A Fresh Start for 2020

2020

New Beginnings

New Motivation

New Resolve

New Adventures

Fresh Creativity 

The last few years have been seriously lacking in motivation and 

creativity for me, but 2020 has me taking a fresh look 

at my creative journey.  

I have so many ideas that I want to implement and no better time to start than NOW! 

One of my favorite designing geniuses, Tim Holtz, has a saying,

*BELIEVE IN THE NOW *

 I am a lifelong procrastinator, much to my dismay. Turning 70 last year

was a rude awakening. I seriously felt that my time to be creative or 

follow my dreams was over and I had snoozed right 

through it. Since then, I have seen so many women in their later

years being creative every day and believing in their now. They 

are an inspiration to me, especially one very creative 98-year-old in

an online class I'm taking.  So, now it is.

Now is the time to share my ideas, practice my creativity and make art

just for me.  Now is the time to create my website. Now is the time to

pour my heart into what I love instead of lamenting what I haven't done or

accomplished. I will never be a trailblazer, but I can be a creative.

 This will be my place to share thoughts and ideas.  I hope you'll follow 

me on my journey.

Hugs to all,

Kathleen

The Magic Garden

My Grandmother had a magic garden.

No, really.

It was filled with pansies, daisies,

Pink Lady Slippers, hollyhocks and

the most gorgeous apricot-colored climbing roses

you've ever seen.

It was the same garden my mother grew up in.  Even though she

was more inclined to be swinging in the trees playing Tarzan

when she was a child,

it is here that she and my grandmother taught me to

make flower ladies. 

Flower Ladies with big Pink Lady Slipper dresses and

hollyhock hats.  And they could dance and dance

and dance.

My latest designs were inspired by "The Garden."

I spent hours and hours there in the shade

of a great big tree creating my

"magic" friends, wearing my

daisy chain crown that my mother taught me how to make.

I can't tell you how many daisy chains wilted

on my head in the warm California summer sun.

I created this design with a nod to my french grandmother

in whose garden I spent so many

enchanted hours.

Merci