Pay it forward project #199-201

pay it forward project #191-193

Pay it forward project #126

Pay it forward project #114

Pay it forward project #97

Pay it forward project #57

Year of Giving #216

Year of Giving #163

Year of Giving #155

Year of Giving #150-153

                                         #150--Fourth of July

                                      
 #151---as a gift for my goddaughter on her engagement

                                         #152

                                         #153

Year of Giving #79-AVAILABLE ON ETSY

Year of Giving #6

I really liked this one, then when I was writing it, started wondering about the wording:) Maybe it should have read "The meaning of life is to find your gifts, the purpose of life is to give them away."...because it could be read that the purpose of life is to give ("IT") your life away. But maybe others won't read it like that...

Three Danish writers

This is a piece that I just completed as a gift for a Danish family who will be hosting my youngest son for his semester study abroad program in Copenhagen. I chose 2 quotes by three different Danish writers  and combined them all using my original calligraphy and painted paste paper. The "Living is not enough" and "fairytale" quotes are by Hans Christian Andersen. The "difficult times" and "salt water" quotes are by Isak Dinesen and the "to dare" and "life can only be understood backwards" quotes are by the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.  I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out (although like any artist I could point out its faults:). I hope that they like it! We know they speak English very well. Just hope its not weird having artwork in their house that is in English instead of Danish.

Year of Inspiration 222-224

                                            Artwork  #222

                                                  Artwork #223

                                          Artwork #224

I took a calligraphy workshop this weekend on flourishing and started using a bit of what I learned on the last 2 pieces....Sunday and Monday's artwork.

Year of Inspiration 172

artwork #172