artistic endeavors: whimsical

Here's a whimsy one if I ever saw it. :)

Ahem. 

Sorry. Yeah, this is pretty whimsy, isn't it? Quiet. Lovely is more the word for it. ;)

Just had a thought: I'll get a print of one of these someday. And frame it in a nice modern-like frame...and hang it on my wall. It'll make me either hungry, sick, or nostalgic every time I walk past it. 

Mmmm. See, this is a small town I live in. A nice older lady we've known since probably before I was born gave us some cookies today. Randomly. :) White-chocolate something. There may have been butterscotch in it, too. Holy cow, those were good cookies. I only had about three. With black coffee. 

See what I mean? 

Totally getting a print of this.

Oh, I didn't mention this --she also gave us like 3 mugs of this kind. And three plain beautiful white ones, the same design. Some of the cutest china I've ever seen:)

Now onto the painting. I did it Saturday, June 5.

Okay. Here's the thing I came to post, and you came to see.

I think.

:)

Methinks I remember it was sprinkling outside. You can tell by the overcast look on the canvas.

Well, I can.

Cute wittle bee, yes you are. :)

Well. That's all for the paint-creativeness today. I've got a few new ones, so don't worry. 

But I have to share this.

This link to Whatever. Now, that one's her actual typepad.

But this is the one I'm really talking about.

Don't be thinking you know all about it, heard the sob story, etcetera. This is so real.

Just scroll through it...do it for me. She's not boring on the narration, neither is she spilling details paragraph-after-paragraph. It's a sentence or two here and there. Doesn't take long at all.

This is my favorite post of her trip to Africa. Just scrolling down through, I couldn't help it. My eyes filled and started spilling, love and pain and wonder all at once, and after a moment, I had a logical thought and got angry. Am I pmsing? What the hey. Anyways, it might just make you emotional any day of the week.

And this here quote's quite true, you know...

God offers to every mind
its choice between truth and repose.
Take which you please –
you can never have both.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Knowing truth makes you move. Makes you change. Makes you love.
You know it.