DREAM A LITTLE DESIGNS Original Watercolor Artwork now available at www.zazzle.com/dreamalittledesigns

I”m very proud to offer ALL MY ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR ART (shown below)  now available on : Mugs, Tee Shirts, Sweatshirts, Mousepads, Infant Wear, Cards, Tote Bags, Magnets, Stickers, Aprons, IPhone Cases and Ipad Cases.

If you would prefer a quality ART PRINT of any of these originals, please eMail me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com OR go to http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com 

Much More STevie Nicks, WIld Heart Art for Silly Dreamers and Gypsies, GOddesses,and the magical souls at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com. (Lyric art, Custom WIneglasses, Custom designed TOphats, Photo Jewelry, Statement RIngs, and more!)

 

EMBELLISHED TOP HATS, FOR BACHELORETTE, WEDDINGS, GIRLS NIGHT, LAS VEGAS, BIRTHDAY GIRL, CONCERTS, COSTUME PARTIES, LOVERS OF STEVIE NICKS, VICTORIAN, KENTUCKY DERBY, MOULIN ROUGE, NEW ORLEANS, BURLESQUE, FRENCH BOUDOIR

If you have a flair for the dreamy, THIS IS THE TOP HAT FOR YOU!

Each hat is handmade, and one of a kind! You tell me the color scheme, and embellishments your wild heart desires!!! 

So many special occasions to wear a fabulous hat! Summer party Tophats, Wedding Tophats, Bachelorette Parties, Concert Tophats, Bridesmaid tophats, Girls Night Tophats, Designer Tophats Custom Made, Southern Style Tophats, Kentucky Derby Tophats, Moulin Rouge Tophats, Stevie Nicks Style Tophats, Tom Petty Style Tophats…order at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

Each hat is handmade, and one of a kind! You tell me the color scheme, and embellishments your wild heart desires!!! 

So many special occasions to wear a fabulous hat! Summer party Tophats, Wedding Tophats, Bachelorette, Concert Tophats, Bridesmaid tophats, Girls Night Tophats, Designer Tophats Custom Made, Saint Patricks Day tophats, Holiday Tophats, Party Tophats, Southern Style Tophats, Kentucky Derby Tophats, Moulin Rouge Tophats, Stevie Nicks Style Tophats, Tom Petty Style Tophats…order at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

So many special occasions to wear a fabulous hat! Summer party Tophats, Wedding Tophats, Concert Tophats, Bridesmaid tophats, Girls Night Tophats, Designer Tophats Custom Made, Saint Patricks Day tophats, Holiday Tophats, Party Tophats, Southern Style Tophats, Kentucky Derby Tophats, Moulin Rouge Tophats, Stevie Nicks Style Tophats, Tom Petty Style Tophats…order at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

Email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com. OR go to http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to order!!!!   References available!!!  Only happy customers!!!! Most tophats are only $110.00 each! You wont find this kind of workmanship for that price…….anywhere!!! I am an artist that works at home, one hat at a time until it is complete and perfect!!! 

Flowers, brooches, gems, crystals, lace, ribbons and bows streaming, gossamer netting, doves, glitter birds, buttons, pearls, feather plumes, scarves…

Email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com. OR go to http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to order!!!!   References available!!!  Only happy customers!!!!

These look so beautiful on an ornate hat stand on your dressar or on top of an armoire!!!!

Stevie Nicks, black or white tophats!!! For the Gypy, Rock Goddess, Wild Heart , SHowgirl in you!!! 

Order  at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy OR email me at ssharp6@rochesterr.rr.com

Email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com. OR go to http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to order!!!!   References available!!!  Only happy customers!!!!

Back of tophat!!!  Or if you prefer….gossamer netting can be added at the back!!! Or all of the above!!!  Wear it to your next concert!!! Are you a Tom Petty girl??? This is your hat!!

ANY COLOR SCHEME can be done! Red, Gold, Silver, Creams, Purples….~ SUCH FOR LITTLE GIRLS SPECIAL BIRTHDAY PARTIES!!! LET HER SHINE FOR THE DAY!!!!

Each hat is handmade, and one of a kind! You tell me the color scheme, and embellishments your wild heart desires!!! 

Summer party Tophats, Wedding Tophats, Concert Tophats, Bridesmaid tophats, Bachelorette, Girls Night Tophats, Designer Tophats Custom Made, Southern Style Tophats, Kentucky Derby Tophats, Moulin Rouge Tophats, Stevie Nicks Style Tophats, Tom Petty Style Tophats…order at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

Front of tophat!!!  ITs been a long time since I rock and rolled!!!!! So fun to wear to concerts or around the house when you are rocking out to your concert dvds and having a glass of wine!!! I WAS BORN A REBEL, ~~gREAT FOR THOSE TOM PETTY rOCkER cHIcKs TOO!!!!

Back of the hat above~ Get some ribbons & some bows, and get back on the road again!!!!

Summer party Tophats, Wedding Tophats, Concert Tophats, Bridesmaid tophats, Girls Night Tophats, Designer Tophats Custom Made, Southern Style Tophats, Kentucky Derby Tophats, Party Tophats, Halloween Tophats, Moulin Rouge Tophats, Stevie Nicks Style Tophats, Tom Petty Style Tophats…order at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

Stevie Nicks style tophats!!!! dO YOU love Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Moulin Rouge, Edwardian, Zigfield Follies………this is the tophat for you!!!

Email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com. OR go to http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to order!!!!   References available!!!  Only happy customers!!!! 

ANy kind of feather plumes you desire!! Black, white, cream, Goldenrod, Crimson, Wine, Peacock feathers!!!!  Want a little white winged dove on your hat!! Just ask!!!  Most are $110.00 each

Summer party Tophats, Wedding Tophats, Concert Tophats, Bridesmaid tophats, Girls Night Tophats, Designer Tophats Custom Made, Southern Style Tophats, Kentucky Derby Tophats, Moulin Rouge Tophats, Stevie Nicks Style Tophats, Tom Petty Style Tophats…order at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

Flowers, brooches, gems, crystals, lace, ribbons and bows streaming, gossamer netting, doves, glitter birds, buttons, pearls, feather plumes, scarves…WHATEVER YOUR WILD HEART DESIRES!!!!  ALL CUSTOM MADE. email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com

Having a special birthday, anniversary, wedding, girls night party!!!!  This tophat is the perfect way to shine!!!  Black or White tophats available!!! I can even do a RED TOPHAT if it suits your fancy!!!

Each hat is handmade, and one of a kind! You tell me the color scheme, and embellishments your wild heart desires!!! 

These look so beautiful on an ornate hat stand on your dressar or on top of an narmoire!!!!  MAKE A ONE OF A KIND GIFT!!!!  WHite TOphats are so Breathtaking for the bride or Mother of the Bride , or Bridesmaids.  Make your wedding a showstopper!!! 

http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to order at my secure site. or email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com

Beautiful white and black Rock and ROll Tophats for the Rock Goddess in you! I also make Embellished winebottle, and Speciality wineglasses!! I can do any musician you want!!! I specialize in STEVIE NICKS!  ssharp6@rochester.rr.com

Summer party Tophats, Wedding Tophats, Concert Tophats, Bridesmaid tophats, Girls Night Tophats, Designer Tophats Custom Made, Southern Style Tophats, Kentucky Derby Tophats, Moulin Rouge Tophats, Stevie Nicks Style Tophats, Tom Petty Style Tophats…order at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

Each hat is handmade, and one of a kind! You tell me the color scheme, and embellishments your wild heart desires!!! 

STEVIE NICKS STYLE TOPHAT! FOR THE STREET ANGEL IN YOU!!!  ITs been a long time since I rock and rolled!!!!! So fun to wear to concerts or around the house when you are rocking out to your concert dvds and having a glass of wine!!! I WAS BORN A REBEL, ~~gREAT FOR THOSE TOM PETTY rOCkER cHIcKs TOO!!!!

Email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com. OR go to http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to order!!!!   Secure online store!! We can correspond through email about your special order!!!References available!!!  Only happy customers!!!! Most are $110.00 each.

Email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com. OR go to http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to order!!!!   Secure online store!! We can correspond through email about your special order!!!References available!!!  Only happy customers!!!! $95-100 each~

Change up the flowers and these are so much fun for a summer party with the girls!!!!  Get yourself a floaty white dress, and off you go!!!!

Each hat is handmade, and one of a kind! You tell me the color scheme, and embellishments your wild heart desires!!! 

Email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com. OR go to http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to order!!!!   References available!!!  Only happy customers!!!! Most tophats are only $95 each! You wont find this kind of workmanship for that price…….anywhere!!!

Want a special wedding day?  AN elegant wedding tophat is perfect for the Dreamy Bride!  Entire hat can be done in shades of cream & white!!!!  WIth pearls, white flowers, white veiling….

Email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com. OR go to http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to order!!!!   Secure online store!! We can correspond through email about your special order!!!References available!!!  Only happy customers!!!! Most are $110.00 each.

Summer party Tophats, Wedding Tophats, Concert Tophats, Bridesmaid tophats, Girls Night Tophats, Designer Tophats Custom Made, Southern Style Tophats, Kentucky Derby Tophats, Moulin Rouge Tophats, Stevie Nicks Style Tophats, Tom Petty Style Tophats…order at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

Each hat is handmade, and one of a kind! You tell me the color scheme, and embellishments your wild heart desires!!! http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

STEVIE NICKS, TOM PETTY STYLE ROCK AND ROLL TOPHAT!!!!! 

These look so beautiful on an ornate hat stand on your dressar or on top of an armoire!!!!  MAKE A ONE OF A KIND GIFT!!!!

WEDDING TOPHATS!!! With bright flowers, pearls, white netting, brooches, gems, crystals, birds………Summer Wedding!!!???  Have your bridesmaids wear tophats!!!!!  If you are a Romantic at heart, but have a WIld heart~a Blooming soul, and love to try new things…what could be more fun! 

Do you love tophats!?  You dont have to have a special occasion to treat yourself!!!  These look gorgeous on top of a fireplace, hat stand, dresser top, in a spare bedroom on top of an armoire, in your boudoir~

Email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com. OR go to http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to order!!!!   Secure online store!! We can correspond through email about your special order!!!References available!!!  Only happy customers!!!!  Most are $110.00 each.

Summer party Tophats, Wedding Tophats, Concert Tophats, Bridesmaid tophats, Girls Night Tophats, Designer Tophats Custom Made, Southern Style Tophats, Kentucky Derby Tophats, Moulin Rouge Tophats, Stevie Nicks Style Tophats, Tom Petty Style Tophats…order at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

Each hat is handmade, and one of a kind! You tell me the color scheme, and embellishments your wild heart desires!!! 

ITs been a long time since I rock and rolled!!!!! So fun to wear to concerts or around the house when you are rocking out to your concert dvds and having a glass of wine!!! I WAS BORN A REBEL, ~~gREAT FOR THOSE TOM PETTY rOCkER cHIcKs TOO!!!! 

Summer party Tophats, Wedding Tophats, Concert Tophats, Bridesmaid tophats, Girls Night Tophats, Designer Tophats Custom Made, Southern Style Tophats, Kentucky Derby Tophats, Moulin Rouge Tophats, Stevie Nicks Style Tophats, Tom Petty Style Tophats…order at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

Each hat is handmade, and one of a kind! You tell me the color scheme, and embellishments your wild heart desires!!!  Order at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com References given!!! 

Summer party Tophats, Wedding Tophats, Concert Tophats, Bridesmaid tophats, Girls Night Tophats, Designer Tophats Custom Made, Southern Style Tophats, Kentucky Derby Tophats, Moulin Rouge Tophats, Stevie Nicks Style Tophats, Tom Petty Style Tophats…order at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

Email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com. OR go to http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to order!!!!   Secure online store!! We can correspond through email about your special order!!!References available!!!  Only happy customers!!!! Most are $110.00

ANy kind of feather plumes you desire!! Black, white, cream, Goldenrod, Crimson, Wine, Peacock feathers!!!!  Want a little white winged dove on your hat!! Just ask!!!  $95-100 each ~

Email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com. OR go to http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to order!!!!   Secure online store!! We can correspond through email about your special order!!!References available!!!  Only happy customers!!!! Most are $110.00

ITs been a long time since I rock and rolled!!!!! So fun to wear to concerts or around the house when you are rocking out to your concert dvds and having a glass of wine!!! I WAS BORN A REBEL, ~~gREAT FOR THOSE TOM PETTY rOCkER cHIcKs TOO!!!!

Need a HOLIDAY TOPHAT?  Saint Patricks DayTophats, Halloween Tophats, Christmas, New year Eve Tophats, Costume Party tophats, Wedding day Tophats!!!  ANY THEME, ANY OCCASION, SPECIALITY TOPHATS! Email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com. OR go to http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to order!!!!  

Email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com. OR go to http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to order!!!!   Secure online store!! We can correspond through email about your special order!!!References available!!!  Only happy customers!!!! Most are $110.00 each.

STEVIE NICKS BIRDS IN FLIGHT DETAILING BELOW:  Hats can have all kinds of embellishements, flowers, doves, leaves, plumes, feathers, glitter birds, moons, brooches, Stevie Nicks picture charms, netting, veiling, dolies, gems, pearls….WHATEVER YOUR WILD HEART DESIRES!!!

mORE Silly Dreamer and Wild Heart Art at :

http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

You Who Knocked: A poem about never giving up on those you love~

You Who Knocked

I will carry you to the other side

Trust me~

You who knock- knocked on my window

On steel knees, under stilted dreams,

I creep forward.  With you~

Cradled to my chest.

Knock- knock on my window

Went your tiny little hands

Because you loved me the best.

Two,

I have loved like no other

Always~I see you

Running in the light of the day

Can I take her?

Show her as mine?

The story, told new every time.

Like a year taken from the start~

Look at me!….Look at me!

I scream out.

Do you not love me anymore?

Is that why you shutter your windows,

Slam your door~

Stained~ stained and forsaken like an icy winter’s nite,

Who we were.

Call to me and I will still come~

You cannot be gone to me

I will not let you slip away~

Crawl into my tired lap

We will love past the tears and the years

And even the day~

Past the nightmares we endured

Our angels in their sleep,

All we wish we could say~

I’m a paper doll~

Not of this world…

But if you knock, I cry out into the nite,

Baptise you anew~

Running through the fields of every emotion,

To you.

With you~

I remember.

I not only saw the light

I became the light

Ever ~

So true.

Sherry Sharp, copyright 2/24/2011

If you are interested in Poetry Art (collage or watercolor) with this poem , or any other lyrics/words please email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com.  Visit my online art store at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com.

STEVIE NICKS Photo Earrings with lace, crystal, and beads, Rock Music Jewelry

~♥~ Stevie Nicks, Photo Earrings and Bangle Bracelets~♥~

Order at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com/

Most are only $20 a pair!!!!!!

~But for an INTRODUCTORY OFFER~ Buy two pair!!!! (Cause who could have only one pair of Stevie earrings?) and SAVE…

                                          2 pairs Only $35 total!!!!! ~♥~

$20 each, or 2 pair for $35 total! http://www.dreamealittledesigns.etsy.com or email me on my blog!

Embellished with crystals, black rhinestones, dripping beadwork, and some with lace~

****CLICK ON THE PHOTOS FOR AN ENLARGED VIEW!!! ********

$20 each, or 2 pair for $35 total! http://www.dreamealittledesigns.etsy.com or email me on my blog!
~♥~

Made from baked clay, then handpainted in a specialized marble OR glass like finish, crimsons, deep purples, velvety black, creamy whites…

Extremely lightweight on~~

~♥~ Stevie Nicks, Photo Earrings and Bangle Bracelets~♥~

Order at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com/

Most are only $20 a pair!!!!!!

~But for an INTRODUCTORY OFFER~ Buy two pair!!!! (Cause who could have only one pair of Stevie earrings?) and SAVE…

2 pairs ONly $35 total!!!!! ~♥~

Embellished with crystals, black and white lace, feathers, crystal rhinestones, black rhinestones, dripping beadwork~

$20 each, or 2 pair for $35 total! http://www.dreamealittledesigns.etsy.com or email me on my blog!
                                                                       ~♥~

$20 each, or 2 pair for $35 total! http://www.dreamealittledesigns.etsy.com or email me on my blog!

Extremely lightweight on~~$20 each, or 2 pair for $35 total! http://www.dreamealittledesigns.etsy.com or email me on my blog!
$20 each, or 2 pair for $35 total! http://www.dreamealittledesigns.etsy.com or email me on my blog!

Stevie’s own No Spoken Word art on a pair of earrings!!!!  Carry a piece of Stevie with your where ever you go!~

$20 each, or 2 pair for $35 total! http://www.dreamealittledesigns.etsy.com or email me on my blog!

~White WInged Dove Earring, on velvety black background, embellished with lace and crystals and clear beads dangling~~”Sings a song, sounds like she’s singing”~~

$20 each, or 2 pair for $35 total! http://www.dreamealittledesigns.etsy.com or email me on my blog!

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STAND BACK Bangle bracelet only $30 , with over 40 images of Stevie and her artwork lining the inside and outside of the bracelet!!!

ANy questions? Or have a SPECIAL PHOTO OR PERHAPS YOUR OWN DIGITAL ART OF STEVIE  NICKS you want put on a bracelet or on earrings???? Email it to me and I will do a custom order for you at no extra charge!!!!

ssharp6@rochester.rr.com

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OTHER MUSICIANS, ICON, OR PHOTOS OF YOUR LOVED ONES OR PET ALSO AVAILABLE AT A CUSTOM ORDER FOR THE SAME COST!

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Enjoy everyone! I hope these will be so much fun to wear to the concerts this year!!!!!

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$20 each, or 2 pair for $35 total! http://www.dreamealittledesigns.etsy.com or email me on my blog!

~LANDSLIDE LYRIC ART: Stevie Nicks inspired Watercolor/lyric art for sale

Lyric Art Custom made to your vision~~ Watercolor background, embellished frame, tea stained paper with lyrics…each piece in an embellished 11×14 frame.

Only $45 with shipping to the usa! yes, I said $45 for an original piece of art!  Message me on my blog…or go to my secure online art store at :

http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

And always…. may the “child in your heart rise above, may you sail through the changing ocean tides…may you handle the seasons of your life…….”

****CLICK ON THE PICTURE FOR AN ENLARGED VIEW!! *******

See more Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac, goddess, and angel art for the Silly Dreamer in you at :

http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

~STEVIE NICKS~ art collage with your favorite lyrics and a piece of my original digital art of Stevie~

AVAILABLE DIGITAL ART PHOTOS TO CHOOSE FROM~OR SEND ME YOUR FAVORITE AND I WILL CREATE A CUSTOM PIECE FOR YOU~

STEVIE NICKS Digital art collage with your Favorite Lyrics in Embellished Mat! THis is my original piece of digital art! You won’t find it anywhere else.

Your embellished mat will fit in a 11×14 standard frame.

I make tea stained paper and put your favorite song lyrics (entire song!) on it.

Mat is embellished with roses, hearts, gossamer netting, ribbons, crystals, moons, stars, doves…etc. Each piece is a unique creation based on the song you choose.

Please indicate your choice of ONE picture from all pictures listed (you can attach an email to your order)with your choice.

Perfect way to capture the soul of your favorite song!

CAN ALSO BE DONE WITH ANY MUSICIAN, BAND OR OTHER POET YOU CHOOSE!!!

Enjoy! Go to my secure online art store to order: http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

~ANGEL ACHE~ Art prints for sale

This “Angel Ache” painting (charcoal, watercolor, colored pencil) is available in highest quality prints. 11×14 or 12×15 size on archival matte art paper. $30 ~Please order at my secure online art store. http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com.  Watermark will NOT be on your print~Peace, love and angel dreams to all~~

Words included in art are : Stillness, Angel of my dreams, Your beautiful face, She still loves him, Maybe its only a Dream, It gets stronger every day, Its hard on my heart, Your face…your name, You fill the night, Sometimes I hear you crying. ~and more~~~~

Makes a lovely Valentines Day gift, or anniversary gift, birthday gift, for your friend or lover who loves Angels~~~

http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

HOME~A Poem about Unconditional Love~

Home

 

If I didn’t cry

How would you know

That you are my pride and bones.

In your dreams

You must feel me even there.

My lashes wet against your back.

No, no tears,

You turn to say.

Your eyes all over mine.

And you thumb our fears

For a moment

For a moment

away

 

I know…

I know you say.

Because your happiness comes first.

Because you are my every vulnerability.

They can put that on my tombstone, 

I was vulnerable.

The one who lays beside me was surrender

Hush now…

As our ashes turn to dust, and then to splendid nothingness.

Hush now …

Until the wind carries us home~ 

 

Sherry Sharp, copyright 1/13/2011

 

See more of my art at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

This above poem can be done as a giftwith the above picture for you or someone else with an embellished mat and frame. Contact my art store above~or email me at ssharp6@rochester.rr.com.  $35-45 price range depending on the size and if you want it with a watercolor background .

STEVIE NICKS CUSTOM WHITE WINEGLASSES

ORDER AT http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

YOUR FAVORITE LYRICS GO ON THE GLASS!!!  All glasses have tophat, white winged dove, tambo with ribbons, poets pen, cape, sea never changes scene, snow covered mountains and more!!!! Crystals attached to each glass!  Baked on paint, for glass.  TOTALLY USEABLE!!!! 

http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com  LYRIC ART, PRINTS, PORTRAITS , JEWELRY, STATIONARY, DECORATIVE TOPHATS & MORE~~~~

RYAN’S POEM ~A Poem for a newborn life

I wrote this poem for my cousin’s newborn baby who was born a couple days ago and will be having open heart surgury tomorrow morning (Friday) Please say a prayer for him and his parents, and send him love and light ~

 

Ryan’s Poem

Before you ever arrived

Sweet life…

Beautiful child…

You were held lifelong in the arms of mercy

There was already not a soul in all the heavens

That loved you more

You fell from us, and into us

With a tenacious fragility

Sheathed in your breathtaking and seamless divinity

A thousand dreams gave rise to your flesh

A million longings guard your legacy

For you are our every wish…

Every heartbeat within our own heart’s beating

Delicate angel…

Take from us

The storm of our hope

The thunder of our very blood

Our aching breath and bones in rising winds around you

Our hands burning furious to hold you

Our very life’s lightening

Take it…

Take all we are

Let it be your song

Your strength

As the poet and poem in our raging hearts

Oh Beloved…this day

Let our prayers be the halo…

That light your timeless way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                 Sherry Sharp copyright  (11/4/2010)

TRACKS IN THE SNOW: MY POETRY By Sherry Sharp

 

This poem I wrote for a friend that lost his way a little, as we all do. Sometimes the world thrust challenges we don’t ask for upon us~   Sometimes we lose our way because we forget…who we are…or who we want to be.  In the end, we just need to be still…inside & out for a bit…and remember.  Have faith &  remember~~

 

 

Tracks in the Snow

 

You followed the tracks in the snow

under branches bowing your head

out to the clearing laid low

ankle-deep and faithfully so

you followed the tracks in the snow.

 

Without warning

they died down ahead,

your heart, in your chest, sinking like lead.

A tumbling, inescapable game~ of domino.

Where are the tracks, you said!

Where are my tracks in the snow?

 

Disappearing tracks in the snow?

Wondering now where to go?

Stand still for a minute and see…

The day leads to only where it can be.

 

This is where destiny has led

To an empty, unspoiled snow bed

Close your eyes now…

 Feel the falling fresh snow lick clean at your face.

Summon your innermost grace.

Stand resolute of the steps to be tread.

Newborn is the promise that lies up ahead.

 

For it is not the tracks you’ve misread,

but the footprints behind to retread,

not in what went right or wrong,

but to recall your sweet soul and integrity song.

 

Winter lasts only so long.

To me you’ll always be golden, a boy all aglow

a gifted one ~ still so much to show.

Trust who you are.

Know.

Because what brought you here will surely bestow

Brand new trails! Splendid trails!

 I have faith, you will sow.

 

~Sherry Sharp  copyright 7/2010

 

STEVIE NICKS ROCK GODDESS COFFEE/TEA MUGS FOR SALE

                                       Click on picture for an enlarged view !!!!!!!!

STEVIE NICKS OR FLEETWOOD MAC (or any other musician on request)Rock Goddess Coffee/Tea Mugs!!  ONLY $41 w/ shipping in the usa!!

16 ounce heavy duty mugs!  Handpainted with baked on paint, embellised with crystals all around.  Each glass has large moon on front, feathered poet pen, white winged doves, crescent moon tamborine, flying cape, Rock Goddess boot, flower and vine on handle!!!

YOU choose the lyrics!! email me!!  Order at my secure online store at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com or leave a message on my blog.

Each mug also has “snow covered mountain” and “sea never changes “scene!

Or a top hat if you prefer!!

http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com only $41 with shipping in the usa!

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STEVIE NICKS OR FLEETWOOD MAC (or any other musician on request)Rock Goddess Coffee/Tea Mugs!!  ONLY $41 w/ shipping in the usa!!

16 ounce heavy duty mugs!  Handpainted with baked on paint, embellised with crystals all around.  Each glass has large moon on front, feathered poet pen, white winged doves, crescent moon tamborine, flying cape, Rock Goddess boot, flower and vine on handle!!!

YOU choose the lyrics!! email me!!  Order at my secure online store at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com or leave a message on my blog.

STEVIE NICKS FLEETWOOD MAC LYRIC ART FOR SALE

LYRIC ART (STEVIE NICKS, FLEETWOOD MAC, OR OTHER MUSICIAN)

** Click on the pictures for an enlarged view!!!

Each piece has an original watercolor background (not a print) , embellished with paper cutouts of Nightbirds and White Winged Doves, real crystals, gossamer netting, decorative papers, moon and stars embellishments, a billowing strand in the wind, and real ribbons on the mat!! 

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STEVIE NICKS EDGE OF SEVENTEEN LYRIC ART: ORGINAL ART PIECE

ONLY $46 WITH MAT AND shipping in the USA

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                           Lyrics done on authentic tea stained paper!

Your favorite song can be done, and a different image can be commisssioned as well…we can discuss your special project!!! 

One of kind gift for a Stevie Nicks or Fleetwood Mac fan!!!

Only $46 includes the mat.  (11×14 art, mat is 16×20 fits in a 16×20 frame)

Lyrics by ANY other musician can also be done!

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STEVIE NICKS~WILD HEART ART, PRINTS OF ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA PAITING/PORTRAIT

A NEW PRINT FOR SALE AT MY ETSY STORE!!  STEVIE NICKS~WILD HEART

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~~~~ BLAME IT ON MY WILD HEART~~~~~  DON’T BLAME IT ON ME~~

To Those Gypsies that remain…Stevie will always be a spirit in flight~

STEVIE NICKS, BLAME IT ON MY WILD HEART, 11X14 archival art prints of original watercolor, colored pencil, pen and ink portrait of the Enchantress of Rock.  CLICK ON PICTURE TO ENLARGE TO SEE DETAIL!!!!!!
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Highest quality prints capture the rich color and detail of the original piece.

             ONLY $42 INCLUDED SHIPPING IN THE USA

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“Don’t blame it on me…blame it on my wild heart.”

“Fire on fire…rain on my face. Fever goes higher what can you do”

“Wild in the darkest places in my mind…that’s where I needed you”

“I run around like a spirit in flight..”

“Even the angels…don’t give up at all.”

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All the images from the beloved song are in embedded in the art~~

Fits perfectly in a standard 11×14 mat or frame.

CLOSE UP OF FACE AND WILD HEART WITH FIRE ON FIRE IMAGE

Order your 11×14 print ONLY $42 (shipping included in the usa) at

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Any questions can be sent to me at the above online store, or please feel free to leave a comment on my blog!  Have an enchanted day my fellow gypsies~

A NEW DAY: 911 Remembrance Poem

 

~Poem I wrote after 911.  ~We shall never forget those that lost their lives ~and those who lost their loved ones…Some things linger in your heart and very soul until your own dying day…

 

A New Day

 

On the clearest of days

Man was blue like the sky

Until fire and smoke

Filled his lungs and his eyes

 

A plane lead astray

In the heart of a city

Then three more targets

The world wept in pity

 

On the grayest of days

Man fled in scores

Down stairs and through windows

There were not enough doors

 

We watched as our centers

Of security fell

Crumbling upon us

In our hearts this will dwell

 

On the bloodiest of days

Man lost his mind

As he stared at the rubble

Our loved ones we must find

 

How one being of God

Could do this to his fellow

The planet will shake

At the depth of our bellow

 

On the darkest of days

Man has courage so grand

An army of helpers

Extending God’s precious hand

 

In a land built on freedom

It is our flag, see it rise

Love stands united

And shines wet in our eyes

 

On the bravest of days

Man joins together to fight

Fear cannot overtake us

For we give trust to the light

 

Look at every human

Standing next to you now

Within lies his soul

To this we must bow

 

On the brightest of days

Man looks ahead to a place

Where we all live as one

Encompassed in grace

 

For our single creator

Knows only one way

Simple kindness and love

To rebuild a new day

 

Copyright Sherry Sharp, 9/2001

WHEN YOU ARE GONE: Poetry

 

~Written for my friend from Ireland…there is an ocean between us, but it doesnt keep us even an inch apart.~

When You are Gone

 I’m weeping now

I hope you are happy with what you do to me

By the way, I have grown old, though my youth still halos me

And I’m brave 

But I could be braver still

And when you’re gone

I won’t let you go

Words and heartstrings I will release

But you

You I cannot erase

You came to me like a poem

Like a poem always comes

Gift wrapped

And sacred

With grace

So don’t bow your head

At the sound of my breaking little voice

My heart holds a room

Not of this earth

That is only yours to pace

It has a brilliant view into my soul

Every time you peer into the light of me

I wonder

My friend

Where you were for all these years

How was there a me

When there wasn’t yet a you

How in all the heavens and the stars, and planets of the universe

Could that ever be.

copyright: Sherry Sharp 9/5/2010

POETRY:HORIZON RIDE

 

 

 

 

Horizon Ride

 

I have a wild heart

And the untamed tongue of a poet

I’m a tree climber

A sightseer

I need the bird’s eye view

My wings chaotically tucked on most days

Only in the morning moment quiet

Aching hard to unfurl

I’ve turned myself inside out

Took a thousand years to come back to where I always stood

I only want to dab a kaleidoscope across my sky

Across yours

Gold dust it with my inner musings

Pluck yours out

One by one

Rub them tender against my cheek

Yes, I’m a wind-blown vibrant mess

A fiery love

A splash of molten trouble

Harmless though in my ways

    I won’t be protected from the things I say

From the unbridling of all I am

Will you?

It has begun

The life that poems are made of

A million miles forward in the sun

Cling to me

Because I see you and because you know I do

Leave everything you are not behind

It’s just a nosedive

 A wicked swoop up and out…

To a tempestuous, glorious, brilliant

In the moment

Horizon ride

 

Sherry Sharp, copyright 6/6/2010

 

SUMMER UNLEASHED: A POEM OF LIFE’S SEASONS

 

~ This is a poem I wrote after spending a  beautiful pre summer day on a flower lined walk with my daughter Kelsey.  It speaks to the ageless wonder of where our days go, who we are in relation to our growing children, the letting go of them like a bird in palm released to the wind.  ~The comfort we must find within ourselves to be~

          ~I love you Kelsey~ you are the poet in my heart~forever & always

Summer Unleashed

 

Spring rushed to see

A day within a day

Pushed its sapling buds

To burst beyond their say

 

Summer held on tight

Hoped to breathe its ripened bloom across the way

 

Seasons, shoulder to shoulder

Blending into a grassy smolder

The sun still the same on my child’s cheeks as mine

 

“I remember Spring”

Summer whispered to herself

The anticipation, the jubilation

The charge for all to be

 

Up till yesterday in my restless bed I lay insane

Visualizing the invisible wings that beat against my darkened window pane

Wishing them known and unknown

Wishing them to flee.

 

Thoughts of Spring gone

Haunted me so

Where did my ghost of Spring go?

Where will my spirited child of Spring find her glee?

 

 

Still effortlessly and finally

Today sunrise came up without a spoken plea

Elation, butterfly- landed on my radiant bloom

Summer stepped into the morning of who only she could be

Setting her beloved Spring to ascend the skies so free.

Sherry Sharp, copyright 5/21/2010

 

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POETRY: MY FAITHLESS FRIEND/BETRAYAL

 

Betrayal my faithless friend

Gets down on dirty knees

Betrayal whips its neck

Gets lost amongst the trees

 

It takes the hand of fear

Stomps through puddles

Just to tease

 

Betrayal itself detests

Every morsel that it feeds

To icandescent creatures

That ache with ardent needs

 

It prays to be a savior

It hopes to find its ease

A soft place to lay its head down

Let go of its disease

 

copyright:  S Sharp 5/2010

STEVIE NICKS: FLEETWOOD MAC: PORTRAITS AND PRINTS FOR SALE, OTHER MUSIC ICONS ON REQUEST

STEVIE NICKS: ROCK GODDESS EXTRAORDINARE…A tip of the hat, and an loving nod to my muse….(Click on the picture with your mouse for a clear close up look!)

 

11×14 PRINTS available of this original mixed media art work (watercolor, colored pencil & pen and ink drawing)

$42.00 includes shipping in the usa!  The highest quality print available!!!! 

 

Order securely  at http://www.dreamatlittledesigns.etsy.com or email me on my blog.

Print is embellished with real feathers, real flowered brooch with jewel on top hat, crystal and sequin rhinestone accents earrings & silver glitter moon necklace. These accents give the art dimension and a collage effect…yet still fit under a glass frame perfectly!

Background design is hand detailed with ornate pattern infused with all Stevie’s personas (ex: Rhiannon, Sara, Street Angel, Sister of the Moon and more…)

Print colors as vivid as original, printed on matte archival paper and inks for lifetime durability.

Fits perfectly in a standard 11×14 mat or frame. Shown beautifully in a black frame with no mat.

 

 

ORDER AT : http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com  Prints of this original…or an original painting on canvas as well.  You choose the photograph!  ORIGINAL PAINTINGS on canvas…PRICED STARTING AT ONLY $75 . If you would rather have an original, contact me to discuss your details…

 

 

 ORDER AT: http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

 

Custom Rock Goddess Wineglasses also available!  Lindsey Buckingham Rock God Wineglass to match!!!  Stevie Inspired Jewelry at my online art store as well! 

 

“Rock on Gold Dust Woman…once in a million years a lady like her rises!”

SISTERS OF A POET MOON: STEVIE NICKS INSPIRED WATERCOLOR PEN AND INK ART

SISTERS OF A POET MOON

This is an original mixed media artwork using watercolor, colored pencils, and pen and ink. 

It was done in honor of the magical essance  and colorful bonds women form.

I am offering prints of this 12×15 original, at my online art store.  http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

Colors will be as vivid as the original.  Cost $30,  includes shipping in the usa.  watermarks will not be on purchased prints!

Thanks…hope you enjoy!

There are three things men can do with women:  love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.  ~Stephen Stills

A woman wears her tears like jewelry.  ~Author Unknown

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They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.  ~Oliver Goldsmith

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Women really do rule the world.  They just haven’t figured it out yet.  When they do, and they will, we’re all in big big trouble.  ~”Doctor Leon,”

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Women are always beautiful.  ~Ville Valo

Gratitude to my Sisters of the Moon: Stevie Nicks inspired Jewelry, Custom Rock Goddess Wineglasses, Portraits and Top Hat Art.

ONE OF MY STEVIE NICKS INSPIRED CREATIONS: THE CHARMED HOUR PICTURE LOCKET NECKLACE

I have not had much time to post on my blog lately due to my good fortune of my art creations selling at a pace I have had to need to keep up with!  Let me just start this post by saying that if I am having a midlife crisis, this is the best darn midlife crisis anyone has ever dreamed up!  Five months ago I opened an online art store, started a creative frenzy of bringing to life what was floating around in my head.  Then I spent several grueling months trying to figure out how to advertise, which was taking all the bliss out of my creative tidalwave of activity!  I made a line of jewelry, then stationary, then started handpainting wineglasses…working for 10 hrs a day.  And I have to thank my parents and my Uncle and friends…but most especially my husband Brent,  who kept cheering me on, saying “dont stop…keep believing!”  My cousin Lisa was my first customer….ordering 18 wineglasses to get me started!!  I learned how to create an online store, and a blog with much error and days that I just wanted to cry with frustration, but I did it!  Darn it all, I did it!!  I wondered if everyone thought I was kooky, worried that I would fail,and  yearned to let go of those doubts with the same driving passion that I was creating with. 

Then something magical happened!  I started relaxing on facebook, making new friends all over the world, and I was amazed at the goodness I found in cyberspace.  I know alot of people think that facebook is a time drainer, but I don’t agree.  I think it brings us closer to others and makes us realize that we are truly all one people…and only good things can come from that!

Anyone who know me knows that I am a devoted Stevie Nicks fan!  Her poetic music and lyrics have always resonated with my soul.  When I opened myself up to joining several Stevie facebook groups, my whole world and business changed!  It all started with an invitation from a wonderful woman named Arlene Lewis to a private group, where  I met the most gracious, sweet women! (and men!)  Around the same time, I had designed a Stevie inspired wineglass for myself and done an oil pastel portrait of my muse as well.  I posted them on the site, just to venture out, with no expectations and my business in turn took off.  These wonderful women put my art store link in their news feeds without me asking, sent me orders and more compliments that my heart can probably contain!  They told me they cried when they received my art, and they said they were my biggest fans!  They encouraged me to put whimsical projects out there like top hats with brooches and feathers (which I will be doing soon!)  They were honest enough to tell me that my prices are too low….(and they may be, but right now I am searching mostly for coins of confidence in my bank roll

I cannot say what it has meant to me to be able to embrace my adoration for Stevie Nicks through these women. (and I should note there are many men in the groups…so thank you to my Sisters and Brothers of the Moon)!!  So thank you to Arlene, Robbin, Julie, Lisa, Jennifer, Alicia, Brooke, Diane, Joan, Kathy, Lily, Linda, Susan, Alan….and all my other Sister of the Moon facebook friends!  They have allowed me the comfort of embracing what I truly love and being able to express it in my artwork.  I should have known all along  (to quote Stevie) that this is where I would be able to “pick up the pieces and go home”  

 I have been blessed with wonderful family and friends…but now I also feel…when I look within…and assess (as we all do) who I am as an individual…I truly for the first time in my life…feel like I am home. 

The above is a photograph of an original portrait done by myself of Stevie Nicks.  Portraits pricing starts at $75 for an 18×20 inch portrait done on canvas.

I will also be offering stationary cards (for thanks you, or invites to Sisters of the Moon parties, etc) of this print.  I also create prints  from this portrait that will retain the same vividness, that are suitable for matting and framing.  Any questions…leave a comment on my blog or visit my online art store and send me an email  at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

MORE STEVIE INSPIRED ART BELOW:

Stevie Nicks Inspired Custom Handpainted Wineglass: You choose your favorite lyrics, all glasses include hand painted  gold dust heart on front, white wing dove, moon and stars, cape, tambourine, poet’s feather pen, candle, black boots, and more.  Sparkling rhinestones added all over glass!  Baked on durable paint, can use everyday!

(OTHER ICON GLASSES DONE ON REQUEST AS WELL)

 RED ROSES : YOU NEVER PROMISED ME A ROSE GARDEN (cloth cuff bracelet made to custom fit your wrist)

oRDER AT:http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

STEVIE NICKS INSPIRED TOP HAT (In purple or black…each hat has two sparkly brooches, two large silk flowers, white fur trim,gossamer netting, and purple, white and black feather on the back!)  Special requests for different color flowers taken!  Order at : http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com or leave a comment with your email on my blog.

THANKS EVERYONE FOR ALL YOUR LOVE & SUPPORT…PLEASE KEEP CHECKING BACK FOR MORE STEVIE INSPIRED ART AND JEWELRY!!  any special requests…let me know!!!

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ENCHANTING PORTRAITS OF WOMEN: by LILY RAIN DAVIS

As artists I believe it is our privilege to showcase fellow artisans.  I am honored to display the beautiful work of my new friend Lily Rain Davis, whom I was lucky enough to meet on facebook because of our strong love and admiration of our fellow muse, songwriter Stevie Nicks.  I think you can see Stevie’s mystical influence in these enchanting acrylic paintings done by Lily.  If anyone would like to contact Lily regarding custom work you can email her at roadshowlily@aol.com

Departure

If Only For A Moment 

Sisters of the Moon

From the Depths

SPRING REVIVAL: A Flower Speaks a Thousand Words

 

I have posted some photography that was taken by myself and my husband.  I found flowers to be the greatest subjects, they don’t move, and they always have a smile on their face!  So as we all await another blissful Springtime, may these photos stand in to warm your heart and day!

THE EARTH LAUGHS IN FLOWERS”    Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:  when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.  ~Charles Dickens

It’s spring fever.  That is what the name of it is.  And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!  ~Mark Twain

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.  ~Proverb

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If you would like a print of any of these original photographs
email me or send a comment to my blog. (these are not listed at the online store but are available on request)

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM/FLEETWOOD MAC: ANATOMY OF A PAINTING

Just recently finished an acrylic painting for a commission, a huge fan of Lindsey Buckingham from the supergroup, Fleetwood Mac.  I think just about everyone knows that The Mac Rumors albumn sold like 30-40 million copies to date.  It was the #1 selling albumn of all time prior to Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and I believe it still holds that #2 spot!  The Mac and especially Lindsey and Stevie Nicks are my favorite artists, so this was a special project for me. 

I’d like to show you the progression of the painting, Ive never taken pics of my work throughout, so this was interesting for me as well.  I used several photographs of him to get the look I was going for, which was mid career, 80′s Lindsey.  This below is my initial starting point, pretty basic and trying to get basic features, face shape etc.

Next I got some basic skin tones, and then did the eyes, which always makes it or breaks it for me.  Almost always I work for a couple hours, stand back, or walk away, then realize where I am careening off the mountain so to speak.  Its a slow process with portraits, every little detail, crease, line, shape matters when it is supposed to resemble someone. 

I realized here that the nose was ALL wrong, so it had to go!  This is what I like about acrylics vs. oil or pastels, they dry quick and can be painted over and over.  I also was in love with these eyes, but they were NOT Lindsey’s eyes at all.  I stood back and saw John Travolta or Rob Lowe (ha ha) and guess  what ….the eyes had to go after all that work!!!  I had to really let go of the jitters here, relax into the moment and once I found that place of being immersed into the photos I was working with it started to happen.  The thing I find is that the MORE you sit quietly with something the more you feel it, understand it , and in essance become it.

Next step, narrow those eyes up, make em smaller, less hair…”and in the web that is my own…I begin again” 

The eyes made a huge difference, though the brows and shadows arent right yet.  I also worked on the face shape, chin and hair to give it life. Once I started to see the resemblence, I actually felt a physical change in my body, a knowing…something that is the greatest of feelings!

The final face…shadow and highlites added.  The background done in purples and greens (very 80′s)  Select lyrics added.

You’ve come a LONG way baby!  Now how bout you  “Lay you down in the tall grass and let me do my stuffff!” 

All in all a fun project, with some frustrating moments for sure, but a challenge.  I am a meticulous painter, this probably took about 7 hrs over several days to complete. 

Any commissions you may have for your favorite icon, musician, or a personal portrait of a loved one or pet….please visit my online store ( http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com) or comment here at my blog and leave your contact info, so we can discuss your needs and order.

This 16×20 portrait is $75.oo including shipping in the usa.

Thanks for following the process!

To The Lighthouse: Virgina Woolf

If you have not read the literary masterpiece, To The Lighthouse, by Virgina Wolff, get yourself to a library today!  The story is quite simple, the characterizations and humanization quite complex.  Here’s a little sampling to wet your whistle….

 The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now—
James looked at the Lighthouse. He could see the white-washed rocks; the tower, stark and straight; he could see that it was barred with black and white; he could see windows in it; he could even see washing spread on the rocks to dry. So that was the Lighthouse, was it?
No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing. The other Lighthouse was true too.

Explanation for Quotation 5 >>

As the Ramsays’ boat approaches the lighthouse in Chapter VIII of “The Lighthouse,” James reflects on images of the edifice that are competing in his mind. The first is from his childhood, when the lighthouse, seen from a distance, was a “silvery, misty-looking tower.” The second image, formed as he sails closer, is stripped of its shadows and romance. The structure appears hard, plain, and real. Its barred windows and the laundry drying on the rocks present nothing magical. James’s first inclination is to banish one of these pictures from his mind and grant the other sovereignty, but he corrects himself, realizing that the lighthouse is both what it was then and what it is now. The task that James faces is a reconciliation of these competing images into a whole truth. This challenge is the same one that Lily faces at the end of the novel, for she must reconcile her romantic vision of, and disappointment with, Mrs. Ramsay. To do so and to admit the complex, even contradictory, nature of all things, the novel suggests, is to possess a greater (and more artful) understanding of life.

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Inspirational Mountain Photography

Here are some more fantastic photographs by some of my new Flickr friends.  I found these of particular interest since I have been to the Grand Tetons, and am planning a trip to Glacier National Park ,Montana.  Please visit these three phenomenal photographers and enjoy their other fine works!

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet. ” William Blake

Glacier National Park:

by ephidrena99
 © All rights reserved

Just follow this link to see the photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mboehnlein/4061270823/

“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into”      Wayne Dyer

Flowers and Tetons :Grand Teton Mountains, Wyoming

by kellbenson
 © All rights reserved

Just follow this link to see the photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellbenson/4239122882/

“Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.”

                         

Glacier National Park

by Stephen De Vight
 © All rights reserved

Just follow this link to see the photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/devights/4220615221/

Stephen’s website can be viewed at http://www.stephendevight.com

“There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.” K Hahn

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THE SUNSHINE ABOUNDS! SO MUCH GRATITUDE!

I have been nominated again this week for the Sunshine award by my dear blogger friend

 http://fiveloaf.wordpress.com

What can I say!  I am humbled and grateful again! 

My next plan is to check out all these wonderful blogs i see all the nominees are nominating.  I wish I had more time…my business, like my blog friendships, and blog are growing!  My karma is shining for sure!!!! 

The blogging world is such a grand thing that I spontaneously entered, and now look at the joy it has brought me! 

So go out there everyone, and chase your dreams, harness them, coax them gently home, and bring them to your heart with love!!!!

Georgia O’Keefe: The Grand in the Small

“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time.”

Georgia O’Keeffe quote

 I am intrigued by the concept of taking something small and putting focus on it. In a poem.  In artwork.  In how we live.  There are so many miraculous aspects to life that we pass by in our “busyness” each day.    So many small gestures.  So many tiny signs.  Whispers.  Are you taking the time to recognize them. 

Try this.  Make a list of all the caressing whispers you received and took in this week.  Here’s mine:

* A friend brought me flowers just because. Every time  I looked at them this week, I felt grateful for our friendship.

*My son got in a little trouble (he’s 12) for talking back and instead of being really upset with him , I made him write a list of 50 things he loves about me.  He did a fine job, we had a giggle with some of his answers, but in the end it brought us closer.

* My husband and I were invited to the home of some new friends for the first time, and they had slippers ready for us to be comfy at their house.  We ended up staying 7 hours and chatting the nite away.

*I suggested a new online friend listen to some music I love, he did, and sent me genuine thanks for introducing him to it.

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I was blessed to nominated with the Sunshine award!

Super duper thanks to my fellow blogger http://artiste7.wordpress.com for nominating me for the sunshine award.  I had to look into what it was I am so new to blogging!  I am soooooo thrilled to recieve this acknowledgement  of my efforts, and so happy to have found so many genuine good people on wordpress! 

Now I pass this award on to this fellow bloggers that have spectacular blogs that focus on living an artful, creative, vital life!

http://artiste7.wordpress.com for phenomeanl poetry and laying her soul bare on her blog!  And for always taking the time to comment on my work in such a postive uplifting way!

http://asmalltowndad.wordpress.com for such varied artistic talent and being such a loving family guy!

http://caitlindentino.com for a fun blog on celebrating life through food, drink and great parties!

http://fiveloaf.wordpress.com for the best short simple poems that are full of complexity and expression! And for being such a loyal supporter on my blog journey!

http://liveyourbliss.com  to my friend Leigh who I have know 20 plus yrs for taking so many new paths in her life and sharing her journey along the way!

http://lortolan.wordpress.com  for blogging about great restuarant tips from Reading’s only Michelin Star Restaurant and sharing great  recipes! 

http://pauperpantry.wordpress.com for some fantastic looking recipes and great photos on the blog!

http://janetleigh.wordpress.com for baring her soul with her poetry and life and being so supportive of my work!

http://wilmakitchen.wordpress.com  For having the yummiest looking muffin and cinnamon recipes, great pics and easy to follow instructions on her blog!

My Murals: A Day at Sea is like No Other Day

 

There is nothing like an art project that restores something to new life.   It’s like taking an old soul, and validating its worth.

This is a mural project I completed for a sunroom.  The frame was an antique piece that was bought at an auction, the owner said it was part of a bar at one time, and maybe had mirrors in the cut outs.  She was a lover of the sea and lighthouses and had done quite a bit of traveling and asked if I could do a mural as if she were looking through a window out at the ocean.  She gave me the keys to her house, a stack of her travel pictures, free reign, and went out of town for a week.

When she came home she found this…..

This lighthouse was her favorite that she had visited, I wish I could remember where it was now.  I tried to mimic the little houses at the base as in her photo.

This white house below was a Bed and Breakfast she had stayed at with some very close friends and had very fond memories of.

I added a gloss medium to the acrylic paint and the water coloration had this perfect dreamy sheen to it.

“In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain – I find no sea room – but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.”

Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862) I dedicate this blog post to my grandmother Mary Jane.  She is an old soul, a good soul, and in her tiny frame she holds the grandness of the ocean and every sky the ocean falls under. Visit my online art store at : http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

My Poetry: Revival

 

I just wrote this poem tonite, looking at a greeting card I found in a gift shop and framed because I love it so much.  The card shows a woman in a long flowing gown, suspended mid air out amongst the trees, face to the sky, arm outstretched in a pose of resurrection, no persons necassary for her journey but herself.

Don’t we all want to know our own resurrection, fully…and completely. 

Revival

 

 Fingertips to the sky

Resurrected to the light

Out amongst the trees

Not a person in sight

 

Sun comes in streams

Lays itself without a fight

I taste it warm on my lips

Swoop it in with gentle bite

 

Suspended high in mid air

Entangled in my birthright

Firm in my worth

I bid goodbye to the half-light

 

Whatever did I see

In that dark yesternight

Now that I am

completely

Like a bird in flight.

 

Copyright S. Sharp, Dream A Little Designs 2/3/2010

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For all the girls at SITS.  Thanks for your support, and everyone who has visited my blog!

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FELLOW ARTISTS: PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE DAY

 These wonderfully poignant photographs were taken by my new friend Leah.  Leah lives in the Netherlands and is a student studying visual communication.  She says she has loved photography since she was a little girl.  Her photographs certainly tells a story without words, and there certainly is a love story hidden in each one.  To see more of Leah’s breathtaking work, visit her on Flickr.  Be sure to check out the Alice in Wonderland project she did!  What a talent this young woman is!

a love story in paris

by Leah H.
 © All rights reserved

Just follow this link to see the photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leah_hautermans/4109038351/

For whatever we lose, It’s always ourselves we find in the sea.

 EE Cummings

by Leah H.
 © All rights reserved

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LIVING AN ABUNDANT LIFE: AFFIRMATIONS

Some Keys to Living an Abundant Creative Life as you pursue your artistic and life dreams.

1.  Honor your worth and time.

2. Come from a place of integrity.

3. Expect the best to happen.

4.  Release things that have no purpose in your life any longer.

5. Believe your path is important.

6. Do and focus on your higher purpose activites first.

7.  Give yourself permission to do and be what you want, and who you are.

8.  Believe in yourself, love yourself.

9.  Follow your joy always.

10. Keep things around you that express your aliveness and represent you.

11.   Enjoy the process and moment as much as the goal.

12. Think in expanded, unlimited ways.

13.  Open your heart.

14.  Give and receive freely.

15. Focus on how your joy can help others.

16.  Express Gratitude daily.

Suggestions featured in the book, Keys to Abundance, Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer.

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SOME NEW WINEGLASS DESIGNS FOR SALE AT MY ETSY STORE: http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to view glasses from more angles and purchase.

$24 per glass                            ( All glasses include free shipping in the usa!)

$41 a set

Need a set of 4?  Only $76.00 (as you see…buy more save more!)

Baked on glass paint, very very durable!  Great gifts for Valentines day, housewarming, hostess, anniversary, retirement, birthdays, weddings, and showers, girls nite and more! 

CABANA WINEGLASS.  This wineglass comes with a handpainted scrolled intiail of your choice. Or your full name if you prefer!   Other colors available on request (cream and brown, cream and sage, blue and white…)

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WINE DRINK OF THE GODS!    A  fun, whimsical glass.  If you prefer without the saying that can be done as well.  Any requests welcome!

WINE AND DINE!    A set of 6-8 of these would be so special for  a casual dinner party with family and friends! 

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TIME FOR WINE!  The Base clock says…Now!  The top of the glass has everytime you can imagine (after noon of course!)  Great gift for your favorite wine lover!

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BLING ME SOME WINE!  A whimsical fun glass for that girl who just loves her bling and jewelry.  The back of the glass has a diamond necklace and ring painted, base is encrusted with shimmering faux rhinestone accents!  Rhinestones dotted her and there for extra bling!

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Here’s a mystical photograph of fog taken in Rio de Janerio by a fellow flickr artist, Daniel Andion.  Visit his flickr account to see some more amazing architecture, landscape and close up photography.

Some fitting quotations….

“The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.” Vance Havner 1901

”I love eulogies.  They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. “ Peggy Noonan   Visit my online art store: http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

MY POETRY AND THOUGHTS: A LIFE THAT NEVER ENDS

 I wrote this poem after the death of a family friend that I had known since childhood.  He was a good man, who loved his family, had the greatest sense of humor, and died too young.  It brought alot of emotion to the surface, reminding me of my own losses, and the inevitablility of future losses.  I have great faith in the cycle of life and the love of our creator, but I think the rawness of my immediate emotion could not stifled… as it should not be in times of great pain. 

 

 

A Life That Never Ends

 

 

       This wicked, wicked world we pledge to co- inhabit

It drives me to the brink of lunacy

I would melt if I didn’t have you

To pull me in your arms, to bring me from inside, to make me sit and see.

 

I thought about the deaths today

How they live inside the molecules of my brain

Pressing thumbprints on the corners of my existence

Never having quite enough of their damn say.

 

I do believe that when we die, we live God

Cupped inside his ever loving light

But in the meantime, how I wonder

      How he cannot spare the searing of a rod

so relentless

 bottomless

 and bright.

 

Do we really have to suffer just to know the ying and yang

Is there truly not a better way

Than to send the little blue bird out amongst the darkened trees

To let him try his hardest, and silence then his song

that once so majestically he sang.

 

Can we not live on forever, agree upon one world of trials and tests

Hold tight onto our loved ones for eternity

Bypassing all the witnessing of their deaths

Would that be too much, my humble God, to put to your request.

 

I do not need to come back, to learn a whole new lesson once again

Leave me here as who I know myself to be

Return to me the tears and souls that crept so far away

And I will let you know yourself, be yourself, through me eternally.

 

It isn’t that I don’t revere you God

 I just want to let you know that I am stained

My heart, my core, it aches to supplicate your perfect plan

Love you, yes I do, my sweet God

I’d just like to say a prayer for a simpler, lesser pain.

 

Copyright Dream A Little Designs  2009      

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A SPACE OF MY OWN: MY DREAM A LITTLE DESIGNS WORKSHOP

Thought I’d post a picture of my workshop area where I do my painting and jewelry making.  As you can see I am not one for a lack of stimulation!  ha ha!  I have a lot of inspiration around me torn from magazines, music posters that I created from old albums and lyrics that I put together in collages.  I keep all my buttons and bows, paints and fabric scraps organized in baskets and such.  The rest of the room is surrounded with photo boards I put together from family vacations and times with friends.  I love photos of all kinds.  This is a basement work area, so I have the liberty of just tacking them all over the wall, which I do with abandon.  I like to see what I love right in front of me. 

 This is actually a walk out basement with lots of windows to the right and double doors that lead out to our inground pool area. We did most of the work redoing this area ourselves.  We painted the ceiling, floor and walls, and as you can see I like to write quotes I love right on the wall when the mood strikes me. This is a big room, on the other side my husband has his amps and guitars and my son has his drums, and they come down and jam while I work.  It’s a great way for us all to be together and do something creative as a family.  Sometimes I can get my son to sit and paint with me.  Its great to have this seperate space to  leave everything out and walk away when I’m done.

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IN MY OWN WORDS: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

So I guess you can say this is the first real “vulnerable” post I have done since I started my blog.  I was talking to a good, dear old friend the other day and I started to cry telling her about my new adventures…my blog, my etsy store I just opened, my keen interest in Flickr and all the truly talented people on there, and  all the new people I am meeting on the web from different countries and backgrounds.  I got involved with all of this trying to promote my etsy store, but now it has become something so much more.  My friend said to me, “It’s 9am on Monday morning, why so much emotion?”  Well, here’s how I would answer that.  I was listening to a Jason Mraz song (what a songwriter he is!) in my car today, on the way to get groceries and the one line was, “I feel so alive” and the tears came again.  My heart was pretty full and for about 30 seconds I thought I might just burst into flames.  You see, for the longest time I have searched for my purpose, high and low, up and down, relentlessly…wickedly turning on myself at times.  Truthfully, I KNOW now that I am a starving artist.  A poet, a writer, a silly dreamer.  For the first time in my life I am starting to own it and not worry what others may think of it.  I know I have the liberty to be a raging storm, because I have a husband who is a sturdy, steady lighthouse.  And that’s okay too.  It’s really alright.

I cry because the feedback I get on my blog from fellow artists, and writers lifts me up, gives me a venue and support system  for my work that publication never could.  I cry because I talked to people who lived thousands of miles from me this week, and felt a human connection regardless of the distance. I cry because I am still chasing my dream to live an artful, inspirational, genuine life after all these years, I have never given up, and when something I write on my blog touches someone, my heart just expands as big as the sky we all live under.  I cry because I feel so alive.  And to quote Jason Mraz again, “Live High, Live Mighty, Live Righteously”   In my interpretation, do what makes you happy, do it big, and do it geniunely with a full heart, good intentions, and love, love, love for yourself.

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This is the Vermeer oil painting (1165-1667) called Girl With A Pearl Earring.  See the resemblence and striking nod to this work in the modern work (digital photography) 2 posts after this one?  The thing about art is that nothing is really new.  We all, as artists have these images in our heads that sit and stew there, that touch us profoundly, and we recreate them in our own time, in our own chosen medium.  We are never isolated as human beings, we are always interconnected, cycling through life together.  I dont know how other artists feel about this recreation, but personally I welcome it, for the new artist it is a means of feeling inspired, and for the seasoned artist they are able to take one person’s work and create it anew, with a fresh voice for its time, thereby inspiring onward.  And the cycle continues….

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FELLOW ARTIST: Hiro Yamabuki

This piece of digital photography is also by my new friend, Hiro Yamabuki.  His work is viewable on Flickr.  He calls this one Life.  He describes it as, Life as I see it.  Hiro tells me he is also a poet, working on getting his poetry translated so all can enjoy it.  I look forward to reading it one day.  I am not sure if this photography is of distored lights, threads, embroidary, flowers…?? I like wondering how he did this though.  It reminds me of Autumn and the burst of color right before winter settles in.  The reminder by Autumn, that life cycles.  I am very happy for the internet and blogging so that I can meet so many artistic and loving people all around the world.  It reminds me that in this life…we are all one.  And that is the true meaning of life, to remember that truth.  SO thank you Hiro for allowing me to showcase your beautiful work! 

FELLOW ARTIST: Hiro Yamabuki

This a piece of digital art by a fellow artist friend that I met on Flickr.  His name is Hiro Yamabuki and his work is just stunning!  Join Flickr so you can view his art and prepare to be touched.  I just fell in love with this photograph.  It is called Classy and Fabulous.  He says it is a hommage to Vermeer and Coco Chanel.  It just strikes a cord deep within me with the contrast of the powerful red and majestic purple colors, and the innocent beguiling look on the girls face.  The movement of the fabric is so liquid like, it just takes me for a ride.  

IN MY OWN WORDS: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

You don’t have to be published to be a writer. Your work doesn’t have to hang in a gallery to be an artist. You don’t need instructions from a deity to be your own creator. Go. Create. Be your own canvas. For everything that you say, and think and do is your artwork. Every minute of your life is your legacy.     – S Sharp

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I just love the concept of this song, a man saying to a woman he is so mad in love with her that it’s as good as being flown to the moon and living amongst the stars.  If you can find a man that loves you that much, well aren’t you lucky.  When I decided to paint wineglasses I wanted to be whimsical but not corny.  If you dont have a good man, well a little sip of wine will often lift ya up, soothe the ruffles, and “fly you to the moon” a tad.  I sell these at my etsy store. http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com  and they are a pretty fun addition to a party… create a little giggle, a little conversation about Ol Blue Eyes, or love, or the vastness and spiritual nature of the cosmos. 

IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Jason Mraz, incredible weaver of words.

I am in awe of this young singer songwriter.  He is a true artist.  A geniune person who cares about the people and world he lives in.  In a sea of copycats and glossy molded images , he is an original.  A voice for this generation.  It’s all about the words he says.  Yes.  Yes it is.  What word did you expose yourself to today via television, newspapers, magazines?  Were they nutrients for your soul?  What words did you think in your mind?  Did they build you up, further your dreams?  What words did you say to others?  Did they inspire them, soothe them, leave them feeling loved?  It’s ALL about the words…and if they leave you feeling free..finally free. Create today…create with your words.

IN MY OWN WORDS: A Poem for my Girlfriends

I wrote this poem for my 20th highschool reunion.  I am blessed to still be friends with my highschool girlfriends and gave them all a copy of this poem before we went to let them know how much their friendship means and will alway mean to me, as we continue to “grow up” together.

 

The Women We’ll Be

 

 Standing hand in hand

By the edge of the sea

The girls we once were

Not really knowing

The women we’d be.

 

Dipping our toes

Oh so carefully

Searching for answers

In each others gaze

Feeling the pull

Of the deep, blue waves.

 

Naked and shimmering

By the glow of the moon

Letting go of our grip

We swim out to sea

Not really knowing the women we’d be.

 

Gliding and dipping

Up again to the surface

We rise with the sun

Watching each other

As we change and become.

 

And the sea starts to storm

To pull us apart

Yet we never lose sight

That the women we’ll be,

Makes us eternally connected

By a divine cord of light.

 

Our girlhood, our anchor

A bond like no other could be

Four women swim together

With a love so ferocious

Buoying each other

In a raging, beautiful sea.

 

Sun setting now with colors surreal

Together we float

Now never so far

In a circle of calm, intertwined arms

Back to the shore

The friends that we are.

 

Strong we emerge, like the stars in the sky

Sisters of the sea

And a rising moon

We nod to each other

To meet again soon

For the girls we once were

And the women we’ll still be

Come take my hand and walk with me.

copyright 6/2/2008 Dream A Little Designs, Sherry S.

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IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Vincent Van Gogh

 

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent Van Gogh
I so agree with this quote by one of my favorite artists.  When you love someone and sit in the moment with them, look them in the eye, listen to them without thinking about what you are going to say next, you are creating the most beautiful art there is…the relationship.  Maybe you didnt have time to sit down and paint today.  Maybe you wanted to crochet, or play guitar, or make a new piece of jewelry.  You had a great idea for a new piece of pottery, or metal sculpture.  Instead you had to go to a soceer game, take a loved one to the doctor, help with homework, or deal with a family crisis.  It’s okay.  Dont worry.  Did you hold someones hand?  Lend an ear to a friend that lost a job or pet?  Then you created art.  You gave of yourself.  Expressed yourself.  Your kind soul was your art today.  Believe it or not , that’s better than Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”…and I bet even he would say so.  Wouldn’t you Vincent?

Iam really enjoying the new wineglass designs I am coming up with!  I love all the whimsical ones you see in stores, but I wanted to do something that was a bit more elegant in its whimsy.  This chalkboard style is quite clever, and fits the idea of putting a quote on there.  Reminds me of the good ol days when the teachers used blackboards in school.  Now everything is so computer generated.  Anyway…Wine is bottled poetry.  Sounds good doesnt it?  But come on, can anything really compare to the magic and high of a good poem?  Not for me.  Thats what you call a natural high folks.  Poetry.  But Ill take a little drop of wine WITH my poetry.  Not that Im dissing wine.  I just heard a story  tonite about how you can make wine at home.  Sounded pretty fun, and those people that show up at parties with a bottle of their homeade wine always look quite proud.  So here’s to a new year, a good bottle of wine, and a pretty glass to drink it out of.

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Hors d’ oeuvres and Wine anyone?

 

Made these handpainted, custom glasses over the weekend.  They say Hors d’oeuvres and Vin(Wine)  on the front, have a golden Eiffel tower on the back and are embellished with rhinestones and black buttons that just make them sparkle.  I have never been to Paris or France, but for some reason have a strong affection for all things French.  Most likely the allure is the idea of romance and twinklin white lights, baguettes and french croissants.  I just want to put on a draping scarf and walk the streets at nite, drive through the rolling provencial countryside during the day.  Maybe someday….and I will definitely have a side of wine with all that romance!  Availabe at my Etsy store: http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

“Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.-”

Roland Barthes

In Their Own Words: Eckart Tolle

“Enjoyment of what you are doing, combined with a goal or vision that you work toward, becomes enthusiasm.  Even though you have a goal, what you do in the present moment needs to remain the focal point of your attention, otherwise you fall out of alignment with universal purpose.  Make sure you vision in not about having this or that, point it toward an activity that connects you to other humans and how it will enrich or deepen both your life and others.  Picture yourself as an opening through which life flows for the benefit of all.”  E. Tolle

Eckart Tolle is one of my favorite writers because he has been able to make me look at things in ways that I never did before.  These words of his from A New Earth remind me of when I painted the mural below.  It was the first mural I painted when I started my mural business, so you can only imagine how nervous I was. When I arrived to start the client had said he wanted to watch me paint the ENTIRE mural.  And he did.  He took several days off work and he sat on the floor with me for 5 days and watched me paint for 4-5 hrs at a time!  At first I was terrified at the thought, but at one point he said to me, “I hope you dont mind that I asked to do this, its just that its so exciting to me to watch the process, to be a part of it.”  That changed my whole attitude immediately.  I just fell into the present moment of painting, and we did talk off and on, and share a laugh or story, so I was aware of his presence, but there were long pauses that we did not talk, that I was in my own blissful moment , as I believe he was.   I was very at ease all of a sudden because I realized that it was an incredible thing that he cared and had that much enthusiasm not just about the finished product, but about the creative process.  The process itself, and our human connection, literally became part of the art.  And so, again I say, forget about the end product, it doenst even exist until you get there, just enjoy the now moment of creation.

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In My Own Words: All It’s Really Meant To Be

 

The following is a poem, or extended verse that I wrote on my 40th birthday.  I wanted to do something to mark the day and acknowledge what I had lived and learned up to that point in my life.  The simple truth is that the most important and blissful things I have created is the relationship with myself and the relationships with the people I love.  Your life is art in motion.  If you create nothing else, take a look around…there is your Picasso right in front of you.

 

All It Is Really Meant To Be

 

A life is really nothing but a dream

A moving sculpture molded by its maker

We all want to be something we can show to someone else

This is me, this is what I have, is only lifeless clay

Etch gratitude, be what love would do, if you asked it for its say.

 

I have shaped mistakes, painted worries across sleepless nights

Carved with questions, sliced with judgment,

Loved too hard, like marble veined with forgiveness forgotten,

All in hopes of setting my inner ghosts free

Yet I only had to do one simple thing, to accept, as a gift, what could be given to me.

 

Over and over, creating a collage, a face for myself, marveling at the person I didn’t see

Hunting for purpose and worth as a requisite pedestal to my figurine

When in truth, I am boundless, not meant to be defined by what I do

For the beauty that is all of us, is there in the first infantile tears

Nothing to be done to make it more of something, in the passing years.

 

I have had a man that loved me no matter and like no other

Twenty years he’s been curious to watch me move, like a storm out at sea

I have whittled him with my love, dancing circles around his steady form

He has only nudged me with care, softly, to a degree

Yet it is this man who has left the greatest indentation on an ever-searching me.

 

I have written many letters, put color to paper, drawn images with poems

Yet it is in my womb that I have carried like priceless art, what is my most divine work

Oh look what I have done with my blessed, blessed time

I have made life, life that when I take pause, fills my rooms, and my soul to overflow

If I do nothing else but love them, I have changed the world, this for sure I know.

 

Restoration of old relationships, loop again in an ancient tapestry of fate

I made a birthday wish today, I wished to be reborn in joy

To be delivered to the moral of uncovering song and dance in the every day

And oh my friends have granted me such a delightful lead

To bring my own bliss is the only meaning of life that I have come to need.

 

Now I come to stand in the middle of a forked and darkened road

Illuminated with the peace of looking neither forward nor back

It is the still moment that pulses so real, so loud, that I could cry out

Drop to my knees, breathless with God in the knowing that my meaning is well-found

In the here, in the now of everyone I have loved, it is bound.

 

I’m halfway to heaven, awareness finally coming crystal to me

That even though I have grieved my losses with quiet enormity

Still I ride in, cushioned on the wings of my circle of tender angels

I have loved and been loved, these are the brushstrokes of a life lived fortunately

And I have taken time to notice it, and that is all it’s really meant to be.

 

Copyright Sherry S. Dream A Little Designs , 4/2008

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In Their Own Words

“Never let the critic become bigger than the creator.”  Randy Newman

This quote reminds me to live in the moment of what I am creating.  Too often we project to all the things that can go wrong, or how we could do something better, or how it doesn’t compare to someone else’s art. We wonder if we can sell it, how will we go about doing that, will anyone even care.   Or we worry about the past.  Why can’t I write a paragraph as good as that one I wrote last week.  Why aren’t the words coming like they used to? etc etc.

The point is to get the full effect of any creative project, we need to stay in the creative moment.  Ignore those pesky thoughts of doubt and fear. Revel in the process.   Get lost in it.   Become it.  Let your only purpose be to express yourself, to keep climbing.   Have tunnel vision…and then see what happens. 

I bet when your all done…you will then step back  see yourself  in the flesh and say, “Wow, I did that.”  If I can do that, I can do anything.

Hike up to overlook of Lake Placid, NY

Tea Stained Stationary: Whatever happened to writing a letter?

At my Etsy boutique I offer tea stained blank cards in sets of four with envelopes. I use a high grade card stock and real tea bags and they come so fantastic.  Embellishing them is the best part, and I like to use stamps, old photographs that I cut into shapes and little pieces, feathers, ribbons, buttons and bows.  Old photographs cut up give such a rich texture to the cards because they have that gloss to them, and combined with all the other textures and embellishements really give the card a rich layered look that you could never get from a store bought card.

 I offer free calligraphy with a personal message in each card, or they can be left blank for longer notes.

This card is the Moon Sister theme.  I love all things with a romantic, mystical feel to them, and wanted to do a card that girlfriends, sisters…that all women could use for invites and personal thank yous and notes.

The card below is a more general theme and can be used for all kinds of events(weddings, showers, parties, thanks yous, get well, letters of all kinds, announcements etc) 

I offer many tea stained designs for that vintage old world kinda feeling.  Check out my etsy store at : http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com to see them all. 

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In My Own Words: “Overcome With You” A poem for my daughter

 

I wrote this poem as a graduation gift to my daughter.  When I sat down to write it, my first instinct was to give her advice for the life she had ahead of her.  But when it came down to sitting in the moment  a bit before I started , I realized that what  I wanted to say was very simple.  I just wanted her know how much I loved her.  I wanted her to know that she had given me , as much, or more than I had even given her.

 Overcome With You

 Your beautiful face.  Your exquisite face. I would wrap them in velvet, tie them in lace— if there were words that could explain how I have adored your beautiful face.

 How does a mother tell her only daughter, that over the years, it was the unadorned looks on her picturesque face that have elevated me, and burst me wide open, and saved me all at the same time.  I can go to Paris, or Rome—to the moon, or even to a place named heaven, but your face is my home.  My beloved home.

 You have always been a sweet, sweet child. When they placed you in my young arms, your cerulean eyes reflected a galaxy of truth, an ancient knowing, and I knew that you were here for me, not I for you.  And though I gave you life, you gave me more.

 You gave me laughter that floored me, and the bliss of your little sing-song voice.  I was born again, inside the sun, every time I saw you dance, and chatter on.  I was a bow of colors every time your face lit up on whatever field of dreams you were twirling on at the time.

 I saw you.  I saw you when something or someone broke your heart, and I hid the tornado that swelled in my soul.  I have cried on the inside for every injustice I wish you never had to bear, for every wound I know you will bear.  I held your hand, and hid my fears from you, so that you could learn to rise again. 

 And look how you have risen!   You are a woman of strength, who knows her place is any mountain peak of choice.  You let your righteous character, and quiet confidence be the path you walk along.   You are your beliefs.   You impart and know the precious things in life— an immense heart, a wide open mind, a crazy joy that sweeps a room to its feet.

 I hope that I have shaded you just enough, watered you just so, that you might grow into your destiny.    But know one thing.  I have loved you with a raging love, a mother’s love, a love that has no bounds.

I will love you, through time and back again.  So come to me.  Come to me when you have fallen, I promise that I will nudge you, feet up to the ground. 

 Soar.  Take to the air.  I will say.   Today is your day.   

Sit inside yourself awhile every chance you get, there you will find the gracious God that gave you to me. There you will find the stillness of accepting the moment you are in, is all that there is supposed to be.

 My beautiful daughter. So I wait.  So I wait to see, where you will go, who you will still be.   I could linger in the simplicities of your face forever; still I tremble at the imagining of how your life has yet to stun me. 

For overcome with you, I shall always be.

Sherry S.  Dream A Little Designs

copyright 5/2008

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My Art: John Lennon Oil Painting

This is a photograph of my daughter and an oil painting that I did for her of John Lennon.  She fell head over heels for Mr Lennon and his music and message in her senior year of highschool. 

I had been in Key West the previous year and seen these really fantastic paintings in a gallery that used bright, neon colors. I stored that in my memory as something to try one day.  Then I came across some cool photos of him that had dark and light values.  I knew that I wanted to put some of his words from various songs on the painting that would inspire her well into her life.  Combining all of these ideas I came up with this painting, and the concept of one side being in shadow, the words/lyrics floating from the depths of his mind, all set in swirls of creativity all around him. 

The last line on the painting is from a song he wrote for his son.  It says, “I can hardly wait to see what you become.”  Isnt that the greatest line, filled with so much anticipation and love and pride.  I also had these words put on her graduation cake.

This is actually the first oil painting I ever attempted, and I used ONE brush to complete the whole painting.  I was so engrossed in this project for hours at a time.  I would look up and it had seem like no time had passed.  Bliss.  I was in a state of bliss.  If you have done oil painting you know that it is quite challenging, the colors dont dry for weeks and it is near impossible to blend or go over paint once it is down.  Still, I was ecstatic at how it came out.  

I truly believe that it came so wonderful on my first try with this medium because I knew I was doing it for her.  The love that I felt for her just poured onto the canvas.  When I got to the part of putting the lyrics on the canvas, I had a surreal experience.  At risk of sounding odd, I will just say that I had a sense of complete peace, and a feeling of Mr Lennon’s presence. 

Christmas morning brought many tears when the gift was received.  We propped the painting up on the buffet in the dining room, and as I like to say…that Christmas, we ate dinner with John Lennon. 

“Our life together is so precous. Together”  John Lennon

 

“All you need is love.  Love is all you need.”  The Beatles

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In Their Own Words

“I feel like a wet seed, wild in the hot blind earth.” — William Faulkner

 

This picture was taken at the Botanical Gardens in Cleavland.  Its a small, compact little wonderland of a garden there right in the heart of downtown. When I found the quote above I just ooohed and aaaahed over it immediately.  It is one that will stay with me forever. Like the Cleavland Botanical Gardens it is compact, but packs quite a punch.  Certain quotes just resonate with each of us, but I am very drawn to quotes about the creative process and not just the artistic, creative process, but the creative process of shaping our lives. 

As humans, we are like that seed…wet, green, new… and so small in a big world.  Yet inside that seed is the full potential of who we can be, or really who we truly already are if we listen to ourselves.  The earth is surely vast and dark, and we the little seeds vibrate in the depths of it, ready to explode up and through, into being. 

What is your passion?  Your dreams? 

Are you making time for them?  Are you planting yourself so as to get to where you want to be?  Are you taking the space each day to cease “doing” and just “be”?  Start slowing down, sitting quietly, journaling or anything else that will help you turn you seed over in your hand.  Once you know what it is, plant it deep in the soil of your life…nurture it calmly, patiently with small steps. Then watch it grow…”wild in the hot, blind earth.”

Birdsong Necklace on Etsy http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

This necklace is for the girl with a little bit of Stevie’s Rhiannon in her.  It reminds me of taking flight, which we all need to do with our inner and outer selves…. preferably as much as possible.  I started with a felt backing, added gossamer netting,  faux pearls, feathers, stone beads, large black and clear lucite beads, all tied up with a black grosgrain ribbon in the back. 

 

“Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night
And wouldn’t you love to love her?
Takes through the sky like a bird in flight
And who will be her lover?

All your life you’ve never seen a woman
Taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you Heaven?
Will you ever win?”

I like to create items that speak to who I am, regardless of what other people will think.  The first time I wore this out, I had four women come up to me in an hour.  They were pawing at it they were so excited.  So I thought, hmmmm, there are a few gypsy-hearted birds out there like me, just waiting to leave their nests.  Message: Never fail to be who you are.  People covet and flock to passion.

Available for sale at my Etsy store: http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

In My Own Words…

Sometimes I lay in bed at nite, unable to turn off the mind.  These feelings come to me about certain concepts, or people.  I am not one of those people that can turn on the lite, jot a note down, or I will never get back to sleep.  Usually its just a muddle of words and feelings that come to me.  By morning, I can put it into words for sayings or poems.

“I awoke to the thought that my husband is a man mountains above.  Quiet in his intelligence and achievements, private in his enormous humor, dutiful in his commitments, caring and careful in how he speaks his mind, generous with his spoken love for me, sure in his perfect kisses given freely through the day.  Unaffected by the tears and fears of the passing years.  The same man I met twenty years ago.  Once humble in his simplicity.  Now humble in his greatness.”  8/09  S. Sharp

We took this picture in wine country with a timer setting and a Kodak camera.  No editing, the sky was that fantastic looking.  He ran in the picture, we kissed and voila…art.  Well to me its art…when I look back on the years, and the refined carving that went into the sculpture we have become.

English Garden Mural

This is a full room mural I completed for a young girl’s bedroom.  The parents wanted an English garden type theme.  The little girl LOVED horses.  Her bed eventually ran parallel to the wall with her waking up each morning to see her new friend peeking over the corral fence at her.  I believe she named him Marshmallow, because of the white spot on his head.  This was a pure joy to paint.  Every day the little girl ran into the room to see what I had accomplished that day, and stood mouth wide open, eyes popping at what was going to be her new bedroom.

As an artist, I was thrilled with the whole of the project.  The horse had such a realism in his eyes, the texture of the apple blossom tree, the tree trunk, the fence…all came out of me with such ease.  As all artists know, this is not always the case.

This picket fence section was done on the other side of the room, and would be aside a dresser eventually.  I let the child pick the bunny she wanted out of a animal book.  She just thought that was the greatest thing ever!  Children make the best clients…they are so open, so grateful, so in awe of life. 

While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
~Angela Schwindt

ENCHANTED: Custom Handpainted Wineglasses for sale at my Etsy store

I have been wanting to paint wineglasses for some time now, bascially if it doesn’t move I try to paint it eventually.  I love the way these came out, the black and white have such a strong punch to them.  They are both whimsical and elegant, if that is even possible, I think I have achieved it.    The bit of color adds a great pop, and depending on the setting these can be very Alice in Wonderland (At a halloween party) or very elegant (At a wedding or dinner party) .  Of course I could do the bases in black and whites or neutral tones for the more demure at heart. 

These are 20 ounces!  That’s a tubful of wine people.  One glass should do ya!  Sipping only allowed!  Or how about a thick smoothie in these topped with whipped cream?  Yummy! 

I include a recipe card with each pair…great for gift giving, add their favorite bottle of wine and off you go!  These glasses and other designs are available for sale at my Etsy store: http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com.

There is something about paint for me that is completely meditative.  It can be a huge mural, or a basic wall…an oil painting, or the tiny details on the base of this glassware…I just get so lost in the feeling of the wet paint gliding on the surface.  I can feel myself breathing differently, and just flowing into the work as if I’m one with it.  I find myself not needing to “think” about the work, and just let it flow out of me.  I tell myself, “its just paint, if it doesnt work you just paint over it” Now I think that is a pretty good philosophy for life too.  Surrender to the project, to the day, to the moment in front of you.  Surrender all fears, projections and expectations and just flow.  I know my most blissful moments have come out of this kind of surrender.  Have I tried to achieve it with wine too?  Sure.  Has it been as great a high as art….ummm..no.  But if the answer is yes for you…then order yourself a pair of these glasses, grab a bottle of Merlot, and live vicariously through me.

In My Own Words

“The same thing has been on my mind for twenty years.  Nothingness, purpose, and the length and tenacity of the line between the two.”  6/09

                          S. Sharp

                          copyright 10/09

Red Roses Cuff Bracelet available for sale at my Etsy store: http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com

 

When I came across this fabric trim, my wheels started turning to turn it into a jewelry item.  The red is so vibrant, it reminds me of rubies, and the reddest lipstick.  There is nothing like the power of color to uplift you and change your mood.   I plan on wearing this one to a holiday party with a black and white zebra top, and a black pencil skirt, and yellow pumps embellished with more jewels and pearls!  Real roses don’t last that long, so why not wear them on your wrist.  The back of this piece is embellished with a black grosgrain ribbon…very French…oh la la!

 

This is soooo comfy and light on!  I think two of these at the end of a blouse of sweater would look so yummy and unique, and is a great way to add to your wardrobe and create versatility. 

I would love to make a necklace with this….check out my etsy boutique at

http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com  for this bracelet and it’s sister necklace coming soon!

 

Some interesting reading on the affect of the color red which applies not only to home decor, but also fashion. 

Feng shui colors, when used properly, will bring the desired feng shui energy into your environment. Red color carries the energy of the fire feng shui element. Fire has always been a symbol of divine energy and can be both destructive and creative. Fire represents the energy of sun and life. A balanced feng shui fire element in your home will bring joy, excitement and strong sexual desire.

The feng shui energy of color red is the energy of arousal. It is hot, passionate, rich and celebratory. Red is the Chinese color of luck and happiness, the marriage color in India, and the symbolic color of love and romance, courage and passion in the West.

In feng shui color decorating red always signifies richness and luxury. If used too much, though, it can bring restlessness, bursts of anger and over stimulation. Better use it with caution, always easier to bring red color with details and accessories, rather than with furnishings or wall color.

Information from about.com

My latest artistic journey on a lifelong road to discovering myself…my Etsy boutique.

One day I am going to wake up and know myself, fully and completely.  I have been an artist with my hands my whole life.  But that.  That is my ultimate artistic dream.  To quote Michaelangelo , “I saw the angel within and carve duntil I set him free.”  I have painted, and drawn, and put words into poems and stories.  I have glued the tiniest beads and painted the largest murals.  I have sanded furniture, until my skin was raw, to get to it’s inner beauty.  I will never stop, and I want to stop all at the same time.  I dance around my creations hoping to find myself.  Maybe if I keep going I will.  But do we ever find ourselves?  Is that really the goal.  Or is the journey?  The gritty, meandering journey with the blinding sun in our eyes.  What if that is what it’s really all about.  The journey.  No matter how much we try to make it about the destination.

I opened an Etsy shop recently, another leg on this journey.  Come visit me at http://www.dreamalittledesigns.etsy.com. 

My latest creative swim, making  jewelry.  Handpainting wineglasses, hand tea staining cards for a vintage feel. 

I would like to use my blog to show my creations, current and past, to post my artistic journey, and to hear from other artist’s who are on their own personal journey to “discover the angel within”