Yep, it's arrived. Fall.
Instantly the leaves in the back yard are changing- you better be paying attention, it happens fast this year - by the time I set up my paints outside the leaves will all fall...
Along with it is a cold damp dark morning! Yeah!!! Any morning we get to wake up and do what we love should be started with a SMILE..  I'm smiling - We're all up, Dogs have been outside,  the bluejay feeders are full so they don't wake the neighbours.  
My Ol' bones feel this weather- it's a part of being Canadian. Layer up, put on some warm lighting, my painting water has been changed and we're ready to go! Chill be gone- the moment my brush touches the canvas - so does my heart.  
Poppy is already in her basket - blanket on & will remain there for at least 2 hours, she is not a morning person.  Bring on this day!   Halloween thinking fun has begun!

What's the most frightening thing you can think of??    
TRUMP.  Evil on earth.
This is hell watching  him behave the way he does and having no say.
This is hell watching so many suffer and attempting to understand any of it. 
People will ask 'Where is God??  
We want FREE will to choose - until we make the wrong choices and then we ask
Where is God? How is this allowed to happen?     

I don't necessarily think it's the happening' of these events that is to make us think,  I think it's how we help each other in the aftermath. What we do today, NOW.  TRY to really make a positive difference and HELP someone- anyone. & then there's Trump.  Yikes
He is no more than a VULTURE, he appears to care as little about California as he does Puerto Rico.  God help America survive Trump...  is what hats should read.

I can't watch him & try not to think of him, it does not do my heart good & I've been reading so much about the heart- here I've been focusing much on the brain- and it's the HEART calling ALL the shots.  Heart & Brain are on the drawing desk too.  
I'll try to share some  positive heart healing or heart happy work this up coming week, a cannabis cartoon regarding our kids...

Today I'm going to Paint a new Canvas!!
How about you?

Thank you for taking a moment of your day to read my blog.

With Thanks
Georgia

Completed Toke Or Treat Tomorrow!!
It's a Gift for my friend Jennie- she'c crazy about Halloween & black Cats.

 Afternoon Delight.  Wow... I needed that.
This painting was waiting to emerge, more than I realized.
hee hee, I'd say that sky WAS a little boring ..before.
It started with one of my bigger brushes and I threw the paint on -  base color on a white canvas, sketching my bear with a brush instead of a pencil- "just paint!" I remember thinking.  The rest of the days were spent with much smaller brush - as small as a '0' most of the time.
As a matter of fact- it's how the fur was painted as well as the grass. TLC in every stroke.
THC too.   I'm learning to recognize my calmer moments (twitch-less) when I can work on more detailed areas like the face. I enjoyed painting this you have no idea & clarity in severals issues flowed to me like paint off my brush.
F*ck off.   LOL.  
Who needs this negative drama? Not me.  
Frig, Im tired- I think a lot lately- i just want to paint.
Focus on what you love Georgia..  enjoy your time doing what you enjoy most.. whispered my canvas.  

I am tired - I've been waking up every few hours for weeks, I went to the Dr. Monday and he felt what I also discovered recently, a big lump in my arm pit.  It's been causing me pain but I thought it was just stress from a few others things I was trying to sort out'.  Thursday I was already having a mammogram & ultrasound.  The mammogram was not bad at all, btw. 
I've felt worse.
Then I had the ultrasound and I could see what she could see and suddenly there was a big black ball. "Is THAT it??" I asked
...  "Yep, that's it."  
Yikes. That is... disturbing- seeing big black ball inside your body. 
It would take 5 days possibly with the long weekend for results I was told.
It was called already it is a very swollen Lymphnode which I will have to have checked again soon.  I'm told to relax, destress & enjoy. Ha! You don't have to tell me twice.
Before I got the FANTASTIC news I had already resolved that morning (after that great walk I had with my son) - I will rise above! I started my day with CoconutCream home made - bakery cake, fresh pineapple  (the bakery is in Newmarket - I highly recommend, as does Storm & now Norm) & coffee... then I got the call.  I'm Smiling!
YES I AM.  & know to keep on going the direction I am ..rise above with love.
Anger, hate, revenge- I've no time for. 

Who does? it's bad for the body, it's bad for your heart & mind. 
Not to mention -it makes it difficult for me to paint. ;) Truly - I was so tired that after I got the news I slept! lol ;) the body saying RELAX. I JUST finished this bear at 6 this a.m. 

I plan on doing just that. There is nothing like a serious cancer scare to help re align your life.  What matters? Hate begets hate. I can't paint if I feel hate, I physically can't & won't do it to myself.  Think about cancer seriously in your own body and you realize how trivial  so much of 'it' is.  
Thank You God.
I needed that.

Natural medicine is on my mind. The last Mapping of the Minds event educated me further and arrgavated me fruther- one more F*&^%$$$ lie it appears. Mushrooms are on the bottom of the list when it comes to dangerous 'drugs' (on the top was alcohol) or common recreational drugs... even after cannabis! I resent calling them drugs.  I had no idea.  Why are we being lied to? Why are people going to jail over such insanity!  
NATURE.
God put all plants here for all man- OUR CREATOR knew when these plants were placed here- they would HELP US.  *Mushroom are dangerous- IF YOU PICK the wrong ones YOU can die. KNOW your mushrooms- ALL of them. They are also healthy, beneficial and medicinal.  Bear is contemplating life,  Nature & Medicine.

I've included a Star mushroom- puffball', I met a very smart young man on one of our last forays with a cool name who educated me on them and where to find them.. the others are imagined or real- I'm not sure I've seen so many. My Bear Afternoon Delight is out and on my wall, Norm said "Wow, it's like 3D with those dots!" Storm too has commented on the detail several times.  I JUST want to PAINT it does the heart & art Good.

With it- thought, prayers and resolution- it always happens when I paint.
GIVE Thanks! I've already started another canvas! 
YOU know I'm (WE are ALL) celebrating this Thanks Giving!!

I'm still experiencing pain- I shall increase my medicine intake- amen.
& enjoy every second of it.

With Love 
​G
'Afternoon Delight' 
24 x 36 Acrylic on Canvas    Celebrating Natural medicine & Life.

There is nothing like painting to ease my mind.  
Painting saves lives.. mostly the artists & then some times paintings touch something in others.  I don't paint thinking of others... I think of the painting.  Lost in shades of browns & green with bits of blue and dots of purple. Not sure why the 'dots' evolved but that blue sky was just a little too boring. 

I like to start first thing, usually start around 5 or 6 and paint off and on the entire day- with this incredible weather we are having - the late summer is a bit of a distraction- loving every sun ray. Size does matter! When it comes to brushes! I start with the big to base color & then most is completed with a small brush - the smallest a 0'.  I think a week - two is  a long time for a painting but  just read of this artist who spends no less that 2 months on each- his detail is lifelike.  

This Afternoon Delight bear will be finished later today! My son & I are off to a wonderful breakfast and a couple of appointments- then back home to finish- I'm excited & can't wait now to have my bear in my bedroom! My own daily mental reminder to embrace and give thanks for every new day & natural healing available to us all & my own inspiration to GET BUSY! Paint.   I read a quote - simple & true.. want to be successful?
Focus on your own life.  

With all that is happening in the world NOW... I realize how trivial my own problems can be. Spain, Puerto Rico, the USA &  gun violence. Weather.. death.. disease outbreak. 
I am grateful to spend my days painting, surrounded by love- 2 legs & 4.  Give Thanks!
Tomorrow - my complete bear!  & this weekend is Thanks Giving!
I don't know about you but I'M GIVING THANKS, simply to be alive.
NOM NOM NOM! Let the pie baking begin! 
with Love
​G

 I love Buddha Bowls! You find many ideas on PIN if you do not know what they are, there are some ideas on BUZZfeed for BuddhaBowls and too many to count on PIN.  But I decided to make a Buddha Bowl for my Buddha Bowls!  He turned out terrific - If I do say so myself- it's the perfect size, feels nice in my hand and shall be washed with loving care when I'm through.
I also thought it would make a sweet little planter, should I ever grow tired of it as a bowl.
My Buddha bowl also has her 3rd eye open. ready to greet the day! 
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The back has painted  my daily OM'... reminder... time to meditate!
& the bottom has my signature- it's a  Georgia original... one of a kind.
& the centre has a green swirl - just for fun!

You are created to create!  What will you make today? 
Time to fill my Buddha Bowl with nourishing food for my mind & body. 
I'm making a couple of Buddha Bowls' I have a few friends who would enjoy one for the holidays!  I love making and giving homemade gifts especially ones which nourish.'
​Do what you love & you'll never 'work' a day in your life.
​I've already had 3 orders for my Buddha bowls! Each one will be different 
hand signed and numbered By me! 

Live EAT & have a Buddhaful Buddha Bowl day! 
Have a Creative day!
Georgia

I walked in my painting room and said to myself: Just start!
I've been wanting to paint myself a bear.. not with any other bear. 
A bear in nature.  Contemplating.
I went at it full speed ahead, no sketching, no idea of what- I let my imagination take control and my bear appeared. I was listening to the radio and the song played while I painted..
That's it! That's the title! lol -   Afternoon Delight.    It made me smile.
​I'm going to take my time with it - a few days off of the computer always does me good.
A break from e-mail, IG, FB, Skype..  whew- I feel restored just thinking about it.

I've been approached about a project creating a positive buzz..  
It's going to be SWEET! Wait & see.
I said yes.
More soon...  Off now to paint for a few!

Keep Creative.
Georgia

Child of God - you were created to create!