Red for Heart Day........

I am going to be a part of red heart day,

on 26th February! I would like to ask for

your help on this one. What I would like

to do is raffle handcrafted art & crafts at

work and give the proceeds to the British

Heart Foundation......If you would like to

donate a small item, such as a brooch, earrings,

keychain, bookmark, artwork etc, I would be

delighted to receive them and have an arty

raffle basket. If you are interested please

email me and I will send my address to you.

Please could you send before the 26th Feb

if you would like to contribute. Thanks x

'To understand the heart and mind of person,

look not at what he already has achieved,

but at what he aspires to.'

KHALIL GIBRAN

I love my dolls.......

a selection of dolls I have created in the last year
and oh how I love my dolls! I am really a child at
heart like all my lovely friends in blogland.........

my quote to accompany my dolls is a Greek Proverb,

'The heart that loves is always young.'

heartbeats........

This week I am going to look at art from the heart

and write about quotes that inspire me.........

The above artcards I made when inspiration started

to return to me after years of doing family things

and not paying full attention to my art, so the first

quote this week will be.....

'All the knowledge I possess everyone can acquire,

but my heart is all my own.'

GOETHE

Happy Birthday Spring Chicken......

In Scotland we have a phrase 'you are no spring chicken!'
denoting the fact that the recipient of such a comment
was erring on the aged side......however I have a friend
who is celebrating his 65th birthday this week and is
as youthful as a newly laid egg!
I would like to wish him Happy Birthday!
To know him is to love him, his popularity is...
enormous, his generosity endless and his mischieviousness
legendary! A multi-linguist into the bargain, his
talents are much in demand. He will be retiring from
working life in the Summertime, but I am sure
another big chapter in his life is about to begin...
I am sure like me you have people in your life
whose heart is eternally preserved in childlike
wonder. Then there is the ten year old you meet
who happens to be going on forty five!

Age really only is a number, youth is a frame of
mind! All this talk of age is bringing me back to
flowers.............

and the wonderment when you plant a bulb

and beauty springs forth! I was given a present

of the blue hyacinth, how lucky was I?

The pink one just happened to be standing next

to it, but aren't they bonnie?

Another little sign that Spring is around the corner!

Have a lovely weekend everyone and enjoy!

Growing pains.....or gains?

the photograph above I took in the beautiful

gardens of Rozelle House, in Ayr.....and it inspired

me to add the words about growth. It's a gorgeous

plant that has found a host on the tree branch,

a supportive tree that accommodates a visitor.

My sons are going through a growth spurt just now

and I find myself looking at old pictures when they

were two little boys nearly two decades ago....was

it only yesterday because it seems so close when

I summon my memories, but the albums have

dates and dust on them and tell me it was longer

than I feel. My youngest found a lipstick in my bag

one afternoon and ran up and down the stairs

creating a continuous red line around the whole

of the top landing and back down again.....

it was a Paul Klee moment..'taking a line for

a walk.' Then my oldest son swallowed a screw

when he was three and a trip to the A&E of the

local hospital assured me it would pass....and it

did three days later, thankfully.

The things boys have to do to grow, a rite of

passage to the other side of gaining?

There is a young man in my life who is also very

special to me and my eldest daughter.

Tomorrow morning he is is going to grow and

his pain will be enormous as he is burying his

father at 52 years of age. He is only 24, and

last week his family had to make an almighty

decision as there was no hope of recovery.....

so tomorrow he will have to begin an almighty

journey without his father and my heart goes

out to him and his mother and elder brother.

Perhaps looking at the photograph made me

think of his predictament and his growth...

God Bless him and his family.

Hey I got a little something for you...Artisanne!

Artisanne's new life model ready and waiting........

I twinkled my magic halo and lo and behold a
pert, young effervescent nubile, Billy
appeared....as the frisky filly Artisanne was looking
for inspiration for her new life drawing classes!
Neigh bother to her! I am sure she will be churning
out reams of charcoaled cuteness and can't wait
to see what inspirational Billy does for her!
Remember that old chestnut Artisanne? Careful for
what you wish for because you might just get it?

Hee hee, and in case you are wondering folks if I
have recently changed my medication, please check
out Artisanne's blog, http://artisanne-scotland.blogspot.com
and you can wish Artisanne good luck now that she
has found her perfect model!

the sun has got his award hat on !!

my sunshine brooch on folksy!

Thank you Artisanne! x

Hee hee, http://artisanne-scotland.blogspot.com/

has given me an award for having a sunny blog,

and in order to accept it and post it on my blog I

have to list 12 little sunbeams who I would like to

give the sunshine awards to........in no order but

straight from my bloglist are....

sizzle, sizzle,

http://artisanne-scotland.blogspot.com/

http://carolynsaxby.blogspot.com/

http://pistudio.blogspot.com/

http://marigoldjam.blogspot.com/

http://chris-gray-textile-art.blogspot.com/

http://whetnallwatercolours.blogspot.com/

http://kaylacoo.blogspot.com/

http://menopausalmusing.blogspot.com/

http://slowlymadegoods.blogspot.com/

http://niminyfingers.blogspot.com/

http://juliekingart.blogspot.com/

http://florencewangdesigns.com

so if you would like to accept my award to you

pick 12 lucky rays and do the same thing!

Have a lovely warm weekend if you can!

Linda x