End of the Year

A fresh year is upon me and I just finished looking at my old blog. I hadn't read it for months and was pleased that I had done what I said that I was setting out to do this year. I have been working at writing and I have been working steadily at refining my skills in Paint Shop Pro. The satisfaction that I feel is not in the quality of my work, but it lies in the the fact that I worked the plan, even when it seemed like there was no sensible reason to continue it.

Rereading my few previous entries also makes me realize that there is system to my thinking and that the motivation is not ephemeral. This has strengthened an encouragement that I need to press on to the next level.

Practice is what will hone my blogging skills. I am praying that I will stay on target, and that my writing skills will develop along with the diligence of doing this on a daily or near daily basis.

Another year, another treasure trove

I feel like little Mary in her garden looking at the lush growth around her. Summer is in rich splendor at her feet and she is surveying all that lies before her.
For the first time in my own life, I sense that the work of my hands is good. God is in control and is leading me into fresh territory. He has already laid up treasures in the storehouse of my inner man which are ready to be drawn out. I am trusting nubs of ideas in the understanding that they are the culmination of previous experiences folded into the batter of much time spent learning about the One who created me. Life is layered - not fragmented - when we know the One Who is truly in control. In 2007 I am focusing on honing my writing and art skills by hoeing, watering and studying over this garden daily.

New Year

The beginning of a new year! I have decided on my personal study process for the year but am not decided on how I want to proceed with the artistic ideas. One thing that I am planning to do is to continue to work with this blog and to enter pictures. Uploading pictures will be my greatest challenge because I do not like taking pictures!

This is an image that I was playing with in Paint Shop ProX. I made the image into a brush which I then beveled and layered. I have a love for chickens. I think it must be in my DNA because I've never personally owned chickens. My great-grandmother raised prize winning Wyandotts for many years and I'm thinking that it must be a latent gene which resurfaced in me. I never knew either my great-grandmother or her chickens. They were all long gone before I came along. It is indeed, refreshing to think that there are things that came before me!

As I'm typing this, I'm suddenly getting ideas for further posts. Hurrah, perhaps the muse has settled and I will begin to use this lovely bit of cyberspace landscape reserved just for this Prairie Girl!