Fairy Miracles

12 x 15.5 inches

acrylic on wood

sealed and ready to hang

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This is the first Sunday in Advent, a time for preparing our hearts for the season of love and miracles, especially the miracle of the birth in Bethlehem so long ago.

How silently, how silently
The wondrous gift is given!
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heaven.
No ear may his His coming,
But in this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive him still,
The dear Christ enters in.
~Lyrics of O Little Town of Bethlehem, 3rd verse

Happy Heart Series in Pink and Orange

approx 8 x 10 inches

acrylic on wood

sealed and ready to hang

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We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Good food, good friends, good fun, good God.

A loving heart is the greatest gift you can give another person.
~Unknown

Happy Heart Series in Blue and Green

approx 8 x 10

acrylic on wood

sealed and ready to hang

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My heart is indeed joyful this Thanskgiving, as we are blessed to have 9 for dinner today, and we have love and peace in our home. I have a Christmas CD that has a song on it entitled "The Gift of Gratitude." Gratitude is truly a gift we can choose. In addition to good food, may you have in your home the food that feeds the heart: love, peace, and thankfulness.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
~Karl Barth

Sun, Moon, and Stars in the Round

20 inches in diameter

acrylic on wood

Sealed and ready to hang

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I love the personification of the sun and moon. It gives new meaning to the sky, doesn't it?

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
~William Blake

Happy Flowers Series in Orange and Blue

12 x 15.5 inches

acrylic on wood

sealed and ready to hang

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We're having a big crowd for Thanksgiving, and I'm grateful for the gift of friendship.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
~Albert Schweitzer

Mosaic Fish in Red, Yellow, and Green

21 x 12 inches

acrylic and stained glass on wood

SOLD This little fishy has a fortune that says, "Nothing seems impossible to you."

God's Garden

acrylic on wood

36 x 9 inches

wire and bead hanger adds 6 inches in height

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The text on this piece reads: "The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky, are also on the faces of people passing by. I see friends shaking hands, saying "How do you do?" They're really saying, "I love you." It's taken from that wonderful Louis Armstrong song, Wonderful World.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUIUEj4irQ4

Reggae Fish Series - Samuel

approx 8 x 3 inches

acrylic on wood

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Sow a thought, reap an action.
Sow an action, reap a habit.
Sow a habit, reap your character.
Sow character, reap your destiny.

Blue Crab

5 x 5 inches

acrylic on wood

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I'll be painting all day today. Hope you'll have a great day, too.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~Abraham Lincoln

"Mosaic Fish - Sunshine"

21 x 10 inches

acrylic and stained glass on wood

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Just wanted to share the good news with all of you - I received a grant from Horry County Arts and Cultural Advancement to write and illustrate a children's book. I will begin work on it in January. I'm thrilled, and looking forward to getting my writing juices flowing once again. It should be a blast! God Bless all of you that wished me well and prayed for me!

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

~Demosthenes

Me and My Dog

approx 10 x 10 inches

acrylic on wood

sealed and ready to hang

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This one is in the pet corner at The Big Tuna at Market Commons in Myrtle Beach. I miss my dog, Bear, very much.

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
~Swedish Proverb

Dove Chocolate Mermaid in Pink

acrylic on wood

embellished with Dove Chocolate wrappers

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There is just something about a mermaid, isn't there? I'm busy with commissions this week, and looking forward to Thanksgiving.

The most important opinion is the one you have of yourself, and the most significant things you say all day are those things you say to yourself.
~Zig Ziglar

Live Oak

16 x 20 inches

oil on canvas

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Painted this on location with my friend Ann Marie, who visits every year from Maine. We were out on Highway 90. Something about live oak trees makes me think of the sheltering arm or wing of the Lord.

Keep me as the apple of your eye;hide me in the shadow of your wings, from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.
~Psalm 17:8-9

Cool Cat

approx 18 x 5 inches

acrylic on wood

for sale at The Big Tuna

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The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination.
~Emily Dickinson

Art in the Park, Myrtle Beach - November 8 & 9, 2008

"Earth Laughs In Flowers - Wine Garden"

17 x 9.5 inches

acrylic on wood

embellished with wine bottle tops

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I'm was glad to have wine collector buddies as I was working on this piece. More and more, I'm painting with no sketch at all, just letting it flow. A good time was had by all, even the flowers :)

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
~Iris Murdoch