Penguins are the silliest looking critters, aren’t they? But I love how sweet their mannerisms are, and how amazing they are underwater. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- © Angela Treat Lyon 2024
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HOT! HOT! HOT! AAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!
Do you like hot, spicy foods? I do, but my body? Not so much! Instant reactions! So here we are, eating our favorite east Indian dinner – and then – Ooooooh!!! Hotttt!!!! Yeowie! Yikes! Whew! Hand me the napkins! Wouldn’t a silk scarf of this be funny? You could wear it out to dinner with […]
HUMMERS & BEES MAKE ME WEAK IN THE KNEES!
I have this Thing for Hummingbirds. I think they are some of the most miraculous beings on the planet. Imagine having to suck multiple times your body weight in liquid food through a long skinny pipe every day! And being able to look in the mirror to see all those flashy bright colors on your […]
CATS X 3
In a kind of odd moment as I sat glomping my lunch a couple days ago, I looked out my window to see my neighbor’s cats sunning themselves on the window sill, and they just looked so happy. Have you ever wished you had your own safe windowsill where you could relax and be totally […]
SLOW GROWTH IS GOOD GROWTH
Supposedly . . . As you know, I’ve been taking a highly intense, galactically-comprehensive course on the business of being an artist. Comprehensive is the biggest understatement ever!
GENTLE REMINDER: YOU ARE UNIQUE!
No one else can possibly do what you do. . They may do something similar, but what you do has your breath within it, has your dreams behind it, and has your signature energy inside it. . There are days when I wonder, myself, why do I do what I do? . And then the […]
EARLY BIRDIE GETS THE WORM
I’ve had this phrase running in my mind all day long – driving me crazy! I finally realized it wanted me to draw it. So I did! I can be pretty slow sometimes . . . but eventually I get the hint. -=-=-=-=-=-=- Early Birds © Angela Treat Lyon 2024
WHY AREN’T THEY BITING?
My newest scarf! It’s 26″ square, rich colors on a lovely pure silk charmeuse – I love it! A friend told me about how he’d gone fishing, and actually watched as the fish gathered around his hook and bait and, laughing all the way to town, didn’t bite all day! He never could figure out […]
JUST ONE CAT? NEVER!!!
I just got this sample in the mail – it’s a 12″ square kind of plaque thing. . It’s printed on a 1/8″ board, has a satin mat finish, wonderful rich color – and a twiney thing to hang it with! I’m thinking this would make a cool Christmas gift, yes? Want one? Contact me […]
SAFETY EVEN AS THE STORM RAGES
Very smoky here today – hard to see or breathe. Not fun at all. This image is how I feel about you. I’m so fortunate to have your loving support. It’s been such an emotional rolly-coasty this week! Huge gratitude for all of you who are envisioning me safe – I really appreciate that – […]
and I’LL BE THERE, BE THERE, BE THERE . .
This last week has been such hell. 119 degree heat, the threat of the big California Park Fire being within 3 miles of my house, the smoky air burning our eyes – I don’t remember any August here in Chico being so damned hot, every single day. And not having a car! When I gave […]
WHISTLING A HAPPY TUNE
Isn’t this how it oughta be? Friends getting together, hanging out, playing, singing, dancing, celebrating life, in all its beauty? I say yes! I’m completely overwhelmed and exhausted by all the upset, violence, anger and fear coating every aspect of our lives. How did we get here? Somehow, we gave ourselves permission to spew gouts […]
WORKING on the 2025 Calendar
I got a wild hair and started working on next year’s calendar! (Like I don’t already have plenty to do!!!)! Here’s the December page – waddya think? I love it! I left it crude this time (no image trace). I like the rawness. I’ll let you know when the calendar is ready for a pre-sale. […]
A HAPPY PURPLE WEDDING
With this ring, and yellow flower, and bunny dance, and birdies, and meeces, and ferrets, and sun, and pink and red flowers, and the sun, I thee wed! Sometimes ya just gotta shed the got-to list and do the fun list. This wasn’t on any list! But I’m feeling low energy today, and it was […]
RACOON CATCH & RELEASE
Can’t keep our friends out of the water! . Let them go! Let them go! Here’s another one with those bright colors. I’ve been hesitant to show the drawings with these garish colors, bcz from what I’ve seen elsewhere, people seem to like the more muted colors. How wrong have I been? I love the […]
I LOVE YOU!
I don’t care if you love someone of the opposite sex, the same sex, no sex, weird sex, pronoun sex, or any sex I forgot to mention. I don’t care what rules any outside agency sets up. I don’t care what your mother, father, sister, brother, aunty, uncly or other family member believes about love. […]
“I Can’t!”
Here’s a little inspiration for you if you are worried, anxious, scared, or having a desperately hard time. Or maybe it’s for someone you know. I’ve heard you say, “I failed.” I’ve heard you say, “I’m so tired.” And “I’m so afraid.” I know it’s hard when you’re exhausted and it feels like you have […]
What Do You Do to Come Back to Your Sense...
Do you ever start something and end up doing something completely and utterly radically different? I fought it, but that’s what happened today. I started out tonight intending to write a story about a disastrous sailing adventure I had when I was 15. Then I started thinking about how, in the past three or four […]
Can You Really Make Good Money with Your ...
If you are not an artist, stick around, because I’m going to show you how you can help your artist friends. If you ARE an artist – well! See what you can do! A couple months ago, I enrolled in a comprehensive 8-week art business course called Leverage Your Art, taught by 7-figure artist, Stacie […]
What Do You Do if Someone Steals Your Art...
A fellow artist asked me: You’ve sent a company your images to see if they’d like to carry your line on their products. How do you know they won’t steal your artwork and put it on their products and sell them without your knowledge? My first thought was, in that case, either the company will […]
What Makes Your Presentations So Special?
I want you to be out front, SEEN, and appreciated. Here are seven tips you can employ right now that will help you be more brilliant than you already are. Are you writing, podcasting, or delivering webinars? Amongst a million others, how are your presentations so brilliant that people remember you and your ideas for […]
Healing/Creating Hands
Source energies curl and furl in my palms. They remain there until I start working on something. Sometimes they churn and make my hands tingle. As soon as I begin to focus, the energy passes through to my fingers. Way back in the 60s when I was a potter living in Hawaii, my logo was […]
Be A Fierce Bear about Your Art
You have to know the value of what you create. To me, whether it’s my visual art or my writing, it is the Divine Voice speaking with my voice and hands. Its value is incalculable. Never let anyone dissuade you from regarding your art as valuable. When my kids were little, they’d join me in […]
What Inspires You?
I was taught that “great artists wait for inspiration to come to them, and then they create.” So obviously, if I wanted to become a great artist, I needed to wait for inspiration to come. Well that’s just total BS. Smart me! I didn’t believe it. Life moves faster than that. And I don’t wait […]
Reading Time
My buddies love it when I read to them! We gather together and sit on my bed with piles of snacks, and they help me choose which books to read. We love the Mysterious Island, and all of Nathan Lowell’s sci-fi stories. I have to be careful of Kitty, though — she likes to lean […]
Practice
I discovered that practice meant giving up trying to achieve perfection. What it really gave me was a calm, quiet belly. Many long years ago, I practiced Tai Chi Sword, and Naginata, a women’s sword-fighting art, where the sword is bound to a six-foot bamboo pole that extends the reach of the sword. There was […]
The Squall of All Squalls
I used to love to fish. Down at the dock, I’d dangle my feet off the end, feeling the outright peace being saturated with sun and calm and things-are-just-right brings. Sometimes I’d row a skiff out, and float around in the shadows under the piers, throwing in my line to see what I could catch. […]
Bully
David came up behind me, grabbed my pail of fish, and before I could stop him, dumped it right on top of my head. He and his buddies squealed with laughter and ran off down the dock. The fishes slid down my back, into my shirt, down onto my lap. I was soaked, head to […]
Fishies and Birdies and Manta Buddies
I seem to be on a fishies kick. I was thinking maybe these designs would be cool for aloha shirts – waddya think? I made lots of other color variations, plus repeat designs – sometimes I think I’m just a maniac for art and design!
Feed the Lot (A Dream that I wish was rea...
In a dream, I’m the manager of a catering company. We get an order to cater The Cattleman’s Association Annual Stockman Gathering. 800 people. I’m thinking, wow, 800 people! That’s a lot of people — I didn’t even know there was a group called that, much less that there were so many of them! So […]