Happy New Year -- a look back at vintage photos!

Happy New Year, everyone! As I close out '07, I am looking forward to new artistic endeavors and equipment/software to inspire and motivate me all year long. I just purchased a new scanner (Canon 8800F) and am getting fullblown Photoshop for the first time. (I have been using Elements all this time, but it has been wonderful and sufficient.)

In addition, I recently acquired some new (old) family photos, plus my daughter gave me some delightful images from her shopping trip to an antique store in PA, and I will share those at a future time. Now I will quickly post a wonderful shot of my grandmother Nana when she was a child. (She doesn't look too happy in this shot!) I look forward to using this in some restoration work and some art pieces!



Everyone have a marvelous and safe New Year's Eve, and a prosperous and artistic 2008.

Sincerely,
Lynda

One week of art and anticipation...

Here we are, one week and a couple of days until Christmas. I am finally finishing my cards. I used the poinsettia photo I took in Texas, Photoshopped it a bit, and printed in in PrintShop for ease of use. I embossed some simple images on the envelopes -- snowflakes on some, trees on others -- and they will be off tomorrow! My last package to out of state folks was sent Friday, and I have only some immediate family to finish wrapping gifts for. Whew.



I put out my Dickens village this year -- but put it under the tree -- and I'll never be sorry I did it this way! I have enjoyed it so much! My mother gave me a new piece, the "Victorian University" and it is the centerpiece.

Love and joy to all...I'll be writing more later on this week!

Lynda

Art is in what the day brings

Yesterday I flew back to North Carolina from Texas. As we took off from Dallas, it hardly seemed possible that I had been there for nearly a week, and that I went to be there for my mother and siblings after the death of my father. What I remembered most were the stories we told, the music we sang and heard, and the flowers.



Advent is upon us, and Daddy's new beginning seems perfectly timed with the season. I post here this brief note and a snowy poinsettia, one that I am currently embellishing for an art piece. Next is one glimpse of the sunrise on my last morning in Texas.



Welcome to the beauty of the season. Savor what the day brings.

Lynda