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Heaven’s Lavender Harvest

Heaven’s Lavender Harvest

The angels watch over the growth of the lavender and flit about over the fields smelling the fragrant plants and picking bouquets to take home to their angel friends.   They like to exchange gifts with other angels who watch over crop fields, dairy farms, strawberry patches, lilac trees, poppy fields and all things related to nature.  They bring Joy, Love and Peace to the world through all their giving and receiving and watchful eyes.  They give us hints how to till the land, harvest the crop and bring it to market.

This doodle art is dedicated to Lavender Sense in Wallacetown.

The Power In A Flower

The Power In A Flower

Women have sacred energy of Power that is embedded in their intuition.  When we need to use it, we can go deep within to find it.  It takes faith of our true selves that we actually have power but once we find it and know it is there, we can release it in whatever we do with a flow of energy that is felt by all in a loving and creative way.  Bless the female energy.  Bless the power in each and every flower.

Chinese Blue Chic – Mixed Media

Chinese Blue Chic

I see myself as the Chinese Blue Chic.  My favourite colour is turquoise blue.  As baby birds we grow up.  We leave home.  We fly back.  We seek our destiny far and wide.  We have bird cages to live in with family and friends.  The cages represent many places we stop at along the way – school, business, community, etc.  We have many opportunities where to spend our time.  We are loved and cared for, then we take care of ourselves, then we take care of others through parenting, friendships and as colleagues or neighbours.  Let your baby bird make choices and help him or her fly to a greater awareness of living life with love, compassion, gratitude, joy, faith and fun and finding your purpose and ultimate destiny along the way.  The name Gail, my name, means “Gives Joy”, “A Father’s Joy”, “Father of Exaltation”.  To my Dad, who could bring the birds out of the trees with his whistle, I must have been his “Joy” when born.

Share Your Heart With Those You Love

My friends are Heart Cat, Princess Lacy Gracey, Mommy Bear, Flowercat and Lu-Lu Fairy.  They live within my heart and bring me joy, faith and gratitude.  Their love opens my heart so that I may share Valentine’s love with others.  Make my family your family too and walk with us hand in hand to make the world a better place to live, work and prosper – all with love in our hearts.

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VALENTINE’S LOVE

By Gail McNaughton, February 14, 2012

Share your heart,

With those you love.

Open up to a richer, deeper emotion,

That is freeing, refreshing and revitalizing.

Look around you,

And see who cares for you,

And love them back,

With deep joy, faith and gratitude.

We are all loveable in our own special way,

And finding the key to unlock the heart,

Is the biggest Valentine we can give one another.

Stand up and be counted amongst the human race,

As one…

Who can share your heart,

With those you love,

And now, with those you don’t even know,

For you’ve witnessed the power of love,

And help one another,

Be a special Valentine,

Not just today but everyday.

Home Sweet Home Spaghetti Dinner In Kitchen

Home Sweet Home

In the hearth of the kitchen, Spaghetti is in the big red pot, that was purchased from Goodwill beckons closer examination.  Black and brown noodles have been cooked with some tomatoes.  Bread awaits the eaters.  Wine is served to the cook.  The young man sitting on the swing slurps up noodles delighting in how long they are and how tasty.  If he swings too far, as the worrying woman imagines, he might overturn the pot and then all the scatter rugs will be filled with noodles and sauce.  Best not to give him any vino!

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“I Love the expression on her face! LOL”

 Nik
Nik Designs

Cucumbers For Sale

For some people it is play time at the Market but for others it is a sales day.  The birds even get in on the fun.  As long as the market vendor has enough, she is willing to share and let the juggling continue.  She is wearing her favourite shirt that says “We love vegetables!  Try making cucumber salsa and then invite us all over.

Field Of Colourful Sunflowers (Mixed Media Painting)

Field Of Colourful Sunflowers

Sunflowers with their cute little faces make us feel so good, especially if you walk through a field and look up at them.  They are majestic with thick, mile high stocks and make you relish in God’s Gifts of nature.  How could a little seed produce such magnificence?  Children are like that aren’t they?  When they grow up they are beautiful human beings that start with the nurturing and caring of the seed in the womb and are watered and fed till they achieve independence.  They become the new generation of mankind.  When you see a sunflower field, know that God shines in every face just as he does in the face of each of us.

Tissue Paper Art

I have enrolled in a Mixed Media program with the St. Thomas Art Centre and this is what I did last night that I wanted to share with you.  We were supposed to be doing Birch Trees and were each given a magazine picture to refer to.  As usual I never listen and do my own thing.  Susan was a very good student and will finish her art this weekend.

The green for the grass were plastic colour swatches that I think Norma gave to me.  Then I applied my doodle art style paint to them as well as a few colours of paint in the sky.  Some of these plastic swatches also show up in the lake.  This is all tissue paper in various colours and my art has depth of field which I don’t know if you will pick up but the poppies and larger (2) flowers stand out.  The larger two flowers and surrounding area on the left were made of flowered tissue paper.  You are seeing whatever you wish to see but to me it is a  poppy field by the water’s edge with a wonderful sky.  You use podge to apply to the board to secure the tissue paper and keep layering the tissue paper cutting or tearing strips and podging it.  I have podge on my nails and if you use hand cream it is easier to get off.

Garden Of Joy, Tissue Paper Art
Garden Of Joy, Tissue Paper Art

 

Garden Of Joy,  Tissue Paper Art is framed and in our dining room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“I love the colours and texture in these Gail!”

Ann-Marie Cheung, AOCA

Photo Of Bob, Gail & Fleecy – Christmas 2011

This is a wonderful photo that Norma (my sister) took up north while we were up there at Christmas.  Thanks to Norma for doing some photoshop work on the photo to make it spectacular.  We were over at Frank and Norma’s cottage and going for a walk with our (combined) 4 dogs.  It was one of those magical days and she has captured it.  We are bundled up because it is very cold.

Fresh Fest Doodle Art

Fresh Fest is a big celebration in St. Thomas & Elgin County – it is a celebration of Food and Drink.  It is a time to mix and mingle and enjoy the fruits of labour of many people in agriculture.  The local produce and local businesses come together and entertain us with Chef’s cooking up a storm.  Sampling food is the name of the game.  “Elgonia” shows you her basket of produce that she is proud to present.  You will be proud to eat, drink and enjoy life in the heart of SW Ontario agriculture and especially at Fresh Fest in August.  By day she grows vegetables on her farm and the sunshine and healthy living have produced cute little freckles on her face.  She brings the harvest to St. Thomas which is always bountiful in any season.  She loves the fact that her fruits and vegetables go into the preparation of many succulent and gourmet appetizers, entrees and desserts.  Buy local and buy fresh she promotes everywhere she goes so let’s help her along and do the same.

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Testimonial:

“Thanks Gail. Can’t wait for those fresh vegetables to be in season once again.”

 Debra

We Love You Doodle Art

Stuffed animals make the best friends.  “Floppy” the dog sits on my dresser watching me as I sleep.  “Mommy Millie Bear” makes sure that Floppy is quiet as I sleep.  Flowercat ™ has one arm supporting Floppy so she won’t fall off.  We bring our stuffed animals with us from childhood and mine are still part of my life as an adult but I must admit this is the second “Floppy” in my life.  “Floppy” # 1 must have gone to heaven to be cuddled by boys and girls there.  The first one was a Pyjama Bag and you could keep secret things inside but this new one is a cuddly toy.  I still have “Kiltz” who also is a Pyjama Bag and several of my dolls.  I must admit though, I collect Raggedy Anne dolls and other stuffed animals so I’ve grown young by being older!  “Fleecy”, our golden doodle dog, loves a stuffed animal and especially one that has a squeaker in it.  She has her own but continually wants Mr. Bunny who sits in a chair in our living room.  Unfortunately she removes the squeaker and stuffing from her animals but is very happy tossing them around when all is said and done.  I guess they are lighter than dragging a stuffed bear across the floor and she has something that looks like a hairy rat that she consumes with her tongue.  Use the things from your past as part of your decor to remind you of your childhood days.  Remember When’s are good for all of us.  Nothing says that adults can’t hug a cuddly stuffed animal and believe me, they don’t talk back, are positive and loving.  “We Love You” they say and we can say the words back.  Take a stuffed toy to someone in a long term care or in a hospital and when the chips are up or down, they will be lovingly valued.