Dear Reader,
This is just a quick note to let you know that I will be away for a while. I'm not certain how long this will be just that it's important for me to take some time away. In the meantime, if you'd like to keep in touch and hear about what's new with me, the angels and the little dolls, please drop me a line and I'll add you to my e-mail list where I promise you won't be bombarded with tons of e-mails, just monthly messages and such from me in the Lavender Fields.
Wishing you a Wonderful and Happy New Year!
Blessings, until next time then. . .
Monday, December 28, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
American Thanksgiving in Canada
Dear Reader,
Of course I know Thanksgiving is long gone, but I still feel compelled to tell you about my first Thanksgiving – American Thanksgiving – in Canada.
American friends from school decided to host a soiree here in Canada and we all had a good time. There were yummies such a spicy maple roasted pecans, cheeses, turkey in lemon sauce, lots and lots of cranberry sauce, baked sweet potatoes, pasta, stuffing, berry crumble with whipped cream and pumpkin cheesecake. There were laughs and toasts and eating and more eating and a good time was had by all including yours truly. I am now fully devoted to making cranberry sauce and berry crumble!
The thing to be most grateful for – friends to laugh and eat with. Good company makes food so much more wonderful.
Until next time then,
Dy
Monday, December 7, 2009
House Keeping and Lavender Fields
Dear Reader,
Did your Heart laugh with sweet joy this weekend? I hope you did! Joy is medicine that tastes sweet you know and who could resist something that is both good for you and yummy all at the same time?
In my little corner there has been some housekeeping or should I say more ‘truth telling.’ Do you remember my post the other day about one year ago? Well it has sparked some new ideas in me. Besides love and creating and sharing about creating nothing tickles me more than doing it all with a spirit of happy joy – a childlike wonder and enchantment. In my dream we are all heroes and heroines, we each have so much purpose and integrity, we inspire and are inspired by each other and we do it all dancing across lavender fields with delight quivering in our bones. There is spirit and Spirit in these lavender fields.
So housekeeping today is fun actually because it’s about me – through the process of inner- truth- telling, cleaning things up around here so we can have our lavender fields. There will be pictures from everyday life, newest paintings and shop updates too but there will also be poetry, Spirit and lots of angels around – and I should add that they are big fans of dancing in lavender fields themselves. They like to send little messages and have pleasantly suggested that I add them to the side bar to share with you amongst other things.
Already I’m excited, so excited to share these things, so excited to share them with you. You all inspire me so much and I hope to do the same thing too. You inspire me, I inspire you, we sing with joy and play in lavender fields – oh my! Let’s go then and don’t forget your pocket full of stars!
Live Heart’s Wishes,
Dy
Friday, December 4, 2009
Inner Poetry: True Love is Pink
Dear Reader,
I have always been a little poet – although my lines needn’t rhyme. There are notebooks and slips of paper abound with words that began as thoughts that I have somehow managed to arrange in a pleasing sort of way. We all have our own Inner Poetry, just as we do an Inner Song, so here is my poetry – along with pictures (as you know how I love those!), each week a thought to share with you.
Happy Weekend, until next Monday,
Dy
I have always been a little poet – although my lines needn’t rhyme. There are notebooks and slips of paper abound with words that began as thoughts that I have somehow managed to arrange in a pleasing sort of way. We all have our own Inner Poetry, just as we do an Inner Song, so here is my poetry – along with pictures (as you know how I love those!), each week a thought to share with you.
Happy Weekend, until next Monday,
Dy
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
And the Winners Are . . .
Dear Reader,
Thank you for your sweet comments on my last post. Thank you for listening and sharing your own thoughts and feelings. That’s the thing about sharing – when you do, others share too and we realize that we are all here dancing beside each other in shared feeling and experience.
Christin and Christina are the winners of last week’s giveaway, they each wrote:
Christin: “Your work is beautiful!! I love the Elf of Butterfly Wishes...the colors are amazing together and the image is so whimsical:) Thanks!”
Christina: “"I will bring you a rose" deep sigh for such beauty, she is pink and carries with her a deep soul and tender petals. who could resist her energy, her protection. she is beautiful. all of your art is just gorgeous!xo”
I just love that Christin and Christina both chose pieces with lots of pink, how’s that for fun and whimsy!
Dream Heart’s Dreams until next we meet,
Dy
Thank you for your sweet comments on my last post. Thank you for listening and sharing your own thoughts and feelings. That’s the thing about sharing – when you do, others share too and we realize that we are all here dancing beside each other in shared feeling and experience.
Christin and Christina are the winners of last week’s giveaway, they each wrote:
Christin: “Your work is beautiful!! I love the Elf of Butterfly Wishes...the colors are amazing together and the image is so whimsical:) Thanks!”
Christina: “"I will bring you a rose" deep sigh for such beauty, she is pink and carries with her a deep soul and tender petals. who could resist her energy, her protection. she is beautiful. all of your art is just gorgeous!xo”
I just love that Christin and Christina both chose pieces with lots of pink, how’s that for fun and whimsy!
Dream Heart’s Dreams until next we meet,
Dy
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
One Year Ago Today . . . and a Giveaway Too!
Dear Reader,
I remember when I first discovered this wonderful world of ours – the world of Creative Bloggers that knew no specific location or place because we were everywhere, from different countries and different backgrounds with one thing in common – our desire to create and live a creative life. When I first discovered this gem of a place, I remember feeling fascinated, scared and excited all at the same time. There were so many amazing voices, so many amazing things to see and soon I realized that I wanted to be a part of this world too. You all inspired me and inside I began to change too, my own voice began to awaken and I started to hear my own inner song.
One year ago I decided to take my heart’s second deepest desire seriously (what’s the first you may wonder. . . that’s for another post!) I decided that I would draw and write and paint from the part of me that has always been with me and then I would share it with you. I decided to change everything and follow my own star. I decided to be an Artist and I let Ava dream for real, to her own heart’s content.
That decision started a whole new journey and this past year I have grown and felt wonder and frustration and cried and then felt wonder again (rinse and repeat); a seemingly never-ending cycle that somehow gently brought me to where I need to be. Where I needed to be was a place where I not only understood my truth but also why I wanted to be my truth – besides the obvious reason of living in integrity with Self.
This truth was part and parcel of a bigger question in my heart – what was an Artist? There are so many answers to this one question but as creative folks, most of us ask it of ourselves pretty frequently. When one is becoming an Artist, lots of people who have ideas about who or what an Artist should be or what ‘counts’ as art will no doubt try to share these opinions and that’s just fine, the world is big enough for all our voices.
To me an Artist is a Soul who expresses something that Spirit wants to share or bring into the world – whether it be a beautiful painting, a tender score of music a lovingly baked apple pie. An Artist creates and we are all creative. I love being creative, it has always been one of the most dominant aspects of who I am and I love watching other people create. When I visit your blogs or see a show at a gallery it is like watching a glorious kaleidoscope of all that Spirit wishes to say and all the various ways in which Spirit has chosen to express itself through us each as individuals. Furthermore our individuality is what sweetens and colours these various expressions.
One evening over chai lattes (you know how I love those) and yummy desert, two friends and I talked about our paintings. We each took turns sharing with each other about how we each in turn perceived the others’ work. My friends both agreed that my work was very child-like and pure and when they asked me why, my honest reply was, “everyone looks like a child to me.” This surprised- Me! But it was the truth. When I look at something or someone, I always see their inner innocence – their child-like spirit and that was when I realized that ‘Where Ava Dreams’ was about my creating in this spirit of seeing through child-like eyes and thus ‘The Spirit of Child.’ I wanted to create for the child in all of us. At the end of the day we always carry our child-like selves with us in some way, shape or form.
Lastly – before I get to the giveaway – I will share something else with you: the reason why I create. I create because I love the swish of my paintbrush in a jar of water, because I love how paint colours my paper, because I love to be awakened at some odd hour of the night with an idea for a new drawing or story, because I live in a world where now more than ever it is easy to share what I create and be a part of what others create because of my willingness to appreciate what they too are sharing. I create because it is one of the sweetest joys to my little soul and always I want to feel and experience more of this joy. I create for the love of it.
So, one year ago today, I started ‘Where Ava Dreams’ and one year later it has blossomed into something that has helped and healed me in so many ways and brought me to so many other wonderful creative Souls. Okay, now that I’m done waxing philosophical (smile), here’s the giveaway for you, since today is my anniversary:
Two winners will win a print of their choice from the Where Ava Dreams store. Just leave a comment on this post to enter, and to make it sweet, please share what it is you like about the print you’d like to win. I’ll leave the post up for a week or so and announce the winners next Wednesday.
Until next time then – Dy.
I remember when I first discovered this wonderful world of ours – the world of Creative Bloggers that knew no specific location or place because we were everywhere, from different countries and different backgrounds with one thing in common – our desire to create and live a creative life. When I first discovered this gem of a place, I remember feeling fascinated, scared and excited all at the same time. There were so many amazing voices, so many amazing things to see and soon I realized that I wanted to be a part of this world too. You all inspired me and inside I began to change too, my own voice began to awaken and I started to hear my own inner song.
One year ago I decided to take my heart’s second deepest desire seriously (what’s the first you may wonder. . . that’s for another post!) I decided that I would draw and write and paint from the part of me that has always been with me and then I would share it with you. I decided to change everything and follow my own star. I decided to be an Artist and I let Ava dream for real, to her own heart’s content.
That decision started a whole new journey and this past year I have grown and felt wonder and frustration and cried and then felt wonder again (rinse and repeat); a seemingly never-ending cycle that somehow gently brought me to where I need to be. Where I needed to be was a place where I not only understood my truth but also why I wanted to be my truth – besides the obvious reason of living in integrity with Self.
This truth was part and parcel of a bigger question in my heart – what was an Artist? There are so many answers to this one question but as creative folks, most of us ask it of ourselves pretty frequently. When one is becoming an Artist, lots of people who have ideas about who or what an Artist should be or what ‘counts’ as art will no doubt try to share these opinions and that’s just fine, the world is big enough for all our voices.
To me an Artist is a Soul who expresses something that Spirit wants to share or bring into the world – whether it be a beautiful painting, a tender score of music a lovingly baked apple pie. An Artist creates and we are all creative. I love being creative, it has always been one of the most dominant aspects of who I am and I love watching other people create. When I visit your blogs or see a show at a gallery it is like watching a glorious kaleidoscope of all that Spirit wishes to say and all the various ways in which Spirit has chosen to express itself through us each as individuals. Furthermore our individuality is what sweetens and colours these various expressions.
One evening over chai lattes (you know how I love those) and yummy desert, two friends and I talked about our paintings. We each took turns sharing with each other about how we each in turn perceived the others’ work. My friends both agreed that my work was very child-like and pure and when they asked me why, my honest reply was, “everyone looks like a child to me.” This surprised- Me! But it was the truth. When I look at something or someone, I always see their inner innocence – their child-like spirit and that was when I realized that ‘Where Ava Dreams’ was about my creating in this spirit of seeing through child-like eyes and thus ‘The Spirit of Child.’ I wanted to create for the child in all of us. At the end of the day we always carry our child-like selves with us in some way, shape or form.
Lastly – before I get to the giveaway – I will share something else with you: the reason why I create. I create because I love the swish of my paintbrush in a jar of water, because I love how paint colours my paper, because I love to be awakened at some odd hour of the night with an idea for a new drawing or story, because I live in a world where now more than ever it is easy to share what I create and be a part of what others create because of my willingness to appreciate what they too are sharing. I create because it is one of the sweetest joys to my little soul and always I want to feel and experience more of this joy. I create for the love of it.
So, one year ago today, I started ‘Where Ava Dreams’ and one year later it has blossomed into something that has helped and healed me in so many ways and brought me to so many other wonderful creative Souls. Okay, now that I’m done waxing philosophical (smile), here’s the giveaway for you, since today is my anniversary:
Two winners will win a print of their choice from the Where Ava Dreams store. Just leave a comment on this post to enter, and to make it sweet, please share what it is you like about the print you’d like to win. I’ll leave the post up for a week or so and announce the winners next Wednesday.
Until next time then – Dy.
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