All of the Above: Confession #34

CONFESSION:

I love to be artistic, and I love other people who are artists!

I love to admire their work - every one unique and captivating.

Once upon a time, I dreamed of being an artist as a career.
I had someone inform me that to be an artist is to live poor.

Sooo... I moved on.

But I do love to dabble in a few mediums.

One being cake.

:o)

This is one of my favorites I made:

I can't help but do SOMETHING. I've heard from a few people about my wall, but sometimes I wish I could just explain that sometimes I must do something artistic, simply because it is my way of answering the little "voices" in my head!! ;o)

I love Halloween costumes (almost time!)... I always have mine ready early because I'm allergic to waiting. We talk and assemble our costumes into reality between August and the middle of September around here.

:o)

I love to make things out of anything.

I love to take pictures.

(All of you know that! Lol)

This was after watching "The Testaments" on a temple trip in 2003:

(This was on our Pioneer Trek in April 2004:)

(This was in Newfoundland, in 2004, at the most eastern point:)

How amazing and fantastical is it that an artist can sweep us away to another universe?

I loved to read when I was younger because books do this.

Fairytales are my favorite.

I am amazed by all artists.

And at what they can accomplish!

I love to work with cake - and it makes me happy to talk about cake with other people, and give advice to help them explore working with cake too.
(This cake was made by Cake Central, I believe:)

Makeup artists... blow my mind!

Ok this is totally gross to me, but (from Pirates of the Caribbean) what talent.

There are so many artists that need a good standing ovation.

I am very blessed to have quite a few friends who are artists.

I don't want to be weird about it, so I won't name names.

Well, too many. :o)

(Below, from Star Trek:)

Hair stylists... artists with a complex ever-changing medium I think.

(I stole this picture from one of my cousin's friends who does hair:)

(Everything she does is impressive!)

It's fun to see the different outlets for artistic abilities.

:o)

I love to be shown something new - and be amazed by it.

Paper! Just paper:

Paper in a way I never saw it, but in a way someone else saw it.

Something about an artist being able to capture something we love in a way that we could not describe it with words is what makes art so magical in the first place.

Painters...

"I love fall because of the leaves" doesn't ring the same as this:

Or art that makes us double-take:

This piece was done by my friend Kristina - so supremely talented in so many things, just as the rest of her family is ridiculously talented (one brother, also an amazing artist, one is a crazy guitarist!):

I love being surprised by art. Yes, it's a banana:

Or jealous of art.

Oh it's so easy for me to be jealous of an artist!

But we must learn to love what we have... right? :o)

I think Martha Stewart is definitely an artist:

I love inspiring art.

I have a friend who is a decorator, and not to name names or anything,

(LISA!)

But she is modestly amazing.

Decorators... are true artists! Bringing together so many elements... to meld them, and blend them - to highlight, and encase you in the theme... truly a gift.

Photographers. Another group of amazing artists!

(I love you photo friends! Skye, Allie, Erin, Jennie...)

I love the way a picture can take something everyday, and make you look at it in a way you never imagined. Or something simple and make it suddenly complex, and deep.

When a picture tells a story, or asks a thousand questions.

Or sweeps us away to a dream world.

Capturing beauty...

Creating moments.

Playing in a fantasy world of imagination brought to life.

This is why I love art.

The greatest artist of all time... our Savior.

Proof by the true mind-baffling beauty all around us.

How I love what beauty is found in nature.

Quilters!

Seamstresses!

Sewers!

I have a friend, Ashley, and boy that girl can coordinate a quilt like nobody else! The fabrics pulled together to make her quilts I would have never assembled on my own. Talent!

And Barbara, a friend of mine who helped me alter BOTH my wedding reception dresses in a world record time - she is an artist of experience and talent.

Admiration!

The crocheters! The knitters!

I know a few crocheting friends of mine who blow off compliments with something stating that they only know how to do something because they have had the experience and time to do it.

Do they realize you have to have the desire to pursue perfection in it?

That's what they had! They're artists. Talented artists.

I am thankful to my friend Keeley ♥ - who taught me how to crochet enough that I can put out a mostly-decent baby blanket now. Although how it is accomplished is still totally lost on me. :o)

Or my friend Tami! Who is constantly crocheting things in 3D, which blows my mind.

The most adorable?

A tiny octopus.

(I know, right?!)