Artists Seek Peace....Find It.....and ROCK!!!

    In my life time, probably like most of you, I've made many purchases. Some I was not happy with after the fact, and some that just made me wonder: "What was I thinking when I bought that?!!" And then there are those purchases that make you so happy that you sit and smile, saying: "Wow!!"...Well, this last feeling is what the purchase of my girl from Cathy Bueti {her blog is Artsy Butterfly} is making me feel today! I can still see me in her face...even more so now!
   I knew she was a wonderful self-taught photographer a long time ago. In fact I featured her shop on this blog before. You can see it HERE.  But she has caught my eye in another medium now, her paintings. Particularly her mixed media pieces. Especially her girls!! (She even shared a gorgeous piece of blue and white abstract art that she did just recently on her blog.) Hopefully more of these will end up in her Etsy shop, cathymariecreations, as time goes by.
   When the package came last night...

    ...I got all giddy! It said: "Do Not Bend". There was no chance of that happening! I was being very careful. I didn't want anything to happen to her!

    When I finally got it out of the package, which was very nicely wrapped and smelled good I might add, it had this on the back of the painting...

   And this is also when I realized that it's painted on a board! A fabulously sturdy, beautifully finished board! I was so in a hurry to purchase her that these kind of details had escaped me. :-) And when I turned it over and looked at her up close and in person...

    ....she was even more beautiful than I thought she would be!!! Thank you Cathy!!...I love all of the small details too. Like the butterflies and words all over it.

    And the encouragement to "Seek peace around every turn".

   But I got another gift with this package. I'm not sure Cathy intended to give me TWO pieces of artwork, but she did!! It was the card she sent with it! Isn't it pretty?!

    It has these beautiful multi-colored painted hearts all over the front of it! I love this so much!! In fact, as I've been known to do with post cards and letters that were special to me, I'm going to frame this card and sit in in my bedroom so I can look at it all the time! :-) I like to be surrounded by love!
   The words inside the card were a gift too. I hope she doesn't mind me sharing.

    Part of what she says is:"...I hope you love her as much in person!..." Well Cathy, with this post I think that you can see that I absolutely do!!! And I'm glad to have met you in blogland too! I think you ROCK!!! ^_^
   In fact, I'm on a roll in my choices of people to follow in blogland and here at home! Let me show you what I mean with a couple of other artist's...their artistic photography!

    This one was taken by my very own hubby! Nice perspective, huh?!

     This one was taken by Kerri, of the blog A Little Piece Of Me. Every day on her blog is another beauty!
    This was one of the Memories Of Fall photos of Vicki Patino.

    And these were a couple of the Weekend in Photos done by Hollie on the blog And baby makes three.

     Awwwww! Peaceful...And I say it again, Artist's ROCK!! ^_^

Artist's ROCK!

Their eyes see what their heart sees,
and in colors on canvas or in yarn.
You can see it in their photographs of foliage,
or the red and brown that's painted on a barn.

Their heart says: "This bead color's perfect!"
Then you see the artist's work on jewelry stands.
They recycle, mix the media and show you,
and collect a lot of now adoring fans!

Whatever medium they work in,
Whether working with their hands or just their eyes,
you can be sure they'll get some oglers and lookers,
who, like me, will give them "Ahhhs" and "Ooooos" and sighs.