When I don’t feel like painting
and I don’t feel like writing
What to do on my day off?
I took a nice long walk and this poem popped out.
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Beautiful Landscapes for Beautiful Spaces
Art Party!! Sat. Oct 7 3-6 796 Newington Dr. Clemmons 27012 Come see Margaret paint and talk to her about designing a special piece for you or a loved one. Wine, cheese, art, music, good fun, laughs, Margaret painting live! Will be so excited to see YOU!!!!
I love these little landscapes grouped together!
I think 12″x 12″ prints on canvas of these little beauties would be gorgeous grouped over your desk, bed, sofa, or amazing in a dining room, don’t you think?
And you wouldn’t have to make the tough decision about which one you like best!
If you would like to make one of your spaces in your home even more beautiful email me at margarethuntleyharrison@gmail.com. Looking forward to decorating together!
I love you guys! ❤
Art Party: I’m Painting Live for YOU!!
Maxie Boy
My precious baby passed away 10 days ago.
Cleared off spaces and the Magic of Waiting
This is amazing. This was post was a year ago and it’s just as true and exactly what is happening now in my life one year later. My new favorite thing is to wait for beauty to pop up in my life full of happiness and laughing at the days to come!
I’m back!!! I had a wonderful joyous holiday and am excited about the next year.
I love the turning of the calendar and a fresh start. It helps that my birthday is early in January also. 😉 And that my wonderful sister had a surprise birthday lunch for me!!!
January is just right the right time for me to form intentions for the whole next year! I also did a reverse bucket list. (more on this later.)
In order to invite the wonder that I know is next in my life I have cleared off spaces and left them empty on purpose. I’m inviting even more beauty into my life which hardly seems possible but I know it will come because I can feel the beauty building. Here are some of my cleared off spaces! 
And finally my art table which was very very cluttered with the workings of…
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UNDO the Curse of the Billy Goat
This is a Cubs fan alert about BREAKING THE CURSE!! Only a couple days left!!
The Chicago Cubs are still alive after game 5 ( Indians 3, Cubs 2) of the 2016 World series to force game 6 on Tuesday night. If the Cubs win Tuesday night they may be able to clinch the World Series with a final game and break their horrific losing streak since the 1945 World Series,
And break The Curse of the Billy Goat!!!!
The Curse goes thus:
One William S Sianis, proud owner of The Billy Goat Tavern showed up at Wrigley Field with his his pet goat Murphy two tickets in hand, one for himself, one for Murphy, at Game 4 of the 1945 World Series.
Though both were both admitted, Mr Sianis was soon asked to remove his goat Murphy from the stands due to a strong billy goat odor.
Upon which, the angry and indignant Mr. Sianis said:
1.”They ain’t gonna win no more”
2. Or sent a telegram to team owner Philip K. Wrigley which read “you are going to lose this World Series and you are never going to win another World Series again. You are not going to win a World Series again because you insulted my goat.”
Sure enough, the curse was on. . . the Cubs lost that 1945 World Series to the Detroit Tigers . . .and have not won a world series championship since.
How to undo the Curse of the Billy Goat?
There have been lame and misdirected attempts to break it by such obviously wrong-headed schemes as having a competitive goat eating contest! CRINGE!!
That one seems designed to cement the curse instead of break it.
Phil posited a simple and elegant solution:
Invite a goat to be a guest in every Cubs Big Whig Skybox!
This would surely assuage the sensibilities of goats and goat lovers alike.
This is not rocket science people.
Please forward to all Cubs fans and Big Whigs as well as Dignitaries and Powers that Be.
The time is nigh . . . or all with be naught!
You may be wondering what this has to do with art and my art blog. I promise it does. But it’s a secret for now.
Happy Halloween! Later gater. 😉
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In My Professional Opinion . . .
This art would look amazing in your home. I know it does in mine.
Isn’t home a wonderful thing! I love you guys! ❤
Beautiful Landscapes for Beautiful Spaces
I love these little landscapes grouped together!
I think 12″x 12″ prints on canvas of these little beauties would be gorgeous grouped over your desk, bed, sofa, or amazing in a dining room, don’t you think?
And you wouldn’t have to make the tough decision about which one you like best!
If you would like to make one of your spaces in your home even more beautiful email me at margarethuntleyharrison@gmail.com. Looking forward to decorating together!
I love you guys! ❤
Why I Paint & Fuzz L. Furr
Back in the day, we had a little kitty that we named Fuzz L. Furr–or rather, Fuzz had us. He was the scruffleyiest craziest, most phobic, socially anxious kitty that I have ever seen. He came round to the back of the house one day in the home we lived in when the 3 boys were in those wonderful middle years between 5 and 11.
And of course we started feeding him. He was the most homeless looking cat you have ever seen. We tried to catch him a few times to brush his matted tangled fine gray fur or other such nonsense and he would flee and stay gone for a day or two.
But I don’t think we realized quite the extent to which Fuzz was a severely neurotic cat until he ran up one of the trees because some fear of some sort–way up about 30 feet up and John, the man of the house at the time who had a kind heart for kitties–built a basket rescue system with a rope and a pulley designed to be thrown over the limb and pulleyed up, and of course with tuna in the basket, Fuzz would jump in nicely and be pulleyed down to safety.
It was a death defying way up in the tree even for a woods kitty.
So this basket and pulley making and throwing one end of the rope over the tree with some sort of brick attached and aiming not to hit Fuzz took the better part of a morning. And we were all watching cheering John on in his rescue attempt and wouldn’t you know it–and looking back you can predict the ending but we had no idea that Fuzz would rather leap to his death–30 ft off the ground than accommodate the rescue by actually allowing himself to be rescued.
Yep, When the basket got up to him, he jumped and we gasped expecting instant or maybe slow death–but you know Fuzz scrambled off and seemed just as healthy as before-which was not very. We didn’t see him that time for days.
The moral of the story, of course, is that you can’t force a rescue unless the something that you want to rescue wants to be rescued or at least will allow it.
What do this have to do with my art and why I paint?
Well the truth is that I am a recovering rescuer. Most of my life I have been highly motivated by “basket cases” pun intended–rescuing animals, people, friends, enemies, anyone in my peripheral vision was prey for my uninvited rescue attempts.
To clarify– a rescue is something you do when someone has not asked for it–very unlike the really good thing that you can do when you say yes or even no when someone asks for your help.
But hell no, Fuzz had not asked for, nor was he open to any kind of rescue.
He would obviously rather leap to his death than be beholden. ( Excuse the bit of anthropomorphism.)
Anyway, part of my recovery system was to become a therapist which involves an actual agreement between therapized and therapist in which there is an exchange of money which delineates the boundaries sufficiently.
Furthermore and wherewith, in order to keep my boundaries in my personal life I need some sort of outlet: that creative rescuing energy needs to go somewhere!!
So I invented painting. Actually it feels like I invented it because it was the first time I ever did it. Actually I think I started shortly after the rescue–or actually non-rescue of Fuzz.
And painting has indeed rescued me!
It gives me a non-peopled outlet for my energy which is exactly what I needed growing up,
but resisted it,
because my mother who was very smart,
but with whom I often did not see eye to eye, suggested that I would be quite a fine artist–that I had the eye–that I could draw–she could see the talent.
I didn’t believe her because I didn’t believe in her in that way
though I totally believed in her being the 2nd female doctor in Winston-Salem and graduating at the top of her class at Duke Medical School–hey, that’s ahead of all the boys in the medical school class about 65 years ago!! Me Mum was brilliant in so many ways.
So that’s how I got here and that’s my tale of how I came to rescue meself with me art–
Sorry, I’ve been watching an English drama on Netflix–Happy Valley–which is not Happy, but quite stirring and addicting especially the Yorkshire dialect of “me this and me that!”
I love you guys! ❤
6 Reasons You’ll Instantly Fall in Love with these “Little Beauties”
- “Little Beauties” are remarkably similar to their large gorgeous cousins “Big Beauties” Here are a few of the Big Gals:
“Soft and Bodacious” 
” I Told You I Could!” 2.Little Beauties are so brand spankin’ new that the paint’s not dry on half of them yet.
3. Little Beauties will add cozy class to your “girl cave”–ya’ll are working on your “girl caves” right?
4. Little Beauties will make you feel all girly and giggly andhe’ll be all happy and not complainy because the price is so low!!–1/20th or 1/30th the price of the Big Beauties.
5. You’ll have the most fashionable and “in” present for friends and relations who are getting hitched . . . or maybe even unhitched . . . . no better time to create your girl cave than when getting unhitched, I always say. 😉
6. Bonus: When you fall madly, hopelessly in love…
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I Paint Beauty For Us 