Summer in the Desert

 This picture was taken on a recent trip

 to the Desert Botanical Garden. 

I love the juxtaposition of the beautiful

delicate flowers, alongside the stiff piercing thorns.

It reminds me of life. 

Summertime is coming. It's held off until

now, and we've had such beautiful weather. 

My husband and I were on our walk this morning

and talking about how this is the longest we've gone

into the year without having to turn on the air conditioner. 

Thanking God for that blessing!

The following are a hand full of some

recent pieces I've painted. 

My husband cut a silhouette of Arizona

out of pine wood for me on our scroll saw 

and I did my thing. Cheerful as

cheerful can be. I really love the 

way this turned out. 

This is a landscape I did on a gallery wrapped

canvas with acrylic paint and posca pens. 

A couple of sweet kitties. . .

and two colorful fish, finish

out the bunch. 

Now it's time for me to get back to work

on a couple projects. 

I hope you're having a wonderful day! 

Terri 

Catching Up!

Things started getting really busy

around here once the holiday season started 

and it's been hard to get back in the 

swing of blogging ever since. 

I've missed my blogging friends

though, and look forward to touching

base and saying hello. 

Here are a few of my creations

from the past months. 

I hope you're having a wonderful week! 

Blessings,

Terri 

Frida Boxes and Fur Baby

Our little grand pup is growing quickly!

Gus loves this little patch of grass we

have in the backyard for our tortoise. 

It's the softest and coolest place to lay.

No wonder he gravitates there

every time he visits. 

Our son-in-law is in the middle

of a 2 month long chemo treatment. 

Every opportunity to help the kids out

during this tough season of life is a blessing. 

This is one of my two Frida 

shadow boxes. 

The yellow background on this

one is an easy way to tell the two apart. 

(Just a little side note, there's a glare

in this picture that isn't in the actual piece.

These are hard pieces to get good pictures.)

This one has loteria cards

on the side. 

 This is the second one. 

It's sides are painted with gems added here and there. 

I've left a spot in front of each to

place some tea light flameless candles. 

It'll help to light up the inside. 

Personally, I don't think pictures

do them justice. 

I love the way they look in person if

I do say so myself. 

Hoping you're having a wonderful 

week and all is well with your soul! 

Terri 

Paintings and Thoughts on Procrastination

I've found one positive thing about 

myself in regard to procrastination today.

When I procrastinate about doing 

the thing I don't want to do, I'm extremely

productive in doing everything

else that eventually needs to be done. 

Laundry's done, dishes are done, birthday card

that had to go out is in the mail, blog post

almost finished. . . 

Speaking of which, I'll get

started on now. 

I was sort of willy nilly in my

painting this week. 

I had some wood pieces my husband

had cut for me that I wanted to use up.

Here's what I came up with for now. 

It's funny, the thing I'm procrastinating about

is not a big deal at all.

It's just something I don't feel like doing. 

Oh, I just remembered the pomodoro time

management method!

That's what I'll do, set the timer and get started.  

Thank you for visiting today!

I hope you have a fabulous week.

Terri

Wonder Kitty

Something simple, light hearted,

and fun was what I felt like painting.  

I came up with the idea

of a folk art Wonder Kitty!

I didn't search before I 

made my painting to see if

it had been done, but afterward

I searched for "cats in clothes paintings". 

There are so many images

of paintings with cats in clothes

(much more sophisticated than mine).

Scrolling thru them made me smile.

Painting this piece made me smile too,

which is the heart of what art is about for me. 

She may be primitive and rudimentary,

but to me she's PURRFECT!