i promise

So i'm behind on my new year's resolution.
Isn't that just like me. I'm behind on my christmas cards & thank you notes too.
But look! here I am, blogging. and that's rezzo #1.
I promise.
I started a list today at work...blog ideas.
There is no shortage. I just have to go on down the list! Easy.


First...before any of that, I have to stop. Breathe.
..and remember a beautiful friend, Rozelle Lentjes.
A ray of pure sunlight, who left us just a few days ago, on January first.
She made it through the holidays with her dear & precious family gathered with her, after a year of bravely battling wicked unfair cancer.
I will be forever grateful for her generous spirit, her creativity, her unwavering faith.
My dear friend Jane dedicated her blog on Country Living to Rozelle, and you can read it here,
IN MEMORY OF ROZELLE.
I cannot say it any better.


Last year Rozelle's beautiful pillows were in the windows of ABC Carpet & Home.
This December it was this angel.

Fitting.

Cherish every moment.
Promise to try.

close to you

How crazy is it that two girls from opposite continents should meet, become dearest friends, and in the span of 15 years...marry, visit, love, lose, laugh, cry, unmarry, cherish, create, fall, pick up, live in England, live in California, really love,....then both end up....crazy as it may seem, in KANSAS CITY...with little boys just 6 weeks apart? 4 blocks apart? 

The English one is the amazingly talented Sarah Lugg. Here on Artslice,  is a lovely blog article about her talents. She is modest and amazing and so much more, all wrapped into wonderful. I can't believe I can call her & be in the same time zone, let alone walk over to her HOUSE with my BOY. lucky me.

Vicky is smiling down indeed.

11:11

So really, the goal of this blog, and what lights me up the most...is to be able to share the work of creative people. I am continually inspired by the talent around me, every day. It's in all of us, you know.

Here, I have a place to share with you posts, people & places that are in my opinion, noteworthy.

Right now in Atlanta GA it's 11:11. and today, is 11/11. So I find it only fitting & perfect to start off the creative parade with one who lives & breathes it every day.  To live in & around your work and still love it and know it informs your very being & your livelihood...that's a rare thing.

This is a rare man. A talented photographer who puts his soul on the shutter button. Paul Hultberg.  I am lucky to know him. 

People who create..in any way, share bits of themselves with the rest of us. I love that. The vulnerability of putting yourself out there is actually giving a gift, a snapshot of who you really are. 

Inside.

And here, after an hour of figuring out how to write computer code to get this all to input correctly...it is now 11:11 Central time. Go figure.

And create, while you're at it.

bountiful

                                                Cooper and Daisy
                                                Mummbly
                                                More mirrors?
One of my weekend necessities her in KC is a trip to the River Market. www.thecitymarket.orgFor us that includes picks from bountiful midwestern farms,..(earlier this summer I was a blackberry-a-holic) breakfast at Succotash, and a veture into the many creaky & deal-filled floors of the River Market Antique Mall.www.rivermarketantiquemall.comThe coors saturday were rich & vibrant, ..turning towards fall. Cooper got a chance to play with a dairy calf, & I came home with the tiniest of fingerling potatoes, sweetest sungold tomatoes, and two garnet colored mums to add to the pumpkins on the porch.
                                               The weekend wasn't long enough.