Sleepwalk of Love ~ Dreams of the Night

On a Date with my Old Love on Saint Valentine's Day : )

Late posting … sorry, busy this week and heartbroken over Plushenko's sad departure from the Sochi Olympic men's singles so no personal art to share with you but I think this might do : )

So for this week I'm sharing my dreams of the night , thoughts on Love that crossed my mind while half awake walking to the kitchen in the wee hours of the morning for a glass of warm milk.

Happy Saint Valentine's Day

To My Old Love, To The Ones I Love , To The Paint Party Friday Group 

and

 To All the Lonely Hearts

Image courtesy of Inspiration Lane 

A Love by any measure of Time becomes an Old Love ~ Annabelle

Love, an unrelenting emotion that knows no boundaries and when Mortal Love dies yet it remains behind.

An undying Love.

And If not for Love, our spirits be forever depleted and lost.

It is Love , an Old Love that keeps you in blissful warmth, even in your arduous hour.


Happy Saint Valentine's Day Sweetie, my Old Love : )




Leaving you with this beautiful musical piece….happy dreams : ) Until Later, Annabelle

SOCHI WINTER OLYMPICS ~ A CAT'S SWEET DREAMS

DREAMING OF CANADA IN SOCHI

OUR KITTY CAT KARSON DREAMING OF CANADA IN THE SOCHI WINTER OLYMPICS

GOOD LUCK TO CANADA AND TO ALL THE ATHLETES!😊😊😊

Best of Plushenko ~ Edvin Marton (Featuring never before seen fan pictures!!)

Published on Feb 9, 2014
This video from Emmy award winning composer and performer Edvin Marton features never before seen fan pictures sent from across the globe to create a unique video to give his friend Evgeni Plushenko the energy to skate like never before at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games.


There's a genuine camaraderie that encompasses the Olympic Stadium.
A stranger from afar, something unexpectedly happened to me last Sunday and although I was cheering my country it was Plushenko's stardust that filled my eyes and heart. An amazing Olympian who left me with a starry night to remember.


After watching Plushenko skate that night I was left with remnants of the music he had chosen for his program floating in my head; I just had to find it, and I did!
It happens to be a collection of famous musical scores, specifically ones taken from Plushenko's past programs. A compilation put together by Plushenko's friend , emmy award winning composer and performer Edvin Marton. Not only was this new musical compilation destined to be absorbed like a sponge by the audience for it's profound spirited intensity of the combined movements but also for being loved passages of time, Plushy's time. Plushenko used every bit of his unique and amazing talent in his performance, floating on air high above the ice in every jump with ease and exquisite interpretation to each of the musical pieces marking periods in history . Definitely a genius idea in my mind ; that, I think was part of the magical program Plushenko and Marton devised.
The music soared and ignited the fire in his exuberant heart, aflame with all of the apical of spirits of his homeland partisans and now the world's.
He left us enchanted.

“When he is on the ice, the soul of Russia is on the ice.”

Thank you both Plushy and Edvin , for an unforgettable show.


Until Later,

Annabelle


Hey Gloria, Look what I found…..directly from Russia! Enjoy!



Courtesy of ПоСекрету ВсемуСвету

INTERMISSION WITH A DREAM ~ "FISHIN on a DREAM "~ MOPSY THE SPIDER DREAM CATCHER

Since last Friday I've been busy working on my WIP "Brown~Eyed Daisies and Chrysanthemums " Bas- Relief Painting contemplating the finish I want to render it in. So far this is what I have achieved in the next step of the work, adding a few more tints of colour ,wiping away the excess and highlighting some of the areas ; now, I'm sort of stuck where to go from here.

So I thought a little respite from the painting and dreaming along the way that I would share this Dream Catcher I made.
Being one who always loves the intricate magical work of a Spider's web, I'm not at all surprised when an idea pops into my head that it's source derives from Charlotte's Web…: ) and leads me somewhere new.
 As I recall, the idea came to me when I saw a little boy fishing on a dream catcher; I thought, why not a spider  fishing and instead of his catch of fish, make them fireflies .

Here is where vintage jewellery comes in handy.

Mopsy the Spider fishing for fireflies

A Little Star

Fireflies and a mother of pearl heart


So now , without rushing the work , I must get back to finishing this Bas~ Relief. …..I have another painting that I'm anxious to get started : )

Don't forget to pay a visit to the gang at Happy Paint Party Friday

Until next time,
Annabelle

A Little Mystery Solved

How exciting it is when one finds a magical surprise in their mail, never knowing that it ever existed, until one day there it is, veiled in falling snow. At first, I didn't know who had managed to enhance the WIP Bas ~ Relief painting I've been working on but with a little investigation, I found the magician behind the work was none other than the secret robot belonging to Google+ . I kinda of like it and actually I discovered more of my images had been touched by his magic wand and had been for some time.

Moral of this little story, check your mail a little more often and read it all for you never know what you may delightfully find concealed inside the envelope: )

Until the next surprise : ) 

Annabelle

A Good Habit ~ Art Obsession ~ "Brown~Eyed Daisies and Chrysanthemums " Bas- Relief Painting

BAS ~ RELIEF PAINTING ~ WIP

Paint Party Friday Week 47 ~ Year 3

Art has it's way with me, almost always , if I let it.
Usually, even before dawn has waken, it quietly arrives accompanied by the high pitched vocal of a hunger cat by way of a strong aroma of percolating coffee entering my senses and triggering my creative habit…..my "Art Obsession Habit ". A habit I happily accept with a few minor negatives thrown in, like one  having too many unfinished projects. One of those unfinished projects is this Bas- Relief of potted daisies and chrysanthemums I've had for some time now. A found art piece which was never finished and had the worst colour ever.The original background was a chocolate brown and the flowers were painted gold. So I decided to give it a fresh coat of white gesso paint.

 After a number of applications of a monochromatic colour and drying periods in-between, I mixed some paints and started to repaint it. I also used some interference gold and mother of pearl for the flowers. In the process of deciding on the shadowing of the florals ,my daughter mentioned that the work reminded her of Van Gogh's Sunflowers painting in the way I had painted only a few of the daisy centres brown. I had never realized it until she mentioned it but her remark did make me feel good about this work's progress.

For now, I call it “Brown ~ Eyed Daisies and Chrysanthemums”

Love some FEEDBACK on where to shadow : ) THANKS



Until Later
Annabelle


Linking this art post to the Paint Party Friday Artists' Group

The Girl with The Far Away Eyes

One of the beautiful physical charcteristics on my mother's side are the eyes besides gorgeous thick hair, two of the traits I seem to have missed out on.
Mind you, when I was young, if I spent a few hours in front of the mirror, I could claim close to those same characteristics....😊

Anyway, yesterday while visiting my mother and helping place a few pictures on the wall, she asked my daughter to place her picture on Facebook. Since no recent pics worked well , my husband suggested we use the one her friend had drawn of her as a young woman in the sixties; as you can tell by her bee- hive hair do.

Not only is she lovely but the drawing is equally beautiful and in my mind the way my daughter Emma photographed the picture makes it that more fascinating and quite intriguing by her incorporation of the reflected image of the living-room window doors.
So I thought it be nice to share with you this morning this art piece, actually two art pieces, a photograph and a drawing of my mother .

Hope you enjoyed this post.

Until later
Annabelle

p.s. needs some photoshop ...adjust the colours.

CABINET OF OLD SECRET LOVES ~ TUMBLR

HOME SWEET HOME

Eduardo Teixeira Pinto (Amarante, 1933 - 2009)

I suppose I should take a moment to leave you a forwarding address since I've haven't been much around the old place for a while.

You see, I've finally found my Home Sweet Home.....on Tumblr. A new blog I call "Cabinet of Old Secret Loves " 

A place where I keep all that belongs to the earth. A collection of sorts, a collection of Dead People's Stuff and of the Living. Poetry, Literature, Art, Music, Movies and Film, Magical Lands, Culinary Inspirations for a cozy, comfy home. 

In addition to re-blogging curiosities rare and common from time to time I will write my own posts inspired by my new found muse....Tumblr. 

This place holds an endless library to my heart's desires, maybe Tumblr may even become your very own personal library as it has become mine.

To navigate the site scroll down the page and click on the word "older" where it will take you to the next page; so far there are 510 pages in the Cabinet.  

Here is the link:

Hope you enjoy it.

http://cabinetofoldsecretloves.tumblr.com/#me

Until Later

Annabelle

p.s. The Wood Beyond The World will remain Active

MERRY CHRISTMAS

You guys see the cat run past here? - Imgur

You guys see the cat run past here? - Imgur

HONOUR AND REMEMBER

Honour and Remember

Monday, November 11

Remembrance Day 2013

Can I Keep You?

It's been so long since my last post but this doesn't mean I've stopped doing what I love most....ART... of all sorts. Only, I'm not ready just now to share with you my private room, later : )

So, for the immediate moment I'll leave you with Casper and the poem 

"The Spider and the Ghost of a Fly " by Vachel Lindsay

And now, revel in

THE SPIDER AND THE GHOST OF THE FLY

by: Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)

NCE I loved a spider

When I was born a fly,

A velvet-footed spider

With a gown of rainbow-dye.

She ate my wings and gloated.

She bound me with a hair.

She drove me to her parlor

Above her winding stair.

To educate young spiders

She took me all apart.

My ghost came back to haunt her.

I saw her eat my heart.






The Smiling Spider 1891 by Odilon Redon



Can I Keep you .......until later?
Annabelle m..m

A GARDEN AND A LIBRARY

"IF YOU HAVE A GARDEN AND A LIBRARY, YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED "

                                                                                                                                       ~ CICERO

Well, maybe……

Of all my impassioned desires , old vintage books are on the very top of my list whenever I frequent church/yard/estate sales.

Last week i posted this little crystal book I created in a water/salt solution. With the sun in hiding all of this week I haven't had the opportunity to take some good shots of the book in all of it's glittery splendour, hopefully this weekend might be more co-operative. 

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It's been a very busy week and unfortunately didn't have much time for painting and working on my mixed media. 

With the coming of Spring it usually intoxicates me with flowers and antiques and no matter the weather I am out and about hunting down treasures of old…heirloom varieties for both garden and art.

During the course of my travels over the last weekend I met a fella at a yard sale who informed me of an Estate sale that was on in Oxford Station. It was a three day sale and I only got wind of it that Saturday afternoon but feeling tried I decided to go later the following day on Sunday; to my surprise everything that was left in the household contents was half price and a gorgeous double iron pedestal Victorian garden table still remained. Since I really didn't have the room for it , I passed the deal unto my friend.

Anyway, I did get my fair share of treasures , including today at another Estate sale run by the same company "MaryFrancis Estates ". Thanks to Jim from "The Cottage", I think I have a great venue to hunt for the old relics, after all , I am working on making a garden and a library.