Peace • Joy • Love • Christmas

Last weekend, the girls were out shopping for baking supplies; Brad was finishing The Brothers Vonnegut; I was uploading, spacing, creating this blog post. The wind was up and the house was quiet. The bakers soon returned... and yours truly and her elves went to work.

Now it is Friday and I have wrapped up work for a few days. Santa's sleigh will come to town in no time at all. Glitter will shine; frosted bottlebrush trees and hand-twirled ornaments await; candles and votives will be lit; teal and silver; pastels and gold... The evening will be divine.

There is Joy. There is Joyeux. There is light. 
These are the Christmas vignettes around my home.

I wish you peace and love and goodness and everything in between for this Holiday Season. Enjoy all the little moments - You do know it is good for the soul.

Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année ~ Adeline

Peace and Joy

What comes to mind as 2016 wraps up is the wish for the world to be enveloped in PEACE... I have cherished my colorful 'peace' Christmas ornament for many years now -thank you Christopher Radko for designing it. I knew instinctively that it would be up high in the tree to be read when passing by the tinsel branches. And the whimsical parrot also took note.

There is quiet in the air around me these days - I am loving the calm mood in my world. The girls are here; my partner with his gentle soul warms my heart; and my home is the sanctuary of my imagination.

Enjoy the holidays; do wrap them up in Peace as you welcome the New Year.

I have noticed that the winter light in the morning surrounds me in its warm blessings.

Flowers and angels; joy and peace - that is my closing for this year; the new year shall glisten just as much - we owe it to ourselves and to the land and the people beyond.

It is good for the soul.

Enjoy as always,

Adeline

The amazingly talented Michel Ropion

I have been to India a handful of times. Each time, a fond memory lingers. There is simply an immense scale to the country. There are dizzying smells, from rich masala curry spices to fragrant floral incenses. There is a mass of people so grand, it touches the horizon. There are colorful saris hanging to dry along the edges of the Ganges River. There are deafening honking sounds on bustling street corners filled with rickshaws and British-era black Ambassador cars. That myriad of life has inspired the bazaar-like colors in my home; in my art and my photography, even in the jewelry I wear. 

One thing is very evident in my home - the stunningly beautiful paintings of my father, Michel Ropion.

If you ever venture out into the vast foothills of the Himalayas, you will quickly understand why the region caught the eye of my parents many many years ago. They have returned to northern India every year for the last 25+ years. It is there that my father paints his incredible canvasses. His paintings show the magnificence of the mountains surrounding him. He paints portraits of young and old with beauty in their souls; he paints Tibetan temples with their sacred auras in regal ochres and burnt ambers. He wraps his paintings of flowers in an enchanting timeless beauty.

Michel Ropion's medium is acrylic; he uses it as though it was liquid magic at the end of his fingertips. From Arches 300gm paper, to canvas boards, to giant 4'x5' canvas frames, he treats magenta pinks, chartreuse greens, and royal teals with pure majestic vibrance. 

I will do a new trio of blog posts -  this time of my father's art. With the first of three, I invite you to see his flower series, his mind-blowing colors, his irrefutable talent.

As you can see, there is magic in the air when you look at these paintings. 
I find them exquisite. 

I hope you do to. Feel free to inquire about them. Just like I love them on my walls; you might too!

It is so clear to me that my father's art is so delightfully ~ good for the soul ~ 

Enjoy as always, Adeline