“Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.”- Richard Kemph

Some people have altars for remembrance, prayer or faith based reasons, meditation, ritual sacrifices...I just have one for soap. (The pics above it are the Squab [l] & Chicken [r] from waaaay too long ago.

At the top of the southwest corner of the room I have Wiener Schnitzel Von Hasenpfeffer (WSVH). He likes to swing & keep watch over everything.

Above my (north facing) window is the most awesome 'Mitch' by my amazing friend Shani. There's a story behind him, but basically Mitch is a six foot tall candy cane in a powder puff blue tuxedo. I love Mitch.

In the northwest corner (above the picture of a Weeping Angel that the Squab's friend gave me) I have my wind chime. Because I like wind chimes. I also like this pic better in black & white.

The northeast corner, behind the entrance to the Cave of Wonder is Babooze. He's WSVH's best friend & also watches over things.

Behind these doors lies a magical portal to worlds of excitement & wonder. Or, if you are the Stork it's the closet with the holiday decorations, all my blank canvases & office supplies. I like my interpretation better.

Every creative space should invite/invoke some magic. This is the faerie chime I made to let the magical beings know that they are welcome. It has a couple of tiny bells (for beautiful, magical music), a pendant that says 'Believe' (to let them know I do believe in magic) & heart (to let them know this space is full of love).

Below the faerie chime is my desk/headquarters/place where most everything happens. And all the stuff. The little bookcase (not visible but the lamp is sitting on it) has my permanent markers, & various other createy weapons. Fun fact: the blue lei (closest to the corner) on the wall is a money lei (don't get greedy, it's all pennies) that my sister's best friend gave me when I graduated from high school. I might be mistaken, but I think it has the same number of pennies as the year I graduated ('92).

“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.”  - Washington Irving

“Rejecting things because they are old-fashioned would rule out the sun and the moon -- and a mother's love.” 
 - Unknown

“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” - Honore de Balzac 

“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!”  - Washington Irving

“Nature's loving proxy, the watching mother”  - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart”  - Danish Proverb 

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” 
                                                      - Morrie Schwartz 

“Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.” - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

      “Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice” - Unknown

      “A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with the snapshots of his kids.”   - Unknown

“Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough”  - Wilhelm Busch

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”  - George Herbert 

“A father is a banker provided by nature.”  - Proverb 

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more."  - George Gordon, Lord Byron

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” 
                                                                                                                   - Oscar Wilde

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” 
                                                                                                          - Albert Einstein

“There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.”   - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art”  - Konstantin Stanislavsky

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."   - Rainer Maria Rilke 

'“An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.” - Samuel Smiles