Feedback needed

I just finished this painting and would really love some opinions and feedback on it. 1-is it too simple? Too bright, too dark? Did I mess it up adding the interference paint in the trees? (I wanted to give it a feel of a breeze blowing and just a hint of magic.) Do I need to add something? As everyone knows I hate too much detail and love color. I also love sparklies and It's killing me not to add small rhinestones as stars. Should I try to sell it as is or should I add the stones? I feel like I'm not voicing my own vision not to add the stones, but I would really love to sell this as a print too. It's called Early Autumn Night. Help!

Happy Halloween!

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Halloween Party 2010

Hey, there you are! Thanks for coming. Cool costumes. Come on in and let’s get started.
Hands out of the candy by the door. It’s for the trick or treaters.

Now, everyone find a seat. There’s popcorn on the coffee table. Help yourself. I also have drinks, candy, and other goodies for all on the dining room table. There’s pigs in the blanket, toasted nachos with cheese, and green punch. There is also cookies, candied apples, and cake.








For those who wish, I’ll be making Bloody Marys and Midnight Margaritas.
























Now then, what shall we watch first? How about something fun like A Nightmare Before Christmas or Corpse Bride. I love Tim Burton movies.

Or maybe a little scare. I so love to watch B movies from the 50s.












Or maybe we could watch one of the movies that truly scared me. This is one of the best ghost stories I have ever read or seen.












Ok, everyone got snackies? (Barney! Get down. You don’t get sweet snacks. Sorry , folks. My cat is a pig.) Let’s get started…

...lights out.

Hope everyone has a lovey time party hopping from Vanessa's Halloween party 2010.

Another Movie Trailer from the Past

My parents would take us to the drive in on Saturday nights. We would sit in the car, wrapped in blankets, listening to the tinny sounds coming from the sound box attached to the driver's window, begging for a trip to the conccesion stand. Then the big screen would light up and we would become quiet as the movie began.

This was one of the first movies we saw. It made me cry at the end. Really, it did. I was actually rooting for the monster. (I usually do.)


Rodan

Pumpkin Spiced Lattes

Pumpkin Spiced Lattes

Ingredients
3 cups hot whole milk (or could use 2% or even soy milk for healthier drink)
4 teaspoons white sugar (or use Truvia or Splenda)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
6 ounces double-strength brewed coffee
3 tablespoons sweetened whipped cream (can use low-fat but who wants to?)
3 pinches pumpkin pie spice
Directions
Combine the hot milk (suggest you microwave the milk. I always burn it if I use the stove), sugar, vanilla extract, and pumpkin pie spice in a blender; blend until frothy. Pour the mixture into 3 coffee mugs to about 2/3 full. Pour 2 ounces coffee into each mug. Garnish each mug with whipped topping and pumpkin pie spice.

October the First

Yay, It's October! My favorite month. It is time for the leaves to change and fall, the apples to ripen, and mums, pumpkins, and corn stalks bundles are everywhere. It's time for decorating ones front yard with Autumn scenes. It's time for watching a football game huddled under a blanket, for friends gathering around bonfires, time to pull out your most loved sweater. It's time for Starbucks to bring back the pumpkin spiced lattes!
It's also the month of scary. Halloween always singles the start of the holiday months. In my opinion Halloween should be a get out of work holiday so one can spend all day getting ready for that night. I mean, really, it's takes a while to become a convincing zombie.
Also, during October the TV stations pull out all the horror movies. And though I love horror flicks, there has been not too many of them lately. Sure there has been slasher flicks where the whole movie depends on special effects and shock value. The seems to not be a real plot. I guess this bothers me because I am a story teller. I like plot and deep characters. The suspense has been lost. Don't get me wrong. Everyone who knows me knows I can sit though twelve hours of zombie movies. I love B movies. But today's B movies lack the suspense of the old black and white movies of the fifties. There was just something about them-the fear of the unknown, the build up to the revel.
This month I will share the trailers of some of my all time favorite B movies. So, for your enjoyment here is the first (and my ultimate favorite)- War of the worlds (the original)

October 31! One of My Favorite Days!

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My Dark Angel-A Dark Poem

MY DARK ANGEL


a coppery red moon
hangs low in a midnight sky
you stand in the darkness
beneath a crimson canopy
where October's chill breeze
sings a dry mournful song
and lifts your night black hair
your piercing grey eyes
stare from your pale face
I know your kiss
death cold yet burning
turning my soul to ash
my dark angel
with broken wings.

An Autumn Poem

GOD’S PALLET

Deep Autumn blue
seen through rustling leaves
my heart sings with joy
at the song of the breeze
God's pallet surrounds me
crimson reds, deep oranges,
bright yellows, deep greens
shadowy purples and blues
dry leaves crackle
under my dancing feet
the scent of life fills me
all is well with my soul

The Lovely Bones Movie

I can't wait to see this movie!

A Soft Rain and Memories

Isn’t amazing how seasons can change so subtly , but noticeably? This past Monday, Labor Day, Summer’s last holiday, we had a huge storm. Lightening, thunder, torrential rain, even hail, high winds, the works. It did some major damage around here with trees being uprooted and roofs being ripped off. I passed the lake while all this was going on and it looked like there was a hurricane going on. The waves were huge. Summer’s last hooray.
Yet, today, just three days later the rain came in so softly we barely noticed it until we heard it on the tin roof and smelled it through the open doors. A lovely musty, earthy smell. A chilly, wet smell.
A Fall smell.
It was a smell that made me wants to curl up in a chair by the open window, wrapped up in my favorite old sweater, with a hot cup of earl grey tea. It brought to mind past Autumns, school days (when school still started in September), football games observed from underneath blankets, bonfires on the banks of the New River, the day long chore of cutting wood and raking leaves.
Many of my friends lament the end of Summer, hate the Fall, and though I will miss the endless hot days of the Summer, I really love Autumn.
So I will most likely bore everyone to death during the next month or so with my blogs about Autumn.
Ps-art will be posted this weekend if my “photography room” cooperates and the weather clears.

Autumn In The South

It's images like these that make me glad I'm living in the Southern Appalachians.
http://www.southernliving.com/southern/features/special_sections/article/0,28012,1123013,00.html

Autumn Decorating

http://www.southernliving.com/southern/homes/0,13235,1854626-1,00.html

Thanksgiving Dinner

http://www.southernliving.com/southern/foods/0,13362,1854958-1,00.html

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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A Bright Leaf

You see before you one bright leaf, shifting in the Autumn breeze, hanging in the darkened shadows of the other leaves still clinging to Summer's green. One small orange-yellow leaf, showing the ravages of time in it's holes and dying edges. It's a beautiful thing-this lone little leaf. It gives us joy in it's lovely color, sadness in knowing that Winter is around the corner, and hope for the far off coming of Spring.

An Autumn Poem

Deep Autumn blue
seen through rustling leaves
my heart sings with joy
at the song of the breeze
God's pallet surrounds me
crimson reds, deep oranges,
bright yellows, deep greens
shadowy purples and blues
dry leaves crackle
under my dancing feet
the scent of life fills me
all is well with my soul