Oreo and her Tooth Fairy Pillow

Oreo, our cat, has lived on two farms and two houses in Winona and gone on many adventures.  Now, she is relaxing on her favorite tooth fairy pillow.

Here's a close up of the pillow.  The lost tooth would be placed in the plaid pocket in the hope that the tooth fairy would come, replacing the tooth for a coin.  Oreo, keeps hoping for a treat in that pocket.

Oreo has adopted the tooth fairy pillow.   The Tooth Fairy Pillow was created by one of my students. The pillows were part of an economics project that the students created at Bluffview Montessori School in 2009.

Oreo has a few poses that she enjoys while hanging out with the tooth fairy pillow:

"Tired, don't mess with me."

"What did I hear?"

Oreo has her fore legs tucked under herself.  It looks like she is praying.

 

She likes things orderly and neat.  The pillow is leaning on the arm of the couch, the tooth fairy pillow beside it, my Mother’s favorite quilt on the back of the couch and Oreo sleeping in the middle of it.  More antics of Oreo coming soon. 

Nia and the Joy of Movement

When I move my body, I feel a connection with an inside and outside of myself; I feel that anything and everything is possible.  Let our movements through the day be in joy as we dance through life feeling connections with one another.

 New Nia Class beginning this Friday!

Winona Yoga Center
686 W. 5th, Winona
Fridays, April 13 - May 18
4:30-5:30pm

$54.00; new student to Nia, first class free, cost of class only $45.00--register with a friend for dancing joy!

Call 507 457-0692 home/studio or 507 429-8357 cell to register

Learn more about Nia at www.nianow.com

 

Nia is a fusion exercise technique that uses dance, martial arts, and healing arts to lead everyone to the joy of movement.  It has elements of precision, stability, balance, flexibility, agility, strength, and mobility and is done to soul stirring music.  

Hope to dance with you soon.

Art in Bloom

Art in Bloom, a tribute to art and flowers

Milwaukee Art Museum

March 29- April 1

Bringing into my senses the visual wonder of paintings, sculpture, architecture and the fragrant pleasure of floral design sent me spinning in pleasure last weekend at the Milwaukee Art Museum.  I looked, sniffed, photographed, and mused about the museum.  It is a place that fascinates me from an architectural aspect due to its wings, and windows that overlook Lake Michigan; the art is an ever inspiration to my own work as a mixed media and fiber artist. 

Fragrances of rose, lily, carnation fill the museum.

This courtyard holds intrigue.  It invites another look.

A loved Wisconsin artist, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1887-1986, brings me closer to look at her paintings and enjoy their expressions in flowers.

  I Love Red and Pink 1959

I was touched by the story of how Irvin Penn chose to photograph the gypsy family using a barn near the gypsy’s home as a studio creating uncertainty for the photographer and the family. Why didn’t he add their names or any story about them?  This is curious to me. Maybe there is a story somewhere; I may dig deeper on this. The flower sculpture fascinated me as well.

 

The composition of the circular floral sculpture photograph that I took with the people and paintings in the background is very pleasing to me. 

 

Folkart Goat with Wheels and Floral depiction

                                 Floral Sculpture of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Lake George Autumn

Dancing at the Yoga Center

I’ve been thinking about Nia a lot these days.  I just traveled to Milwaukee to jump start my learning of a routine new to me called hUmaNITY.  It was a great day of listening carefully to music, moving to the choreography of hUmaNITY, feeling it in our bodies, dancing the whole routine at CORE/El Centro, A Natural Healing Center in Milwaukee with Barb Wesson leading the class, and listening to the music and moving some more. 

I’m starting a new Nia class at the Winona Yoga Center located at 686 W. 5^th Street.  The session is for 6 weeks starting on the lucky, Friday April 13^th, 4:30-5:30pm continuing through May 18^th.    No previous Nia experience needed.  This class is for all fitness levels.  One Nia philosophy is that through movement, we find healing.  Students are encouraged to move within the capability of their body and enjoy the sensation.  In the class, students are guided to move to develop strength, balance, agility, stability, and flexibility.  The music will make you want to move; you come away from class with more energy. The introductory price for the six week session costs $54.00.  The first class is free, for people new to Nia.

Give me a call for more information or to register:  507.457.0692 home/studio or 507.429.8357 cell.