Merry Christmas!

Christmas by C Moore age 10

Reindeer by T Moore age 13

Reindeer - etched and painted to foil T Moore age 13

(tip for tea drinkers - check out Reindeer Tea!)



Star Girl - mine

Gingerbread House T Moore age 13 - yum!


Together the children raised $250 for Plan Canada Gifts of Hope!
Thank you all who support them in their yearly Christmas Fundraiser!


We wish you Hope, Love, Joy and Peace

Merry Christmas

to our illustrious hostess Sophia of Blue Chair Diary

participating sketchers

and to you, our fabulous viewers!

Artistic Endevours!

Frog - in progress by T Moore age 13 Acrylic

Hedgehog by C Moore age 10 - Acrylic

The children were lucky enough to have a few hours with their aunt at her art studio in The Hive (link below) and produced these paintings from their sketches. My daughters is complete,
my son's is a work in progress!

My little quick draw - having fun with figurative!

And here are a few other art happenings we have to share!


First these beautiful scarves were knit by the children as prizes
for their annual Christmas Fundraiser.


Each year they sell tickets for a dollar and send the money to the charity they have chosen - this year Plan Canada’s Gifts of Hope, providing global communities in need, with supplies for education, clean water, animals for milk and other basic requirements. The first few years the children painted and framed art work as prizes, last year they wrote a book. This year they knit. I forget which child came up with this idea several years ago, but I think it was after we attended an art fundraiser for the tsunami in south east Asia.
They have made this an annual tradition!

Every year the children put together our Advent wreath
at the Waldorf Christmas Fair!

Always plugging our many talented friends and relatives, this is a newspaper editorial, celebrating the recent open house at The Hive, the artist co-op that houses my sister-in-law's studio. Check out her blog and web site and leave a comment - she is new to blog land
- let's give her a warm welcome!

And now we go forth into Christmas Land to spread good cheer!
Have a Merry Weekend!

Many Thanks to our hostess with the mostest, Sunday Sketches with Sophia at BlueChairDiary! Visit more sketchers here!

Wishing you and yours
a Merry Christmas Season!

A Family Christmas Tea!

A sugar plum fairy told us..

Gingerbread design by C Moore age 10

So, please do come in, Tea will be served in minutes,
feel free to snack on anything but the bearing walls!

Teacher's Christmas Card, Mary, by T Moore age 13

do join us in our Christmas preparations;
letters for friends, cards for teachers,
so much Christmas cheer, to draw and paint and bake!

Wishing you the Hope, Peace, Joy and Love of the Christmas!

More Christmas Tea at Mr Toasts' here!

Merry Christmas!

Advent

Mary and the Flight to Egypt by C Moore age 10

We are making the class card for Grade 5.
This is my daughter's wonderful sketch for that card.

The following fabulous sketches are guest artists
age 9 and 10 for the same card!

I love the whimsy a child brings to their art,
as an adult it is hard to mimic!

Red Candle age 10

Nativity age 10

Advent age 10

I have just finished putting together this Advent wreath made by the families of grade 5. Each envelope has an advent poem, prayer or message - one is to be opened and read each day.

Happy Advent - 26 Days to Christmas,
But really, who's counting?! Yikes!!

Please do visit the other artists and their sketches at BlueChairDiary

Saturday Snow

What a festive weekend we're having!

The magical Waldorf Christmas Fair at the local Waldorf School!
My daughter's beautiful ballet and banquet evening,
shining dancers, delicious food!

my Sunday Sketch

Waking to a glorious snow day, shrills of delight from the younger set!

Our Sunday sketches by a cozy fire,
later children sculpted theirs in ice!

snowman by C Moore age 10




mouse by T Moore age 13



Winter garden, flowers and herbs peek
from a snow feathered blanket!


Visions of skiing, snow shoeing; winter has begun!


For more fabulous work check out Sophia's Sunday Sketches
at Blue Chair Diary!

A Lot to Post!

OK we have a lot to post, the children have been actively sketching but I have some writing deadlines and the school and extracurricular Christmastide preparation has already begun - I can show you my silent auction items for ballet LOL!

But we have some great stuff here
- and a guest artists and writers too..

My daughter has been hard at work at her sketch book for the Sketchbook Project, her theme is the Greatest Story Ever Told and her main characters are frogs, but she says the ending ha a twist so we can all look forward to that!

The Little Frog That Could by C Moore age 10

Her aunt is a painter among other talents, and has two art shows over the next two weeks, we popped in to her studio and we really enjoyed some of her unfinished work - to stay on theme with frogs - here is auntie's under paint for a frog - we have suggested keeping it in the brown tones and doing a 2nd frog in green - she's thinking about it!

Frog, incomplete by Sharka Leigh 2010

My son is drawing characters that he is using in a platform game - could be a frog - but its not!

virtual games character by T Moore age 13

ok, I got a quick doodle based on my daughter's character from The Greatest Story Ever Told! Oops the frog prince resembles my husband as did my past knight! And two Silent Auction baskets complete today too! Yipee! Happy Days!

For more Sunday Sketches and adventures, check out Sophia's bountiful BlueChairDiary!

Happy Sunday!

Ivory Pumpkin / Beuaty Flows / Nicola Tom Designs

OK this post has taken too long, please accept my humble apologies! I am combining one thank you and two promises here, and I know they are overdo.. but please do enjoy the work of these artists!

from Ivory Pumpkin - Check these out!

Thank you!

OK lets just state that I LOVE getting things in the mail so receiving this package was a thrill in itself! Many thanks for the beautiful necklace and fridge magnet we won from the Ivory Pumpkin giveaway during Halloween - check out Joane's website here! I do hope she got away with trick or treating this year as we are all young at heart - may we never grow up so much that we lose the magic!
We are enjoying these Joane!

Promise No 1

Avalanche

essential picture of eternity

delirious bitter cool blue scream

frantic storm, elaborate symphony

timeless vision of beauty

delicate winter gown

~ L Moore March, 2010 ~

Tammie's lovely painting Forest of Dreams at Beauty Flows

reminded me so much of this poem I wrote earlier this year that I commented to Tammie on it and promised I would post it for her to see. Tammie is an amazing painter and writes poetry with her art as I often do - check out her website for some wonderful art!

Promise No 2

The second promise I am fulfilling today is posting these two artists whom I enjoy for Nicola at Nicola Toms Designs because I said I would! I love all three of these artists' styles

Singing Bird card by Anne Baird

This card which I bought at this years Harmony Arts Festival and love is painted by Anne Baird at Goddess Cards - it reminds me so much of Nicola Tom's Immoveable and yet they are also so different. Nicholas Tom is at Nicholas Tom's Designs and her art is outstanding - do take a peak

by Claire Kujundzic 1988

This is an amazing print by Clair Kujundzic I bought many years ago when I was working through post partum depression, it also reminds me of Nicola's style, similar yet again so completely different - I love that about art! Just a note this print by was a fund raiser (and is now the logo) for the Pacific Post Partum Support Society which is an amazing resource

should one need it!

There we go - some lovely work for everyone to enjoy!
Do check out the links!

Have a Great Day!

Pink Dreamer Birthday

Happy Birthday

to the Extraordinary Pink Dreamer

Here's my Party Piece and my Sunday Sketch!

There are so many Birthday's in November among my friends!
Do Scorpio's attract Scorpio's?

Well here's a birthday card for all you Scorpios
- it's called celebrate and its in your honour!

I am making this for all my November Birthday friends
With much love, much joy and many thanks
for all you are and all you will be!
Lets take take the day and celebrate you!

I wish you Fun, Joy and Love!

χρόνια πολλά

¡feliz cumpleaños!

Happy Birthday to you!!!!

Quick Tutorial:

Quick sketch or not depending on our personality..

I gathered things I already had in the house, no shopping here, what's this stash of stored bits and bobs for anyway? It is a beautiful day and I really wanted to use red. Strong, simple colours, red, black, white! I found some beautiful textured red paper left over from another project, just waiting to be used!

Glue the red card stock to a piece of delicious, textured, white, handmade paper i have been keeping for something special..

As the card stock is deep red and already embossed, I simply grabbed some favorite stamps and stamped the red with gold. Be sure to layer the stamps over both the red and the white papers for effect. Stars, I love stars, magic, celebration!

I like black with red and gold so looked for black and white patterned paper that appealed - these wonderful prints are simply torn from magazines - one was an ironing board cover photo and as the shape lent itself to a dress or body I moved towards making people. As usual it couldn't just be any people, I always veer toward fairies, angels, icons, kitch. For a Pink Dreamer party, well it had to be witches or fairies! And all fairies need crowns; more magazine paper black and whites - part of a models skirt becomes a crown simply because the print works!

Bodies need faces, I sketched one, then two; two faces fine lined and water coloured..

Wings from white with sheet music snippets glued on..

Embellish with feathers and bindis and stickers with glitter!

Hmmm, looks like a scroll now - what shall I use top and bottom of my scroll, the faces that came to me were of Asian decent, so chop sticks - I have a lovely collection in the kitchen, we can spare two!

Stamp some bright red ribbon with the word celebrate as that is what we are doing and embellish embroidery floss with glass beads and charms and attach them on each side..

Add some bells for balance and to add to the senses!

Ta da! A wonderful birthday card with you all in mind!

Lets take take the day
and celebrate you!

xxxx L

A special Happy Birthday to our Birthday hostess at a Pink Dreamer.
To view more gifts and wishes click here!

Many thanks to our Sunday Sketches Hostess
Sophia at BlueChairDiary.
to view more sketches click here!

Sugar Skulls

Happy Halloween all!

Witch's Hat by C Moore age 10

This week the children and I drew up our memory papers for our Shrine to Honour The Dead. To celebrate the season we also also made sugar skulls, a Mexican Tradition for Los Dias de los Muertos (Days of the Dead - All Souls, All Saints, and Dia de los Angelitios - Day of the Little Angels; children who have passed on)
Oct 31st through Nov 2nd.

Skelitos by the Moore's all ages

We began with a quick sketch of our skelitos (and a witches hat)
and then drew up our memory papers

so our friends could add to our shrine that we put up annually in the
kitchen to mark Halloween and All Souls.

The next step was to create our sugar skulls from sugar
and meringue powder and then to decorate them.

Sugar Skull in Honour of T Moore by me

Sugar Skull by T Moore age 13

Sugar Skull in honour of Aunt Sonia by K Radosevic age 12

Finally we put the offerenda together and have it
ready for our friends to add too!

our All Souls offerenda

To add a memory or honour a friend of family member who has died click here to go to our on-line Graveyard Party and Shrine to the Dead!

So much fun where a wee sketch can lead!
Check out the other sketches at Sophia's Blue Chair Diary and


Happy, Happy All Hallows Eve!