Grateful..

Today I am grateful to have friends...

Friends who care..

Friends who are mindful of my needs....

Friends who made me feel that I belong..

and 

Friends who stood by me..

amidst changes and adjustments...

they stayed true and believed in me....

friends who reached out

when I needed them....

"The living moment is everything"

D.H. Lawrence

Thank you dear friends....

and here's wishing you a

Happy Canada Day
and
a Happy 4th of July to my friends in the USA!!

always...

steph

Green Gold..

Thank you everyone for your well wishes..

MIL has been discharged from the hospital and is recuperating at home. 

Today...I experimented with the color

green gold..

this is still a WIP and a color study on painting layered flowers
using water color...

and I've learnt to mix green gold with:

Phthalo green and blue

Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold (QNAC)

Burnt Sienna

to achieve different shades...

discovering how the colors "behave"....
and created form..

it was hard work....

looking for light and shade...

but I'm pressing on..

and will be doing a few more.. 

and documenting my journey.....

happy sunday!!!

steph

Iced lemon tea on the go....

oooh I'm late I'm late for tea....

we had to make a trip down to the hospital last evening to visit my mother in law

and so I managed to grab an iced lemon tea..

had it after lunch at the office....

yup the background is my office....

and you can probably guess that I work with children  :))

well have a happy week to all and if you happen to be here and looking for more 

links to my art-tea friends..go to Kimmie's 

steph

what if...

"......your fears and dreams exist in the same

place, would you still go there?"

Anonymous

Happy Monday!!

steph

Experience....

Art Journal page

....." is not what happens to you it's 

what you do with what happens to you"

Anonymous

Happy Weekend!!

steph

Joyful colors

It's been some weeks since Mr Sun came and stayed a while longer..

and so last Sunday was a day of painting and art making....

I painted some papers for collage

and I've been connected to these colors..

pages from my watercolor sketchbook 

and a page from my other art journal 

stay happy...

steph

Friendship tea on Tuesday

Haba was our trusted guide in Lijiang

and he invited us to tea..

Haba chose one of the finest Pu-erh (red tea) for us...

and it's always a blessing to be drinking tea with a new found friend....

Happy Tea Tuesday!!

steph