Round One

This is something I have had on my mind for some time. All the round things that surround us in the world. So on vacation or my travels with my camera, I started taking pics of all these round things. I finally put them into a collage called "Round One." Why "Round One?" Because I'm sure I will have many more rounds to come!

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Stacey Ryan
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Pretty Peppers

Another "poured" watercolor painting.

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Water Lily's

Here is my first painting doing a new watercolor technique called "pouring." I attended 2 classes & finished this at the end of the second. This technique is using negative painting which is difficult to me yet very addicting so far. I'm keeping up classes & hope to have more frame-worthy paintings to share.

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Simple personalization on Luggage-

I bought a piece of luggage for my upcoming trip to the West Coast. Of course it was just to plain for me! So with this simple monogram-look how pretty it makes it! I grabbed a few more pieces of luggage in the same color for friends & family, so even when we travel together, we won't get our items mixed up.

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Colby

Corinthians 13-Love

¹If I speak in the tongues^a]">[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ²If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,^b]">[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. ¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. ¹²Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

This necklace was made for a friend of mine who lost her son, Colby. This was his favorite verse so I incorporated this into the piece. The words, Faith, Hope & Love, are of course from the verse itself. The wings represent him as an Angel. The sparrow looking over him is a symbol of the innocent.

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