Thank Heavens for Art and Each Other

This past Creative Saturday, Laura and I worked on traditional art. While I sat fully engrossed in my Fairy drawing, Laura was a flurry of artistry in motion. She began painting in watercolor from a sketch she drew of shuttered windows, delicately embellished with streams of laundry ... The next thing I knew, there was a commotion of sounds and peripheral activity as she looked about for proper materials to start her next project. Once she settled down, I was able to make out she was now working on an acrylic painting. Within moments, a sunflower was sketched out and happy shades of blue and yellow lit up the room.

Here's a picture of her starting her acrylic painting of the sunflower:

And this shows my progression of my Fairy sketch:

After eating at my favorite place, Toojay's, we went to the bookstore in search of the new blogging magazine. We didn't find it, but we did find stuff of interest, as we always do. I was beguiled into buying a novel in their discount section. The prose in it is hilariously proper and old English. For instance, on the first page I read: "It was a marvel to him that Miss Wychwood was able to endure her bibble-babble, for she wasn't short of a sheet, not by any means she wasn't!" I will so have to borrow a phrase or two on occasion to stir things up, lol. I love that era -- a time of propriety ... a time of such subtlety that you really had to read between the lines to get the message. I also love how virtue was everything back then.

Although I wanted to include more in today's entry, it's already approaching a late hour. Tonight, I was able to take the time to process the pics to include here, exercise, and finish up and fold laundry while watching the season finale of Buffy. Tears were so streaming down my face as Buffy had to sacrifice herself so her sister could live, but before she did so, she told her sister: "The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. Live for me ... !" ... and then she flung herself into the big bad and died ... I guess ya' had to be there ;), lol.

It's so easy to get bogged down by the quotidian ... by the unpleasant trappings of the world ... thank Heavens we have art and each other to hold on to ...

On that note, I'm going to live as I finish off my chocolate biscotti ... ☺

Good night! ♥