Beauty in Simple Things

We are surrounded by the beauty of God’s creation. A wonderful thing is that we can create beauty in so many ways: painting – crafts – music – drama. It doesn’t have to be complex. Even just loving others is beautiful. Be bold! Create beauty!

I also know from experience that art can bring emotional lift to those that are hurting and broken.

I’m sharing a few of the things I’ve created. I love creating beauty from simple things.

Painting

I love creating beauty with paint!

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David Lydia Kissing & Trilogy

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Drawing

Pens and Markers create beauty too

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David Lydia & Trilogy Aaronic Blessing

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Crafts

There are so many options for making beautiful and useful things

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crochet hat 1

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“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.” - W. Somerset Maugham

“The great artists of the past were aware that human life is full of chaos and suffering. But they had a remedy for this. And the name of that remedy was ‘beauty’. The beautiful work of art brings consolation in sorrow and affirmation in joy. It shows human life to be worthwhile.” - Roger Scruton

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way-things I had no words for.” - Georgia O’Keeffe