Quote of the Week!

This is a painting I did a few years ago-

I added a favorite quote yesterday and wanted to share!

Happy Thursday everyone!!!

SO I thought I was back............

Last time I posted

I was all gung ho to get back in here.

THEN - December fell apart.

Two deaths in the family and an aging grandparent that

needed some outside care...

Very overwhelming month including the holidays.

So I am going to take it day by day for now.

Doing the little things 

that bring me some joy 
as I can 

and not on a time table!

 What does that involve?

Why Coffee of course!

I am still working on editing the 1,300

photos I took of Pearl Jam in Charlotte back in October!

(Isn't Ed adorable?!)

 Trying to keep up with new and old friends.....

I was asked to be admin on a music page....

(I edited the above photos into that logo strip!)

Remembering that laughter is the BEST medicine!

Laughing and having fun with photoshops of some of my gals!

Having fun with this crazy kid and teaching

him about music....

"Blackbird" sung by Eddie Vedder - give it a try

you will be TOTALLY surprised...

and the audience interaction is priceless....

So what have you all been up to?!

Here is to 2014 being an awesome year!

Thanks for being patient with me through this tough time!

Beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

Finally in the mood 

to get everything out and start

decorating!

Here are some  cheerful scenes we set up

from Christmas past...

 Just a sampling of the collection from over the years!

Who knows what we will do this year?!

Hope you have a wonderful Friday

and find some inspiration out there!

I'm BACK!

Hello Everyone!

I took an extended leave of absence

here to focus on my project

to help my friend with

Brain Cancer to meet his idol.

It worked!

Boy was it a busy last two months!

I was on the road for about 

a week and a half.

Some great surprises that

have happened since then and I was interviewed

on Sirius XM Radio about

the project as well!

If you want to see the results

of the project

you can visit here at

SeekingStoneGossard 

In a nutshell

here is what happened

We did get to meet Stone!

Eddie Vedder stopped by

Mike McCready as well!

We had a fun roadtrip and it was like a family

reunion!

Here are just a couple of photos I took...

   

Nothing like a little advertising during the trip.....

I learned a lot about photographing

in an ever changing environment.

The lighting constantly changes from the set up.

I took all of these from up in the stands -

we had GREAT seats -  I was not down beside the stage

like the hired photographers.

I think I did a pretty good job considering.

I used NO flash

and everything was on the fly!

  

See what I mean about lighting?

Purple, red, blue, green, white to a yellow  ...

 I have had to watermark all of the shots

to keep them from being copied / stolen

- so please forgive their placement.

It was an amazing experience.

Not only did it re-enforce why my friends

and I all love this band...

the morals they stand behind - encouragement to

be yourself - to help one another -

to let art help you through or to help others

through self expression- 

but  

it was wonderful to feel all

the support Clinton and I got

to achieve our goal!

The people who stepped up to the plate

who did not have to do a thing!

Some of my readers from here even participated! 

THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart!

I'm slowly getting back into

the swing of things

and some other

amazing opportunities have

popped up for me now

because of this experience.

I will share them with you

and December will be back to normal here

fun projects -

some simple photos -

and JUNKING!

Glad to be back everyone!

Let me know how you have been!

Happy Thursday! 

Update on the Seeking Stone Gossard project.....

We are headed out today 

to do a little pumpkin shopping

and enjoy the amazing Fall weather

that has finally descended upon us...

I thought I would update you on

the project I am sponsoring at the blog

I mentioned in my last post...

We are eight days in at this point

and so far I have had all the photos submitted

by people eager to help...

I am going out today to take a few myself

This one is one of the ones that gets the most hits

and of course it is because it was well taken 

and the kid is 

ADORABLE

Hail Hail is a line

referencing a Pearl Jam song...

of course.

We are getting noticed - I just hope we are

being SHARED...

Twitter, FaceBook, Pinterest, 

and I did notice yesterday we are getting

hits from Tumblr!

Twitter is great because you can actually Tweet directly

to people you really want to see it!

Hope you would like to take a peek over

and see a few of the submitted images...

you can visit here

SeekingStoneGossard.blogspot.com 

and the very first post is Clinton's Story...

I hope if he does get to meet Stone that

I get to be there to take the photo!

But if I can't

 I'm glad I got to help him make a dream come true.

It's not about me-

it's about him!

If you'd like to help and submit a photo let me know!

have a great weekend everyone!