one fine day...

1 mocha + 1 latte + good conversation with daughter = one lovely hour... and the page i made for carmen in her "art saves" altered book round robin... and the glow of my bohemian mountain as the sun sinks down into the ocean. the end of a beautiful summer day...

what color is art bliss?

GREEN AND PURPLE!! oh guess what this is.... can you guess? ( hint: "the non-quilter is NOT gonna get sucked into quilt world"...) oh yeah... it's another purse alright! what is happening to her?!!! ORANGE (of course) AND GREEN AND TEAL AND RED AND YELLOW (somebody stop me!!!) and OH MY GOSH! she's crazy quilting, too? dang it! you should see the scrap box at her quilty sister-in-law's playhouse! those scraps were BEGGING to be put to use... so what could she do? there was no saying "no" to these colors. can't wait to show you the finished project! that will be down the road somewhere... hope you have time to make art today! and don't forget to indulge in a little playtime. it will put a smile on your face and giggle bubbles in your heart.

art dreams...

after reading an inspiring book called "In the House", the bohemian just had to make a house of her very own. but what kind? a mosaic house? a garden house? a gothic mansion? one of the book artists made a "House for naughty children"... this made the bohemain laugh out loud! so. she decided on a house of dreams for her first house (for she could see many, many houses wanting to be created...). the address is #10 dream st. she will make 4 outsides with the inside on the opposite side. above are her first two outsides... and here are the first two insides... here is a card for her card exchange group. the challenge: monochromatic . the stripey strips are some of her paste paper creations. the rest is store-bought scrappers papers. here are two random cards she made using a mosaic template. and here is a card she made using her favorite dragonfly stamp. the store-bought handmade paper was already bedazzled for her. and two father's day cards using that same wonderful stamp (by stamping up). she taught her tag folder class today and made a few more folders. but they aren't quite finished. of course, yes, she will post them as soon as they are finished! i do hope you are finding time to make art. creating art is certainly saving the bohemian's sanity on these never-ending drizzly days of ceaseless rain.... messy, creative, colorfilled wishes to you all....

"flowers feed the soul..."

"Bread feeds the body indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." - the Koran "If a flower blooms once, it goes on blooming somewhere forever. It blooms on for whoever has seen it blooming." - william h. armstrong oh how the bohemian needed to see these gorgeous peonies that were proudly showing off in the royal daughter's abode! the weather nymph has been in such a tantrum lately and the bohemian has begun to wonder if there ever really WAS a mountain there outside her picture window... even the sun breaks have decreased at an alarming rate. the bohemian stayed indoors under her cozy blanket most of the long weekend. she felt sorry for anyone camping, although they should have known better anyways. so she stays in her nice warm, dry cottage and waits somewhat impatiently for the gray drizzly curtain which hides her mountain to be pulled aside... although, with her rosy-colored glasses on, it could conceivably be thought to be a lovely purple and silver-sequined veil of a curtain... colorful, flower-scented wishes to all. and may this day be filling to your soul!

how green (and wet) is my valley....

the bohemian is regretful that it has been awhile since she blogged. weeks, if fact... since before she ran away to her retreat. oh it was so peaceful and beautiful! and very restful! and, O, the food she was fed!!! and best of all: she was served a dinner someone else fixed and when she was done the dishes were whisked out of sight and washed up by elves and faeries in the kitchen! o! yes! there was lots of resting and meditating and flower sniffing and water songs... only one shy swan this year... he was fishing and his little behind kept bobbing straight up in the air... it amused the bohemian to no end! all the rhodies were in bloom...every color one could imagine... and still some tulips were blooming, though it was the tail end of the tulip season. and the weather cooperated magnificently! it was gorgeously sunny! and even some of the magnolias were still showing off their blossoms... oh yes, a little heaven on earth. lovely peonies at her royal daughter's house. and even some curious cloud formations... and then the rain came down. and stayed and stayed. and stayed.... green. and wet. two words to describe the bohemian's environment. even her party lights did nothing to brighten the days... the majestic bohemian mountain went into hiding. but the memory of the week before was a bohemian treasure no weather sprite could ever take away... yes, her mountains would come out again. soon. she hoped. wishing blue sunny skies to everyone and a feast of flower colors for your eyes. don't forget to play. even if it's raining and you have to play indoors.

it's a random day...

oh hidden mountain... oh shy, introverted mountain... won't you come out to play?

outside

the bohemian got another tag folder put together. she trying all kinds of sizes to see what she likes best...

inside (no decorations on the tags yet)

oh yes she did!! the non-quilter got sucked into the quilting wonderland and made this raggy quilt bag just for spring! and yes, it IS hard to get anything done when you have a good book... someone stayed up late because she couldn't put it down!! yawn! where IS spring, the bohemian wonders... she catches glimpses of it but then it goes behind the veil of clouds. same with her bohemian mountain! well... she is SO looking forward to running away and retreating this weekend! the swans, the rhodies, the waterfalls, the food...(did she forget to mention the chocolate again?) restful weekend wishes to you and may water music sweetness fill your days...

her blue heaven...

the bohemian awoke to see her blue mountain's majesty a bit hazed out in the early morning light. but the bohemian was so glad to see sunshine, she sang a little ditty on the way to her exercise/scrabble friend's house. oh my, how sore was the bohemian's body!! she had been rooting out evil spellbinder bushes all the afternoon before... lots of groaning was heard from the dungeon torture...i mean EXERCISE...room. back home, she smiled to see (and SMELL) her dark purple lilacs blooming. of course, these were her FAVORITE (for this week, anyways...).

(outside)

she is teaching a little workshop on tag folders at her next get-together of her stamping friends, so she made up some as examples, and just to see what she could do with them.

(inside)

she hasn't put anything on these tags yet but she likes how the book turned out.

(outside)

(inside with tags)

(the tags)

and guess where she's running off to THIS weekend! to this lovely little park-like conference grounds for the women's retreat with the ladies from her church!! it is so restful here. the grounds are just full of flowers and trails and running waterfalls and streams... and usually some baby swans... oh yes. she IS looking forward to this weekend! (did she forget to mention the chocolate...?!) by late afternoon, the haze had burned away but her mountains were snuggling down under their fluffy, fleece blanket... while the sun played hide-and-go-seek with the cloudlets overhead. happy fleecey snuggly warm-your-heart wishes to you all. go outside and play!!!