Survival of a Bohemian Woman: 2014

Monday, December 29, 2014

Fairy GodMother Arts 2014

Auld Lang Syne....Good Bye 2014

Wow where did the year go? In two days we will be done with a Even year and dealing with the Odd and unknown...2015 please be good.

I have grown a lot this year I think personally and in my art.

Personally because I have finally realized that I deserve to be happy and enjoy my life, which in turn allow me to enjoy my art , which I hope in turn will allow me to earn a living as a Artist.

So my wish (Hey I am a Fairy Godmother) is that all of you learn to appreciate your life, the gifts you have been given , let your soul breathe and grow and to walk a path full of happy treasures.

Merry Christmas and Dreamy New Year Wishes

I hope all of you have a wonderful new year and will continue to follow all of the wonderful things I am working on So one day I can have a storefront again , until then visit my Etsy shop
FairyGodmotherArts on Etsy.com

Friday, December 12, 2014

What are you doing for the Holidays....???

How many of you are running around crazy trying to figure everything out?

WHY??? its not worth, stress will kill you and buy does that ruin a good day.

So first off take some deep breaths , blow them out slow and think happy thoughts.

Now you know the best thing you can do , commit an act of kindness...

See a little old lady trying to get her groceries in the car, help her.

See a young mom trying to open a door and get her children inside, help her.

See a little boy standing all alone? Help him...give him a smile make eye contact say hello.

So many things we can do every day to make others happy and in turn our very own Happy Meter will go off the charts. and it doesn't cost anything but a small moment of your time.

Give a homeless person a set of gloves, hat and scarf, Dollar tree stuff is great ...maybe a cup of hat coffee and a sandwich. They don't want to be homeless , circumstances beyond their control. It could be you tomorrow.

COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS!!!

If you have a roof over your head, food in your fridge, someone to love you ...you are blessed so many ways and more...

Monday, December 1, 2014

Make Wishes Come True!!!

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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Dandelion Wishes ....

This is the time of the year when Dandelions are out in force with their positive forces, feeding the important bees so they can help propagate new plants and help our food grow They also turn in wispy little fluff heads that so many of us as young children were taught to make wishes with . They teach us to believe to have faith and to love Mother Earth and all her ....and I do mean for ALL....each plant and being has a purpose.

My purpose on this earth has always been to love and live life to its fullest , not always easy , but I wake up every morning with the best of intentions. But as we all know life does not always play fair and we get blindsided.

So I sit here at my mom's house the house I grew up in one month after moving from North Carolina trying to find the path I am supposed to be on. As my Dandelion Wishes went poof and have yet to be seen or heard. But I have faith that they will, So I wake up every morning with good intentions that today or tomorrow or the next, I will find my place .

Until then I will do what I have to do and live , and hopefully teach classes to get myself where I want and need to be.

I have one show with artists coming up the month of July at the Strasburg Town Hall in Virginia and am looking forward to creating some special pieces for that event. Working on new house quilts, Wall shrines, pocket shrines, and fabric postcards. So stay tuned because it will start rocking around here.

Blessings and Dandelion Wishes to you all ....

Thursday, March 20, 2014

WHen LIfe give you lemons...just suck it up during the sour parts

I am getting ready to move on in my life...in many ways physically I am moving to the mountains of Virginia Blue Ridge , Shenandoah Region, Winchester , Front Royal area...somewhere in there. I have not tied down the exact location yet , because I am still working on employment that will make sure the rent is paid.   However there are lots of artist outlet opportunities, galleries, art shows , craft shows, farmers markets, flea markets and festivals of all kinds.

Spiritually this move will be great in many ways , this is the area of Virginia that I spent many wonderful days with my family , camping, eating breakfast as the sun rose in those gorgeous GOD created mountains.   It is also the place that when things were bad, I would run away too, by myself find a patch of ground and just sit and let my soul revive from the energies that I only found there.
Having lived here in the Outer Banks of North Carolina , I have never felt that true renewal, that I could get in a hour or two in my mountains. I would talk to nature, and even better GOD , I seemed to hear Him better there, then any place on earth.

Emotionally this is taking me back home ...I was born in Virginia and I have missed so many things from there, one the chance to just drive to the mountains an hour from where I lived. But more than anything missing the little bit of family I had left. Seeing my Mother once every few months just does not make it ...I miss her and yes even my little ?brother...So when at Christmas on my surprise visit we talked ...and I knew it was time to come home. So I can spend time with my mommy...and the family I have left and old friends that I have not seen in over a decade.

So in approximately 3 weeks I will be leaving Paradise? to move to my slice of Heaven, April 27, will be 5 years since my Beloved John went home to God...and I still miss him as much now as I did the last moment he took his last breath as I held in our home we shared for 9 years. He was the most loving , caring and hard working man I ever met.   Our dream had been to retire to a cabin in the mountains...well I have begun the process....so I ask that you wish for me, pray for me that this will be my rebirth into a life of happiness...and follow me on this journey here as I march?   no...Dance back to where I know Happiness lives.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

The last 5 years have not been fun,,,but I always walk in Faith and Hope

April 27, 2009 I lost the man of my dreams, my heart and my soul. When John passed after fighting so hard to recover from the medical issues of December 2008 that left him depending on me 24/7 it was truly the most devastating thing I have ever gone through. I have lost important people in my life , all of my grandparents, great aunts and uncles , my father, friends and I grieved for them . But when John died it was like my very breath and reason for living had been ripped from my body and heart. People would laugh at us at times , because we were in love and we acted at times like teenagers. And then there were other times where we quietly enjoyed our life together, like the nights we would go to bed early to study the bible. One night one of John;s daughters asked us why we did such a thing,,,and then it was like a light bulb went off and she said very straight faced....I know you are studying for the test. Oh Marie...you were such a sweet gem, I am so sorry that you got caught in the crap between your sisters and I and that your last year on earth after your dad died you let them run your life. I would have helped you get to a real doctor and maybe your fate would not have followed so closely to your dads . You always deserved to be happy,,,

A lot of bad things happened after John died, I lost a job I loved , I had no income, I found out my two of my step daughters hated me the whole time I was with their father, so all of a sudden the family I had loved for almost 10 years , including grandchildren were gone. And they stood at his funeral and mocked me one last time. Except when their sister died the following year of cancer and they threatened me if I tried to attend the funeral they would make sure I was not allowed in. All of this and the loss of My Beloved John sent me spiraling to depths of despair and depression I had never imagined anyone could feel . The one anchor or saving grace was our dog Winston , the English bulldog I had bought John and my youngest daughter Larisa. Larisa had moved back to the home when John came home from the Hospital to help me, she was a true blessing,

In October 2009 my girls Laureta and Larisa , my dog and Larisa;s kitten packed the van and headed to the mountains of Cherokee to spread John's Ashes. It was the one place we made sure to go almost every year and we loved it there. Our goal was to retire there in a little cabin in the mountains, but the C Beast kept that from happening. The girls and I spent 4 days in hard pouring rain in a tent outside of Cherokee waiting for the 27th of October which would have been John and I's 7th wedding anniversary. On that day in the pouring rain I spread his ashes at our favorite place and it seemed so appropriate that it was raining as hard as it was . it represented all the tears I had cried and still had to cry over the loss of him and our amazing life together. We were never rich , but we were comfortable , if we met someone who needed help we helped them if we could, we loved to travel and because of John I flew in my first plane to Las Vegas. I saw the Red Rock Canyons and the Valley of Fire ...and so much I would have missed without him in my life.

We went to Las Vegas 3 times and each time was more special than the last one , we even went to the Stardust one night and saw Don Rickles perform. It was awesome.

The name of this blog is because of John, he told his sister one night when he was talking to her about me that he loved me because I was a Bohemian woman, not the first time I had been called that, and it is fitting.What blew me away was that he would know or think that of someone. He was very intelligent but people did not give him credit. I did and when I discovered his love of the Civil War , I started buying him books about it...he would read and then could have any discussion about any part of it in great length.

Next will be more of the last 5 years and what the future holds for me now.

Bringing this one back to keep track of my new journey

I will be moving back to Virginia in a couple months, this time to the mountains of the Shenandoah, where I spent many , many happy moments from the camping trips with my family to day trips with my family and my grandma Keck, stopping to make meals at the overlooks and enjoying the most beautiful place I have ever seen.

I hope to find my niche in the plentiful Art market, farmers markets and more to sell my art, and to get of course a job to pay the bills...but there are very good opportunities up there.

The other reason I am moving is to be closer to my mother...while she is healthier than me, I miss her and want to spend more time with her. So ...Life is blooming one more time...and this time it is mountain Laurel