December 25

Happy Christmas!

In my world, Christmas happened last Monday.  After many years, today is 'just' The Hubby's birthday.  First year since he was born that it got celebrated without getting covered up by something else.

I love my Lissadoll Christmas-Tree Angel. 

~magick~
Meliss

12-12-12: art journal: the 'little' things

the inspiration:

a quote from Bishop T.D. Jakes

“It’s amazing the things that God does for us and we don’t even notice that He’s doing them.  We’re so busy trying to get our wish list done that we don’t notice the little simple things that God does for us every day.  Little simple things like: waking you up in the morning.  And little simple things like keeping that raggedey car you got running.  I know it doesn’t sound big and impressive or anything like that, but how God blessed that old raggedey washing machine that keep on going and you can’t even figure out how come it’s still going and yet some kind of way God does it just because he loves you.  But because we’re so worried about big stuff sometimes we don’t see little things."

and one old gift tag:

 the page:

“The sign of God’s favor in your life is not always manifest in the big things that He does, but rather in the little insignificant things that you would not even notice that He did.”

It's the first year our Christmas tree fit perfectly into the stand on the first try.  It was the first tree we saw when we got out of the car.  Every other year it was so frustrating.....but not this year.....

Don't be too busy trying to get to the mall to buy all those fancy gifts that you don't even really think about how that big, huge SUV STOPPED and did not drive all the way through the red light that it was about to blow and SMASH right into your tiny Prius and kill you and your husband.  Personally, I've lost count on the amount of times I could have lost my life.  And that's just the ones I know about.

God, thank you for the beating of my precious heart.


~magick~
Meliss

Dec 11 - art journal

inspiration:
just having fun and seeing who shows up on the page
I can't say I'm surprised

 

“This is why the bible says - despise not the day of small beginnings - because God will do everything great in your life through seed.  To keep carnal people from getting it, he’ll hide the orchard in the seed.  If he showed the orchard, everybody would snatch it.  So, He’ll hide it in a seed, to make sure your motives are right and He’ll give it to you in a small form and say, “If you be faithful over a few things, I’m gonna make you ruler.”  Bishop T.D. Jakes

 ~magick~

Meliss

Dec 10 - art journal: Fiscal Cliffs?

the inspiration:

Fiscal cliffs and all the panic 'the news' creates

this quote:   “It is the insecurity of the times that defines who you really are.”  Bishop T.D.  Jakes

my own art:

  

 the page:
 

Cliffs, even fiscal ones, are no match for covered bridges and leaning ladders in my world.

~magick~
Meliss

Dec 6 - art journal

the inspiration:

i broke into my own stamp stash

 here's the page:

listening to Suzanne Vega sing "In my book of dreams" helped,
because I thought,
"Yeah, what would be in my book of dreams?"
guess who showed up?

a ghostly girl in a gown of gossamer

Oh,
and Me of course.

What's in Your book of dreams?

~magick~
Meliss

Dec 5 - art journal

I woke up early this morning
and started dreaming about today's page...

the inspiration:

 the page:
(it's a shame that the camera can't pick up all the glitter and Golden Fluid Acrylics Interference, Violet and Blue, in the snow)

“You will have a hoe and a rake pulling back everything that threatens the survival of the possibility that has been planted in your life.  You prefer what God planted more than what you could do by yourself and you say, “Anything that threatens the welfare of this seed has got to go.  If you mess with my destiny, you’ve got to go!”  Bishop T. D. Jakes

~magick~
Meliss

Dec 4 - art journal

here's the inspiration:

here's the page:

Business dinners can be fun.  I hope this one is.

~magick~
Meliss

Dec 3 - art journal

I chose 5 things from a pile of 'stuff' and got to work.

Here's my page for today:

"Even a small star shines in the darkness."  Finnish Proverb

~magick~
Meliss