Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.” ― Ivan Turgenev New Years Eve.  The close of 2016.  We are going to have breakfast out to eat Waffles. Waffles are rare indeed in our home but something I have been craving... so Terry wanted to make sure I got them in this year.  Little did I know when this boy/man kissed me in 1966 that we would be here today fifty years later at 2016.  Want to know one of the most special moments for me in our marriage?  We did not marry until 1991.  Both of us went different directions in our life and came back together

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, anymore than they begin on the first page.” ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell I took a break in the wolf posting this week. This was Christmas day stopping by to see our two sick granddaughters.  Yes we stayed OUTSIDE the door. They were sick and so were their parents. We had done the big grand kids gathering the weekend before and played with them with their new gifts from us, but we had to stop by and see them. The youngest one cried and cried as we returned to the car. She was heart b

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent It has really really been cold here. Last Saturday we went from 74 degrees at noon to 19 that night... the temp from 12 to 2 went from the 74 to 41 and kept falling from there.  This has been the first cold snap and I pulled out my FAVORITE winter hat Terry bought me last year and I wore it and wore and wore it and had warm head and ears. It looked pretty good as well. He found it at Whole Foods last year.  They do not carry them this year... I lost my winter hat yesterday m

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "He's making a list, And checking it twice; Gonna find out Who's naughty and nice."  Excerpt from Santa Claus is Coming to Town. In years past there has always been the traditional family Christmas Portrait.  We did a serious one and then a funny one.  This is not the serious one.  As the years flew by and we all grew older, things changed and people changed and some journey on to heaven.  My father is not with us any longer nor is one of the mom's and Terry's Dad. Some have married and have babies and families of their own. The family grew and basically outgrew having Chri

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 My youngest brother and the 'hot' toy of the year...Rudy the Robot. Est maybe Christmas 1970. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane Memory is a type of mental time travel. It is unique to humans, but I cannot help but wonder if it does not also extend to dogs and cats somehow...or even horses.  For humans the earliest memories are sparse and most people have no memory prior to age 3, but some o

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Superhero Grandson ten years ago! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I realize nobody's coming to save me. I must save myself. I must be my own superhero. Although I am open to a sidekick.”  ― Karen Salmansohn I really am painting in the studio... but not sharing some of the work. Promise to get some paintings up that I am playing with right now.  Nothing is impossible... Audrey Hepburn said, "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm Possible"."  You too can be like a superhero.  When you have something big ahead, do this simple exercise.  Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and put your hands o

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Photography by Laurie Pace ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde Over the Christmas Holidays I have been reading several books that are suppose to encourage the reader and reposition where their mind and thoughts might get stuck.  This year... every day, KEEP YOUR HEAD UP!         Live in the NOW, not in your worried obsessed mind.   Take time for YOU every day.   Be PROUD of who you are and what you do.   GOD takes care of each of us and we are always RIGHT where we are suppose to be.  LAUGH and remember to love and live life every single moment of every day. I am lo

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ―  Marcel Proust Colors of the season ahead!  I love these days with cooler weather, frosty mornings, a cup of hot tea and a big bowl of oatmeal served in our holiday dishes covered in Cardinals and birds.  We pull these dishes out in early November and use them through the end of January.  I know every family has their own traditions and favorites that begin from Thanksgiving forward. This time of year can be very happy and in the next moment change can occur to make i