~ 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

~ tiny things ~

i'm not one for grandiose projects...
in fact ~ the smaller the better.
i stitch small, i sketch and paint small things.

i prefer minute detail to larger,intentionally pulling folks in for a closer look.

not everything has to be humongous.or crisply executed either...
a bit of blur, some shaded areas - intentional obscurity.
 

   using up scraps of parched paper from previous paintings,
i'm enjoying filling them with small worlds from my imagination.
 ~ Blessed be ~
Levora

~ Knock Knock ~

just a few photos gleaned from Pinterest ~

  ~ Blessed be ~

Levora

~ Witch, old witch...

 

  Witch! old witch! ~ how do you fly? on a broomstick my dear, flying high...   Witch, old witch? ~ what do you wear? and old black dress and tangled hair...   Witch! old witch! ~ what do you eat? little green bugs and pickled pigs feet...   Witch, old witch ~ what do you drink? apple cider vinegar and midnight ink...   Witch, old witch? ~  where do you live? by the old barn, if you give a fig...
Witch! old witch!! ~ do you live in a house? I live in a haystack, with a tiny grey mouse...
~ Old Nursery Rhyme   Blessed be!

Lori

Witch's Walk....

   a rainy-day walk in our fields and deep woods... join me,  ... won't you?

 

 

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Blessed be,

Lori