PINK SATURDAY

Today is Pink Saturday and Bev from How Sweet The Sound is hosting this very Pink Day filled with beautiful pink posts to see.




nce upon a time when we lived in Hong Kong, there was a beautiful bazaar filled with lovely creations. A friend created the most gorgeous little pots of dried roses. I loved them so much that a bought a bunch of them and have enjoyed them for many years.



During that time I created a composition using her lovely pots of dried roses. I painted so many of these paintings and gave them to friends who eventually moved back to their homeland. I think that is why roses always remind me of friends.



These paintings of roses live in many places, from Holland, to India.

Whenever I see this little pot of flowers, I am reminded of how she has bloomed all over the world. So, when I read about the PINK ARTISTS block party, I knew exactly which painting to paint.




The PINK BLOCK PARTY HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN. Monica of Girl Gone Thread Wild, asked artists to also donate a piece of art created by the artist for the 2009 PINK ART BLOCK PARTY.





I wanted to donate a painting of one of my favorite things. I have painted an original watercolor painting of my composition of a pot of Dried Roses.

I used Arches Watercolor paper 140 lb. I used Winsor & Newton watercolor paint. The painting image measures 8 x 10 inches with a white border. I am including a white mat board measuring 11 x 14 inches.



The painting is presented in a white mat for framing.





I look forward to seeing all the PINK ART that will be created for the 2009 PINK ART BLOCK PARTY. You can click here to see the gallery of prizes or you can view a slide show on Monica's blog. The GRAND PRIZE is a beautiful quilt created by the PINK ARTISTS.



This quilt was created by individual blocks of stunning designs created by the PINK ARTISTS. What a grand prize! You can click on the photograph of the quilt to enlarge it for a better view.

My Quilt girl approves. I can't sew, but I love to illustrate and design quilt patterns. I am designing some Quilt Girl greeting cards, which I will have printed for my little shop. If I could sew a quilt it would be made up of many dried roses, so that I could remember each friend that I knew and loved during the years I lived in Hong Kong and Canada. I have always thought that quilters piece the memories that can sew our hearts together. Certainly these PINK ARTISTS have stitched together a vivid expression of their hearts for a worthy cause.

The song for this post is Good Friends.

THE PINK ARTIST'S PINK ART BLOCK PARTY

Monica of Girl Gone Thread Wild, asked artists to also donate a piece of art created by the artist for the 2009 PINK ART BLOCK PARTY. THE ART DRAWING officially begins on July 31, 2009.



I wanted to donate a painting of one of my favorite things. I have painted an original watercolor painting of my composition of a pot of Dried Roses.

I used Arches Watercolor paper 140 lb. I used Winsor & Newton watercolor paint. The painting image measures 8 x 10 inches with a white border. I am including a white mat board measuring 11 x 14 inches.



The painting is presented in a white mat for framing.





I look forward to seeing all the PINK ART that will be created for the 2009 PINK ART BLOCK PARTY. Artwork is beginning to fill the pages of Monica's Prize Wheel. You can click here to see the gallery, which will continue to fill, or you can view a slide show on Monica's blog. The GRAND PRIZE is a beautiful quilt created by the PINK ARTISTS.

I noticed that people have created some of my favorite things. See you there. The song for this post is MY FAVORITE THINGS.

Outdoor Wednesday

Every Wednesday Susan from A Southern Daydreamer hosts Outdoor Wednesday. An opportunity to visit the outdoors in other parts of the globe without making reservations. Just stop by Susan's place and visit all the outdoor places.



Yesterday I was feeling that joy that rises from within. No matter what our circumstance might be, there are days when we look around and only see our blessings.



I was remembering a lesson that I had learned about appreciation...



Years ago in the late sixties, I was really impressed with an article I read in Life Magazine. There was a kindergarten class where they were teaching the little children to be thankful.



They had all the children lie on bamboo poles on the floor for a while. Then when the children began to realize how uncomfortable that was, they had them return to lie on their soft cots on the floor.



I will never forget the happy faces of these children as they lie on the floor for a nap on their cots made of blankets. I wonder if they would have really appreciated them, had they not known the difference.








ould we know that the major chords were sweet,
If there were no minor key




Would the painter's work be fair to our eyes,



Without shade on land or sea?



Would we know the meaning of happiness,



Would we feel that the day was bright,



If we'd never known what it was to grieve,
Nor gazed on the dark at night?"



Wishing you a day filled with the views of your many blessings.



This poem was taken from Streams in the Desert by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman.
The song for this post is Count Your Blessings.