Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Behind Closed Doors- A Rant




ABUSE-- Some people think you're making a mountain out  of  a molehill.  But no.  You're making a mountain out of a mountain.  Just because they've never seen the person behave that way, then it must not be true.  Just because you don't see any broken bones or bruises, you can't be feeling THAT much pain.  Right?  Your friend or loved one must be delusional or making it up or exaggerating.  But they're NOT.  ALL the things they said are TRUE, and you probably haven't even heard half of it.  If you'd ever been in that situation, you'd KNOW that the psychological bruises sometimes NEVER heal.

But when you don't believe them, or worse yet, go to the abuser to console them, you are betraying a trust and doing so much damage to the psyche of the person who entrusted you with their pain.  Now there's even MORE pain. 

Back in the day, things were kept behind closed doors.  The abused were supposed to suffer in silence.  Alone.  But now, they tell everyone to SPEAK UP.  But when you do, they say SHHHH… you shouldn't talk about that out in the open.  Still… the abuser gets more concern than the injured person.

People see the shout for help and say "Shhh".  Then run to the abuser, and say "There there".  What the hell??

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Missing Meow Meow - WW





This is was Meow Meow

Happy Wordless Wednesday!

~~Shannon~~
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Thursday, January 16, 2020

Too Much Beard Painting

Hi everyone!  First, I'd like to get you smiling with this random funny!


Cat Dog Laughed

LOL  I just love that one!  I hope today's post has found you well.  I'm doing pretty good.  Just the normal back and joint achies.  *weather... blech*

What I really wanted to share with you today is about an item I taught at a paint party a little while back.  This lady wanted a Santa on a board.  She said she wanted it kind of big.  The pic she chose was a profile view of Santa and his beard.  So, I altered a design I had so that he had a little bit bigger head and a longer beard.


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Here is one of my daughters (and Paint Party Helper!) working on hers.  She did a great job on it, even though she's had almost no experience painting.  It took most everyone longer than we thought it would to get finished.  I sure will think again about doing anything so large and so detailed.  LOL


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They ended up turning out really cute though!  It always amazes me how they can start out with the same traced image, and yet still look so different!  Some have fine black outlines, some have heavy ones, and some decided to add some of their own details!  I really love seeing painters bring their own vision into it!

All in all it was a fun evening, but I'll be more careful when choosing a big design next time!  LOL

Have you had any little oopsies like that?  I'd love to hear about them!

Bye for now!  Stay happy!

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Wednesday, January 15, 2020

How bout them 'eers?



Hi!  Welcome to my blog!  For a first post, I thought I'd show you a painting I did recently.  I'm not sure how the idea came to me, but I think he turned out pretty cute!  My friend Melody gave me the idea to use the Flying WV as snowflakes.  LOL

I teach paint parties, but this isn't one of my classes.  I would love to make some more and sell them, though!  What do you think of him?  Let me know in the comments below.