Ordinary Pleasure

This past monday I had my first Spirit doll workshop. I have 7 wonderful woman with me. It was a great first class. The experience of sharing with these woman was very satisfying. I look forward to next Monday when we resume with the second class.

REJOICE

I am looking forward to the inauguration of Barack Obama tomorrow. It has been a long time since I feel like rejoicing in my Country's accomplishments.  I am hopeful this will be the start of a new kind of America, one where it is not us against them, rich against the poor, red against blue, black against white. I truth is we will all sink or swim together, and this is a good thing. There are no parts of this country that are more American then others.

For tomorrow I will just be happy I will REJOICE.

New Directions for a New Year

Announcing My New SPIRIT DOLL Workshop

This workshop is a safe place to express and discover your creativity without judgement!

We will make cloth and mixed media Spirit Dolls to help explore our inner strengths and character, and remind you of your inner wisdom.

All this while having fun. Come to celebrate and play and to heal and grow.

No art or sewing experience necessary. All skill levels are welcome.

Take time in your life to enjoy, discover and play.

Classes are 3 weeks on Monday from 7:00 to 9:00

at Royal Oak High School, starting Jan 26, 2009.

the cost is $35, plus a $10 material fee.

Call Royal Oak Continuing Ed for more information: 248-588-5050

Happy Solstice

Baby its cold outside!  I hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday, whatever you my be celebrating. 

And if you are tired of winter remember, days are growing shorter and sometime soon there will be actual sunny days.

A new year will begin and a nw president will take office.

busy busy busy

I have been so busy getting ready for the Potters Market that I feel I am eating and breathing and sleeping clay. I'll have lots of new wonderful things including my tealight holders and some really cool sculptures. I promise to get pics up as soon as I can!

HOPE, COURAGE, DREAM, IMAGINE, INSPIRE

 HOPE, COURAGE, DREAM, IMAGINE, INSPIRE, these are some of the words that come to mind when I think about the events  of this past week.  I believe there is finally a light at the end of a long dark tunnel. These are my new tea lights to celebrate a new beginning. I have them listed on etsy.

Celebrate Your Freedom

In the USA, in 1917, scores of woman were jailed and savagely beaten by guards for demanding the right to vote.

In the USA, beatings shootings arson and murder were tactics used to keep blacks from voting for almost 100 years after the emancipation proclamation.The voting rights act in 1965  insured  black voting rights ending a Jim Crow South

1987 Haitians were killed by gangs armed with machine guns and machetes while lining up to vote.

In 2005 at least 50 iraqis were killed by bomb and morter attacks as they tried to exercise their right to vote in the first free election in decades

All you have to do is get off your ass.
There are no excuses.
VOTE!

Things that go BUMP in the night

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Did you know Jack-o-lanterns were originally carved from turnips? They were carved to keep away  Jack, an Irish man so wicked neither Heaven or Hell wanted him so he wandered the country side at night looking for a place to rest his soul.

I love Halloween and all the lore that goes with it. I love the pagan madness we celebrate with our children. It's wonderful and primal and scary and fun.

Buster helped carve this one. He ate out the teeth while I wasn't looking.

I'll leave you with an old Scottish  prayer:

From ghosties and ghoulies 

And long leggedy beasties 

And things that go bump in the night 

Good Lord deliver us

the choice is easy for me

In 8 days we get to decide if we move closer to a peaceful planet or continue on a path of destruction.  I think that is an easy choice to make.  

Bead Bonanza

I'm getting ready for this Sunday's bead show, The Bead Bonanza in Southfield, Mi.

See you there!