'Tis The Season

Art Journal collage, 2016

These are the last four days of my annual Holiday Sale at Etsy, which ends on Tuesday November 29. 

 

Currently all items are 30% OFF original prices.

 

But from now until the sale ends, use coupon code "CYBER16" at checkout and receive an additional 10% OFF all merchandise.

 

You must plug in the code "CYBER16" at Etsy checkout in order to get the additional 10% off.  Check out my shop here.

If you were following me on Facebook and wonder where I've gone, I've moved my social media presence over to Instagram (@constancerosedesigns).  All art, no politics, way better.  Look for me there.  There's also a link to my Instagram on the right sidebar.

I had a quiet Thanksgiving ~ I read Michael Connelly's latest Harry Bosch book, "The Wrong Side of Goodbye."  Great book and nice way to spend the day on my own, tucked inside all warm and cozy. 

I started work yesterday on another SunMoonStars piece, this one focusing on the sun.  Looking forward to working on it over the next week or so.

Hope you have a great weekend.  Support handmade art and artisans this holiday season.  Check out my Etsy Shop before the sale ends on Tuesday evening.

Eclipse

Eclipse ~ 13.5 x 14.5 inches, all hand-painted/dyed fabric (except black circles) all handstitched

Well, I'm still mighty stupefied, but I'm coming around to having to embrace reality.  My way of dealing is that I plan to pay as little attention to politics as possible for the next four years at least.

I already don't watch TV or read newspapers or mass market magazines, so that shouldn't be difficult for me.  I have quit Facebook again, except messenging.  I just read something somewhere where Mark Zuckerberg admitted he probably had a lot to do with Trump's election because FB notoriously doesn't filter real news from faux news.  Well duh.  I've had it with that shit.

Here's my latest stitched piece, another SunMoonStars cloth.  I'm calling it Eclipse.  Because, you know, everything we've known and thought about this country and the world is quickly being eclipsed by darkness and great harm ~ to individuals and vast groups of people, to life as we know/knew it, to democracy, to the planet.  Crap.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving week if you're American or celebrate the holiday.  I imagine a lot of folks are going to have a helluva time scraping up blessings to count this coming Thursday.  Enough said.

Dharma Talk

Dharma Talk by Linda Galijan, San Francisco Zen Center
https://livestream.com/SFZC/events/6592547/videos/141718259

Dark Days Ahead

Small section of a larger piece I'm working on

Difficult times are upon us here in the U.S., and in the world.  The fallout and sense of fear and uncertainty from last night's election results will be with us for a very long time.  Things are going to get a whole lot worse before they begin to get better...if they ever do improve at all.

In some ways nothing is any different.  Yet everything is very different.  It's another world entirely from the one we all woke up to on Tuesday morning.

Personally I don't feel at too great a risk of having my life changed hugely by what's to come.  Because I'm already so far down on the socioeconomic scale and yet have managed to arrange my life such that I still have a bit of wiggle room for some degree of things beyond my control.

But I'm really terrified for all the people who are going to suffer great losses in any number of ways, especially our brothers and sisters who are LGBTQ, Muslim, Black, Native American, Hispanic, differently-abled, other immigrants, and of course younger woman, all of whom collectively represent a huge percentage of people in this country.  And I'm sad and sick inside for what has become/what is becoming of America.  This is no longer the country I was born and raised in.  I don't know this place anymore.

I feel despondent, and speechless.  And numb.

I'm gonna take a hiatus here for a bit.  Do my retreat thing.  Go within, read a lot, be quiet as much as I can.

Blessings and love to all of you. 

Dark Star

This is Dark Star, my latest piece in the SunMoonStars series.  Finished size is 12.5 x 13 inches.  All fabrics hand dyed except the star/flower fabric, all handstitched.  I enjoyed making this piece as I have the others in the series.  I really like working in a series around a theme.  So I'm planning to keep on with this.  The next piece is coming together on the work table now.

I'm having a Big Holiday Sale in my Etsy Shop right now through Tuesday, November 29.  All Items Are 30 Percent OFF Regular Price in the Shop!

There's more rain supposedly coming in over the weekend, but the last few days have been beautiful, with temps in the mid-60s and a fair amount of sunshine.

Hope your November is off to a good start.  Blessings.