Thursday Thoughts of Love

What a beautiful day today, still cold and snow on the 

ground, yet it's soooo wonderfully sunny!! Makes the

snow look like a sea of diamonds. 

Spring is coming soon and thoughts of love and warmth

fill the air, as it seems to build up some hope for things

to blossom, refresh, grow and last. 

What a beautiful season!

Love is such a beautiful thing to have in our lives.

Everyone wishes for a special, deep and

shared love with someone you truly connect

with. Sometimes we make many mistakes,

but it will eventually lead to a true love,

one that seems as if it's heaven sent. Two

souls meeting and connecting in a heartbeat.

The feelings of comfort, joy, laughter, happiness,

hope, dreams and most of all LOVE...

what a wonderful feeling. So spring-like...

so happy, beautiful, blossoming, and

precious...something delicate as the

newly formed buds of Spring.

Three Little Words

Love came out of nowhere when I least expected 

From the instant we met I felt so connected

You came along sweetly to capture my heart

From that moment on, I never wished to part 

As if by magic or sent from heaven above

My heart and soul were captured in an undying love

Love like this, so beautiful and precious is rare

Something made of hopes, dreams and many night's of prayer

As if years have passed by, our conversations fly

Sharing thoughts and emotions, I no longer cry

Loving and laughing into the wee hours of night   

Each heart surrounded by a brilliance of light

Glowing with a true love's passion and fire

Fulfilling the need of each hidden desire

A love that feels comfortable and so right from the start

With this love that we share, nothing can ever tear us apart

A love like this, so beautiful and true

Was God's will and intention for me and you.

This poem was written, just for you,

With three little words to say that "I love you"

(c) 2013 by Debra Ann Beach

Caligrrl Poems

Have a beautiful Thursday :)

New Poetry Video

Hello and happy Wednesday!!! I have the new video poem

 in better clarity and also with a new song featuring 

a beautiful piano instrumental. I hope you like it! 

Please leave some feedback on youtube if you have time..

and also, you are more than welcome to 

share this with your friends!! ♥ 

THANK YOU for listening to it!!! 

Have an amazing day!!! 

Three Little Words - A Poetry Video

Here is a brand new poem and video. I will be uploading 

a much better quality video by tomorrow. This is more of

a rough draft. YouTube was taking over 6 hours for the

.avi file... this is a .wmv file, quicker, but lacks quality.  

I hope you enjoy this love poetry video and have

a beautiful evening and Wednesday! 

This is called "Three Little Words" 

Wednesday greetings!

Hello friends!! Happy Wednesday... these days seem

to be flying by so quickly! We had a little snowfall last

night, here in Alberta, but the sunshine today is melting

all that fell in the evening. It looks so pretty, like

diamonds, brilliant and sparkly! :) 

Below are links to my books and crafts... you're welcome to

share these links with your friends and family. I appreciate

all of you for your support in my arts. 

Have a beautiful Wednesday with much love, Debra

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Flowers!

Happy Sunday, friends. I hope your day is a

beautiful one. Today we have sunshine in 

Alberta, after last evening's snow fall. Spring

is definitely coming soon... and I can't wait!

I'm making a series of floral art, I've been using

many photos and mixing them together to make

the bouquets. Below are 2 samples, the

bottom photo has a bit more of an oil

painted look to it. Subtle change but

a nice effect, in my opinion. 

 

Weekend Words & Angels

Hello friends, happy weekend! I haven't posted in quite some time, so 

here I am!! :) I've had a busy week and have worked on a few things.

Still learning my new software and haven't been up to sewing or any

other projects since I lost my computer's drive. So for now I have

been working with what I have left. I sure do miss my pc...it ran

much faster and better than my laptops. But, until I can get it running

again, I am left to work with super slow systems, always freezing up

and acting like a zombie, lol  Slow to do anything. I'll be trying to clean

up the drives so I can function better. I had a lot of work on my pc that

I have lost. Just a word of advice, beware of the "cleaning" software, 

it has "cleaned" too much and now the Windows OS is gone &  lastly,

everything on the drive. Major bummer, but, that's life, right? 

Sometimes you just have to go with the flow... and carry onward. 

Life has a funny and amazing way of putting things in your life, as

well as taking things away... but all in all, it seems to always work

out to be the best thing for yourself at the exact time you need it. 

God has a way of taking care of everything we face in our lives and

it can make each of us, a much stronger, wiser and better person.

Have a beautiful weekend, friends.

Blessings, love, hugs and smiles, always,

Debra 

Happy Sunday!

The weekend is sure flying by! We have a beautiful, sunny day here

today. I hope the snow melts and we have a longer Spring

this year. Sunshine is getting me in the mood to do more

sewing or something. I may end up working on my book a bit

today... I've been a bit down about my pc crashing... but

I'm thankful I still have my laptop so I can still access my

sites and all. 

Below is a sample of one photo I did... I love Monet's art. He's 

my favorite, and I wanted to do some photo art in a Monet-ish

sort of way. I love this, what do you think? I have some more

done and I am doing some different styles that I will have in my

new book of art and poetry. Much work to do on it yet!! 

Have a lovely, creative and inspiring Sunday!

Love, Debra

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Music Time

I will be working on the player tonight... I've noticed

some of the songs are getting an error code now, so

I will be deleting those and adding more... for your

listening pleasure of course... :)  and mine... lol

Wednesday WAAAAAAAAAA

After my thrill the other day, well, things went downhill 

from there... :(  I was happily burning my files on disks when 

it suddenly froze. I waited for a long time... 

and finally decided to cancel the process...

bad choice, as this caused it to lose all the files on the disk

as well as delete my hard drive contents. I tried to retrieve it

somehow, all day yesterday and this morning. The drive can't

be recognized now,  only when I unplug it from the USB port, 

then it tells me I have to format the disk drive before I use it.

Major bummer... I had a lot of files to go, yet. Now I'm not sure

if it's a hard drive failure, whether to buy a new Windows

program, a new hard drive, or just buy a new tower... ugh.

When it rains it pours = Murphy's Law is in effect.

Oh well....

So it's February, the month of love... LOVE??

Well, I tend to get all mushy and lovey, during February

especially... lol. I guess it's all the hearts, cupids, flowers and

CHOCOLATE...  

Gotta love chocolate!! 

Love is such a complicated matter... you can totally be

in love with someone, and they don't even know or 

seem to care... love is an ache in the heart. Love

can be so beautiful, wonderful, alive, perfect...

but also so painful. Everyone has been hurt by 

someone they love or have loved... I guess that

is inevitable. But why does it have to hurt for so long?

One day, I will smile again... I don't know when, 

but I try to, each day. If I had chocolate, I would

smile right now... lol. 

Or maybe a new or functioning pc... that would

make me smile BIG!! HA!!

Successful Sunday

Today I was very happy to access my files

located on my crashed hard drive. After many

attempts at getting the thing to boot up, it just

wouldn't open. I thought for sure I would lose

all of my important files, the OS got wiped

out! So, today I was able to remove the hard

drive and attach a special cord from the hard

drive into my laptop to see if I could retrieve 

anything. SUCCESS!!! I am now saving all

of my files onto disks... it took all week and 

it was looking bleaker and bleaker... what a 

great thing to have, that cord. I can't remember

the name, but it works. Now I am burning disks

and removing files from this 1 terabyte hard

drive. After I finish, which will take me days

to do, I will finally be able to reformat the

drive and then put on a new OS, probably

Windows 8. I'm very pleased today... yahoo!!

Hope your day was amazing!!

Friday Frustration and a Quilt of Memories

I dislike pc problems, who doesn't? It's been a frustrating 

week. I managed to see an actual drive screen on my pc 

lastnight, it took most of the day, today, to just get BACK

to that screen... it is running very, very slow... sadly slow.

It's a nightmare. I have discovered that my entire C drive

is gone, well. most of it, along with my Windows 7... 

no operating system to boot the thing up! I tried a program 

called Ubuntu, which loads up the pc but I still can't get to 

my files which were on the C: drive...and now happen to be 

on the D drive for some odd reason... it's best not to use

those "clean up" pc programs, I've learned my lesson... 

sometimes they clean it up a little TOO MUCH!! 

 Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ...so aggravating! 

So, another day of not getting my hard drive to boot...

tomorrow is another day, thank God... I hope

I can do something with it... I've been so patient all week,

trying not to stress out. But I can only keep calm for 

so long!!! (tearing hair out)  lol    

Actually I cut my hair today... about 3 or more inches off... 

it was halfway down my bum and I had begun to start sitting on it... 

and not only that, but with winter and the static electricity 

in the dry air... it drives me bonkers with all the clinging 

it's doing, especially on my winter coat... ugh... no wonder 

I hibernate in the winter, besides the bitter cold, I have to deal

 with my unruly hair wrestling with my coat over which one 

will win the fight to drive me insane!! hahaha... 

Oh boy... rant time is over!! lol

So, I haven't been doing too much in the artsy fartsy area...

 I drew a little last night...nothing that special so 

I won't post it... lol   I've been watching CNN a lot, 

or listening, while I work on the pc problems... 

maybe that is stressing me out too... oops... rant. 

I got a little creative the other night... 

I toasted skewered marshmallows on my stove... 

does that count??  lol 

Maybe this post should have remained un-posted... ha! 

Well, that's my update... let me try to find something to post... oh yes!

 I found a photo today while searching for a Windows disc... 

which I never found. This is a project I worked on years ago.

 I am taking a pic of a pic...so  it's not too clear. But here is a quilt

 I made special order. All the fabrics used in this except for the 

borders and backing were scraps of fabrics that this lady had 

in her fabric stash! Most were just tiny pieces, but I ironed out 

each piece and cut them in triangles... I designed the quilt on 

my computer with EQ5... I scanned all of the fabrics and arranged 

them on the screen before I even started sewing it. There were 

so many colors and fabrics to use, so it took a lot of time to 

prepare, design and finally quilt it. It has some 

embroidery done by machine on the border which is 

hard to see, but I did a really nice font that I had purchased 

for my machine. The photos are all old family photos for this 

nice and wonderful lady, Polly. It was a gift for her 90th birthday

 from her family. She had passed on not long after but was able to 

enjoy it for awhile. Now the family passes it along so each family 

member can enjoy it for some time in their homes. The 

photos were printed on iron-on transfer paper which I

ironed on to the plain blocks... Everyone loved it and I was 

quite proud of it myself. :) It's amazing

what a little scrap of fabric or more... can become!! :) 

A treasured heirloom of all the fabric remnants from this

 wonderful and beautiful soul... may she rest in peace 

with love. She was a wonderful lady, very much

 loved and missed by all.