I can feel Bird when he is looking at me! hee hee. I'm sure he's not the only one who feels this way about my blog - lol it cracked me up when i thought of him saying this. Nice the Canadian accent "aboot me".  I can FEEL  several people, I'm not always thrilled.

I recently   had a wonderful strange quick encounter..
I e mailed 'Michaels' about art supplies- I was NOT pleased with.
My called was returned - It was an interesting conversation- at one point the woman said to me.. a tiny bit heated.​   "...I FEEL YOU!" & she meant it - I know because i felt it too.

The entire conversation changed  - what did she say ? I feel you?
She said  "I do feel you!"      -  I said    "..I feel it too."
YOU could hear it in 'our' voice - we felt it.
She felt it- I felt it too - do you think we care if  'you' believe us -  it felt great!
We were both giggling when we met  like old friends .
It went from  "How the *&^% do they expect me to cut THAT Matt!?" 
To my matt being cut, dropped off at my home  with a Hug, sorry and a new connection.    

I laughed - you  'felt me' - imagine being Norm coming home to tell me - "don't worry about it - I'll cut it in the garage..."  Gasp!  All painting friends are gasping with me.. FLAT black matt - saw,  dust... frig.           I appreciated the effort and shall use them as scrap.

I would never have walked out of the store with a sheet of matt, they would have been cut, then. NOW.       Art supply store.  *People, $15.00 an hour - I get why some are frustrated,  I don't think it's too much to ask for a tiny bit of service for our money, you can't provide something one time and not the next.  It's business.   Anyhow, it ended awesome - it was not about the matt.. it was about her & I  learning a lesson. 

​HOW 'words'  & feelings can turn a conversation around in seconds.  Go figure! 
Everyone is your Guru - If you know how to listen.  Hee Hee,  thanks Ram Das.
We ARE all connected - FEEL IT!   

I am done dismissing these mini miracles. ;)  I embrace each one.
Storm was witness to all of it and was  "amused" the week before I had just mentioned 'I wanted to try a new honey' (costco) - not one minute later an old man walked right up to me up  and said "Would you like to try this honey -CRACKED the jar open, which was already in his cart...  "I am buying it anyway"  he  insists  as did his wife - so
I did"    It was wonderful twice gifted' honey - I did see them go through the cash - they bought the honey.
  
Storm stood  there with a sort of amazed but not shocked look. 
It was priceless.  Oh my gosh, it cracks me up  just thinking of it.

StuFF... little miracles.  ;)   Embrace them, Recognize them.
Welcome them & even when life gets you down - continue to mail out cards of Love  & it come back to you.   ;D.   It's a LOVELY day today -I was up with he birds & have some serious painting to do!
Tweet Tweet!

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With TLC & THC
​Georgia
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* I intentionally colored my hair grey in the cartoon- there are FAR TOO FEW older women SEEN in media today- ALL media.  It is a step in the real right direction.  
​I embrace every great hair! 

         Hey Hey Hey!! Now - Put the RAPIST away.
                Guilty Guilty Guilty - as IF we needed the 2nd court case to prove it.  
 & yes, I AM thrilled it is because of  fantastic female Canadian who did NOT let this F*&^%NG RAPIST intimidate, lie or $$$ his way out of this one.  
​People are paying attention.  TIMES up.
When are judges going to be held accountable for letting these predators go - again and again so they can continue to destroy & abuse? Treated 'DIFFERENT because of his wealth & fame.  What would Fat Albert say? Throw away the key.  
I watched Fat Albert  - did you, I can say with confidence Fat Albert would be disgusted with Bill Cosby, as should ALL be.  WTF is wrong with the power hungry sleeze bags?
*BTW- the lyrics from FAT ALBERT are exactly as I drew in the cartoon - was that not a premonition  in hindsight or what? He probably sang it to himself before he raped his passed out VICTIMS.

NOW he should GO to JAIL - just like others 'NOT of his class' would have been in jail already by now and would stay there for YEARS.. Will he? Right NOW -he is locked up in his mansion - boohoo.
He'll probably only get  5 years with all his money...  His career is OVER.  
Who would pay to SUPPORT  this rapist in anything from this day forward?
Jello has lost it's appeal  because of him. 
Once looked at as a role Model- Americas Dad' - Phhhhbt! 
            Bill Cosy will NOW only be remembered for the Rapist he is.  

He was behaving beyond badly with his drugging- because he knew women probably would have PASSED - just look at this CREEP in this interview.  I'm curious what David Letterman thinks now.   Imagine waking up to realize YOU had been sexually assaulted by BILL Cosby, yuk yuk yuk.  

I'll draw it out- give him the attention he deserves - above all else I draw to SUPPORT the women he DRUGGED & RAPED.  #metoo

                          Hey Hey Hey - What do you think FAT ALBERT would say?:
                             Guilty? Guilty! Guilty! - Hey Hey hey 'Put the rapist away!
NOW.
Next?

With TLC & THC 
Georgia

We are all connected - Georgia Toons postcard collection grows.
My new postcards were dropped off and I'm thrilled with them - I've already mailed a few around the world! Hee hee  -to a select friends whom I do feel connected to. Did you get one?  The timing perfect - it's going to be a lovely weekend with temperatures into the +15 - +19 (Monday) and with the weather arrives MUSHROOMS!  LOVELY little fungi which nourish our minds & souls  & NOW these beautiful postcards to share the good connections with all we know.

                These postcards would also make lovely foray or dinner  invites.
                                   Thank you cards for fungi loving friends.
          It makes a handy Bookmark too- you can write on the back.  I'm using one now. 
         It looks lovely on a shelf perhaps by your mushroom cook book collection.
                        Suitable for framing. It can be used as a simple teaching tool.

                 WE are all connected- you just don't see our 'roots'.. our  mycelium.
                   We are all different - all useful - all beautiful - all here to TEACH.
We are all connected - with the internet NOW - we can make friends all around the world! How awesome is that? OmGosh - todays giggle was when I heard FB DID admit to not READING terms & conditions on an ap. they were using... they just clicked 'agree. 

I feel it - We are all connected, It's something repeated on Gaia, ACIM, The power of NOW, Be here NOW, the holy Bible & many more educating opportunities, which is addressed constantly - don't dismiss 'feelings' - I feel connected to Caves in France!  Just typing gets me excited- do you feel it? Ask! BELIEVE! Receive - Amen. How cool to imagine going to France - I'll mushroom hunt while there too.  I feel it getting closer every day! I 'feel' people....   most of them  feel pretty darn good. 

Poppy est si excitée, elle peut difficilement se contenir - son amour du fromage, du bon vin, de la gastronomie et de l'exploration des cavernes - après tout elle a visité le Getty en Californie - elle a une nouvelle veste créée pour notre aventure en France - Oui Oui!  Ha haha Peut-être trouverai-je ce bel homme aux cheveux blancs qui continue d'apparaître dans mes rêves éveillés ... oui, oui.

Would you like a post card? I'm giving a few away on IG just comment so I know you are interested... good luck!   If you are interested you may purchase them here: 

                       WE are ALL connected - Mushroom ART postcards! < click on link
                         or here > IF you want 'me to send you one< signed and doodled  ;)
                                    for those who already have the rest of my collection.
                                  or choose from the menu above : Georgia Toons Gifts.
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Due to shipping & I have to put them in envelopes - I'll be selling them 5 for $10.00
If you want one* - from me  to you - sent without an envelope - it will be $3.00  
I'll even add a little doodle on the back .  Price includes postage.
If anyone is interested in bulk orders - please contact me. 

Time for me to PAINT more MUSHROOMS! 
Wait until you see the  calendar!
I can't wait to hang mine in my kitchen - bedroom - bathroom too!
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With TLC & THC
Georgia
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Inside: Strutt them Feathers!  
If you got it  flaunt it.  An original Gouache 5 x 7 card & matching envelope
I think soon I'll start selling more originals. $20. 
If someone is interested in this card e me! 

Thank you for the excitement for my mushroom card. I was pleased & amused the first Gift &  the first official SALE' were mailed to Russia &  the other  to St. Petersburg, Florida. 
The first official sale- also got the new "we are all connected'  postcard! 
To be announced soon..

Strut them feathers... This woman did just that.. she shared her nude images during an affair, then the other woman shared her images with a police force where the first woman was applying for  job.. It should be an interesting case. Really though... DO NOT send naked images to anyone... and you'll never have to worry about revenge porn will you?  She is a victim sadly, but she kinda put herself in the situation - so I sway either way at the moment.

We still don't know the names of the dead..  My girlfriend remarked- stuff you kinda do forget about: How much do you think this COST?  We ALL know the cost of the lives- priceless. How much do you think the tax payers will pay for this guy when all is over? The police,  clean up,  damage,  PTSD of COUNTLESS, van/vehicle, court costs - to go to JAIL forever (we know this is the outcome) and lets say he lives out rest of his life naturally- UNLIKE those he MOWED down - he's 25.. so guessing 50 years tops- 75 - Well it cost us in 2012 = $113,000.00 a YEAR to keep an inmate in prison so.. to keep this guy alive it will cost: READY??  =       $5,650000.00 or more.
    That is just jail - not all the other damage he did... NOT including PTSD
Capital punishment would be more affordable.  
I'm never going to mention his name - he does NOT deserve it.
My crusty phone pal says he thinks 'the Truck driver who killed the hockey team should get Capital punishment,  "someone should shoot him".    I disagree.  He did not intentionally  
try to kill all those people... he will suffer the rest his life.  I've have personally known people who have been responsible for the death of others in a car accident - It messes them up.
This 'Other - Phhhbt - HE knew EXACTLY what he was doing. The sooner he is GONE the sooner everyone can move forward. We'll hear about his mental health, his Aspergers' & his loathing for women because he can't get laid - why will we waste our time NOW on him - is beyond me.

The government is talking - decriminalizing  *ALL small amounts of drugs - which is the best thing I have heard in a LONG time! AMEN Canada! Oh... Russ: I told you! For all the still fear mongering-   BEFORE July 1st! Get your garden pots ready!!

I LOVE Justin Trudeau! & family  
​https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/16/canada-liberal-party-considers-decriminalization-all-illicit-drugs   THIS is huge- do you think this would have ever happened with HARPER? Ha.   Justin is a caring Canadian  who does NOT want to see other Canadians suffer- WE ALL know he knows about this Cannanbis bull but steps have to be taken,  I am very grateful for him - every day. YOU should deb too- we should not treat others with drug addictions like criminals, we should be permitted to CHOOSE what we put into our own bodies as long as we don't harm others or ourselves.  

With TLC & THC
​Georgia 

Do you see it? Can anyone explain this display in the CANDY isle?
It makes no sense.. well then again- someone knows exactly what they are doing.
Look again...   just down the street, with-in walking distance to many schools...
I know I walk.   
It's THIS simple- ENOUGH with fear mongering about Cannabis stores!  
LOOK at this READ about  this current problem and then offer your kid a joint!  
​Who did this display? Are you going to try to tell me they had no clue - OF all the items put here 'easy to grab & go'  - UNDER the *&^%$## candy?

YOU want to 'see' the  problem - - this photo was taken at our local dollar store.  

On the bottom shelf-  *just under the candy YOU CAN see is a very dangerous substance- BEING commonly abused RIGHT NOW by school age children and easily available- any little hand can get at it, right under the candy.. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?
Is no one paying attention? No - because they are all DISTRACTED by lies & fear mongering when this brain killing can sits right here. NOTE the warning ON the can!
EVEN they recognize it’s a problem but there it is bottom shelf - under the ^%$#@ candy.

I wonder who was responsible for this decision. Everyone knows what this stuff is selling for RIGHT here in the LOCAL $$$dollar store- FAR more harmful than cannabis - proven to cause brain damage even possibly death. Every lie a media source encourages they also promote & encourage danger to all Canadians.

PLEASE share this so that people will understand  & warn them about this 'REAL’ problems
The dollar store is just down from the meth clinic.  
For anyone who is not aware - educate yourself-  do your kids have a can?? Are they using? Please introduce them to cananbis - the SAFER alternative according to science & DEATH records.

With TLC & THC
Georgia

https://www.today.com/parents/dusting-new-killer-high-teens-2D80555302
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/inhalant-abuse/side-effects/
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This is my first mushroom art card - and possibly my only  mushroom card - I was asked for this to be made into print several times so here it is... only better because it's a CARD!
      NOW - You can send some snail mail and make someones day! Trust me - I know.
There are countless mushroom fans out there and many knowledgable ones at that- all those who remain breathing for one... thank Goodness!  Because 'one thing we all tend to agree on:   IF you are NOT positive.. do not eat it.  

These cards I purposely left blank- they can be used for ANY & every occasion:

                          -Having a dinner party? A mushroom meal? Here is the mush have invite!
               -Perfect for your foray hunting friends searching the forrest for munchies or
​                       arrange a foray yourself - use these to invite your guests!
                                          -Or thank them for letting you tag along.
                        -A birthday card for a Foray Director- perhaps (hee hee hee)
          -  I'm sending one as a 'thank you' card for some dried mushrooms I was given!
​Pop it in a frame from the dollar store (seen below)  and for ONLY $6. (cost of card & frame & tax) you have a great little piece of art for your kitchen or a lovely little gift for a friend.

​It's a cute quirky reminder for all mushroom/fungi fanatics  -as well as helpful to educate those not aware Mushrooms can easily KILL.  

          Want to see what to do after you get it? Frame it!! Hang it in your kitchen!
It can be framed & would look adorable in any kitchen.  Designed  standard size for any frame from the dollar store.  Each card size is 5 x 7 and comes with a white envelope.
*NOW - IF I have time & you are ordering a card for yourself - from me.. (let me know) I'll probably paint on the envelope too- cause I  can't resist!!  lol

​Do you sell mushroom ware at a fare, anywhere...? Would you care to buy bulk give these mushroom cards a try?  Send me a message for  pricing. 

I shared my cards on Instagram & Facebook- and will give 3 away on each- you simply have to comment  & I'll choose later. Thanks to all showing interest.

You can purchase my cards here  along with a few other items including some originals I sell from time to time. :  Georgia Toons Gifts​

New items will be added as they are created! Be sure to check the Georgia Toons Gifts
page to  be the first to know what's available NOW.

*Next- why cannabis pot business shops near schools is FEAR mongering- and I'll prove it - are you in Keswick? Wait till you see this little discovery... AFTER I address it with letter to our editor of the local paper. With PHOTO proof.  Education is the KEY.

With TLC & THC
Georgia 

Yesterday was a good day - it started with the mail woman delivering a box- new slippers! Whoop!!Whoop!  I live in my slippers- they are what make it most comfortable - and I wear them out- between kicking the ball, gardening, to the mailbox- lol they take a beating.   Most importantly-  I understood them as "I'm sorry."  Yep, it's how Norm says sorry.   I've long given up  waiting to hear the actual words - I find many people have trouble saying 'sorry'.. oh well - so I sent him a 'Thank You from my feet'.  

He continued to say sorry when he brought home the first piece of the gazebo furniture - the new wicker sofa!!   After working all day- he came home  put it together, swept and set it up so I can go out and read/relax/draw in there today.  I know people must read my blog at times and think I can be a real Bitch.  Yep, I can..  especially when I'm bitching about what goes on- but here is the thing- It is from bitching and making aware- that we get things resolved- I know too many who never say anything to each other- they just let the resentment BUILD & build and then are shocked when the marriage dissolves what happened?  25 years...   so what if your significant other' can't say 'sorry' - as long as they attempt to say sorry in some way.  I sat as he put it together- anxiously waiting for my bum to test it out and thought - o.k... NOW  this is a new attempt to get it right..  I shall let the Alexa thing Go.  I can't wait to get out there today and decorate a little - I've already invited a friend to visit on the weekend to help me christen it! ;) Want to come hang out with me in the gazebo- e me! I give free art lessons.  I am grateful for Norms gesture, I'm sorry.
Apology accepted.

I realized the other day meditating in the zen den... I can make Norm laugh.
When ever I choose.  No matter what  - he can't resist me.  What's not to like?
HE KNOWS he lucked out with me & I have no problems reminding him.    ;)  
Everyone can 'think' what they want...
 If I was the bitch  I can at times portray myself to be - he would not still be here,
would he.
                                  I have the power    -   I AM the Queen Bee.  

I spent yesterday painting for a friend - to make him happy, cheer him up... which makes me happy. I did not have a clue about the attack until Norm informed me (no radio, no cable I was spared a few hours) I still have NOT researched it at all, I knew it was going to happen - we all did.. they get ideas from other SICK people - at first I thought:  Shoot him, just shoot him. SET an example to anyone who does this - shoot them.
​WHY waste any fucking time on court- anything. SHOOT them.
Now I hear it's a young man with problems, Aspergers   -  10 dead- 10 people out enjoying the beautiful day we had (finally) here in Toronto -   shoot him.
We don't even know who they are yet.  Shoot him.. put him out of his misery - and for everyone else he has caused incredible pain to. 
For any who are not aware - Young St. is it - it's always busy and not far, my family travels it regular, I've walked that stretch countless times...  shoot him.  
O.k. IF we can't shoot him-  DON'T waste any fucking time- GO directly to JAIL- FOREVER.  He was NOT sick enough to RENT a vehicle with the intent to MOW people down... apparently he can be very smart.

I'm not going to research it, I can't.. I'm going to go out to the gazebo and read, decorate, sketch and thank God for another day and that my family  & friends are safe.  Be here NOW

Check out the sofa where many drawings/paintings shall be born!

With TLC & THC
Georgia

In my home, I Am the Queen Bee, and you should be too.
I painted this little reminder for my zen den.. I actually started it months back- the little Bee on the sunflower  (a gift already off to it's new home) was a push to complete my own bee.
I AM Queen Bee.    She also simply reminds me to 'Be ... as in Here  & Now. 
Small paintings are fun-  hung  where they can be easily overlooked - often catch ones attention.  I'm making a mini gallery wall in my zen den - where I read.

Are you the Queen Bee in your own home?  You should be.
I'm sure you keeping your hive as best as it can be...  

Be the Queen you are Created to Be.
Anyone tries to tell you otherwise.. tell them to buzz off.

With TLC & THC
Georgia

I'm not sure why I bought this book or rather why I was drawn to this one but I was. 
It's my cannabis education that also informed me about Human Trafficking - and how we waste  time & resources  with Drug trafficking - it's shameful.   I don't understand it.
I understand less..  people who are capable of sexually/physically abuse & hurt children - Then add the worst element you possibly can- the children are being perpetrated & used, abused by their own parents- is just FUCKING EVIL.

& for any who dare to argue Kids are o.k. with it - should read this book. The anger in his words years later- you can still feel his pain. I could .. it took me a long time to read this book, I had it before the last 2...  it is a true story of sexual abuse of a little boy and a very tragic story. While reading  I kept thinking - If I could get at his mother...  why didn't someone help him? How could they allow this to happen.. the name calling that went in my mind was not a good place to be. I had to finish. If this man could endure what he did and then share it with us to educate - how can I not read it and try to help to bring awareness. Not seeing it' will not make it go away- not seeing it does not mean it does not happen.

At one point when he talks about most of the men who come to have sex with the kids - don't even care to remove their wedding rings... they wonder - do they have children at home?  It literally made me feel sick to my stomach a few times.   If you think it doesn't mentally mess them up - read the book, see what is happening - the hate this creates - as far as I am concerned this is the sickest act an adult can achieve and I believe they should be severely punished. If you can't control your self around children sexual/physically -YOU are in fact the one with the problem... get castrated... before some innocent childs' life is destroyed because of lack control by an  deranged egotistical, evil adult,  as for the mother in the book - I have no words.   I know what I was wishing would happen to her  as I was reading - so YES,  I was let down at the end to read she was not  taken out back and beaten.. as she did so many times to that baby boy.  He could never understand why no one said anything...   What would you do if you suspected someone of abusing children... it can be a very serious implication to someone in a negative way- but far more serious to a child who is LIVING through the HELL.  

I understand people who hurt, hurt... this is not just inflicting pain - this is degrading a human so low they can hardly function, a tiny human..  who does not deserve this in any way.  The money we waste on DRUG trafficking when  this sort of thing is happen NOW to children is a terrible sign of a struggling society.  Read it.   

It has inspired a few drawing editorials when I stop feeling so sick about it.
I am very grateful to Joe Peters for sharing this - it must be incredibly difficult still- although it ends with him  and he is  with  a wife and children of his own.

​ Thank God.

​With TLC & THC
Georgia 
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 New art next!

Just Bee...   just enjoy the journey.

She's so confident, chilled .. just being who she is meant to Be -  just the QUEEN..
Being in the moment. Right here & NOW.  She is who I aspire to BE.
Queen of Calm - lol!  Can I do it?  I'm trying.  I try.

Did I tell you I'm quick tempered? Can you guess?  So all this BEE here NOW is needed.. we all need reminders and no' it is NO excuse- but this constant zapping does not help it's like a spark plug to the 10 second meltdowns.. the  good thing with my yelling  (always find the bright side) is with time it does seem to be  quicker, blunter..  if it's worth yelling over I must be pretty upset & I don't back down easily,  these are learned traits.  I've never claimed to be perfect in anyones mind but Gods... and I wish I got better at  ignoring stuff.  
Don't we all.

Someone pointed out  on PIN of all places.. it looks like someone is coping my art... or rather my ideas & was told someone saw prints recently of  one of my designs but apparently it was poor quality and a poor attempt  at selling so I just let it go..  & in the heat of the moment I even asked another artist if she "copied much?"  
-Because we have an image very similar. Sigh..
What the f*ck takes over  me?  I can tell you..   EGO.  

​It sneaks in from time to time (luckily in some ways) and says "that's the greatest idea ever!!" ...  "No one can even come close to such a creative idea!! & it will make you an internet sensation!" (which makes me laugh because I constantly can't decide on privacy settings so my account doesn't grow too fast, as with FB... It's not easy (for me) when you go from a few hundred to a  few thousand (with it comes more - messages, more comment control, more replies, more & more and less time painting.  Sometimes - I'll go online and see not only 'My amazing ORIGINAL idea' but one that is  the same and a touch - better in some cases - and then something takes over (gratefully) and I ask: 
Who am I - when I get like this?  
When I realized only moments later I was out of line and just grumpy from being  mentally exhausted first thing in the morning - I apologized - I never said I was perfect... she's a talented artist- and I bet she probably 'get's it', it seems par for the course if your show your work on line.  I apologized for my momentary mind ego takeover.  Ironically, I don't even know if she saw it - hahaha IG has a thing where you images disappear- I'm not sure how to turn this feature off. Then I apologized to myself.  
Have you forgiven yourself lately? It felt kinda nice..  ;)

Ease up, you lived through it yesterday, the day before & You can continue tomorrow but right NOW-   Go paint.. release, relax, breath  & BE. Become a Queen at Calm.
This is more important that any 'art' I can produce for the universe.  ;)

With TLC & THC
Georgia
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