More of our beautiful little Fairy Furniture and other pieces!!

I have been organizing my computer files lately and had forgotten about these wonderful little pieces that Mike and I made quite a while ago. I just love them.......it's so fun to see the work one does from the past......it gives you a good perspective of where you are, artistically. I have made so many little pieces of fairy furniture; I have pictures of almost every piece, but each little creation is so very special to me. I miss the ones that I have sold or given away. I am sure every artist is that way about their art......you create something and it becomes part of you and you create that work of art from your soul. I wish I could talk to all the people who have bought my pieces to see how they are enjoying them.

I hope you will enjoy these. I made some new pieces the other day and will post them soon on my blog. Today is Sunday and such a beautiful day. So peaceful and quiet. It always seems like Sundays are much quieter than other days. I appreciate Sundays so much. Hope you have a very special day today.

Debbie

Wonderful little film for children available!!!!

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to tell you again that Mike and I have made some truely wonderful little films for children! My favorite one is called "The Little People from the Enchanted Treehouse". It is so cute and charming. It is about the wonderful little characters who live in the Enchanted Treehouse in the forest. There is Stephan and Benevito and the Princess of the Winter Gardens and many other curious and delightful people!

I hope you will go to my Youtube page to see our short clip from the film. (It's the one about Stephan; just go to Youtube and put in natureartists). If you are interested in purchasing the film (or any of our other films) just email me and let me know. I am so happy with our films! They are the cutest films and would be so much fun for children to watch. I would be happy to tell you more about "The Little People from the Enchanted Treehouse" and all of our other movies, if you will email me! Please tell your friends about our little films, too. We are trying to let more and more people know about our wonderful movies for children!

These pictures are of some of the characters from "The Little People from the Enchanted Treehouse".

Have fun!

Debbie

Precious thoughts to share......

Hello dear friends.......

I have been thinking about my blog and how I have usually just posted photographs. I have found so many beautiful pictures from the internet......so many people share such beauty and sensitivity. But I have thought so much about things that I have not shared......my thoughts and feelings, things that I cherish and ponder about. I really want to share more of my dreams and thoughts with others. My husband and I are spending a lot of time alone lately. As our job as decorative painters is through at the state capital, we are not working now. Rather, we are trying to work on our children's film......."The Enchanted Treehouse". It's so difficult though to discipline ourselves to a schedule. As artists, we love having time to be creative, to look for other artists whose work truely inspires us and to just follow our motivations to learn and enjoy ourselves. But we haven't gotten enough done on our film!!! We finally have a basic story now to work with so that helps!!!

One of the things that I wanted to share are the things that I cherish the most......and also I wanted to talk about the things that truely bother me......

I love animals and children! Animals are so precious! They cannot speak to us but their silent language is a way of bringing God's spirit into our hearts. Animals are so soft and sweetly mysterious. We were watching a wonderful old Russian movie last night called Three Wishes for Cinderella. There were some very sweet scenes Cinderella, a peasant girl with the animals she loved! A beautiful white horse, a soft owl, a funny little dog, and beautiful doves, white doves! She was so gentle with them and so kind. You could tell that the animals truely loved her because she loved them so much!! Animals just touch my heart so much. We live in an apartment and can't have any animals and I just miss that so much......we used to live on a small farm in Washington and we loved it. We had a pony, chickens and a rooster, rabbits, pigeons, ducks and geese and a cat and a dog! How blessed we were to have so many wonderful animals. I miss them all so terribly! Whenever we see a cat or a dog, I am so grateful for them and stop to take time to say hello to them and give them some attention! We truely need to cherish animals and take care of them!

Children, too, truely touch my heart. They are so funny, so amazing and so wonderful! Such energy, such love for life! We should learn from children every moment! They have spirit and life and love! Their voices are so sweet and funny. They have such wisdom and creativity and imagination! I cherish children and their wonderful spirits. I miss our sons.......they are 27 and 30 now. We talk to them 2 to 3 times a week which is wonderful, but we miss the wonderful life we had as a little family. How wonderful that was! I want to say to anyone with children at home......please cherish your time with your children!!! You just can't imagine how much you will miss them when they are on their own!!

If anyone out there is in the same situation as my husband and I......just the two of us now......can you tell us what you do as parents on your own.......to keep from being lonely? To feel like your life still has meaning and purpose?? It's so hard, still, to be on our own. We love being together, but we definitely miss the life we had with our dear children. We of course still see them fairly often, but it's not as easy to do so as we'd like, so we try to talk to them on the phone or with our webcam as often as we can.

I would be grateful for you thoughts about these things.......hearing from any of you helps me so much!!! I appreciate all of you!!!

Here's some more beautiful pictures for you.......hope you'll enjoy them!

Love to all.....

Debbie

Beautiful Photographic Prints and Cards available!

I have been thinking so much about all the artwork that I have.......so many beautiful paintings and collages, photographs, little fairy furniture, little found object sculptures......just so many creations that sit and talk to me all around our house. I really don't know what I would do without them.......they keep me moving forward each day. They are like dear, sweet friends that I have known for an eternity. Art that you create is something of the soul......it is like a story you invent and you can make up any character, place, setting, time period......and it stays the way you make it. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't be an artist and a writer. But, it is difficult to do so. To live and be an artist is a drama in itself!

We are going to go out for a walk.......Mike and I have been spending the last three weeks practically all in our apartment!!! Spending so much time on our computers looking for beautiful art, working on our films, writing to people, talking, laughing......of course, we get out every day. We've gone to some wonderful movies, spent endless quiet and fun hours at the book store, love to go to shops and look at shoes and clothes, jewelry, hats......

It's been snowing here quite a lot. We're going to try to find some cemetaries and take some pictures in the snow! I hope you are all happy. Life can be so difficult sometimes.......we need to seek out those things that truely make us happy!

I send my smiles and love to you all.....hope you'll look at our little film clips, too......here on my blog and on Youtube, too. Have our little films for sale on Etsy, too. Address is below on previous post. Also, the photos I posted today are for sale......I will list them on Etsy, soon, but if you are interested in purchasing any of them as cards or prints, let me know! I so want to share my beautiful art with others!!!!!

Debbie