Mom struggled to find her medium to express herself in art and documented all her ideas and frustrations in journals. Writing came so easily to her that she completely discounted that perhaps words were meant to be her artistic medium.
Yes, she can be dense.
There are times when one can see clearly why Mom should focus on being a writer and not an artist. Last week when Mom's family was in town they went out on some photo safaris in the wilds of Las Vegas. Here is Mom's picture of this ultra-cool rhinestone lion...
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| Yeah that big line and those mannequin legs aren't distracting. |
And Aunt Jenny's...
Guess who took this one?
and guess who took this one?
I love Mom, but there are times when I think to myself...
Thank Cod I'm stunning, as is. I make her look good.
Aunt Jenny has a lovely Etsy Store called Gilding Lilies you might want to check out for holiday gifts.
Aunt Jenny's cat, Mr Dutch, is improving greatly with the antibiotics and is getting his naughty back on. He is back to ordering everyone around. I'm sure it's all the healing thoughts my friends have been sending to him. You are all the best!
Well, at least your mom takes good pictures of you, Fin!! But then again, how could any picture of you be bad??
ReplyDeleteWe're happy to hear Mr. Dutch is doing better!
Mom says everyone must find their own "thing"...that which comes easily and makes us purrr. For me it's singing...to boot socks mostly, but I'll sing to small fruits and vegetables too. I'm happy your mom writes beautifully Finny, looks like you already had a photographer in the family!
ReplyDeleteHi Fin, your mom sounds a bit like our mom - she wanted to draw, paint, whatever, but can't - but her lazy, good for nothing cousin draws like a pro. Mom is pretty good at pictures, but she totally understands that feeling of what is in your head not making it out the way she wants. We think you were nice to try to help her out - floof in things usually is helpful. And we have to say, we think that the photos were a 1 -1 tie because we like the wide shot of the bulbs with the backgrounds stuff - the closeup is cool and artsy but the wide angle tells more of a story to us.
ReplyDeleteThe sign boneyard! Mommy loves that place.
ReplyDeleteFin you are the purrfect Muse for your Mom's Art. Because writing well is an art...not many people can. It's harder creating an image with words than any other medium.
Your mom can't go wrong with a subject such as you for pictures.
ReplyDeleteFin, theese is excellent that you ARE stunning and that both you and your Mom are published writers, my Human and I aspire to be writers as well. Theese is also good news that Mr Dutch is back to being naughty.
ReplyDeleteMy dear, you should come here and let us try our photographing skills with you as a model.
ReplyDeleteSo glad you are so photogenic for your very clever mum.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad Mr. Dutch is doing better! And Aunt Jenny is very, very talented! But I wouldn't discount your human's talents - maybe she is only good at photographing you... but who needs more than that?
ReplyDeleteFin, art of writing is not easy, Your mom is talent and she know what she do. and all of us always appreciate whatever she did. and she have you who totally understand...You are wonderful, Fin : ) Your mom is so lucky to have you !
ReplyDeleteFin, my Mommeh has always wished she could draw or paint or sculpt or do something artistic, too!
ReplyDeleteYour Aunt Jenny is good! :-)
ReplyDeleteBut writing is NOT easy, either, and that takes incredible talent and skill too, so don't discount it.
Fin, and your mom,
ReplyDeleteYour photos of things in different perspectives from the shots Jenny took are a nice touch, and have their own merit.
And you know, what a loss to us if you had pursued a photo career (other than taking awesome shots of Fin, that is), because we would have missed out on so much that you share with your writing.
And thanks for stopping by to see "The Boys" this morning.
Your mom may not be good at art and pottery but surely she is very good at scritches and kisses which is more important.
ReplyDeleteLuv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Well we fink yor mom's skill is in taking excellent pics of yoo!
ReplyDeleteWith you as a model she can't go wrong Fin! I'm happy that Mr. Dutch is improving too!
ReplyDeleteYour mum couldn't possibly take a bad picture of you Fin!!!
ReplyDeleteYeaaa for Mr. Dutch! So glad he's getting better.
ReplyDeleteWe agree with everyone else that writing is really an art and you Mom is a really good writer. So she is a really good artist. No two ways about it. And she does take excellent pictures of you Fin.
ReplyDeleteWe are glad Mr. Dutch is doing better. Take care Fin and Mom and have a fun day.
My Mommy is an artist, but she has to work :(
ReplyDeleteYour mommy is a writer and that's creative! The pictures was cool.
Mes is glad Mr Dutch is doing better. Me sents heim lots and lots of purrs.
Fin
ReplyDeleteYour Mom does have a gift when it comes to words.
And she does take beautiful portraits of you.
purrin
xoxoxo
Fin, your mom has a great model with you there!! Your Aunt Jenny is very good!! My mom is lousy at art, writing, and taking good pictures. When she takes pictures of me, she usually cuts my head off the first hundred times before she gets a decent picture. I think she needs help! Love your picture..you are so beautiful!! Lots of love, Holly
ReplyDeleteYour Aunt Jenny takes lovely photos and your mum is a very good writer.
ReplyDeleteWe are glad Mr. Dutch is doing better.
Aunt Jenny here. Thanks for the kind words. To me, art is easy, writing as well as you do, now that's hard to do! I am such a fan Baby Sister. And, I would like to mention that Housecat Confidential would make a lovey present for all the animal lovers out there. I'm just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteThanks to all of you, it really helped Mr Dutch feel better!
Yes, your Mom's medium is writing, and photography of a CERTAIN cat! Aunt Jenny has quite some photography talent.
ReplyDeleteEveryone has their gifts, that's for sure. The hard part is standing back and looking at what you really are good at and not what you really want to be good at. Your Mom is a wrangler of words, has a passion for the pen.
ReplyDeleteThe PM went through a similar stage. Her sister is very creative/artistic and the PM would help her out at craft sales. One year the PM tried so hard to be creative and make things to sell one Christmas. They had a booth up for three days and the PM sister sold many pieces. The PM sold *zip* of what she had made for the show. The theme was a rustic Christmas and the PM had decorated the booth with twig stars and other woodsy items and it looked really nice. She actually had people wanting to buy the stuff she threw together to decorate. That was a turning point in her thinking and she now just does creative things she likes to do, has fun doing and tries to find creativity in everything she does.
Purrs, Goldie
Fin dear, your natural beauty shines through without professional or artistic enhancement.
ReplyDeletehave a creative person caring for you is wonderful - she can appreciate you in yur full glory too. Love Darcy and Bingley xx
ReplyDeleteBut your pictures are artistic! Lovely! My mom is still trying to figure out her talents... Your mom does well.
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