A Flowering Tree

Here are the ornaments I made for my Ornament Swap friends. There were 10 different designs. I made them double sided with a gold thread sandwiched between the two sides for hanging. You can sort of see almost all of them in the photos.

That was fun :)

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And ... we're open!

My little online Art Shop is back in business, Friends! To celebrate its opening, I'd like to introduce you to Organic Pink Lady's first ever 2011 Desk Calendar.

I'm quite pleased and proud of how it turned out. Each month features a different design by me and all 12 months fit sweetly into a CD case that flips back to sit on a flat surface. I hope you love it too!

Please help me spread the word of its existence, as in a couple of months it will no longer be available. You can send your friends, family or coworkers a link to my site: http://www.OrganicPinkLady.com or a link directly to my shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/organicpinklady (PS. I love shipping internationally). Thank you! Any help you can offer in getting the word out about my online presence and shop is greatly appreciated! Here's to a wonderful beginning!

I'll be adding more goodies to the shop everyday for a while. Mini drawing journals and coloring books, fabric ornaments, customizable holiday cards, glossy cards, new prints and maybe even some original paintings.


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Two of Last Four

LovelyTree
JazzTree
Here are 2 of the last 4 of this tree series. By the way, if ever a title for one of my paintings occurs to you, please do let me know! My friend, Bethany, titled this one and I LOVE it!

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Two More!

SavannahTree
WaterTree
I didn't intentionally set out to paint a series of trees. I paint what happens. Looking at them together though, I began to notice what they had in common. It seemed to me that they (the last 4 I've shown you and there are 4 more coming) all have a certain treeness about them. I do love trees, so it's not surprising that what's in my heart, is painted out. Then again, maybe they're not trees. The one I've titled (always subject to change) 'WaterTree' often looks like balloons to me, or seaweed, or an amoeba, or funny people or a big storm.

What do you see?

I'd love a child or writer to be drawn in by this magic and write a short story inspired by this painting.

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Bold Beauties! added to the Art Shop

These cards have just been added to Organic Pink Lady's Art Shop. They're even awesomer in person!



Look for these cards, amongst many more, in the Art Shop too! What fun! I hope you like them.I have a friend sending out Thanksgiving cards! What a great idea! Maybe you'd like to, too!

Well Hello Again Summer?!

My potted flowers are trying to bloom again! What a lovely springie feeling in the midst of November. No doubt more of last week is just around the corner though. Well, here's to enjoying it while we can, this whole global warming climate change wackie weather on Planet Earth!

Doesn't she?

This lady so has a story, doesn't she? Do you see it? Can you hear it? Will you tell it? <3

As if it were an Assignment

No matter how late in the season,
late in the day,
late in your life,
Walk outside and water your garden
Deadhead your petunias
Make room for blossoms.

No matter how long you have neglected Life,
days or decades,
Return.
Begin again.
Take the step across the threshold and stay out there for a while,
As if it were an assignment.
Don't come in until the day is done.
This is what I experienced today.

Growing Things

I've always wanted to grow things. Flowers, vegetables. Each year I get a little closer. One year I bought soil. Another year I got seeds. It's never quite come together though. Mainly because I thought I needed to study lots. Know things. How far apart do they need to be? I need to start the seeds inside first? When? Cover them in a plastic bag? I have to get special soil? And compost? With WHAT in it? Then I need to fertilize them? Is that natural and organic? And feed them plant food? Don't I need to plant certain ones together so they help each other fend against insects and such? And they get diseases? My oh my. It can become complex, this growing things business.

Last summer I gave a friend a packet of several different seeds. He scattered them in a barrel (because what else was he going to do with the packet of seeds I gave him?) that happened to be in his back yard and they grew!! Into big beautiful vibrant flowers!! He didn't EVEN care how deep the seeds were supposed to be buried! He said "Nah, you just put seeds in the earth and they grow."

So this year, I've decided I can try to transplant some flowers into pots and see how they/I do. I didn't start them from seed but here they are, already beautifying my porch, making me so pleased. Most of these sweet things will be planted in hanging baskets ... because deer live in my hood and they eat EVERYTHING they can reach! I also couldn't resist a Basil, Poblano Pepper and Sandia Pepper plantie. Yes, I'll put pebbles in the bottom for good drainage. Ha Ha ah. Happy planting to me!

A day in the Garden

I have a huge collection of drawings and illustrations I painted while I lived in a 'cave' at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado. I still live in Colorado, and in Boulder, but now in a mint green hut. At the time though, I lived in the basement of a very old house, near the top of a hill, where rent was cheap, I had lots of space, my own entrance and no heat. The front door opened right into my studio where evening after evening, for months, I painted one painting after another. I filled numerous tiny notebooks during that time and reproduced a lot of them as notecards, postcards and prints. You can see 12 of the 112 designs, printed as notecards, in my shop right now. Hope you enjoy!