Natures Delights

I am so thrilled that spring is almost here! the re-newel and blooms of this time of year always make my thinking a little more fresh and new ideas always seam to flow a little easier.
I have been captivated by the deep green in my garden, I hope you enjoy my nature inspired photos along with some words from a few poets.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
~Juvenal, Satires

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
~e.e. cummings



The poetry of the earth is never dead.
~John Keats

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~Anais Nin



A few technique's that I will be teaching in my fused jewelry class
at The Art Opera in Red Bank New Jersey, April 7 - 11.
(take a peek there are a lot of great instructors and classes are still open!)
I will also be teaching Legacy Keepsake Album and Talisman Jewelry.



“For the nature of women is closely allied to art”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Natures Delights

Bloom (atc)

I arrived home yesterday to a great debate that My Daughter and her boyfriend were having...
In there hands were the new issue of Art Quilting Studio that had just arrived in the mail and the burning question was this: "is this my mother's art work or not?"



over a year ago I was at a quilt show demoing how I sew and burn and handing out these little art cards one after another as I made them. A friend Cynthia Shaffer happened by and I offered her this ATC then a few months ago she sent me a email and ask me if I remembered the atc that I had given her, she wanted to know if it was OK if she used to for a article she was writing for art quilting stuido. I wrote her back and told her that I had no idea at all what I had given her and said:

"I can not even imagine that any thing I was making and handing out at a convention was worthy of publication!"
(any of you who have been to a quilt show fully knows all about the dear in the headlight stair we all have ... now I want you to multiply that felling and times it plus a thousand and you get how it is to be me)

I offered Cynthia new art, what ever she needed. She refused me and said what she had was just perfect. So I gave her my approval to use the piece. Then last month when I was at CHA I ran into Amanda Crabtree from stampington and she said "Ruth did you know that your going to be on the cover with Cynthia?" I kinda gave a little laugh and told her that I knew that she was doing something with a ATC of mine but had not a clue what it looked like!

Here you have it the little ATC card that somehow
had a dream to be more then even I intended it to be!

A few things we must always keep in mind:
never let any one tell you no.
always believe that you can ~
and always do your best!

I had little faith in the art that I was creating in under 5 minutes and handing out for free and this little gem somehow made it onto a magazine cover with little help from me!
Thank you Cynthia for you kind soul in highlighting my ATC with your splendid backdrop!

Remember To Always Grown And Bloom Where You Are Planted !

Bloom (atc)

Twin Souls (Connected)

About a year ago I had the idea for these bangles, nevertheless I never took the time to make them. Then as I was packing up my tools for adorn me. I came across the outline I had scribed onto copper.

I had no choice it was time for me to finish what I had started!

Once cut out and etched I toyed with them on my arm but somehow they wanted to be connected and united: however some what separate.

I will leave with some words and the photos

(I was so very captivated as I took these by the lovely dew-droops!)

Enjoy!

"Twin Souls"

Happy is the moment, when we sit together,
With two forms, two faces, yet one soul,
you and I.
~Rumi

Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“To be whole.
To be complete.
Wildness reminds us what it means to be human,
what we are connected to
rather than what we are separate from.”
~Terry Tempest Williams

Twin Souls (Connected)

my pieces

every now and then I find my self in a place of reflection.

i am in this place now ~

trying to pull my pieces together yet again.

i know where i want to go and what i want to be.

however i am not sure just what I need to do to get there ~

i am fully aware that the seeds of my tomorrows are being planted...

the time for true change is fast approaching ~

but now its time to:

live

love

grow

play

explore

empower

my pieces

"your story"

“She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories,
she could escape the parts of life she didn't like,
embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.”
~Dudley Clendinen



“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you,
and that you will work them,
water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom,
till you yourself burst into bloom.”
~ unknown



“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you,
not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
~Rumi

“True love stories never have endings” ~Richard Bach

“Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart.

And your story will touch and heal people's souls" ~Melody Beattie

"your story"

Her Entrusting Heart;

I have been busy getting ready for the Adorn Me jewelry retreat in Houston Texas March 1-7.
There's a great line-up of jewelry artists offering a wide variety of workshops. So head on over and take a look.

I made this cuff today to use as a class sample for my class etched & riveted.
my other classes are Hand Forged Talisman Bracelet and Fused Jewelry.

I hope to see some of you there!

"Her Entrusting Heart"

my magnolia trees are starting to bloom...

the flowers always remind me of discovery, rebirth and growth.

Entrusting her heart to richly grow.

Gleaming scarlet fragments filled her soul.

She is to herself a discovery ~

Her Entrusting Heart;

"the gold of the heart"

(for sale here)

altered fabric heart pin with
found poetry that reads:



outstretched
a fine bird
guided him
on the gold of the heart~

"the gold of the heart"

Alice said...

Alice said...
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?



Alice said... (written in the opposite direction)
Well, when I was lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you. But who'd ever think to look for me here?
[sigh]



Good advice. If I listened earlier, I wouldn't be here. But that's just the trouble with me. I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

Life would be so much easier if only we followed own advice and listen to logic!
I made this scarf for me... and I adore it!
The words are from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland when ever I put this on I am reminded to think like a child.



What do you do to keep your inner child alive?

Alice said...