Plea for Spirit Doll stuff

Hi Everyone,

I hope this finds you well.  I also hope you got a letter inviting you to access the official V-Day website.  I entered the request to our local organizer and hope she has/will follow up. 

When I showed my friend and neighbor Sharon  the treasure box on New Year Eve, she thought it would be cool to allow visitors to our V-Day "Express Yourself" program on Sat. March 15, to make spirit dolls.  I thought it was a cool idea too and now I'm hosting the table that will allow visitors to create their own spirit dolls.  I want this to be a table where a woman can sit down and create something for herself with a little instruction and a pile of fun stuff to choose from. 

Have I mentioned that I've never made a spirit doll?  I've got lots of sticks in  the garage...driftwood from beaches, manzanita from my beloved camp in northern Calif.  So, I was thinking to start with those sticks, wire cab faces to them and then let the visitors wrap them with a prayer for healing and then rags and ribbons and stuff that I can find to add.   

Here's the plea:

I need suggestions, and, I need supplies as there is no budget for that.  Any help or suggestions you could offer would be sooo appreciated.  I guess you know by now that I have a proclivity for jumping off cliffs, trusting in my faith parachute to land me where I'm meant to go and this time, I need all the help I can get!  

Help!  

Love,

Connie 

Greetings my Sistas

Friday the 22nd of February at the little house:
It's Friday! What happened to Thursday? Oh, that's right, I started by baking a batch of brownies. And then I couldn't move for about 4 hours. They were very strong brownies...all that chocolate, espresso, cinnamon...etc.

I finished my Snake Phobia story and if you haven't read it on my world of color and light blog,

I would surely love your feedback before I seek wider publication. I'm choosing to let the piece steep over the weekend, so if you have a few minutes to give me, I'd really appreciate it. Grammer editing, style and honest feedback are welcomed. Telling me I can't write is not okay.

I got inspired last night and made four art squares for The Pink Artist project:

It was good to get back to the needle and thread, fabric and bead. My favorite square has a Hoffman Fabric Batik backing of muted rainbow shades of stained glass. To this I sewed a 20 year old Anne Klein black face gold watch, just the face, not the strap. I over laid it with organza, and used french knots to anchor the sheer organza down. Just before the last knot, I slipped in a Thank you card in orange, which matched the embroidery floss. It's my favorite and I didn't take a picture of it because I want it's image to be filed with all the other images that Monica will keep of this incredible HEART -TATA gift she's created.

Monica, Namaste`

Love,
Connie

Sweet Paige

In my World of Color and Light Blog there is an entry titled
"Sweet Paige". Go ahead and Google Sweet Paige and see
where it takes you. From my Sitemeter lens, I see folks from
all over the world clicking into the blog from those search
words. How cool is that? I have not yet had the pleasure to
meet our dear Paige in physical reality, but knowing her spirit
and having an intrinsic understanding of just how to LOVE a
girl named Paige, people from all over the world tune in to
engage.

Sweet Paige, how sweet is that?

xoxo
Connie

Hibernation

Greetings my friends and fellow contributors to the Treausre Box...
I am deep in hibernation cave. Everyday I sit with the Treasure box and see and experience what is possible
when we embrace the Artist Way. I tune in to Monica's incredible vision for a cure for Breast Cancer with the
PINK ARTIST project and I look at my little 2 x 2" square and I think I'm not even worthy to submit! Monica's
vision and artistry blow my mind...her vision is so great! Thank you my dear. You inspire me in a way that
makes me grateful to have the gift for needle and thread, bead and wire, clay and rag...Monica, Namaste, my
dear goddess woman. I send you blessings of love and gratitude for calling me up to a higher rung of this spiritual
ladder. May you all be happy, and healthy and whole.

Namaste`,
Connie

Treasure Box Images of 1-6-08

Treasure Box Book Cover

holy crap paige, i keep creating more work for you. know why? Because you want me to. because you asked me to and when I say me I mean my soul. You can be an artist full time Paige, I promise to keep you busy.

"You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. " C. S. Lewis

TO be created: A cover of some sort for the Treasure box copy of RETURN OF THE GREAT GODDESS

But wait, let's start that with Paige and she sends it to Monica, who sends it to Joanne who sends it to Connie who sends it to Susan who sends it to Griselda.

How does that sound? Leave your mark in what ever form you choose on the sturdy cover that Paige will contruct.....

oh boy....Perhaps I can embroider a mini-version of our sacred crow as a patch....and then maybe Monica could bead it. who knows, but Sacred Crow is taking flight again!

Connie

Treasure

Whew! What a week, eh? I miss my alone time! I hope you each had a lovely holiday in December. Dec. 24-25th, 2008 was like no other Christmas. And that is as it should be. I have clear visions of specific moments from childhood Christmas, they are are loving and for that I am truly grateful.

On Dec. 26th, Christopher, my partner, and I opened the treasure box. He is such a wise person. I have no doubt that our souls find each other each time around the medicine wheel with varying aspects within the relationship. In waking time, he is my soul brother, my soul sister, my chapka.

Joanne, you packaged the box so very lovingly. Your nurturing revealed itself in the way everything was wrapped in tissue and snuggled together like a puzzle. The box is steeped in generosity and SWEETNESS. In it's time, I will lay it all out in some form for photographing and let you all see what is there.

Ok. Honestly. The box is overwhelming me. With no words, I simply feel and the feeling is good.

More later.
Namaste`
Connie