jane dong 

        Happy Art!

 Mark and I took a trip up to Grass Valley to the Studio of my NEW favorite ARTIST Mary Lou Falstreau!  I ran across her ART at the shop, "Garden of Enchantment," in Old Sacramento, and fell in love with her happy, clear messages to women.

All of her greeting cards and  8.5 X 11 prints from her Women and the Hourglass Series are fabulous!  When I came home and looked at her website at  mfalstreau.com  I placed an order.  Immediately after I hit send, I knew I forgot something and immediately called the business on the phone.  Mary Lou answered and we began talking .  Within minutes, she invited me to come up to her studio to see her work!

Within a week, we arrived in Grass Valley.  It was such a healing hanging out around all her art and especially seeing all the Women and the Hourglass prints lined up along a wall and looking at them all at once like that….with those important messages attached to bright adorable images of everyday women!  Really a breathtaking line of product.  Both the Women and the Hourglass Series AND her newest series of work entitled “Pieces of Me.”   (BTW, I love that title!). 

All of her work has really heaped validation on me, raised my spirts, enlightened me, helped me, confirmed me, rescued me, reminded me that I could be as hard on myself as others were/are on me...but to STOP DOING THAT and accept myself, forgive myself, love myself….and to be at peace, be happy and flexible and joyous, and....(fill in all of her 68 messages).  I needed to be told every message, like I need food, and each nourished me, and will continue to do so, every time I look at them!  She also makes the prints into GREETING CARDS and you can send these wonderful messages to your friends!   They are such a GREAT gift!

She also made them into AFFIRMATION CARDS!    She has TWO DECKS already!  And a COLORING BOOK!