Rejoice!!

"Rejoice".  Painting, acrylic on canvas, 11"X14".  Dec 2015.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

 

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

 

Painting, acrylic on cardboard, 2003.

All Saints 2015 and updated cemetary photos 2018

New Cemetery Photos 2018

 

 

 

One of my nephews passed away a year or so ago and his dad waited until the other day to have his Funerary Urn interred.

It would have been Ricky's 18th birthday.  A small group of us family members assembled in the beautiful Park Hill Cemetery to commemorate the occasion.  My brother read a lovely Eulogy that he had composed.  He quoted from The Book Of Lamentations, Chapter Three.

 

A father grieves knowing that

Our Heavenly Father is always faithful.

A lovely Urn.

A sweet little posie for rememberance.

 

 

Afterwards a bunch of us walked around looking at other family Gravesites. My sister brought along some  little posies (rosemary and roses) in the vintage family Picnic Basket.  So sweet.

 

The Vintage Picnic Basket

At Stan and Sue's Gravesite.

Another view of my parents' marker, from earlier that afternoon.

At E.J. and Narrah's Gravesite.

Another view of my Great-Grandparents' Tombstone.

 

 

Oh, yeah,

 

 

another one of my infamous selfies.

This is filed in the Accidental Selfie Category

as I did not realize I had taken it until later.

Always gruesome to see how the camera sees you. 

 

A sad and hot July day in this Year of Our Lord 2018.  But a beautiful cemetery in which we lay our loved ones to rest.  And an equally beautiful family, all of us, dead and living.

 

I love you ALL.

 

All Saints photos 2015

 

Did some tombstone trimming at the SpicerVille Ikebana Cemetery.

My parents' marker.



My Grandmother, RIP.



 My Grandfather.

 

 

Some other interesting sites at

Park Hill Cemetery 2015.

 toppled tombstone

 

hmmmm...

 AND

very sad

but

luckily

NOT OUR JUDY

 

I love cemeteries!

So do my grandkids as these photos from Nov 2009 illustrate.

 

 

 

Halloween Was Fun

 

Embroidery on denim.  Based on a sketch from the mid 70's.  Finally finished it!  Originally sketched as a design for a block print, I still  need to get around to doing that.

My New Book!!!

My first amazon.com book!!!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter.

Doll Art

Some of My Dolls.

 

 

Raggedy Ann at Her 100th Birthday Party

 

 

 

 

 

Meet the Alien!!

 

 

 

 

 

Some Party Guests.

 

 

 

 

Here are some of my original design cloth dolls:

 

 

 

Scrappy Frank 2005

 

 

Yu Gene

"found art" doll, from denim scraps

2006

 

 

 

 

 

WilNer Gene 2007

 

 

 

Sheriff Lars and Stella Jean

acrylic on denim

2007

 

Winking Miss Daisy

 

 

 

Barry Angus Wagner



upcycled "found art" doll

2016

 

 

 

Doll Clothes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Misses Carruthers

This framed print of a Jennie Augusta Brownscombe painting entitled "For the Springtime of Life is the Fairest of All" has been in our family for ages and reminds me of happy childhood in byegone years.


Working on my story The Misses Carruthers.  Set in 1901.

see www.themissescarruthers.blogspot.com

My Old House

Photo from mid-70s, probably taken by JAE.  My ongoing project is to try to learn more about the house, when it was moved to current location, etc.  I'm also hoping to learn more about the original Donation Land Claim owner, J.P. Bersch.  History is so interesting!

For There Is No Friend Like A Sister

 

 

 

 

Quilt by Denise Spicer, mid '90s.  A birthday present for my sister Kate.  Line drawing/embroidery based on an old photo by our dad Stan Spicer.  Blue Ribbon Clark County Fair.

Burgundy Figure

Burgundy Figure #2.  From a trio of photographs by Denise Spicer taken in 1992.

Winter in Our Tiny Woods

Winter Jacket.  Photography 1995.