Mixing It Up

There is something really awesome about creating mixed-media art!  The textures, the dimensions, the colors … combining these aspects with different papers, nature, antiques, {the list goes on} … it’s one of my many creative passions.  I like to capture the essence of life around me, the life of the past and the possible life of the future in a dimensional form.  For instance, I just love little quaint villages.  The shops you can poke through, the ‘family’ type of feel you experience when you visit them and the easy, relaxed atmosphere the surrounds you.  So, in my latest creative adventure, I wanted to try and capture the many emotions that we experience upon a visit to a ‘village’ and I placed my focus on the beauty of yarns.  I created a ‘village-like’ store front painting in watercolors and ‘mixed it up’ by adding beautiful yarns and a pair of antique scissors.  I hope, when people view my interpretation, they get drawn into the feelings I am creating, can experience the essence of a village and then happily evoke their own love for these special corners of our world.  The possibilities are endless as to what I can capture dimensionally!  Hmmm … my creative mind is primed … now, what to ‘mix up’ next is the question!

Artfully Yours, L   

Huckle Buckle Beanstalk!

The other morning my husband, out of the blue, just said ‘huckle, buckle, beanstalk” and the memories came rushing back!  Don’t you just LOVE it when that happens?  I haven’t heard those words since the 70’s!  He told me how he used to play the game in elementary school and we both recalled the game rules.  His teacher would hide an eraser then the class would search out the elusive object and the first one who found the eraser would shout out ‘huckle, buckle, beanstalk’ and be the winner!  Wasn’t life so much simpler then?  We really enjoyed this game I think mostly because it was so cool to say the words together ‘huckle, buckle, beanstalk’ … just makes you smile!   There were other names for the same game which originated as far back as the 19th-century in England and America.  Some include “Hide the Object”, “Hide the Key”, “Hunt the Thimble”, “Hide the Thimble”, and “Hot Buttered Beans”.

Thanks for the great memories and smiles my love … it made my day!

Enjoy L!