Friday Photo Challenge

Raz' Friday Photo Challenge

this week is

"The Top of My Dresser"

Lord, love-a-duck...how to make that even vaguely interesting!

You see, the top of my dresser looks like this...

...truly...all the time.

It has some interesting heart pieces, in glass and leather and metal,

(why hearts? as a reminder that the bedroom should

always be about romance)

But...as pictures go...boring!

What I think is much more interesting,

are two paintings I have just above my dresser top

by the artist 

Bruce Holwerda

I have four other pieces by this artist in the house

this is one of my favourites.  I always think if they

opened the top of my husband's head, all

this stuff would come bursting out!

I love the vibrancy of the colours, but more than that,

the tenderness of each of the expressions of his subjects.

So there you have it Chania...

hope I haven't bent the rules of the game too far!

Friday Photo Challenge

Astonishing isn't it?

That the hulking wings of a metal bird

can transport one from this...

to this...

from this...

to this...

from this...

to this...

from this...

to this...

from here...

to here...

from this outdoors...

to this one...

...in something as irrelevant as time.

My submission this Friday to

Razmataz's

photo challenge for this week.

Pets!

First, a confession...I don't have a pet.

But I do have 

A Grandpuppy

Miss Daisy

and a Grandkitten

Hankypants

...they are great sisters.

This was one of our first pets when V. and I were growing up...

Jamie, a black poodle.

A really smart dog.

We also had an afghan hound, Kahli,

a not so smart dog, who kept running away.

Our dad was really sick at the time and forever trying to find the dog was a stress Mum didn't need.  So to try and discourage this aberrant behaviour, the vet recommended getting a companion for the afghan.  Being responsible pet-owners, Mum and Dad bought Jamie.

He was so smart, 

he would pull down the rope that restrained the afghan;

Kahli would chew through it; 

and the two of them would run off! 

Pets!

This is my submission, this week for

Razmataz's Friday Photo Challenge

and just for a laugh, if you get the chance, watch the 

old BBC series Auf Wiedersehen Pet

absolutely nothing to do with animals...well sort of!

Friday Photo Challenge

Trying to get back

into the swing of things...

Here's my submission for

Razmataz's Friday Photo Challenge

Perfume

My favourite perfume,

Chanel No. 5.

Artfully chanelled by Andy Warhol.

Have a heavenly-scented weekend everyone!

Sparkle!

Razmataz's photo challenge this week is 

FESTIVE!

I confess to being a bit of a magpie...I love things that sparkle,

so festive, sparkle and Christmas for me

are all synonomous.

snowflakes...

Christmas angel and dove of peace.

And here is my sparkly new top

that I am going to wear over the holidays

Bling!

Thanks for hosting Chania!

Vignette...

My sweet girl's poor broken wrist.

Seven weeks on and here's what it looks like out of the cast.

The orthopedic surgeon is so happy.  He says that funny looking lump on the right is perfectly normal. Just the way Mother Nature heals (I soooooo like to hear that).

The best physio is... 'just go back to work'... she is a chef.

Here are her beautiful, gentle, creative, tiny hands...

Can't help loving having my girl here!

Here's my contribution to Razmataz's

photo challenge this week...Vignette.

HAND MADE

Hand Made?  Heart Made?..the same thing, I think.

My hands are tools I use in daily life.

Bearing scars of wounds that occur 

As I do the things I love.

Not beautiful or elegant in the classic sense,

But graciously expressing my heart's content.

I have this piece of art that speaks to my heart.

Created by the hands and heart of the artist, Erin Boniferro.

For me this piece speaks of strength and vulnerability,


courage and tenderness,


brutality and delicacy...


all the wonderful contrasts that go to make up a human being.

Here you can see the gold thread that forms the outline of the lion's head,

and here the delicate pink silk ribbon tied into its mane.


This piece of art brings me unending joy.


Erin presently runs her own shop-front art centre in Vancouver.
She teaches classes and sells art supplies and books.


She created this centre by hand from her heart too...(with lots of help from other hands).


Here's a video from her blog.
If you live in Vancouver, or happen to visit, stop by.


She's a lovely woman, my eldest daughter's best friend growing up.
She also happens to be my best friend's daughter.

Collage Collage - Shop, Look + Learn from Pike on Vimeo.

This is my submission this week to

 Razmata's Photo Challenge - HAND MADE

PATTERN

This week's photo challenge from Chania at Razmataz

is Pattern

Patterns in nature are overwhelmingly governed by a clever mathmatical equation called

The Golden Mean, or The Golden Ration or Divine Proportion.

Essentially this:

and it appears in the pattern of everthing from the nautilus shell,

to the segments of a grapefruit.

It's found in the patterns of design in Notre Dame,

the parthenon

and even in Da Vinci's Last Supper.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier, the Swiss architect and designer is said to have adhered closely to this pattern when designing his furniture.

I know this is a photo-challenge, so to make it a legitimate entry the last photo is mine, taken in the kitchen of our house in Florida.