Prayers please

for Melodybleu, who
hasn't been feeling well...

although she still managed
to beat me soundly during
our last game of Scrabble.

Feel better girl!

Am currently enjoying

an online biography about Charles
Dickens, by G. K. Chesterton...

Chesterton, "Charles Dickens" (1)

&

Chesterton, "Charles Dickens" (2)

Found through G. K. Chesterton's
Works on the Web,

and a link from CAF.

Found a neat 'Special Projects Blog'

... from Jeffrey Smith, featuring

Russian Art.

Very nice!

Another gem

picked off from a signature
on CAF:

"Anyone can believe in something
sort of stupid. But in order to be able
to believe in something REALLY stupid,
you need a doctorate."

- Fr. Benedict Groeschel CFR, (Ed.D.)

A few words...

Indeed, the whole world is only
heaven's womb.

... from Peter Kreeft's article
on Heaven.


HT: The Philosophy Forum
@ C.A.F.

A Meme for Youyou

Was tagged the other day for a meme
by Deb from:

Debra's Random Thoughts,

Who I met on the 'funnest' stomping
ground:

Catholic Answers Forums.

Here are the rules, (copy & pasted,
thank you Deb:)
You can ignore them if you wish.

The rules for this meme are:

(1) Link to the person that tagged you.
(2) Post the rules on your blog.
(3) Share six non-important things/
habits/quirks about yourself.
(4) Tag six random people at the end
of your post by linking to their blogs.
(5) Let each random person know they
have been tagged by leaving a comment
on their website.

***********
I...

(1) ... prefer wearing dresses.

(2) ... love old movies, and going to the
movies, although I don't go that often.

(3) ... am very forgetful, and always tired.

(3) ... am very forgetful, and always tired.

(4) ... have been singing in church (the choir)
on and off for 30 years.

(5) ... proposed to my husband - actually
more like brought up the subject - as he
really didn't want to get married, having
done it before...
It's been 25 years:)

(6) ... am by no means a fashion plate,
but love me, love my accessories.

... & am tagging:

(1) St. Nick from Nick's Bytes,

(2) Terry from Abbey-Roads,

(3) Jeffrey Smith from Back to
Damerosehay,

(4) Thomas from
Living Next Door to Alice,

(5) Melodybleu @
The tropics and other stuff

&

(6) (Hmmm... thinking, thinking)
Eric @ The Daily Eudemon.

Enjoy, all:)
& thanks Deb!

Is Super Bowl Sunday

tomorrow?



???

GO

GIANTS!!!!!!!!!!

& an alternative...

for those who admire
this admirer of


Beethoven,


&


Wolves.

How beautiful!

Merci beaucoup! :)

Thank you very much!!

Here's another...

...from

CAF:

"God has placed clear limits on
human intelligence, but none on
human stupidity."–Fr.John Corapi.

An interesting quote

and a most unfortunate truism,
from a signature @

Catholic Answers Forums:

To educate a man in mind and not
in morals is to educate a menace to
society.
Theodore Roosevelt

Fairy tale

My mom loves the Flower Fairies
by Cicely Mary Barker.

This is one of my favorites,
because both of the fairies in
this picture look like my mom
when she was little.

:)

Don't let me forget!!!

It'll be available in February...

Watercolors for Dummies

by Colette Pitcher.

Always loved doing pencil
sketches, but have only done
a few watercolors - the results
of any & all my efforts IMO on
a par with a well-coordinated
five-year old...

Am definitely looking forward
to this publication to improve
(or actually get!) a technique:)

Better late than

not at all...

On the (fascinating subject of):

the Magi...

From:

The Daily Eudemon.

Our Lady

..................................*

of the Sign (Isaiah 7:14)

This icon, painted for a priest,
was done by Terrance Nelson
from Abbey-Roads2, (link:)

& is available at
Bridge Building Images. (link)

Another great art print

by portrait artist,

Ylli...


Whose eBay store

is linked under 'Neat Stuff'

New Year's Wishes

From:

Barbara Beyer Malley,

to us! :)

May peace break into your house,
may thieves steal your debts.

May the pockets of your jeans be
magnets for$100 bills.

May love stick to your face like
Vaseline, may laughter assault your lips.

May your clothes smell like
smoking tires of success.

May happiness slap you across the face,
may your tears be of joy.

May the problems you had forget
your home address.


May 2008 be the best year of your life!

Dear St. Francis of Assisi

from
Bridge Building Images. (link)

There are more images
here (link)...

All by our friend Terry
from Abbey-Roads:) (link)

A Chestertonian mantra for 2008

"An inconvenience is only an
adventure wrongly considered;
an adventure is an inconvenience
rightly considered." -
On Running After Ones Hat,
All Things Considered, 1908

Note to myself: Keep this in mind.

From the:

Quotations page

@ the:

American Chesterton Society.

More from the Archives...

Treasured in Her Heart

by Kathy Lawrence.

When I was young I had a
favorite paper doll named
Beth Ann. She was created
by artist Kathy Lawrence,
the daughter of Queen Holden,
a renowned paper doll artist
whose creations my mom
played with as a child in the
1930's.

Found out just recently that
the artist that did this painting
is the same artist whose baby
doll I loved from childhood...

Here's a link to more of her
beautiful work.