journey to raw health

I had been anticipating the birth of my second grandchild since finding out of my older daughters’ pregnancy last spring. And then they announced that a girl was on the way, which meant that I would have one of each.  Beautiful Avery Elizabeth showed up on the 22nd of February, and is a joy to mom & dad (and grandma, too)! Her room is all pretty in pinks & brown. As I was thinking of something to make in stained glass, I came  across a piece of paper that I had kept because it had a colored imprint of 3 pansies which I knew would make a great pattern for something. I scanned, enlarged and highlighted where I wanted to make the cuts. and voila!  a fanlamp nightlight for the baby girls’ room.

My daughter loves it. And I imagine that Avery will too, when she is old enough to know what it is. I loved making it and I believe that the joy I feel when I am creating pretty things comes through the finished piece. So,  I am now starting on a wall mirror with  overlaying glass pansies and a wispy pink glass & irridescent pink nuggets framing the border.

Oh what fun!

Tags: art, stained glass, birth, children, life experience by Deborah
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Several months ago I was introduced to the free Simpleology course offered online. I took the course and started doing the recommended Daily Target Praxis. I now describe it as my  ”first thing I do in the morning” list. Setting the focus for my day really helps me to prioritize and because of this new habit, it appears I am getting things done. My computer at the time was an old desktop, so congested there was not enough room on my hard drive to defrag. I could not load photos. I stopped making any entries here and just started making more stained glass art. And I enjoyed myself.

Well, I now have a new laptop with plenty of memory and hard drive. So, I now want to learn of a program that will allow me to correct the photos of my stained glass mirror art. I will be investigating Photoshop Elements & Essentials. They have a free trial period. I should be able to spend enough time with the program to know if it will do what I want. In the meantime, I have been able to take pictures of some of the other Yoga Postures that I have been creating. The latest is the Wheel Posture, . As with the other postures, I use the rainbow of colors to represent the chakras of the body, and with this pose, I have an overlay of a wheel with the glass nuggets at the ends of the spokes. There is always a heart in each piece also.

Another posture that I am more familiar with because it is part of the Bikram Hot Yoga series, is the Eagle Posture. In this pose, your arms are twisted around each other and your legs are also twisted around each other as you squat down. You feel it in all of your joints. In this pose, I have an eagle in white wispy glass overlaid to let you know it is the Eagle Posture.

In so many things that I read, it says ‘to do what you love’. I am so enjoying what I am doing these days. I am grateful that my “job” gives me 4 days a week to do whatever I desire. And that I have found a way to spend my time creating pretty things.

Tags: art, stained glass, yoga, life experience by Deborah
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