add a little red

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how to warm up your day when it's snowing outside:
(a) sit at your kitchen table (or cuddle in a comfy chair) & read a hot blooded cowboy romance while drinking a nice warm cup of tea (be sure to eat whatever homemade delicacy feeds your soul).
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(b) imagine yourself inside a giant bubble filled with fresh air, sunshine & birdsong. breathe.
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(c) shimmy, shake & grin your way through a bollywood dance routine. it's huge fun!
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keep warm my fellow winter friends
(we're almost there)
mj
xxx
Ps. i just noticed that i have a lot of snowy pictures with red in them. here's 3 of my favorites...
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(C) Photographs & photo art, MJ Calitz, 2009 & 2010

suN is near

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...tWo blogs in one day :P

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too much snow
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this bRoken lullaby. this suNless soul. tears, fears, dreams, hopes. aches & screams. i stitch them aLL together with sticky fingers writing hoMe. whaT do you caRe what kind of needle i stick into my veins when you’re knitting your oWn song?
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i cringe
i cringe for you sometimes
i envy
i wish
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i wish
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& wHat to dO with hopes swimming in fear & dreams seWn inTo my eaRs
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time. time. drink ginger & cinnamon tea. chamomile me. sew. sew. no more snow! no more broken. no more.
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i wrote this poem
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count the days…suN
sun is near
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(C) Poem & photograph, MJ Calitz, 2010

yellow and orange, red, pink and green

in a world that looks like THIS (i took this picture standing in my backyard last week), only whiter still every day...
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i felt like adding some color...like beads and ribbons...
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embroidery threads...
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bright yellow suns...
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an adorable snowman my friend Heather crocheted for me...
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& two hearts (for the valentines day inclined) that i painted on mini 4x4x1 & quarter inch canvases and embellished with beads. (it's not even signed yet.)
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this winter has been unusually snowy. i cannot wait for spring to arrive. may you find color in all your winter days.
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be well
mj
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(C) phototgraphs & art, MJ Calitz, 2010

a little rusty

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some days i feel like this old car. all rusty & tired. but then i remember to dance & paint & talk to friends and i feel much better.
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(C) Photographs, MJ Calitz, 2009

in cupcake fields

here's another painting i started last year and finished this year. it's acrylics on 8x8 canvas board. i cut the bunnies from photographs i took last year. painted the cupcake between layers of gloss gel to give it a little more depth and finished with a layer of gloss gel on top to seal it.

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when i started the painting i wrote this poem...

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i ate my words. swallowed them down with 9 songs of calamity each one as bittersweet as a giant cupcake crammed down my throat. i hide. i hide from myself. that’s why i don’t write or visit or dance. white rabbits hop through vast fields of snow white icing eating chocolate coated lies. i hide. i eat my words…silence. silence & sugar.
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sometimes i eat cupcakes & sometimes i eat my heart. but this time, i ate my words
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(C) Poem, MJ Calitz, 2008. Art MJ Calitz, 2010

birds & applesauce

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Last year i got this idea to paint on card board packaging. so i flattened an applesauce box, glued it to a piece of paper and painted on it. Then i stamped birds on it & forgot it in the pile of unfinished paintings.
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Last week i decided it needed to be finished. Actually, i decided it WAS finished, all it needed was a signature and a little hardware. So i signed it, glued it to a piece of hard board and added bolts, nuts and wire to hang it on my art wall. There. Done.
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(C) Art, MJ Calitz, 2010