Somewhere I heard that every blog should have a dog. I think that’s a misquote about a boy and a dog. They just said it because it rhymed. Well, I like the playfulness of it…and since I have both a blog and a dog, here he is, 4 year old Tyler.

But, first a little story on how he got a person’s name. We had twin brother miniature poodle puppies. I wanted to give them names that would go together, you know, like Lolly and Pop, making them together, Lollipop. However, they were both boys, so since they were black, I named them Beau and Ty, as in my “Little Black Bow-tie”. Their birth certificates have formal names of Beauregard and Tyler. When Beau was no longer with us, Ty was given more significance by being called Tyler. And now he gets the special title of Official Blog Dog!

My Art Studio

I haven’t given it a name yet, although it deserves one. It would have to be something that conjures up creative and joy filled thoughts. Because creativity flows freely from me, often like a rushing spring river, my art studio is more than another room in the house to me.

It’s my place to:

• Create, learn, discover and challenge my skills

• Transform plain into wonderful, participate in metamorphosis

• Escape from pain, find distraction and joy
• Dive into the beauty of texture and color
• Express how I feel, who I am and how I see the world.
• Make gifts that bless people and glorify God, the one who created it all!

Creating art is a celebration of all things learned and seen miraculously sorted and organized in the artist’s brain then expressed through the hands.

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