• Blog - Creativity

    A second look: Christmas poem

    I had forgotten about this post so when I found it today I knew it what the one I had to share.

    Take a look…

    12/22/2015

    T Tuesday: Christmas rhyme edition

    T Tuesday: Christmas rhyme edition | Halle's Hobbies

    T’was the Tuesday before Christmas and the day before break,

    my mind was a whirl with all I’ve yet to make.

     

    The presents are wrapped, all tied up in bows,

     the cookies are baked, but calories? Who knows

     

    The tree lights are twinkling and sweet treats abound,

    it really makes more sense when there’s snow on the ground.

     

    So I looked out the window, and what did I see?

    A dusting of snow! I squealed with glee.

     

    So funny how quickly my mood turned bright,

    and all it took was a light coat of white.

     

    Merry Christmas to all my family and friends,

    I bid you adieu as my rhyme has reached it’s end.

    Merry Christmas from Halle's Hobbies

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    Hope that blast from the past put a smile on your face.

     

     

  • Art - Blog - Creativity

    Joyful journal

    I was battling the cold whilst creating this page. Usually when it’s cold in my basement art space, I tend to go for warm colors. This was not the case. I was embracing the cold with lovely cool tone colors and texture like snow.

    joyful journal page

    I felt the colors around the edge resembled a cold winter night with the moonlight reflecting off the snow.  I’ve always wished I was a landscape painter…which I am certainly not…but I do give it a whirl from time to time.

    I left a light space in the middle and pictured a grove of evergreen trees at the edge of a lake. The boughs heavy with new snow.

    joyful journal page

    My vision didn’t quite come to fruition but it’s not as bad as it could have gone. (glass half full) 

    The words weren’t what had originally thought I’d use. I had words of silence and peace…the sweet silence of freshly fallen snow. If you’ve ever experienced it, you know what I’m talking about.

    joyful journal page

    This thought made me feel joyful! It’s always good to celebrate even the most simple things in life. Fresh snow, a creative muse, birds in the trees, bunny tracks through the snow…

    Linking up today with Art Journal Journey for Let’s Celebrate

    Art Journal Journey
  • Art - Blog - Creativity

    Reflective thoughts

    It seems as we get older, time speeds up. The years that seemed so far in the distant future are now upon us. I know in my brain that time is a constant but my heart has a different idea.

    I get very nostalgic at years end. It has extra special significance for me. Mr. G and I reconnected and made plans for our future on New Years Eve 24 years ago. And our daughter, Mini-me, was born New Years Eve eve. reflective thoughts

    As I was creating my mind began to wander. Thinking about how life has changed over the past year.

    reflective thoughts

    It feels as if my baby girl has been 14 for about a minute. How can she be about to take her permit test.

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    What happened to the cute little dresses she wore while playing rough and tumble with her brother and the neighbor boys.

    See what I mean…nostalgic. Not that I’d want to start over by any stretch of the imagination but I do wish that for a moment I could step back into that time and bottle it up.

    reflective thoughts