This year's christmas cards.

I like to try and make my christmas cards each year, sometimes it works out sometimes it doesn't. I was searching the web for images of Poe, for an art journal of the poem The Raven that I want to create. I came across this card by time2cre8 on etsy and I was inspired to create my own.

Stamp credits: Raven - Green Pepper Press, hat - Lost Coast Designs, Merry Christmas - Stamp It.

A Day of Sharing Words

I was surfing around the blogs when I happened upon the blog - The Poetic Eye - by LK Ludwig. It's been a while since I have visited LK's blog, but I will be bookmarking it to visit more regularly. She challenged her readers to post to their blog a poem, a quote or a song that spoke to them, along with an image; and then share that post on the comments at her blog. Below is my contribution. To see other contributions click here.

Hope is the thing...

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

- Emily Dickinson