i balance on flowers

these just seemed fitting to hold me up.

flower xox love

bath time

real feels

be my real self. love real big. feel my real feelings. speak real & true.

(bracelet from http://wellofcreations.blogspot.com/)

love to YOUR real. xox

fireflies

i was inspired from a dear friend's comment on one of my posts about this!

(lovely jennifer at http://ripplespeak.blogspot.com/!)

love to all your shinings!

story time

i was magnificently gifted with this story

from a friend

& included now is my illustration...

the text reads as follows:

a blue bird came to me this morning.

wake up, wake up was his song.

go away, go away, i don't want to start my day.

but the day is beautiful.

i don't care...

the blue bird kept nagging & begging,

get up, go out, the sun will warm you.

leave me alone...

the blue bird flew away,

up high into the sky.

it came back with a ray from the sun

& laid it on my face.

i got up & went out.

it was a beautiful day...

~

(blue bird love to each of YOU today. xox)

seeing through these eyes

our 12 year old, sam, told me he was thinking about something he knew i'd like but wasn't so sure about telling me. i said pleeeeeeeeease tell me & bribed him with a back scratch.

it worked & i wrote it alongside this drawing.

i made the hair on this illustration curly & full in honor of him...but i still can't help but draw figures mostly in the female form!
love to all you see & hear & are. xo

i can do magic anywhere

our 14 year old son, abe, had really gotten into

magic card tricks

& said this one morning

when he slipped the deck into his robe pocket.

(hmmm ** maybe we all can, maybe we all can).

see anew

sometimes going somewhere else

(in my case recently, northern mn woods)

helps me to see anew

& this began w/the encouragement to

slow down

& look up

& all around me

& always within~
sharing now
such branches
w/you
& love
to what filters through
your eyes.

playing with thread

over our december holiday time away,

tucked in the north woods of mn,

i played with thread & stitched words into my clothes,

like, love finds me...

& free,

& a butterfly even came to visit :)

i'll include a couple photos of these woods soon,
& extend their branches to you.
all w/love. xox