I've been doing alot of thinking about the past...the firsts... the good the bad the ugly . Some memories are fun...and good. You shouldnt forget those because focusing on the negative gets old and makes you old...and bitter.

Before cell phones...and long before computers I kept in contact with my friends with a phone. A land line...with a cord. When my parents allowed me to get my own (with their phone number, not even my own) I was thrilled. It was like I had arrived as a teen.

The phone guy came to the house and brought me my own phone one day and I found a picture of it... a princess phone... a blue - sort of aqua, really - link to the outside. I spent many many many.... way too many hours on it when I should (according to my parents) have been doing more 'constructive' things.

I did this card because it brought back all sorts of good memories of being a teen... of staying on my aqua princess phone long after I was supposed to. Of hiding under the covers and talking low...and giggling over nonsense with my friends... Of feeling like I had contact with the outside world and reality. It saved me, I think... When my reality was not so lovely in the house I could look at my beautiful phone ... pretty and colorful and pick it up and call someone and forget... for just a moment who I was... and pretend I was a 'Princess' like the name of my phone implied.

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There are many things to like about each season of the year...
Autumn is my favorite. The coolness is a relief from the suffocating heat and humidity of the summer... Crisp air blows the dust out of my thoughts and the bright colors of the leaves shock my eyes into seeing again.
I don't know if other people see autumn as a renewal like I do... I know many people mourn summer's passing but I find Fall refreshing and it never comes too soon for me. There is something very calming about the fall for me... zen like... meditative. When the first whisp of cool air hits me I feel like I can breathe again and the falling leaves are a blessing that leaves quiet spaces of nothing.
I look forward to those cool, quite spaces; restful to my eyes and my mind, where I can think ....where I can breathe.
We spend our lives with and concerned about the things in our lifes but its the spaces between the things that give the 'things' meaning....boundries... and the breathing room to enjoy the things. This card is a based on a photo I just took of autum leaves. Most of them have turned and half of them have fallen. Whats left is the cool quiet spaces that I find so quieting. I printed the image on a vinyl sheet so the colors glow...

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Eat your green veggies!

More food porn photography...but at least these pictures are foods that are good for you!

Japanese snacks and random goody photos

I love to photograph food because... Well, its around all the time and it looks so darn good. Even though it's not art...exactly.

There is something so yummy about food and sinful about food porn. Here's some way fun Japanese snacks...

Ramune Soda Junky...

I love the stuff but can't explain why...

When I was little I used to get off the school bus and walk towards home with my eyes shut tight. I would imagine seeing a new house when I opened the front door. It would have emerald green walls and blue and green furniture. The furniture would be sleek and clean and modern and quiet music would be coming from somewhere, but it would be muffled. Sunlight would be shining in, in thin sheets, the way you see it come through big clouds.
As I walked up the front steps, I'd take a deep breath, open the door and look.But it was the same house every day. No peaceful blues and greens. No clean modern lines. No sun streaking in. Only sadness and chaos.
The picture I used is not of an aquarium, it is a bed of rocks at the base of a very large tree. I took it several years ago but never used it for anything. I took it out yesterday and started altering it. When I got it to where it is now, the memories of walking home from the school bus flooded in. To me looking at the picture is like looking into a fishbowl, very similar to the cool peaceful feel I craved so. I wanted to give that memory a place to live.
The base of the card is cream colored cardstock covered with THE most beautiful gold flecked paper of ocean colors. The image was printed on a textured white paper with metallic brush strokes also. On top of the entire card I added a wispy thin webby white paper only in one area that looks like the movement of water to me.
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Everyone's closet...

These one panel cartoons are my own... They come from inside me... somewhere... If you want to use them, write me...I get cranky otherwise.