Xmas Recap 1- Seagullman Dream

Back from Florida...from spending some sweet holiday time with the fam.
Each year I try to make a little something handmade...that I can pour some good energy into and distribute to the family. It has varied from micro-nailprayer pieces to ornaments to little books. This year I made ornaments again...this time inscribed with a mantra from a dream...and in order to explain a bit why, I wrote out the dream and printed it out on little scrolls to go in each bag along with the ornament...and pasted a black and white seagull onto the front of each bag. I started them at home but had to finish them in florida...setting up a workspace on my parent's kitchen table. It became a great bonding time with my dad too as I cajoled him into painting a bit with me into the wee hours(he's a wonderful artist and hasn't painted in Way Too Long). We had wine and listened to some Spanish music that we both knew almost by heart...and I shared with him verbally the dream I later wrote and printed for the gifts. Digging in his collage box he found a perfect seagull....intricately cut out of magazine paper...exactly what I had in mind for the front of the bags. The next day I copied it for each of the bags...


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Sky View

One special shot taken from the airplane on the way back home....
I was entranced looking out the window (as usual);)
But this time it was the snow.....making what looked like broken glass white shards all over the landscape...puzzle pieces...so amazing...and the sunlight glistening on serpentine rivers...mmmmmm boy do I love the view from Above.