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September 9, 2011 by Rayna Diane Hennen

A yellow marigold bud just after being watered, just opening to the warm, fall weather in West Virginia.

Marigold — September 2011, rayna diane

A Certain Shade of Lipstick

Thai Vegetable Noodle Soup

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Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re

Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible. - Joyce Brothers

#snowymoss
#snowymossontrees
#winterphotography

Continuing with the Bluebeard collage. After doing

Continuing with the Bluebeard collage. After doing this I changed the blade on the xacto – the edges of the chair had white rough edges.

Bluebeard is originally a French folktale though many countries have a version. In the spirit of IMDB unhelpful, one-line descriptions of movies: A man with a deadly secret, intent on luring a young woman to be his new bride. 😄 🤷

A little more specific: The tale is about a wealthy man in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of the present one to avoid the fate of the previous wives. 🫣

This will be for the first spread, the ‘romance’ – truly, it’s not romantic, he’s trying to sway one of the sisters into, what will be a not so sweet marriage.

There will be 5 spreads total: the romance, finding the little door, the bloody key, the brothers to the rescue, and (kind of a gruesome end) the vulture.

We're getting closer to spring, which will be love

We're getting closer to spring, which will be lovely but I do love winter. All seasons have beauty if you take the time to look (and dress warmly!) so I'll share some of my favorites while getting ready for spring 😊

This is in my own front yard and I liked it immediately but liked it even more when I got it up on the big computer screen and could see the sun reflected in that little water drop! This one is available as a print.

#berriesinwinter
#winterphotography
#waterdropsphotography

Working on getting back to a rhythm of some kind a

Working on getting back to a rhythm of some kind after unexpected time away. Looking at my last post, it was in October, which is kinda what I thought. From that point in October to the end of the year was a blur of physical pain that went on for weeks, then recovery, then a holiday, then an illness, then family and travel and another holiday and more travel and, well, I think I finally came up for air phew!! LOL

I have written or painted every day this week. After searching for a project, I think I'll go back to this project, which I've been stuck on for a while. It will be based on the fairy tale Bluebeard.

Anyway, this project wasn't living up to what was in my head and I was making it too literal. I was sitting there bitching to myself and then I to me self, self: you know you *could* just paint over what you've done and start over. 😄 Nothing gets by me, man!

I hope the health issues will stay at bay for a while because it really is true if you haven't got your health, what have you got and I much prefer not having pain and making things! You do have to give yourself grace sometimes and let some things go if you want to heal. 🤷‍

What have you been up to?

#embracethecringe #creativityandcringe

I was digging around in my closet for something an

I was digging around in my closet for something and came across an older sketchbook, which of course derailed the search because I HAD to flip through it 😊

My Mom had this box for a long time, just sitting in a cabinet. It was just plain wood, the lid wasn't attached but it did come with the hinges. One summer I stole it, painted it and surprised her for Christmas.

On slides 2 & 3 you can see the first sketches I made for the box. And slides 5 & 6 show where the next round of sketches ended up. Completely different direction as it turns out! Went for the Arts & Craft period style she loves.

This floral cone actually turned out all right! I

This floral cone actually turned out all right! I haven't quite gotten the ribbon exactly right so sometimes this style hangs a little awkwardly. I have wall versions, that can hang on a hook but I'll be damned if I can find any photos of it on my phone 🧐

Or the silvery one I made last year. You'll just have to trust me, ok? 😁

O-pin-ion: if you purchased these, would you expec

O-pin-ion: if you purchased these, would you expect a hanger on the back (second pic)?

In my head, because they have the wooden lip on the back, they hang flat against the wall.

T'anks!

Almost done - varnish coating left to go! Happy Friday 💃

New hearts ready to go.

New hearts ready to go.

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