A Halloween Party In Spring???

Spring has sprung, Im into Halloween fun, its a difficult time indeed.... To party for fall, with witches and all when Im actually planting some seed!!!!

 Welcome to Halloween in my world.  A country which has never really celebrated this holiday because its Spring!  Ohh people try, the children will flit from house to house but only 1 in 10 will have something to give, so we now put on parties and discos for the children so we can dress up and feel we fit in.

A witchy tale is still instore

keep a close ear and I'll tell you more....

When candy corn your munching, or some other special treat

my juicy corn is rising, and growing super sweet...

watched over by wise Merlin, a flower for a cane

reading to my veges, waiting for the rain...

A gift for our dear witches, they love a natures brew

no frog tongues, legs or eye balls, but flowers, quite a few...

Let's meet the witch Edwina, shes French and likes a stew

she's always in the garden, so much healing magic to do...



You'll find her telling stories, she really is a hoot

and when she goes out shopping, her fetish is for boots.



Morgana Mandolin, hiding near the tyre

she lives for making broomsticks and singing in her choir...

Beware the grumpy German, Bettina Bogburrows III

she can turn you into cow dung, with the blink of an eye I've heard...

so I gift her with a flower, to keep her eyes at bay

a happy witch's a good witch, so you hear them say...

Sleepy Gretchen HoggleToggle, the booziest of them all

sipping her way thru the garden, shes's so drunk she may just fall.....

Miss Hagatha Horseton Christie, parades in her summer hat

chin chin and all thats merry, unless you are a cat.... 

she likes to pry their whiskers, and use them in her spells

to help you find your true love and one day wedding bells....

surrounding all the witches, are seeds all sprouting new

this one's a sunflower, and especially for you xxx...

remember all the lavender, purple, blue and mauve

we use it in our cooking, we bake it in the stove...

A hawk has left a treasure, to use in your new spell

I'll go and find the chickens, for a little one as well...

but first lets make some magic, spreading colour all around

inside this hand of seeds, is a field of buzzing sounds..... 

with spacey looking flowers, a design that nature made

how can such a crazy thing, grow where a seed was laid.....

and once its shown its magic, the wonders still appear

a little passionfruit pleasure, is growing out of there...

remember in my bathroom, up high there grew a vine

soon when your in here washing, you can eat to pass the time....

miss munchys in the garden, she's collected all the eggs

we can bake a cake for halloween, to feed to all our friends...

next we need some sweetness, can you help us buzzy bee

where do you hide your honey, can we look, ohh can we see...

what about a carrott cake, cause no pumpkins grow right now

they're cute and orange and ohh so sweet, babies can you tell...

the chef is starting on the cake, she's cracking the first egg

learning to crack a little bit, is magic mummy said...

in it goes, the big cake bowl, hmmm its a little dirty in there

what are you going to put with this, flour and horse hair???...

when I said flour I didnt mean flower, but like that matters now

plenty of dirt with petals and leaves, do we have to eat this some how??...

i would rather eat these sweet beans, they will grow into such grand vines

we can feast on magic veges, and make our bodies feel fine

orange colours are here for Halloween, although not in pumpkin form

maybe I can be more prepared, and do my next story in our fall!..

Forgive me for my confusion, but Halloween is not my best

I will go from party to party and learn tricks from the rest...

so weird we live in two worlds, the top and bottom it seems

with seasons never matching, but all of the same dreams....



Happy Halloween All

Enjoy your season Fall

xxx

Thankyou to the ever wonderful Vanessa Valencia for putting on her Annual Halloween Celebration

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New Exhibition Work

Wow what a full on week Ive had, Im not sure whats harder, getting ready for an exhibition your putting on and hanging, or getting ready for an exhibition you are having nothing actively to do with.

Im still not up to big travels, or little ones for that matter, so i sent my artwork off with my exhibition partner and hoped for the best, i still have no idea what it looks like but have heard great stuff from my friends who attended the opening, so all good!

Here is the 3 new pieces I hung in this show as well as my older Paper Moon pieces.

But first my artists bio...

Spiritually speaking, Im awakening, Mentally speaking, Im losing it, Physically speaking, Im breaking down... Whatever you want to call it, Im going thru a change, a change that leaves your past in the dust, your life in tatters and your emotions dangling on the edge of a cliff. I started Paper Moon when I was the old me and first exhibited this work in February, I hit rock bottom in May and am now re-emerging with a style that is telling the same story but moving in a whole new direction. As a 32 year old Mother/Artist this is a journey thru my evolution. From Screenprinting to Fashion Design, Photography to Bookmaking, Painting Florals to Landscapes, Mixed Medias and Dyes... I have found myself coming back to simplicity in life and art, Ink, Goldleaf, Water Colours and Pencil. Small pieces with big stories, and even bigger lessons.

Paper Moon started to be a huge part of my artistic journey quite by accident. I was home alone drawing and painting and felt the white paper I was using was soooo lifeless and boring. I tore a page from an old book and did an ink painting, a girl emerged and by that afternoon I had completed 5...and so the Paper Moon journey had begun. Some may see it as the destruction of books. I see it as breaking down old forms so they can reinvent themselves with a whole new purpose...Art...
 
 

My New pieces come in 3 parts

 

Part 1

The Feast

 

I had a life so easy,

I lay in a bed of flowers compared to a lot of people, yet here I was having a meltdown.

So as I lay crumpled and broken on that bed of flowers I was watched over by my ever comforting wise Raven, keeping the fears from creeping in and completely taking over....

as my old life dropped away..

petal by petal...

releasing the darkness that lay within in me...

the darkness had been building and building...

shutting me down day by day.

This is the unfolding

This is the feast

 

 

 

Part 2

A Tune A Day

 

Rediscovering my inner quietness, learning to feel at peace with my world again was not an easy task.....The trust was gone.

Where was my village, where did I belong, my path was paved with comforting support from loved ones but my own death loomed close in my eyes and the days seemed too harsh and real.. I found solace in the quiet of dark moonlit nights with moths emerging from the darkness signifying the recognition of self we must all achieve to survive. I was re-learning to meditate, breathe, trust and be in the moment, these were my new lessons.

No more past

No more future

Just Be

A Tune A Day

and nothing more

 

 

 

Part 3

From Top To Bottom

Everything going on inside you is worn on the outside like clothes, could you see my pain??

My new lesson is health, making friends with my fears... offering them gifts of love till they are no longer powerful. My roots are stable and large and here I stay supported by the lights of hope, that loved ones have offered in my journey...What is fresh and healthy is not what it seems, take this beautiful apple and relish in its perfection and taste, never seeing the hidden poisons that lay inside...

they will one day lay inside you too...

and when its too much for your body....

then you will also be on this journey...

Healing your body

From Top To Bottom

 

 

 

they were all framed too

 

So hopefully the exhibition goes well, its on for another 10 days.

Well I must be off, the art room beckons, me and Indi are already starting work on our next exhibition, and yes you heard right, OUR work.  I took a print of one of her paintings the other day and then I did my artwork on top of it, so we are getting a collection together.

By the time it goes up this summer she will be nearly 3, not bad for a first exhibition, it took me 29 years longer!!!

 

 

Wonderful days to all my readers

 

hopefully I will be back to posting every few days from now on!!

 

Love Sheree

xxx