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Worry Causes Wrinkles and Hair Between Your Toes . . . Create Instead

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Today is the day. Not for a trip to the beach. Not for a two-month cruise. Not even for a trip to the zoo. It’s colonoscopy day.

YAY!

By the way, my new toilet works great!

As you know by now, I love to create. I used to draw as a kid, but I can’t draw a straight line anymore. But I don’t let that stop me from doing what I can do using great little helpers like PaintShop pro. You can do anything you want if you want to bad enough.

I enjoy turning photos into art, like I did with these two below using pictures I took of the natural area in our front yard.


I love anything old and beat up. I take that after my dad who restored antiques for people from around the Delaware, Pennsylvania area. He’d search for weeks looking for the exact age and grain and type of wood to repair the piece we was working on. He was truly an artist.


And I love creating caricatures from photos


I love creating fantasy. I used several different photos and picture tubes to create the fantasy scene below.


Spring is almost here!

 Gotta go now. Time for me to visit the butt doctor.

 

 

Photos: From Hot Mess to Abstract Art

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Having BPD (borderline personality disorder), I should avoid stress like the plague. But, instead, I create more stress. Like this house renovation thing. I’ve never been so angry and frustrated and cried so much in my life. But, in spite of my life-long-ugly monkey on my back, I’ve learned to cope. I’ve learned to laugh at myself and to see the funny side of my many painful, not so funny anxiety disorders.

That’s why I create. It makes me happy. And when I’m happy, my dogs are happy. My husband is happy. My whole family is happy.

My before and after photos are my interpretation of the mess we’ve created . The before represents the stress. The after represents the calm.

 

 

From Photos to Digital Art: My Favorite Things

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As many of you know, my husband and I have been giving our house a major face lift since last March, 2019. Yep! Been taking up carpet, putting down vinyl plank flooring, painting walls and furniture, stripping and refinishing old furniture and creating mess after mess. The only thing keeping me sane is creating art.

I enjoy taking photos of my favorite things around the house and turning them into art.

The program that I use is PaintShop pro 2019.

Back Porch
Big Boot Planter
Ugly Dolls. I collect them.
Bella
Wooden Box doubles as planter and book holder
Bella and Pepper
Digital Piano
Crazy quilt my great-grandmother made
My dad’s Teddy Bear
Our flag
My grandmother’s door stop
Cozy Corner
Pepper
Old chair I painted and use as a plant stand
Figurine
Buttercups, rooster, cook books, and breadbox
Candle
Old ship lanterns
Digital Piano
My Dad’s Teddy Bear

 

Lighthouses: Inspirational

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Peace in the Darkness
Rest for the Weary Soul
Hope for the Hopeless
Keep Following the Light
Jesus is the Way to Life
Stay Strong
Hope for the Lost
Be Still and Listen
Peace in the Storm
Light in the Dark
Nothing to Fear
Always Near
It is Well With My Soul
Never Alone
Calm in the Storm
Whispering Hope