Johna

    Gender: Female
    Location: Ohio
    Quote: Well, I didn't write this quote...but it's one of my absolute favorites: "Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence" - Emily Carr I actually have several quotes that I like to have around me, so here they are! "The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and the other begins?" - Edgar Allen Poe "They are alive and well somewhere; The smallest sprout shows there is really no death; And if ever there was, it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas’d the moment life appear’d. All goes onward and outward—nothing collapses; And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier." - Walt Whitman "Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds" - Chief Seattle
    Relationship: Married
    Orientation: Straight
    Children: Maybe Someday
    Body Type: Slim / Slender
    Ethnicity: Undead
    About Me: www.hootsgallery.com Hoot's Gallery is named for my father, John R. "Hoot" Gibson, who left the earth suddenly in March of 2005. I have spent my entire life - thus far - in Northwest Ohio. While I was growing up, I sometimes became disenchanted living in the country. I thought I was missing out on something huge by not living in a city. Eventually, I got the chance to live in the city and I absolutely HATED it! I realized how much the rural setting meant to me, how much I learned there and how much hidden inspiration those wooded paths and craggy streams actually gave to me. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with the city, but in the end it's just not for me. I am inspired by nature, mortality, ancestral heritage and a slew of other things and instances too vast to mention. I'm entranced by moments, memories, words, maps, photographs and what some may call trivial thoughts. Inspiration can come from something as vast as the mountains or as tiny as a speck of sand.
    Music: I must admit, I am sort of odd when it comes to music. I am so sensitive to loud noises, and yet some of my favorite music comes from really loud bands like Tool. I love Pink Floyd, Tool, Patsy Cline, Enya, Johnny Cash, Cat Stevens, Nirvana, Poe, Liz Phair, Beatles, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Moody Blues, Velvet Underground, Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick, The Monkees. I really find that I don't like much new music which really irritates my husband!
    Movies: Practical Magic, Harold and Maude, Sunshine (a TV movie from 1973), Witches Night Out, Nanny McPhee, Fairy Tale: A True Story, A Knight's Tale, The Labyrinth...
    TV: Little House on the Prairie (I can't help it!), Days of our Lives, Six Feet Under, Bones...
    Books: There are so many books that I love, it would be impossible to make a fair or accurate list of them!
    Likes: Taphology, the moon, throwing hatchets and tomahawks like my dad taught me, Colorado (even though I've never been there), reading, writing, most 2-Dimensional art endeavors, fairies, The Case of the Cottingley Fairies (I don't care if it was a hoax or not), flowers, firefighters, paramedics, Victoriana, birds, cats, old letters and pictures, postcards, altered books, vultures, crows, ravens, rats (I had a pet rat once and he was splendid), books in general, earth religions, cats, animals, trees, paper, genealogy, ATCs, angels, Scottish Gaelic, Scotland, nature, mountains, rivers, streams, dirt, owls
    Dislikes: Tomatoes, people that lie or stab you in the back, toothaches.
    Hobbies: Painting, drawing, making jewelry.

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    It's been a while!

    Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 10:34 AM CST [General]

    I haven't been on here in a while! I just realized it's been almost a month and I really can't believe how fast time has flown by.

    I've been working on a few projects for my upcoming show and trying to get my things in order a little bit. Plus, now that the weather is getting nicer I've been working out in the yard a lot.

    I live in my grandmother's old house and my husband and I have been raking leaves and that kind of thing. We found hundreds of bulbs starting to sprout. I think my grandmother just dug random holes in the yard and dropped bulbs in. When my dad was alive and he took care of the yard, he just mowed over everything because there was no way to tell where grandma's flowers actually were. It's exciting to see the little sprouts popping up all over the place!

    We have a little back patio that hasn't been used in years and we're trying to transform that into a little fairy garden where we can sit and look at all the birds and trees and whatever other creatures appear.

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    A Show!

    Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 02:24 PM CST [General]

    I just found out that I am going have a little one day show coming up in May! I don't want to give away too much since I don't know all the details, but I'm so excited!

    I have so much to do between now and then. I have to get prints, postcards and the like. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. I would really like to buy a nice printer so that I can make the prints at home.

    I'll post more when I know more. Thanks for reading this!

    JGB

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    Artistic Frustrations!

    Monday, March 3, 2008, 10:07 PM CST [General]

    I have so many ideas in my head, but I can't seem to get them on to the paper!

    I started sketching tonight and for some reason things just weren't going well at all. I haven't drawn or painted in quite a while, I admit. I took a big break from making art because I was getting frustrated with how things were going...or not going.

    I guess that this is a normal process. Well, I HOPE it's a normal process!

    Sometimes I paint and draw and get so much done and other times, like tonight it just seems to be a huge dry spell. I guess I want to express this because I start to feel sort of alone in the world when my artistic abilities sort of flutter away for a bit. I suppose they are still there, but lying dormant for the time being.

    I'm hoping this "dry spell" lifts soon.

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    Do you ever try and get some of your ideas out in a different way? I get so many writing ideas that I find it hard to keep track of them.

    Try drawing a mind map just of ideas, mini sketches of things you want to eventually expand on. Then you always have a base to start from.

    I think one of the previous comments probably is true - you may not be in a dry spell but just afraid that it won't just rain but it will pour - then there really can be too much to deal with.

    Blessings

    Saethryth
    Mar 4, 2008
    04:49 AM CST

    Hi, You are lucky to have a talent, just think of us poor fairies who have none!!
    Blessings.

    Prince Orchar
    Mar 4, 2008
    03:46 AM CST

    Perhaps the problem isn't a 'dry spell' but a 'flood' of ideas, every one encroaching on the other and getting them jumbled...

    Try this -- Close your eyes, take several deep breaths and holding them for a long five count, breathing out and in at the same interval (This calms you and allows you to focus). Then focus on a single idea for several breaths -- open your eyes and start to sketch what you see in your mind's eye.

    If you find you're having difficulty again, repeat the process until you've got that first drawing... by that time, the rest of the ideas may have ordered themselves and you can unleash them!

    Rdehwyll
    Mar 4, 2008
    02:01 AM CST

    oooh dry spells, how I love them so...NOT.
    I hate that feeling when it seems like your artistic talents have taken a vacation right when you have a tidal wave of ideas to give birth to.

    I hope the artistic blockage ebbs soon!

    Tangle
    Mar 3, 2008
    10:33 PM CST

    Crazy Weekend

    Sunday, February 24, 2008, 09:34 AM CST [General]

    It's been a very hectic week and weekend for me!

    Work was atrocious! I work for a small newspaper and my brand new computer broke, so that was anything but fun. So this weekend, I started going through a lot of old sketchbooks and drawing pads and found a lot of starter sketches that I forgot about! So, hopefully I can try to revive those and start painting again soon.

    I'm starting to realize that I'm really bad at anatomy! Drawing people/figures is not my strong suit! So, I think I need to work on that some more, but for now I'm having fun just coming up with ideas and things.

    As for my website, I haven't been able to update that in quite a while either. I really wish I could just take a month (or more!) off work and just paint, draw and do what I love to do. Maybe I could get better at human figures!

    I hope whoever is reading this has a wonderful week! Thanks for looking at my little space on here.

    Love and light ~ JGB

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    Hi Everyone!

    Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 10:05 AM CST [General]

    Hi there!

    I'm new to Enchanted Folk and I've been looking around and I really, really LOVE this place!

    I'm trying to learn how to do everything right, so if you send me a message and I don't write back right away it's because I don't quite know what I'm doing! :)

    I'm so happy to be here and look forward to making many new, wonderful friends.

    Love! Johna

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    Feb 20, 2008
    01:03 PM CST
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    Things are good! I've been very productive lately, but will have to start packing for a move soon so I will have to put things on hold. :( How are you?

    Lynsye
    Apr 22, 2008
    06:12 PM CST

    Dear Johna,

    Thank you for your kind note! I'm glad you like my little experiment. It's a joyous thing to watch little children discover the door for the first time. I hope the experience will teach then that magic is all around us, and not just on TV screens!
    I'll be posting more notes soon, and announcing a treasure hunt.
    Thanks again for taking the time to write!
    ~Seamus

    Seamus
    Apr 16, 2008
    08:28 PM CST

    Thank you for your friendship!!! :)
    peace, beauty, love and light,
    Fey

    Enchanting Lady Fey
    Feb 27, 2008
    10:50 AM CST

    Have an enchanting week, my new friend.

    Christopher
    Feb 24, 2008
    07:29 PM CST

    Thanks for the friendship! Nice to find another Ohio member here :-)

    Catherine
    Feb 24, 2008
    12:14 PM CST

    Thanks so much for the add! Best of wishes.

    Pisces
    Feb 24, 2008
    10:15 AM CST

    You too. Love the picture.

    Diana
    Feb 24, 2008
    02:39 AM CST

    Dear Johna, thank you for joining our EF community, I have really enjoyed reading your quotes & profile. We love your owls - big fans of them here & they honour us by visiting our garden, the 'Little owls' even do so during the day! I am a passionate Laura Ingalls Wilder fan & read all nine of her books to our boys when they were small, her pioneering spirit has been inspirational to me ever since I was a young girl - as I now have the theme tune in my head & the delightful mental picture of 'Laura' running through the meadow, I'll be smiling all day - much appreciated my friend ;)
    Happy 'Prairie' Thoughts,

    Be
    Feb 22, 2008
    02:44 AM CST

    Thank you for adding me as a friend :)

    And welcome!

    Tangle
    Feb 21, 2008
    03:48 PM CST

    Woo Hoo! :) Welcome to the world of Faerie! :)

    ~Love & Light~

    Lynsye
    Feb 19, 2008
    03:00 PM CST

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