this is what it feels like
to be loved by a lamb.
Welcome home Tippy!
xo milady
New Love....meet Tippy
HELLO!!
Hello people!
can u believe it's been 5 months since my last post...whoa. where have i been?
well, for starters, that last post was during the holidays when i had a surgery. i haven't had a decent computer until now and life has thrown all kinds of curve balls. i've been running back and forth with my imaginary mitt trying to catch them!
As life has gotten busier, my time in front of the computer has shrunk considerably. I've been using GOOGLE+ (although i have NO idea how to really use it, do you? do tell!) FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM & PINTEREST to stay in touch. That seems to work for me. Short and sweet.
I sure do love my new MAC and plan to get all my techy stuff streamlined soon. It's just getting all too complicated!
in the meantime...WELCOME BACK!
xo milady
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can u believe it's been 5 months since my last post...whoa. where have i been?
well, for starters, that last post was during the holidays when i had a surgery. i haven't had a decent computer until now and life has thrown all kinds of curve balls. i've been running back and forth with my imaginary mitt trying to catch them!
As life has gotten busier, my time in front of the computer has shrunk considerably. I've been using GOOGLE+ (although i have NO idea how to really use it, do you? do tell!) FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM & PINTEREST to stay in touch. That seems to work for me. Short and sweet.
I sure do love my new MAC and plan to get all my techy stuff streamlined soon. It's just getting all too complicated!
in the meantime...WELCOME BACK!
xo milady
Stephanie Morgan Rogers
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Advent December 13 :St Mary
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| St Mary |
My recent hospitalization was at St Marys- an amazing hospital 2 hours from here- the only
place i'll go to when it comes to getting cut open.
This is the same hospital I was helicoptered in when my son was born so tiny and untimely and when my last son left us.
I would sit in the garden to get some fresh air and stare at her...
sweet St Mary
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So when little motherless Blossom came into my life..i had that same feeling.....
That understanding of pure LOVE and the need to share it
My daughter felt it too
and still does...she came home from college she was the best mom to me during my surgery loopiness.
she took real good care of me
just like St Mary
Advent December 13 St Mary
Blessing: Love is everything
XO!
milady
Advent December 12 Home
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| Today was my surgery day I was nervous of what they might find and actually glad i had good reason to cut me up. it could've gone a few ways - but ive been blessed with the better way it's behind me now and my black scarred up gallbladder out best part was...my daughter was the best mom to me she's home! and i'm gonna be just fine :) Advent December 12 Home Blessing: Home is where it's at xo milady |
Advent December 11 The Tree
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| Every year for years now we have wandered off into the wilderness with our little bright orange tree tags we buy from the forestry dept in search of the tree. its a tradition that i adore this year, because of all the balls in the air, we had to go BUY one in a tree lot. I don't like perfect trees. I like the ones with pinecones still attached, maybe a birds nest and dried bits of seasonal debris. I like the ones that stand 12' high and you can see the trunk. I like the ones that look like the Charlie Brown Tree. give them some love and voila... 
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Advent December 10: Master Juggler
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| You know when you have too many balls in the air and you can't believe it's day, then another and another? That's how i've been lately. getting ready, tons of deadlines, not enough hours in the day to do the to-do's. My dad once called me the Master Juggler - and i like that image. somehow i made it throught this week too bad i didn't do it in such snappy style as this guy! Advent December 10, The Master Juggler Blessing: let the balls fall where they may xo milady |
Drawing Challenge : GARLAND and a break in advent explanation
Tis the season my friends...
See Tiny Woolf for more garland goodness!
PS ADVENT UPDATE
my tech stuff is dying...scanner won't scan, camera won't take pics, computer sounds like an airplane trying
to take off....ADVENT 9- present will come when i am rested up. I suppose my computer is telling me to rest...i just had my gallbladder taken out and am recovering. as much as i wanted to upload my garland sketches and keep up with my advent...it is out of my hands. off to nap, again!
i'd love to hear from all of you!
xo milady
Advent December 6, 7 & 8
Advent December 6 BlueJay
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| I haven't seen him yet this year. In fact, I'm not sure IF i'll see him at all. Every year when the fall rain gives way to sleet and snow I am notified of this change by a lone bright blue bird visible from my bed out in the big bare boxwood elder outside my window. The bird always lets me know... It's gonna snow now for a long long time. His absence is ovbious and yet the snow has surely fallen Where is he? Then I remembered, the blue feathers scattered across the yard in the late fall. a wing some pale gray down It will be a miraculous treat to see you again i wait with anticipation. Advent December 6th Blue Jay Blessing: Notice the small gifts outside your window |
Advent December 7th The Buck
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| I have seen this magnificent scene before a lone deer crossing the river and always felt it was just for me A shaman told me once it is a powerful omen a good good blessing. The other day, as I was driving home from the grocery next town over I was blessed again To see that same river, with the setting rays kissing the icey water a dreamy far away glowing mountain range in the background with a gigantic buck and his family walking towards me in the river as if it were a road. I don't know what kind of medicine that is but it's the kind I like Advent December 7th The Buck Blessing: See the spirit in everything. God is talking. |
Advent December 8 :Wild Winter Berries
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| I love this time of year when all goes white, illuminating pops of holiday red berries twisted around spent limbs of summer's bloom revealing their secret life now exposed and begging for picking My all time favorite foraging ritual includes gathering these branches remember this one? how i miss the Christmas Lamb dog! blessing: hidden jewels await their reveal xo milady |
Be back soon with Advent - in another town doing a holiday craft show!
Advent December 5 Crow Party
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Crow Party (ongoing)
December 5th
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| We had an epic winter storm all day yesterday. A good 2 feet , unplowed roads - delayed fed ex deliveries (yikes craft fair tomorrow! where are my new biz cards??) It was nice to go in and stay inside. School will be delayed tomorrow and we can all sleep in a wee bit. |
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| Woke up to a Blue Bird morning...Colorado has some of the world's bluest clear skies. The storm left its mark covering every last inch of bare ground. Branches, bushes, cows and birds were dusted with magnificent sparkles. Their bodies still, as if actually frozen we laughed at how the cows looked like statues. |
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| And then i saw some strange black shapes in the frosted limbs of cottonwoods by the river. I thought they might be someone's black hat tossed up in the tree or perhaps a dead crow. As I got closer I realized it was them... the Crows having another Crow Party. |
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| "move over...i'm about to fall off this branch" |
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| "i just want to keep warm ....c'mon!...." |
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| "please sun...do your thing...." |
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| "Ok...guys...the sun's up now - get your own branch!" |
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| "Alright everybody, i'm calling to order this meeting..." You see, ever since my Rosie was a wee one, whever we saw the crows gather anywhere, on telephone wires, on fenceposts, hay fields, road kill...we'd say " Oh look! They're having a Crow Party! " We imagined how they talked and what in the world they were scheming at. All our crow voices are men, from the Al Capone gangster genre. Today they were all bunched up in a solid white glistening tree... not too comfortable with snuggling eachother but desperate to be warm. Advent December 5th Crow Party blessing/wisdom: together we can do this thing and have a party doing it. xo milady |
Advent December 4 Snow
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| Snow it's falling finally school closed early cars in the ditches i myself did a donut on the hwy but its beautiful so beautiful just go home it says go home and be warm and let me do my job blanketing the valley and mountaintops with the first layer of winter Advent December 4 Snow Blessing: let the environment tell you what you're doing with your time today xo milady |
Advent December 3 The Owl
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| The Owl The mysterious beautiful Owl...i hear them at night and sometimes get a glimpse. They whoo whoo from the dark air announcing their flight into the afterworld, waiting, gliding and occasionally visiting us here on earth. December 3 The Owl Blessing/wisdom: with the light, falls the shadow xo milady |
Advent December 2 The Father
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| The Father It hasn't snowed a ton around here yet - alot of icey crystal mists covering the spent hay and corn stalks. The big game comes down to find the last bits of ground feed this time of year, families of deer & elk share the fields with cattle around my house. It is always exciting to spot the Father in the herd. There can be more than one but the grandest one stands out in a mythic way. I saw one yesterday. proud and providing centering his clan. December 2 The Father Blessing/wisdom : have respect for the one who shoulders it all xx milady |
Advent December 1 The Fox
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| The Fox Welcome to my Advent as I seen through the eyes of an artist living on a ranch at the base of a mountain the creatures i see are real and a big part of my world i like to think they are guides and appear especially for me perhaps by showcasing them i will better get to know their blessings. December 1....The Fox this guy looked me square in the eye almost posing allowing me to fully admire his lush red coat and snowy dipped snout. Blessing: what's wild and untamed can be refined beyond belief. trust your instinct! xx milady |
Drawing Challenge: everyday objects
everyday objects abound in my kitchen!
(sheep art card by Katherine Dunn)
who so kindly mailed me a lovely replacement of my dearly missed everyday "object"
and everyday i see this on my kitchen window sill
reminding me of my girl who doesn't live here anymore
but thank goodness i have Marie
i found her at a discount store and she whispered
"i'll be your friend"
so i put on her bubble wrap and buckled her in
safety first!
she's a super good listener and will have to do.
daughter comes home soon
and before you know it
it'll be spring ;)
Kristen @ Sunny Spot is the hostess with the mostest this week!
xo milady
ps not too fond of the chins in that photo!
Christmas Craftsaganza already?!
I go for it....and whatever gets made is what makes it to fair.
lots of exciting things are happening in my life - so busy , as you've all gathered, that i don't even post anymore! i've been off the farm more than ever - not here, at my desk, in the kitchen, wandering the countryside. i miss that but times a flyin' so i've got to strike while the iron is hot! Art shows in other towns, products created at other's studios...oh, and then those kids! ;) sports, sports, sports, homework, field trips, volunteering, meetings...yikes!
anyhoo, I miss communicating with you gals, across the ethers, my fine feathered kindred spirits.
come back, come back! xoxo
Show and Tell...Apifera Farm's Katherine Dunn
I have wanted to showcase this wonderful person for a while now but seeing that my spotty blogging has left my readers wandering for greener pastures, I hesitated.I am so moved by her animals, crazy for her art and inspired by her online presence! OH! how i wish I could be as organized! She feels like a kindred spirit to me. You know...i've always wanted a goat and a donkey to love ;) But I am inspired this very moment so here it goes....
not to mention I dreamt of Blossom again lastnight.
Katherine Dunn...Apifera Farm
There is a lady named Katherine Dunn who lives on a farm in Oregon. (hey, that rhymes! )
She bakes and gives to Man & Donkey alike
whilst creating and making with braids in flight
the young and the old are all worthy at the farm
living a safe and peaceful life...finally from harm.
you can donate and help her help them
There is so much here to love I could hardly focus! Please visit her world and her art for yourself.
Everything this woman does is an inspiration.
xo milady
NATURE - Drawing Challenge
Nature - what is it? is it out or is it within?
Natural State - what is organic and god-given, what is animal, what is human?
My last exhibit, Sleeping with Nature, was all about these rhetorical ponderings.
The awe I feel in the natural world around me, the beauty and perfection of simple growing things.
The natural rythmn of life for all of us on this wonderous planet.
Thank you Nadine for personally reeling me back into to our fabulous circle of creatives!
Feels good to be back!
XO milady
Girls & Goodbyes
We left in the wee hours of the morning to drive 8 hours out of the mountains and into the desert of Arizona.
The day had come, my baby was leaving home to start her new life as a college student - from a town of 900 to a campus of 78,000.
WHOA
Needless to say, she was a little nervous.
But all that faded away as we found her dorm to be pleasantly resort like, and her roomie a gem.
Not even the heat seemed to be an issue.
She is excited and ready to go. Bittersweet time for this mama.
My girls are leaving the Art Farm. First Blossom, now my girl - at least I still had my other daughter....Pearl.
Upon arriving home, we discovered that Pearl was missing - and to our horror learned she had been missing the entire week.
My heart sank.
Titanic style.
Luckily for us, we have a wonderful animal shelter which is where Pearl spent 7 days...someone decided she was lost (on our country road ) coaxed her into their home and kept her. After a f ew days they took her to the shelter. Meanwhile, our dogsitter, assumed a friend had come to get her and watch her at their house.
Whats even crazier is that she was up for adoption starting the day we got home. We actually had to adopt her back!
Happily I might add.
Never again will I let Pearl run around the farm bare naked...she didn't have a tag because she NEVER leaves the property!
PHEW - at least I got my girl back - this mom wouldn't have faired a complete empty- of- females nest!!!
Tell me about your "letting go" experiences. I need some advice! :)
xo milady
Sleeping with Nature Exhibit Wrap Up
Star Mobile
Deer Heads and Jewelry - SOLD
Hello Friends!
I made it through another show - what a busy busy summer! I contemplated showing the SOLD signs but I wanted to share my excitement!
This show was called Sleeping with Nature - a sort of Snow White goes glamping with friendly woodland creatures. It's about dreaming, luxury and nature all combined.
I am super proud of my first textile attempt ...dreamy pale turqoise silk with whimsical large scale birds.
The exhibit was part of Art + Architecture event in Telluride Colorado last week. Super fun! If you look at the bottom of the page you will see a pic of me and a little girl sitting on my lap...she was a little visitor who loved coming in and drawing with me. xx
I've been such a lazy blogger because i've been so busy! I hope you all find your way back to the Art Farm and say HELLO!!!
x stephanie