A house made from nature!

Here are more pictures of our Treehouse! Will add more soon.

My husband Mike's beautiful art!

These are paintings done by my husband, Mike. The second and third paintings I posted before on my blog, but wanted to show them again as Mike finished them recently. He is such a good artist. I love his paintings!

The first painting Mike did many years ago. I think it is so pretty.

I wanted to encourage everyone, too, to visit my husband's website. He has some very interesting and beautiful posts on his blog. He has so many special things to say! I hope you will visit his blog. God Bless you.

Debbie

child joyishness

found on russian photography website (thank you to Ulla)

i love children and like being a child myself!

Some of my most favorite artistic people!

Here are some of my very favorite artists! Many of you all ready know of these fantastic, creative people, but I just wanted to share with you the beauty and delicateness artistry of some of the people I have found on the internet (some found on your wonderful websites!) Thank you for sharing!

The first three pictures are from "The Adventures of Elizabeth". She is an incredible interior designer and her website and blog are so wonderful. Her website is:

www.elizabethhouse.us. Her blog is: www.elizabethhousestlouis.blogspot.com. She is such a talented person!

The next two pictures are of the works of Miss Clara. Her paper creations are simply breathtaking! So delicate and inspiring.......I just truely appreciate her artistic beauty so much!

Her website is: http://missclara.free.fr. I found her on Ullabenulla's blog. You should really go to her website. Her site is really unusual, too.

I will list the other website addresses in a little while. We are visiting our son and his wife and need to drive home now, so please check back tomorrow and I will share more wonderful things!

Debbie

www.artmajeur.com/debbieschramer

what is important?

in our world today, there are so many events, people, etc. that just make us wonder....... "what is going on??" people just go off the deep end sometimes in this world. it makes me sad and also frightened. we need to remember who we are and why we are here in this world, in this life. we are here to be kind and caring, to be good and honest, to take care of others and not to try to fool people. we are still children in our hearts.......don't we need to act like children......and be good......like we try to teach our own children?! I just see things going on in the world and in people's lives and I wonder, what are people thinking? "just get back to basics", they say. that's not such a bad idea. what is simple is often the easiest to understand and to hold on to. sometimes, i feel like we are all very frightened underneath the adult exterior we show to others. but, really, if we are good to others and let them know that we are trying to live lives of honour and gratitude, maybe we can break some of those walls that we all put around ourselves. just recently, i started talking (emailing and phone calling) my younger brother (who lives in Japan) and it made me so happy, because we hadn't been talking for so long......i never thought i would be like that, (not talk to my own brother), but it happened. we're different so we stay away from each other. how does that work? not very well. i realize that he is my brother and even though we have different life styles, we can care about each other. if we don't, we will still feel thousands of miles away from each other, not like a brother and a sister. i hope that someone reading this understands what i am trying to say. how much time do we all have to really do something worthwhile? doesn't every minute count in this life? i just want the world to be happier, kinder; i just get so tired of hearing the news about war, crime, bad politics and everything else. maybe if we try to pray a little more for good things to happen in the world, maybe they will! i hope you are having a better day and that you feel like praying for the world to have less hunger, less homelessness, less sorrow. what harm does prayer do? none. if anything, it will bless and help someone. i also keep thinking of all the homeless people there are and it just makes me feel like crying. why are there so many? it just isn't right. there shouldn't be any homeless people anywhere; we have so many resources to help them! remember God. He is there, listening. and talk with him. i hope noone is offended by this post. i just feel like sometimes there are more important things in life than even art and crafts and selling things. it is nice to share your feelings about the things in life that matter, don't you agree?

New Paintings, Drawings and Collages!

Hello Dear Friends.......

I am so excited to share some of my new artworks with you!! These are paintings, collages and drawings that I have done recently and some several years ago. I love these so much; would have a hard time selling any of them, but would sell prints of these pieces, if anyone is interested. It's amazing how sometimes I create something that truely makes me happy!

The paintings above are titled as follows:

(from left to right)

The Little Girl........(drawing in pencil)

Beauty and Music........(collage and pastel)

Pink Life.........(collage and painting)

Floating in Flowers........(painting)

Driving with the Birds and Airplanes.......(painting)

Flowers and Pink Vase.......(painting on tracing paper in window)

Flowers and Pink Vase......(painting)

The Happy Blue House.......(painting)

The Settee.......(oil pastel and chalk painting)

If anyone is interested in these works as prints or cards, please let me know! I would love to share them with you. The prints (in matt frames and plastic sleeves) would be available for $30 and the cards are$2.50.

Hope you are having a wonderful day!! Be happy!!

Debbie Schramer

www.artmajeur.com/debbieschramer

Beauty is a dream, beauty is imagination

think about god, think about love

hello, i am feeling that nothing i could post right now (or really any other time, as well) would mean more to me to say than to just talk about God. all i really want to say is that i think about him, i think about the love he has for everyone. i pray a lot, actually, but tonight, i feel like i just want to say that i hope and pray that everyone will think about God more. God is amazing. He is real. He is so much more important than anything else I could post on my blog, although i am grateful for the gifts he has given me to share. I just wish and hope and pray that we will all turn to God more and be more like him. The world needs more Godly people and people who think about Him. The world needs more gentleness and kindness and love, and prayer to heal those who need help and to bring more happiness into all of our hearts.