Izabella's Blue

the way I see it #267

Today I found this printed upon my Starbucks cup~

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury but a necessity.

~Oliver Sacks
Neurologist and author of, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.

photo Vic's cello http://flickr.com/photos/uncleshoe/78037934/

today only!! Postage stamp sale on zazzle!!

I love when they have a sale!!  You will find postage stamps on my zazzle site, www.zazzle.com/izabella777* in the left hand side bar under "All Products Line" xo!!

new on zazzle~

I have been busy creating today...a few cards, stickers & postage stamps....you can visit my site here  http://www.zazzle.com/izabella777*

music playlist~

I would love to have more friends over at Project Playlist, do you have an account, I would love to share music?! 

I could spend all day listening to the different music there, but alas...have to be responsible darn it!  Come visit me~

http://www.playlist.com/user/17282234

ZNE~ talk radio...today!!

There has been a change in format & time for the ZNE live show~

12:30 today!!  Also, it has been changed to Blog Talk Radio~

there is a prize giveaway too!! ;)  see you there!!

the queen of ZNE...

this girl is amazing!

Chelise....the founder of ZNE, she is an amazing lady!  Not sure how she does it all, but this girl gets things done!  She started ZNE about 3 years ago & it is now, one of the largest mixed media/altered art groups out there~ Her love for art & artists' has taken her on the adventure of a lifetime, she has something new & exciting happening in this group every week!  She is amazing! 

Chel has started a new live show...Circa Arte is ZNE's online podcast / live show. Circa Arte broadcasts will cover a variety of topics of interest to any indie arts lover. The show airs weekly, is publicly accessible. Most completed shows are archived.

I am excited about the new show & this ...Pause for a Cause (PFAC) is ZNE's philanthropic effort, associated with the live radio show - Circa Arte.  Every month, we will feature a different charity during our broadcasts.  At the end of the month, ZNE will make a contribution to the charity.  The contribution amount will include a small donation from www.ZNEart.com, and 100% of any funds generated through the PFAC tip jar on this site, during the course of the month.

Chelise has let me pick out two of my favorite causes, for January A Place to Bark~ & for February Rupert's Kids~ so please be sure to come listen to the live show & help donate $$ for a great cause ;) Monday nights @ 6:30!! you can always listen to older broadcasts' at anytime~

sleeping on snow~

She fled for her life that night.  She left with just her dress & stockings on her feet, the snow clung to the bottom of her dress like weights, her stockings were filled with snow, she ran until she couldn't run another step, she collapsed in the pillowy snow, how could she sleep in such cold, angel wings protected her through the night.  The morning came with new meaning, her life that she knew was gone~

you can click on photos to enlarge~

original photo

the faerie zine~

Lisa Kettle's new zine #4 is on sale, be sure to check out her blog!

http://moonfairesworld.blogspot.com/

my sister's work~

I love this piece!  It's in her etsy store right now~

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5450209

I really need to update my ignored etsy store...I have quite a few items to upload, hopefully this weekend I can get to it...but then again, I forgot... I have a couple of parties I am going to....see..."life" keeps getting in the way of my "art life!"  ;) xo

an update~

it's been awhile since I have actually written something...I love to post just art & poems, I don't feel confident in my writing skills ;)

just wanted to update a few exciting things happening in my lil' art world...  I will write it in list form, that's easier & not so wordy~

~ Noenga.com new website to feature mwah & other artists' here~

~ACEO collectors & creators featuring my art on front cover of zine here~

~ ZNE Valentines day e-card with my art~  here~

~ ZNE featured my blog on Spirit Di ZNE here~

~ Big news...it is now official...that my art will be in Susan Tuttle's new amazing book!  I am so nervous about it, I had to write an article & not sure how it will be perceived ;) Susan's blog~

~ 2nd big news..I have been asked to have my art published in Lisa Kettle's new book, but it is not quite official yet, should know this week~ Lisa's blog~

I feel like I am forgetting something!?  I am off to take a nap, the kids gave me a lovely present...a yucky cold...I feel like I have been in a fog for the last few dayz~ xo!!

copied & pasted from Bernie's site ;)

HELP A PLACE TO BARK WIN A $50,000 GRANT !!!!!
A Place to Bark is participating in a challenge being offered Six Degrees, partnered with the Case Foundation and Parade on America's Giving Challenge. The four USA charity badges that have the most unique donors through the America's Giving Challenge will receive $50,000 for their cause. We are entered in this contest and need the help of each and every one of you. The Challenge ends on January 31, 2008 at 3:00 pm EST. Each $10 donation gets us one step closer to winning a grant of $50,000!!!

Please donate by clicking the orange "donate" button above. Please make sure you have enabled popups on your browser, the donation box opens in a new window. Donations are tax deductible. Payment can be made via paypal or credit card. Each and every $10 donation from each new person gets us closer to our goal of winning and being able to build a shelter for the animals rescued by A Place to Bark. We need the most amount of individual donors (not the most amount of money) to win. Each person who donates $10 is only counted once toward the grant contest. Thank you for telling all of your friends, your family and anyone you can --- to donate just $10 to our cause!

All donations made to A Place to Bark's Six Degrees Badge (above), will be matched by the "Zoline Foundation" up to $25,000.00!!! It's a win-win! Thank you!! Thank you!!!! Thank you!!!!

sTRANGE fits of passion have I known:

And I will dare to tell,

But in the lover's ear alone,

What once to me befell.

 

When she I loved look'd every day

Fresh as a rose in June,

I to her cottage bent my way,

Beneath an evening moon.

 

Upon the moon I fix'd my eye,

All over the wide lea;

With quickening pace my horse drew nigh

Those paths so dear to me.

 

And now we reach'd the orchard-plot;

And, as we climb'd the hill,

The sinking moon to Lucy's cot

Came near and nearer still.

 

In one of those sweet dreams I slept,

Kind Nature's gentlest boon!

And all the while my eyes I kept

On the descending moon.

 

My horse moved on; hoof after hoof

He raised, and never stopp'd:

When down behind the cottage roof,

At once, the bright moon dropp'd.

 

What fond and wayward thoughts will slide

Into a lover's head!

'O mercy!' to myself I cried,

'If Lucy should be dead!"

Thus Nature spake -- The work was done --

How soon my Lucy's race was run!

She died, and left to me

This heath, this calm and quiet scene;

The memory of what has been,

And never more will be.

~William Wordsworth

~confessions

What is he buzzing in my ears?
"Now that I come to die,
Do I view the world as a vale of tears?"
Ah, reverend sir, not I!
What I viewed there once, what I view again
Where the physic bottles stand
On the table's edge, -is a suburb lane,
With a wall to my bedside hand.

That lane sloped, much as the bottles do,
From a house you could descry
O'er the garden-wall: is the curtain blue
Or green to a healthy eye?

To mine, it serves for the old June weather
Blue above lane and wall;
And that farthest bottle labelled "Ether"
Is the house o'ertopping all.

At a terrace, somewhere near the stopper,
There watched for me, one June,
A girl; I know, sir, it's improper,
My poor mind's out of tune.

Only, there was a way... you crept
Close by the side, to dodge
Eyes in the house, two eyes except:
They styled their house "The Lodge".

What right had a lounger up their lane?
But, by creeping very close,
With the good wall's help, -their eyes might strain
And stretch themselves to Oes,

Yet never catch her and me together,
As she left the attic, there,
By the rim of the bottle labelled "Ether",
And stole from stair to stair,

~Robert Browning

A youtube thank you note from Bernie

Bernie is in 2nd place~ 810 donations so far! I am so excited for her, she needs the money to build/expand the shelter~ Can you spare $10.00?! You can watch the progress here http://www.sixdegrees.org/Top.aspx

you can turn off my music playlist in right sidebar, so you can here her video ;)  xo!!

2nd Place!!

this is from Bernie's Blog....

As of this posting A Place to Bark is in second place for the Network for Good grant of $50,000!! yay!!! Bernie is SO grateful for the outpouring of support from EACH and EVERYONE of you!!! We couldn't do this without spreading the word and helping to get everyone you know to donate $10. One $10 donation per person is all it takes!

Bernie's Blog "A Place To Bark" http://aplacetobark.blogspot.com/ please pass this on ~ thanx!! ;)