~ the end of june ~

 june 30th....my mother's birthday...she's 94 today ~ still in hospice....such a strange and sad time in our lives for our family.

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tomorrow is July 1st.
and it is hot.
too hot, in fact for any rational being to even want to be outside.
and if we must be outside, say, to nourish our gardens,
we must look through saddened eyes at the dry, parched and cracked soil
that a month without rain has given us in our part of Virginia.

...because of this, or maybe it's just my 'nature',
I have been pouring myself into my designs for ~Autumn  Fall  Harvest  Halloween
much earlier this year.

I'm so grateful that I have my needlework and folk art as my therapy,
I would be bonkers by now without any of it.

each thread, stitch, loop & brushstrokeholds my deepest thoughts and emotions.

every word and memory fills the pages of my heart and sketchbooks,and I return to them each year to keep them all alive in some way.

I create friendly characters and kind, gentle 'folk' that i bring to life with my hands
and whichever medium I choose.

I'm into my 60's now,
a Crone, some might say, and my soul craves
& wants to create peace.

and my mind, the 'make-believe'
as it did when I was a young child
playing in the woods on the outskirts of my New England hometown
~ Blessed be ~

Levora

~ Strange Things ~

  the strangest things creep into my head at times... it's those quiet moments that usually stir my brain-pot, and I get to thinking about characters and creatures ~  

bringing an idea to life in cloth, paint & trims,
these are better left shown in black & white until they actually do come to life...

... I wouldn't want to scare you!

  Blessed be

Lori

dreaming of Hallowe'en....

a few more photos that I have in my Pinterest folder ~

aren't these just cool??



 i can't wait for autumn to come.... Blessed be!Lori