I wouldn't have to take my own artwork I could just print them out and use those. I have 15 registered for the class so thats all good.

Miss Rosie

Once I have laid out the serviettes, naper napkins in a random fashion  I have no idea what I am going to do, I just wait for it to become.

Poppy

I think what I enjoy about doing these is that it is not possible to make two the same. Each one calls for something different.