Paper Moon Evolution

As I sit here with a itching sunburnt back from 2 days ago, I right now cant see further than 100 meters around my house for all the fog and drizzle?????

Spring is here!!!

And a New Zealand Spring at that, 4 seasons in one day.

Damn I just rushed to the kitchen and I have burnt my chickpeas for the hummus gggggrrrrrrrr

Im such a vacant multi tasker at times.

Ohh well, I will stick to art.  Im here to show a new piece I finished in one day, I couldnt stop, Im sure you all know this feverish pace when something is wanting to be made so badly.

Its a very large painting  done on a collage of book pages.

So this is the evolution of my paper moon character, she is now in colour with real arms and a face and some better clothes to wear than a shaded triangle.  A few people asked me to do colour pictures earlier and all I would say is "I dont do colour", I needed simplicity, so that is why all I did was black, a lot less wrongs to be made.

Take a look....

all the pictures in this new collection have this frame in them...

The whole picture..

A puriri moth, which will grow in a tree trunk for up to seven years just to live for one night.



full moon

angels Trumpet or Datura

sleepy villages of magic



pom pom grass

There is alot of symbology going on in there which I will write about later, they are going to an exhibition in a few weeks so I will need to get the stories ready for then, here is the next one I started



it has my first ever attempt at a horse

and of course some beloved bird cages

Enjoyment is the word I use to describe these paintings, I do a pencil and sometimes pen out line, watercolour paint and then sit there for hours with pencil doing all the details and it gets all the colours to be so much more vibrant, sometimes watercolour can look so dry and un shiny.  Colour pencils are perfect. 

I have to give credit to someone for this part of my journey and thats Cameron from Paint Myself Pretty.

She loved my Paper Moon pictures so much so I gave her permission to use the style and gave her pointers and help whenever she needed it.  Cameron fell in love with the style and felt it really opened her heart up to being an 'Artist'.  It felt very special to be able to effect someone this way just by being open and giving and not holding onto my art style like I ever owned it in the first place.  The inspiration has returned back to me with the ability to move into colour, maybe I was stuck in my little black and gold box and couldnt even see my way any more.  So thankyou Cameron for now inspiring me, lets hope the art giving train just keeps on going, we could all learn so much from each other, I so want to learn how you make those stop motion videos. anyone who knows, Im open to lessons!!!  So here are a few of Camerons pictures, take a look at her blog if you dont already, much talent lives in this ladies bones and not just in paintings!

Her blog link is HERE!

Cameron makes her art into prints, cards and books and tags etc, so go check out her shop link too

Clever Lady!!!



Ok well I have feverishly cleaned today and am now going to take a nap, here are some rascally photos of the shenanigans these poor puppies have to put up with.

"OK Your coming with me"

"Ohh no, help help, I just had a turn!!!"

Trolley Rides For Everyone!!!!!  Poor Puppies : (

I will draw the winners of my witchy T shirts in the next post this weekend, and the DevaWood Hangings are only up for sale in my Etsy shop for the next week (till Thursday) because they are off to the city to be part of my exhibition.

Have fun Ohh carfty ones

Ohhh I almost forgot, I will be seeing alot of you in stripey socks soon at the Fanciful Twist Halloween Party,  Hmmm Halloween in Spring in a country that dosent celebrate Halloween!! sounds great, I will think of something!

Ciao Bellas  xxx 

(Im reading Eat, Pray, Love)

Practical Magic Party

So here we are at the Practical Magic Party Day

Well technically Im a day late, but I played with my daughter for the whole day which I havent been able to do in months, so I think thats a good enough excuse. dont you??

Im going to be having a give away with my little story so stay tuned.

What torture to pick a part you like best...not an easy task, I love that the music is done by Sheryl Crowe and Stevie Nicks, is there anything better??  And who dosent want those Aunts living with them, in the house, ohh drool... anywho I had to chose so...

A part of the movie I love is the Amas Veritas spell...

I still have my diary form that age, day to day ramblings of a 12 year old, ohh the troubles of a 12 year old!

But its not this diary Im telling you about...when I turned 21 I could either have a huge party or use the money to go on a vacation.  I chose to have a 21st picnic in a park and then go on my own tropical holiday! seeing I was obsessed with Deserted Island movies and mermaids and living on an Island walking around in near to nothing but a bit of muslin, eating fish and bananas, Ohh my imagination!

I went to Beachcomber Island in Fiji for 10 days.with my darling Miss G

It was the best holiday ever, party party party, and for a single girl (one of the only times in my life), boys boys boys!!! woo hooo.

Before we left another wonderful friend Rufeo made me a first aid travel pack, it was a wonderful bag full of jars and potions, film cannister to document talent on the island, condoms, herbal teas, anti shark attack medication (shark lollies), heartbreaker pills (heart lollies), male magnet capsules, please use carefully, effect is irreversible (tic tacs!)... and the main part im getting to was a beautiful blue bottle with a scroll of paper in it to send out a message in a bottle...to send my own message out into the depths of the ocean.

Now because I was single and in the company of many available HOT! men, of course I had male brain..

So I sent out a spell, not for a man that didint exist, but for a man that would finally understand me and be happy with the life I wanted to live (never before found!)

Now Im a huge diary writer, and spent most of my time on this island documenting every move we made, there wasent much else to do in the day! apart from nurse our hangovers...

So here is the original draft for my spell, it was sent out into the ocean, hidden in the coral when we went snorkelling one day....The funny thing is I obviousy didnt send it out far enough, when I had been home from the island for 2 weeks a random girl rang to say she had found my bottle! and wanted to know when I was there, I think she was thinking in terms of years and when I told her it had only been two weeks, all we could do was laugh, she was nice enough to re plant it, but this time a little further, so far in fact that it will probably never be found!..



But thats OK, because I have found my perfect man, and as strange as the world works, he is not much like the man I wrote about, but he is so perfect for me in every way...especially proven over the last six months when Im sure most males would have run..

So thankyou to my wonderful Smelly Kelly, a strange story of fate in itself that I will reveal some other time.

XXX

So love and spells and fates aside I decided that a giveaway was fitting for a wonderful day.

I love natural witch craft, nature, earth etc so I printed some wiccan T shirts.

I have two to give away, a size 12 (pictured) and a 14 (nz sizes)



just leave a comment and then I will draw from the names.

If you want one but dont win, no fretting my sweets, I have 3 in my Etsy shop for $12USD.



So enjoy your Practical Magic hopping, I have been painting all week for an upcoming exhibition, so I like to do this in front of the TV with DVDs playing, its great.. I dont have to watch the screen and can just listen and know what is going on, I look up for my fav parts!

So I have watched Practical Magic 3 times this week trying to find what resonated with me. Hard when it all does, although I have never jumped off my roof, killed a man, buried my ex in my back yard, ripped up my floor boards, invited my girls over to 'Clean House', trained frogs to do tricks, had a sister, burned rose bushes or made a cactus pancake!

I do however live in a small coastal town which my family has done for generations.

If only in that house...ohh phewey!

Thankyou to the ladies who organised this wonderful party.

La Boheme Magique and Frosted Petunias

To see all the other parties follow this link.

Practcal Magic Blog Party



Moonstone Organics

And she finally resurfaces!!

So sorry people but I have had no words to share on this part of my journey.

I have been doing a detox of heavy metals, sprays, poisons etc from my poor body and it leaves you lifeless...but out of this I have learned soo much about foods and what we put into our bodies.  There have been sad days when I have had too much information and feel overwhelmed with our toxic world but that was the turning point where I decided I could do something about it.  I have land..alot of land, so now it seems to be my destiny to grow healing foods for others and not just myself.

Im trying to do this as artistically as possible.

But first, look at the new abundance our dog Pipi has given us. 10 puppies!! eeek

what are we going to do with 10 puppies..

Eyes are beginning to open so the cuteness bar is raised everyday.  As you can imagine they are already riding in trolleys, prams, being put to bed in dolly cots and are having plenty of strangles..ohh sorry I mean cuddles!!

So brown, black and black and white...any takers are welcome!

Now back to my new life mission.

Years ago we wanted to sell Organic Veges and our name was to be 'Moonstone Organics'..now the dream has become a reality thru necessity really.  After having an extremely poisoned body resulting in so many health problems that I thought was just life! Organic is the only food my body will accept so here I am growing for myself and I decided I could put more effort in and heal others too.

This is the shop, its like an honesty box and will be at my fathers workshop down the hill, he has alot of traffic go thru and its also on the road to 90 Mile beach which every tourist visits, so hopefully I will be drawing my customers from far and wide.  There is a huge gap for organic food here. You just cant get it.  So the shop is like a huge cupboard that is closed at night.  Its made of ply wood and painted ohh so pretty.

The first door is called 'Healing World'.  Its a wall where a connection is made.

You will see in this post I have made some 'Wooden Deva Hangings' avavilable in my Etsy shop.  Im selling them to raise the money for the wood to build the shop.  Its a path working venture, one step before the other.  When you support this project by buying a "Deva Wood Hanging" you get to put a piece of art/photography with a life quote on the healing world wall in the shop.   While your blog address will bring people to your site, its the state/counrty part that interests me the most.  For travellers and locals to visit the shop they are making a change, a commitment to healing their bodies and lives.  By reading where you come from it resonates with them if they have heard of it or been there themselves, making a direct energy connection which creates the cord of health and healing to your place or home.  A thought creates a cord, imagine the amazing web of cords we could create this way.  Healing energy cords being strung every day.

Its a beautiful thought.

So the 'Healing World' wall is all about connections.

and you can all be a part of it.

You can do a piece of art up Like This.

The shop will sell veges and fruits, all organic, preserves and jams, eggs, woven food baskets and pavers too, the floor is white shell, info wall at the back tells the story of where all the food comes from.

The for sale wall is for info on whats happening in our area and peoples things to buy.  I will also sell native plants and vege / flower seelings.

So Kelly has been busy hoeing up the paddock for the veges, the little house on the left is my packing house where I will get all the veges ready for sale, beans tied in string, bags of baby peas, polishing cloths for egg plants and courgettes and brushes to sweep dirt from potatoes..

someone is obsessed with watching her daddy on the tractor..

we have such beautiful sandy soil, it smells wonderful...

little seeds are growing every day to become big things...

and my original garden is whispering secrets in my ears of tricks to use, I will have to keep this garden going too, they are friends who have grown here for years now, there is no way I could ever abandon them.  Its self seeding chamomile and rocket mayhem!...

So these are the wooden deva hangings Im selling so you can be part of the healing world wall.

There are 15 Devas, all with their own lessons to be taught.

'Butterfly Deva'

How could you not be happy being a butterfly? You gracefully flit from place to place feeling light as air, you drink sweet nectar from flowers and float around on a sugar high all day. Do we play enough? When are you feeling free and on a sugar high?? Time spent in aimless floating limbo is so important to our souls, sometimes there is no reason, there just IS. Embrace aimless days as just days, relax and let time fly by.

 

The back comes with this statement..

"I believe in a future where we can heal one another with pure love, from our hearts, bodies and spirits...

Im part of a dream

'Calendula Deva'

"Im beautifully golden and my colour cuts thru the green, let me heal you, let my shining gold fill your body"
Ohh how I love Calendula, to know it can heal so many things makes me feel safe whenever theyre around. We all have the power of healing, ourselves and others, look inside for the answers we so often draw from others.

'Chamomile Deva'

These are my favorite Devas of all, always smiling and they speak in chimes, everyone together. Keeping a calm heart that is full of trust, love and peace. Everything happens just as its meant to, the Chamomile Devas encourage surrender in me, peaceful surrender to let the patterns of life flow more easily. Stop resisting change and calmly surrender.

'Ladybug Deva'

Do you crawl around life with a beautiful shell exterior, whats on the inside, whats hiding?? Ladybug Deva asks us to consider whats on the inside, we are all so different, even if we look and act the same. Find your inner passions, realease your inner darkness, get to know your hidden side, embrace it and let it know its existence is just as important as the bright exterior. Darkness can exist as well as light, its when we fear the dark that problems arise.

'Baby Peas Deva'

Huddle with friends and feel the love, what to learn from a little pea??? They are sweet sleepy little creatures who love comfort, cuddle cuddle cuddle they say, no one wants to be alone, so find someone to cuddle today.

 

To see the others go to my Etsy shop

 

 

 

I hope you have all been well and healthy, I have so much of your blogging to catch up on, Im sure you have all been up to so much craftiness and mischeif.

Spring is here on Thursday, I have much to prepare for my changing seasons ritual, time to shed this old self and all my fear and pain I have held onto from whats happened over the last 6 months.  But look at what has come form it.  Listen to the little lessons!!  You dont want a big one!

 

So beautiful sunny days to all, with no storms or earthquakes!! eek!

 

Thankyou to those of you who will help me on this journey.

As high school musical puts it so perfectly "were all in this together"

 

 

xxx

Sheree

3 Things I Love

1.  High School Musical, just so much cheesy happiness xxx

2.  The fact that when you get sick you stop moaning about everyday things, hopefully when Im feeling wonderful I can hold onto that and never moan again!!

3.  80s music, its taking me back to summers camping as a child whn everything was just FUN!