"Illustration Friday-Peace"

May none of your sheep get away from you this Christmas Season!- giving you the time and the energy to reflect on the true meaning of the season and the only way to true Peace for our world!




"The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1:4




Merry Christmas!!

"Illustration Friday-Peace"

( for some reason- highly likely me- there is no comment box on this post- so if you do want to comment-click on Moonflower Musing in the link section to get to my current page- which should work! Thanks!!"

May none of your sheep get away from you this Christmas Season!- giving you the time and the energy to reflect on the true meaning of the season and the only way to true Peace for our world!

"The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1:4

Merry Christmas!!

I'm Sorry!

I'm sorry to do this to some of you- but this is what we woke up to this morning- a true blue, no white, Colorado Christmas! Which as not happened in a number of years- and the forecast is holding to more snow before the big day- so our dreams of a White Christmas seem to be coming true!
Wherever you are- and whether you have snow on the ground or not- My dream for you on Christmas is that you will be near the ones you love and the "world" will slow down enough for you to think upon the reason for the season! That God became man and walked among us!!
Merry Christmas!

"...Tag I'm It!"

Tag, I'm It
I have been "cybertagged!"
Made myself finish a big project first- mailed it off this afternoon, so now I can come out and play! Here goes:

4 jobs I have had: Hum...
First Job-busing tables at a Chinese Restaurant- we got to eat as many broken fortune cookies and egg drop soup as we could for free- can't touch either now!
Worked three summers as a nursing assistant in a nursing home through college- learned a lot about life!
Worked as a counselor with severely disturbed kids for a summer- where I got attacked and bite in the arm by a twelve year old girl- totally my fault- pushed her to much to participate in an activity-had a perfect set of teethmarks on my arm for the whole summer- learned a lot about life!
Now I get to be an illustrator- which is soooo cool- but not as cool as my favorite job- Mom!


4 movies I could watch over and over:
(actually I do watch movies 0ver and over- and behind the scenes over and over- actually listen to them as I work in my studio- my current favorite are- it changes a lot)
Cold Mountain
Last of the Mohicans
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
(to confess)
Mission Impossible, Jason Bourne movies- (action with heart)- hey- I had a older brother who was bigger then me and he got to pick the movies- I got addicted

4 places I have lived (apart from where I am now):
Boulder Colorado
Aspen Colorado
Durango Colorado
Loveland Colorado ( where I moved nine times without changing school- my mother was a real estate agent- we even moved across the street once)
I was in Denver for two years-but it was really "just visiting" while my husband finished law school!

TV shows I love:
( okay- I am a closet Sci Fi nut!)
Farscape- has to be the funniest show out there- in a dark sort of way
Battlestar Galactic- was raised on the old series- like the first two seasons of the new- withholding judgement on the third- I don't know!
Eureka- new series on the Sci Fi channel-
Lost- hey- you can download six episodes on www.abc.com- that is sooooo cool- on demand TV- bring it on!

4 sites I visit daily-
www.yahoomail.com
www.amycullingsmoreno.com
www.gingernielson.com
www.sherry-rogers.com
( actually really don't visit the last three daily, often but not daily- but am chatting with them daily- so really am doing a shameless plug!)

That is pretty much it-
other then
www.movielink.com
where you can download movies for about the price of payperview


4 favorite foods:
Bing Cherries
Bread
Popcorn
Shrimp


4 places I would rather be:
Anywhere with my husband and kids ( and our dogs)
In a bookstore
"People Watching" in a mountain town like Telluride
Making dinner for my friends

4 People I am tagging:
Everyone I know has been tagged!!
I shall remain it tell I make some new cyber friends I can tag!

" Illustration Friday- Might"

They MIGHT be wrapped up in that blanket because they are cold... and they MIGHT not be...
Okay- enough with trying to get the theme this week to work and in the children's section, sorry. I just finished this and really wanted to get it up here for the whole world to see, so I was gonna make it work somehow!
"Harvesting Poles" is actually inspired by many times coming across Native American families, in the National Forest in Southwest Colorado as they chop, actually ..as they chainsaw, down Logpole Pines to be used in their tepees. No- they do not live in them all the time, mostly they live in doublewide trailers, clustered in family groups, out on reservation, But they come up into the mountain to get the poles for tepees they stay in during their spiritual festivals or Pow Wows. And sometimes they will hide the poles in the forest and then they only have to bring the canvas to make shelters when they camp in the mountains.
I have never seen an old truck used, usually the poles are tied to the tops of minivans, but this was more picturesque.
Lodgepoles are very tall and straight evergreens, and have been harvested for dwelling for a very long time, the first white settlers also used them in building
log cabins and barns when they first came to the west.
Blankets are also very important to Native Americans, they are given as gifts to mark important ceremonies and are considered prized possessions and there is meaning in their design and how they are worn.
But a boy and a girl, wrapped up together, needs no explaination, ..... oh- children's section- sorry!