– Basil Maturin
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2013
Have a very Happy Valentines Day! My hubby got the short end of the stick this year. I’ve been so busy that time got away from me. He got a box of Girl Scout Cookies. *sigh* He actually loved them!!
Showing posts with label Valentines Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentines Day. Show all posts
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Puppy Love Painting for Valentines Day
“Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what
is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not
forced to.”
– Basil Maturin
Puppy Love for Valentines Day
Have a very Happy Valentines Day! My hubby got the short end of the stick this year. I’ve been so busy that time got away from me. He got a box of Girl Scout Cookies. *sigh* He actually loved them!!
– Basil Maturin
Have a very Happy Valentines Day! My hubby got the short end of the stick this year. I’ve been so busy that time got away from me. He got a box of Girl Scout Cookies. *sigh* He actually loved them!!
Friday, February 17, 2012
Valentine’s Dessert 5 – 4.5″ x 4.5″ Watercolor
“When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things
as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the
beginning and end of spiritual practice.”
–Jack Kornfield
Valentine’s Dessert 5 – 4.5″ x 4.5″ Watercolor
Just when you thought you were too full for any more dessert…. I spring the best one on ya! he he This is my favorite of all the desserts. Are you dying to see the original tray of pastries I painted these from? Let me see…. Oh, here it is.
Okay… now here are my versions….
How fun is that? And to answer the question that must be swimming
around in your head…. My only chemical influences are coffee and pure
joy! 
Jack Kornfield is one of the leading Buddhist teachers in America. A practitioner for over 40 years, he is one of the key teachers to introduce mindfulness and vipassana meditation to the West. His approach emphasizes compassion, lovingkindness and the profound path of mindful presence, all offered in simple, accessible ways in his books, CD’s, classes and retreats. Source: www. jackkornfield.com
–Jack Kornfield
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2012
Just when you thought you were too full for any more dessert…. I spring the best one on ya! he he This is my favorite of all the desserts. Are you dying to see the original tray of pastries I painted these from? Let me see…. Oh, here it is.
Photo by Mo at WetCanvas - Betty's Tea Room in York, UK
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2012
Jack Kornfield is one of the leading Buddhist teachers in America. A practitioner for over 40 years, he is one of the key teachers to introduce mindfulness and vipassana meditation to the West. His approach emphasizes compassion, lovingkindness and the profound path of mindful presence, all offered in simple, accessible ways in his books, CD’s, classes and retreats. Source: www. jackkornfield.com
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Valentine’s Dessert 3 – 4.5″ x 4.5″ Watercolor
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order,
confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace
for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
–Melody Beattie
Yeah!!! I love that!!
Valentine’s Dessert 3 – 4.5″ x 4.5″ Watercolor
Yummmm. Now I’m hungry. Not a good way to start the day. Yesterday, I was surprised with a dozen red roses from my hubby. He doesn’t normally do flowers and I was thrilled!! The last time he sent flowers was to mark my first Valentine’s day as a married lady. That was 9 years ago. He’s pretty wonderful and I’m a lucky girl!
This painting was done from a photo reference of a tray of desserts by Mo at WetCanvas.
Melody Beattie
Melody Beattie is one of America’s most beloved self-help authors and a household name in addiction and recovery circles. Her international bestselling book, Codependent No More, introduced the world to the term “codependency” in 1986. Millions of readers have trusted Melody’s words of wisdom and guidance because she knows firsthand what they’re going through. In her lifetime, she has survived abandonment, kidnapping, sexual abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, divorce, and the death of a child. “Beattie understands being overboard, which helps her throw bestselling lifelines to those still adrift,” said Time Magazine. Source: melodybeattie.com
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order,
confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace
for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
–Melody Beattie
Yeah!!! I love that!!
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2012
Yummmm. Now I’m hungry. Not a good way to start the day. Yesterday, I was surprised with a dozen red roses from my hubby. He doesn’t normally do flowers and I was thrilled!! The last time he sent flowers was to mark my first Valentine’s day as a married lady. That was 9 years ago. He’s pretty wonderful and I’m a lucky girl!
This painting was done from a photo reference of a tray of desserts by Mo at WetCanvas.
Melody Beattie
Melody Beattie is one of America’s most beloved self-help authors and a household name in addiction and recovery circles. Her international bestselling book, Codependent No More, introduced the world to the term “codependency” in 1986. Millions of readers have trusted Melody’s words of wisdom and guidance because she knows firsthand what they’re going through. In her lifetime, she has survived abandonment, kidnapping, sexual abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, divorce, and the death of a child. “Beattie understands being overboard, which helps her throw bestselling lifelines to those still adrift,” said Time Magazine. Source: melodybeattie.com
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Valentine’s Dessert 2 – 4.5″ x 3.5″ Watercolor & Sharpie
The more you love, the more love you are given to love with.
–Lucien Price
Valentine’s Dessert 2 – 4.5″ x 3.5″ Watercolor & Sharpie
Happy Valentine’s Day! Here is your second calorie free dessert for Valentine’s week. The pastry was from a reference photo by Mo at WetCanvas. The plate and doily are all me!
Sophie at Just4Crafters has a cool tutorial for a Valentine’s Day card. I may try my hand at it today. It looks like so much fun. She had a cool birdhouse (The Love Shack) tutorial before that, if you have a little more time on your hands. Thanks Sophie!
Junius Lucien Price (January 6, 1883 – March 30, 1964), who also published under the name Seymour Deming, was the author of more than a dozen books and a writer for publications such as The Boston Evening Transcript and The Atlantic Monthly. At the time of his death at age 81 he was still writing for the Boston Globe. Source: Wikipedia
With love comes promises of sentiment as rapturous as fall’s splendor of color and as delicate as a crystal of snow. Love empowers us to handle the struggles that bind us, the struggles that stretch us to grow. The familiar sights and muffled sounds of each moment vibrate with greater intensity when we’re giving and receiving love.
We’re deluded to think the love of others will complete us, so we strive for it; we long for it. But we receive love only when we’re unselfishly offering it. It is one of life’s wonderful mysteries that we must first give love away if we hope to get it.
Loving another tests our patience, strength, and security. Love spurned is dreaded and perhaps too familiar, but we must risk it once again if we are to find the love we deserve.
The gifts of love are many and guaranteed when the act of love is honest, unselfish, whole, and unconditionally offered.
– Karen Casey
Karen Casey
Millions of people around the world spend a few moments in quiet reflection with Karen Casey every day. Karen is the best-selling author of Each Day a New Beginning, the first daily meditation book written expressly for women in recovery from addiction. Published in 1981, Each Day a New Beginning has sold more than three million copies and has been translated into ten different languages. Over the years, readers around the world have come to regard Karen as a trusted companion on the recovery journey. Among her other best-selling inspirational books are Keepers of the Wisdom, A Woman’s Spirit, Fearless Relationships, and A Life of My Own. In her newest book, Serenity (Hazelden, 2007), Karen shares favorite passages that gently convey simple lessons for living with greater peace, hope, and trust. Karen enjoys golfing and riding her Harley with her husband. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Naples, Florida.
–Lucien Price
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2012
Happy Valentine’s Day! Here is your second calorie free dessert for Valentine’s week. The pastry was from a reference photo by Mo at WetCanvas. The plate and doily are all me!
Sophie at Just4Crafters has a cool tutorial for a Valentine’s Day card. I may try my hand at it today. It looks like so much fun. She had a cool birdhouse (The Love Shack) tutorial before that, if you have a little more time on your hands. Thanks Sophie!
Junius Lucien Price (January 6, 1883 – March 30, 1964), who also published under the name Seymour Deming, was the author of more than a dozen books and a writer for publications such as The Boston Evening Transcript and The Atlantic Monthly. At the time of his death at age 81 he was still writing for the Boston Globe. Source: Wikipedia
With love comes promises of sentiment as rapturous as fall’s splendor of color and as delicate as a crystal of snow. Love empowers us to handle the struggles that bind us, the struggles that stretch us to grow. The familiar sights and muffled sounds of each moment vibrate with greater intensity when we’re giving and receiving love.
We’re deluded to think the love of others will complete us, so we strive for it; we long for it. But we receive love only when we’re unselfishly offering it. It is one of life’s wonderful mysteries that we must first give love away if we hope to get it.
Loving another tests our patience, strength, and security. Love spurned is dreaded and perhaps too familiar, but we must risk it once again if we are to find the love we deserve.
The gifts of love are many and guaranteed when the act of love is honest, unselfish, whole, and unconditionally offered.
– Karen Casey
Karen Casey
Millions of people around the world spend a few moments in quiet reflection with Karen Casey every day. Karen is the best-selling author of Each Day a New Beginning, the first daily meditation book written expressly for women in recovery from addiction. Published in 1981, Each Day a New Beginning has sold more than three million copies and has been translated into ten different languages. Over the years, readers around the world have come to regard Karen as a trusted companion on the recovery journey. Among her other best-selling inspirational books are Keepers of the Wisdom, A Woman’s Spirit, Fearless Relationships, and A Life of My Own. In her newest book, Serenity (Hazelden, 2007), Karen shares favorite passages that gently convey simple lessons for living with greater peace, hope, and trust. Karen enjoys golfing and riding her Harley with her husband. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Naples, Florida.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Valentines Dessert Art 1
“We each need to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.”
– Shakti Gawain
Valentines Dessert Art 1 – 4.5″ x 4.5″ Watercolor
It’s Valentines week, so I made you sweet treats that won’t put a single inch on your waistline. There’s one for each day of the week. Mo from WetCanvas posted a tray full of yummy treats from York, in the UK. Rumor over at WetCanvas has it that these treats came from Betty’s Tea Room.
About Shakti Gawain
American New Age author Shakti Gawain was born in 1948. Raised by atheists who taught her to question everything, she went through an existential crisis after a romantic breakup, which led her on a pilgrimage to India. Her experiences inspired the book Creative Visualization, which became an international best seller. She has been featured in Time magazine and has appeared on such shows as Oprah, Good Morning Americav and The Larry King Show. She currently lives in California with her husband Jim Burns.
– Shakti Gawain
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2012
It’s Valentines week, so I made you sweet treats that won’t put a single inch on your waistline. There’s one for each day of the week. Mo from WetCanvas posted a tray full of yummy treats from York, in the UK. Rumor over at WetCanvas has it that these treats came from Betty’s Tea Room.
About Shakti Gawain
American New Age author Shakti Gawain was born in 1948. Raised by atheists who taught her to question everything, she went through an existential crisis after a romantic breakup, which led her on a pilgrimage to India. Her experiences inspired the book Creative Visualization, which became an international best seller. She has been featured in Time magazine and has appeared on such shows as Oprah, Good Morning Americav and The Larry King Show. She currently lives in California with her husband Jim Burns.
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