As January comes to an end

Jan 28th already, where did this month go, our first of  twelve in this new year of ours.

It is my Step Son’s birthday as well as a day this country will never forget or the people lost when the Space Program lost its ship and special people with in.  Always good to remember there are worse things in this world when you are feeling down with the world’s pressure’s on you.

I have been working a lot on me.  Finally I am putting myself up front and learning new things
to add to all I already know.  I started Yoga last week, ouch must not be so hungry to learn something new, with this painful body of mine. Weight Watchers is going good, I try to lose 2 pounds each week. Beading, Fusing and lamp working keep me sane, and you all know how much I love Ron and our beautiful female Border Collie JT, our kitty too!

I have been trying to come up with color combinations others would like, when I was given just the right words from a woman I just met, she said “Make what YOU LOVE and they will like it!”.  How insightful to hear what comes from within me, others may enjoy.  I will NEVER be too OLD to learn something new!

When I take my camera on a walk with me, I never know what it is that will catch my eye and want to make a memory I can look back on.  I never took photos with a purpose in mind except to catch a part of my beautiful day.  Now after hearing over and over that I really should do something with my photos, I will add this to new things I will try.  I will pour over my photos, which always makes me happy, and find ones to number and put out there for others.  For a very long time, as others pushed me gently, I always wondered why would anyone want one of my photos in their home or office?  I have always admired other’s work but never have I been drawn enough to put someone else photography on my walls, for the longest time I never chose to surround myself with my own, this has to mean something, I am sure.  So as you go about your summer and you stop in different shops may you think differently about those cards someone locally has decided to share with the rest of the world, for it is a scary place out there to place yourself.  I will spend this spring looking for used wooden picture frames, the nastier the better!  I will sand them, add little touches of me to them and add one of my numbered photos into each one.  I have thought long and hard over this for 45 years and when Facebook came along it opened a door where I could POST a photo of what I did and immediately be told by you that you LIKED IT! Thank You to each of you who thought enough of me or the photo to click LIKE or add a comment,  I have a problem with hundreds of any one of my photos being out there so I will have to decide on a number  for each print.  Never really knew why I loved them so much, now I know it is because they are personal, a part of a place I had been.  I do a lot of photography along our countries coastline, wooded trails and of course flowers and animals so I think rustic frames of all sizes and maybe colors will fade so the photo comes to life a little more, I guess I am now realizing why I do not really display them here, I dislike gilded, cheap wood or plastic frames.  So I will be hunting along roadsides, the dump(Ron will love that part)thrift stores and yard sales, and if you come across any please let me know. Fifty cents to five dollars I will do the work to save them and then I can keep the cost down on what I will charge for one of my pieces.  I love to re purpose everything!  I hate waste, funny since I used to be a TRASH HAULER, yes in those huge, stinky trailers you may have got stuck behind a time or two.  I guess from the time I was a little girl and saw my Dad save items from the local streets or the town landfill, I got it!  Mom never did though which probably made me love it even more!  Thank you in advance for any you let me know about!

Sorry this BLOG went so long, just took on a life of its own!

When you see me there will be less of me but in reality so much more of who I used to be.   I miss that girl but life has given me such a gift.   I must push from the darkness and show that side of me,  again.

Thanks again for all you do even when you don’t even know it.