Gathering of artisans conference

I'm sitting in Starbucks killing some time before my flight in a little over an hour.  I'm going to the Gathering of Artisans conference in Asheville NC this weekend.  Christian artists from all venues will gather for a weekend of workshops etc..   I'm so excited for this opportunity.  Hopefully I will have beautiful pictures to share.   Hope you all have a wonderful weekend as well!

Goodbye Summer.....I'll miss you!

Sometimes I forget I have a blog...haha!  I don't know why, but it really gets so crazy busy sometimes that it's the furtherest (yes, I know that's not a word) thing from my mind.  I had a garage sale, school started, and I'm getting ready for a fall show for my art and so on and so one.  You get the picture.  So, here it is SEPTEMBER--aaa!!

Well, it was inevitable, summer is winding down and will soon be just a memory.  Fall is only weeks a way.  Can you believe it? This past Labor day weekend we went swimming at my brother-in-law's pool, which will more than likely be the last time this year.  I so hate to say goodbye summer. BUT.. I do look forward each year to jackets, scarves, boots etc..  I like winter clothes better for some reason  I like going to high school football games and drinking my coffee under a blanket in my living room while journaling or reading.  I love snow, but we don't get a lot where I live.  So, I guess winter has it's perks.

   I was walking this morning at the state park where I live.  It was a perfect 71 degrees with a beautiful blue cloudless sky.  I was thinking as I walked that in a month from now I would have to have a jacket, more than likely, at that time of morning.  At the least, I will have to change from capri athletic pants, to long pants.  Just like the changing of the seasons of the year, our lives have seasons we go through.  Are you in a winter season where things are rather dead (or rather, look dead), or a spring season where life is budding forth in and around you?  I think I'm maybe at the end of a winter season, at least I hope.  Winter isn't all that bad either.  It's a time when the snow soaks the ground making the spring all the more beautiful.  One thing that is for sure is that the seasons change and we don't stay in the same season all the time.  I thank God for that, don't you?

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-3 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

²     a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,
³     a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
⁴     a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
⁵     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
⁶     a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
⁷     a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
⁸     a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.