Givng You Hopes And Desire For April
‘Hopes and Desires’ is this months giveaway. It is a fine art reproduction of my original. Printed on bamboo paper with archival inks and mounted on a 3″x4″ wood stretcher. (VALUE $25 on ETSY)
So recently I watched the 2001 German movie ‘Mostly Martha’. I have seen it before but not since I have had children. I had forgotten how sad it was, even though it is billed as a romantic comedy. I found myself literally sobbing for the eight year old girl in the movie. I guess that is what becoming a mother will do to you, it is unbearable to watch children suffer. Not that it was bearable before I had children but now, I literally feel physical pain in my heart when I hear about a child suffering.
Besides that, because , that is not what I wanted to talk about, this movie was a foodie movie. Martha is a OCC head chef in an upscale restaurant in Germany. The way she talks about food and the process of making it is just brilliant. I love watching the FOOD channel , I collect cookbooks and EPICURIOUS is my favorite APP on my iphone, so this movie really thrilled me.
Do you have a movie that has thrilled you like this? Taken something that you have a passion for and made it part of the characters’ life or the background through out the movie? OR has a book made you feel this way?
ALSO
If you have anymore foodie movies or books for me, please share. I am having a craving for them…
AND THEN…
I’ll put you name down for the draw at the end of the month and you might just win
your
HOPES AND DESIRES….
The Gift- SOLD
This is a new painting I did today. It is 9″x12″ on rag paper. It is a little bit of a self portrait but more of how I remember myself, rather than how I am right now. I hadn’t painted for awhile and I was trying to ease myself back into. Sometimes when I haven’t been able to get to the drawing board for an extended period of time I worry that I never will again and when I do I will be unable to draw at all. Today it was wonderful the way it all came together. I didn’t have to struggle to get back into it at all. It was a gift. And I have a gift and I know that sounds arrogant but I am acknowledging it so I can thank the Universe for giving it to me. It is no longer possible for me to waste this gift because the burning desire to use it is all consuming and that too is a gift. There was awhile in my life that I wondered why I was given this gift without the passion or inspiration to use it. It seemed so cruel. I didn’t realize that I had to USE my gift in order to find the passion and inspiration.
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