*** Lost in the Secret Garden ***

Of Inspirations and creativity

My daughter's fav of all the graphics I have created.

So sorry for forgetting about "Saturday Night FairyTale" but I have been consumed in creating art in digital graphics. I hope to resume in a few weeks for at the moment I am trying hard to establish myself in this medium and will be selling most of my banners on Etsy and maybe some other shops but not so sure yet; checking other areas as well as the internet.These that I have posted are for sale or will be soon.
I will definitely be continuing the FairyTales for without them inspiration fails me. I have consequently been taking a different road in the past few weeks in getting out for fresh air and exercise with my furry luv Grace, taking photos and learning my camera, finding ideas for writing and creating art in all of the areas I adore working in. I will no doubt share with you my ventures and enlighten on some not so original but some spin off ideas you may want to try your hand at and at other times I may just have a novel idea. Your creativity through art, no matter what kind is so good for ones soul. So do come in for a quiet moment or two and enjoy the music and read from time to time; you may discover something tugging at your heart. This week has been entirely spent on designing with
Graphics!!!’m hooked line and sinker and I will aim for perfection. Hopefully I won’t tire…I’m a true Piscean !




This one is for the little kids in us all...Catching Butterflies, fireflies, dragonflies,Damselflies and who knows what else.My daughter has come home with little spotted salamenders and then set them free. Wonderful memories of life spent in the wilderness of nature.




Roses are a passion and so are fairies as you can see. Whimsical and magical, a world of dream.



Birds and their beautiful voices...always drawn to them.They are the best homemakers I know!


Until then, be inspired and create!
Hugs Annabelle

*** Wild is the Wind ***

Here is my latest digital work for a blog banner. Kind of reminds me of a Bank Cheque...maybe $40,000,000 dollars worth....I wish!ha! Had fun creating this.


After a Desktop Publishing course, buying DreamWeaver, using an online free Photoshop trial and Polyvore I think I may just be getting it...yippe!
Just goes to show where there is a will there is a way.

I always wanted to create digital graphic work but after a bad teacher experience the scar remained with me for years until eventually it receded in the last year and thanks goes to my two wonderful kids who lately have taken a bit of their time to show their mom a few tricks they learned from their high school computer teacher. Really a good teacher is a must for one to excel and this fellow is great and I thank him for teaching my kids well and making the learning process fun. And I in turn also benefit.

~ A Little Magic ~

A dash of silver german glass glitter on an old cream colored paper rose,vintage polka dot tulle, old vintage tattered lace, whatever poem or phrase you desire to keep close to mind and marquisette butterflies transforms this paper rose into an enchanting Christmas Rose.

~ Spooks ~

SPOOKS

Oh, I went down to Framingham
To site on a graveyard wall;
"If there be spooks," I said to myself,
"I shall see them, on and all."

I hugged the knee to still the heart,
My gaze on a tomb 'neath a tree.
Down in the village the clock struck nine
But never a ghost did I see.

A boy passed by and his hair was red,
He paused by a sunken mound.
"How goes it with all the ghosts," said he,
have you heard any walking around?"

Now the taunt was the sign of the boy's disdain
For the study I did pursue.
So I took the hour to teach that lad
Of the things unseen but true.

I talked of howler, banshee, ghoul
The gristly and the lean.
I sat on that graveyard wall and told
of all the things I had never seen.

And suddenly a bat swung by
Two cats began to bawl,
And that red-haired boy walked off in haste
When I needed him most of all.

I lost a slipper as I fled―
I bumped against a post,
But nevertheless I knew I'd won
The secret of raising a ghost.

And the method is this―at least for a miss,
You must sit on a graveyard wall,
And talk of the things you never have seen
And you'll see them, one and all.

The Singing Crow and Other Poems, by Nathalia Crane.
Illustrated by Mac Harshberger.
New York, Albert & Charles Boni, 1926.

Happy Halloween !