Collage by Sandra Reeves Cutrer

This was such fun to make,totally out of my oil-painting-box! Sometimes it just feels great to try something new and fresh,to open yourself up to new ideas. I have a couple of boxes full of things to make more collages with when I feel the urge to try something "free-spirited". Sometimes when our granddaughters come over, we go out to my studio and paint fun things.They have painted on canvases,plastic bottles,paper, and wood. I have several canvases of their hand and foot prints plastered all over large canvases when they were younger. What fun (and sadness) these paintings bring to my heart when I see how much they have grown! Try something new today, keep fun in your life,laugh much, dream, and keep hope on your daily to-do list.
  
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he. Proverbs 28:19

Blessings,
Sandra Reeves Cutrer
sandrasart777@aol.com

Collage "Under the Window" by Sandra Reeves Cutrer

I love doing collages. They are so much fun and great Stress relievers! This one is done on a 16"x20" stretched linen canvas with acrylics and paper.


Do you have stress in your life? Give it to God, then get out and do something for someone else! This is a quick way to forget your own troubles for awhile and look at someone else's. Apostle Paul, who endured many horrible things, wrote that his trial was bigger than his ability to endure, but then he offers an explanation. “But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.” (2 Corinthians 1:9) He recognized that this overwhelming time of trouble, he couldn’t handle alone, had caused him to focus more on the power of God, and allow God to work His perfect will. Are you being challenged beyond your ability to endure? Don’t believe that you can do it alone! You can’t! Jesus said, “apart from me you can do nothing!” Nothing! Don’t try anything today without relying on the power of God! He knows you are weak, but He is available to help, so talk to Him about everything! When we are at our weakest, He is strong!

Blessings,
Sandra Reeves Cutrer
sandrasart777@aol.com