oh yeah, and handmade journals!

I've also been creating handmade journals! Funny, the little blue one is my stress journal....for writing down my stressors and then hopefully, leaving them there. I didn't realize it at the time but it is the tiniest of all of my journals.....optimistic? you betcha!

Art Lately................

So....I have not blogged much over the past several months.....but I have been painting:

Self Portraits

and...

Faces

and...

Feelings

and in the studio

of

friends.....

"Every child is an artist

the problem is staying an artist

when you grow up"

Pablo Picasso

A Beautiful Gift From the Poet Sally Atkins

I am such a huge fan of the poetry of Sally Atkins. I had the pleasure of meeting her last Fall and taking her dream workshop. I just recently received another one of her books in the mail with the beautiful inscription "For Kristin, Who lives in her own soul house and speaks from the heart in word and image."

From the book "And When " We Speak" by Margo Fuchs and Sally Atkins

Tension

In my dreams

I am very wild

And you can see

The cracks

In my daily life.

Yet there is the impulse

To act, the longing

For letting go.

Still there is courage

In the morning

For making coffee

And in the evening

Making dinner

Keeping up the trappings

Of an ordinary life

When already

I have entered

The silence behind me

by Sally Atkins (Poems of Earth)